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How was your cycle commute?

Orang Utan said:
'Ferral gypsy kids' - piss off bigot
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So do you know the large travellers site near the Layham road area well then???

Sorry 'bout that use of language.....my opinion of them was slightly swayed by their threats of violence toward a woman they perceived as being alone & vulnerable. I'm sure if it was a friend of yours you'd be somewhat unsympathetic to them.
 
Utopia said:
So do you know the large travellers site near the Layham road area well then???

Sorry 'bout that use of language.....my opinion of them was slightly swayed by their threats of violence toward a woman they perceived as being alone & vulnerable. I'm sure if it was a friend of yours you'd be somewhat unsympathetic to them.
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I don't know it, but I do not take kindly to bigoted and divisive language, especially on a nice thread like this. If it had been a black person who'd mistreated your friend, would you have used racist epithets to describe them?
 
Orang Utan said:
I don't know it, but I do not take kindly to bigoted and divisive language, especially on a nice thread like this. If it had been a black person who'd mistreated your friend, would you have used racist epithets to describe them?
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They were clearly kids from the nearby traveller site, and they did seem pretty 'wild', so in language terms I'd say my description was kind of accurate. I mentioned it as it seemed a few people rode that way regularly.....so I thought a heads up my help. If you ever ride out that way I hope you don't encounter them.

Apologies if you were offended.
 
I'm not offended. Just calling out racism. You don't even know if they were gypsies but were quick enough to judge them and label as feral to boot.
 
The Oval traffic is getting worse day by day now :(
My average speed's dropped from 15.9 down to 14.2 lately. Cars are slow.
 
the ripple effect of the Oval works is profound - Walworth road is certainly much busier but there are also some crap temp lights there too by Burgess Park. I notice I'm not really getting a workout on my commute either, there is a ton more cyclist congestion and once we get into April and people rediscover their bikes this will be a pootle rather than a trot. Bollocks!!!
 
Well the traffic was fine for me :p.

Headwind was a bitch though. Proper I-can't-go-faster-than-brisk-walking-pace at some points.
 
Sigmund Fraud said:
the ripple effect of the Oval works is profound - Walworth road is certainly much busier but there are also some crap temp lights there too by Burgess Park. I notice I'm not really getting a workout on my commute either, there is a ton more cyclist congestion and once we get into April and people rediscover their bikes this will be a pootle rather than a trot. Bollocks!!!
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I've been going that way and cutting through Burgess Park, it's quite nice and I can normally miss the traffic at the lights by going down the outside to turn right into the park. I work Bermondsey side of London Bridge though
 
Pretty sure I got my first beeping/gesticulating just for minding my own business from a black Audi/Merc/cockmobile going round Vauxhall Cross this morning. Not bad going in 5 years, I guess *. Annoyingly, though, when I got to work I realised the zip on my backpack was undone, so there's a slight possibility they were just doing me a public service...

Coming up from Thornton Heath I find the traffic starts building at the top of Brixton Hill, so a left into Lyham Rd/Kings Ave and on to Clapham North and Vauxhall has worked well for me so far. Going home I've been experimenting with Walworth/Denmark Hill/Dulwich ... yes the Walworth Road is a bit grim traffic-wise but overall I'm finding it a nice alternative.

* To be fair, I don't go round VC every day, and never in winter or bad weather.
 
iamwithnail said:
Urgh, that's awful. :(
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It really is. :(
but this quote from the article is very telling, “I would rather take my chances on the marshes than have to battle the lorries in Blackhorse Road."

= I'd rather risk having my bike nicked and being assaulted than ride on a road = a very sad state of affairs really :(
 
Not as bad as I thought it might be, considering the wind. And Oval junction wasn't bad either (at 9.30am) - first time through here for a week.
 
I'm enjoying my new route via Camberwell and through Burgess Park. Nice to have a change of scenery as much as anything else
 
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It was rainy and about 20. Brisbane is a city which gets noticeably slicker than most other places I have cycled when it rains. Therefore when it’s wet I slow down to a crawl. I think there must be some kind of biological reason for the slickness, you will even notice it walking.

I know in my driveway a black algae/fungus becomes apparent in the rain and some kind of green algae becomes apparent on all the wood.
 
My bike is slowly but surely getting adorned with various wires, tubes, gadgets and other things that definitely reduce its wind resistance, but also make it a lot more noticeable. Latest addition is one of these:

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Is nice and loud and far more impactful than my pathetic "excuse me, what on earth do you think you are doing?" that I tend to use when faced with road fuckwittery. It is LOUD! Will let you know how it goes when I have to use it in anger.
 
If my roadie was drilled for a bottlecage I'd have one.

Instead I resort to the squeal of my brakes, which is pretty loud when I slam them on, coupled with a rendition of
OOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

sometimes finishing off with

YOU CUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNTTTTT
 
The funny thing is that the Air Zound bottle doesn't actually fit a bottle cage, it's too small. Bit of a strange decision to make it that way. They give you some velcro and cable ties to attach it to the frame. I've put it in my bottle cage and stopped it rattling using the cable ties.
 
Private Storm said:
My bike is slowly but surely getting adorned with various wires, tubes, gadgets and other things that definitely reduce its wind resistance, but also make it a lot more noticeable. Latest addition is one of these:

41o0-TRm3YL._SY300_.jpg


Is nice and loud and far more impactful than my pathetic "excuse me, what on earth do you think you are doing?" that I tend to use when faced with road fuckwittery. It is LOUD! Will let you know how it goes when I have to use it in anger.
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it looks like a clown's enema kit
 
I think the magic paint all went by noon on 1st April... i bought a second hand air horn like that after nearly running over katy hopkins who lives near here. Sadly I haven't seen her standing in the road since so haven't tried it out. I need to reseal something as pumping it up only lasts a day or so (without use). Mine fits bottle cage Ok.
 
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