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How was your cycle commute?

Chose yesterday to work from home because I had an electrician coming round in the afternoon. Missed the chance to belt it up York Rd with a 20mph wind up my arse on my commute, instead sat in the dining room on a laptop watching the swaying trees and feeling twitchy. Fuck all wind today, crawled along to the office.

(I did check and all my KOMs are intact)
 
Just popped to the shops and noticed on my way out that I have yet another puncture.

A spoke poking through the rim will be more expensive, but a tiny piece of glass stuck in the tyre will be harder to diagnose.
 
Guy punched me in the side this morning, shouting "Footpath", I didn't really register until I was passed as I was trying to get up the hill.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the cobbled taxi bays on Tooley Street (which have, y'know, road markings on them) aren't actually footpaths are they? Pretty fucking raging either way.
 
Saw a cyclist knocked off at junction of Plough Rd, St Johns Hill Battersea at lunch time. Poor sod did not look too good.
Hope he is ok. :(
 
cycled my nuts off today - had to get from one place to another in record time, like in some film. feels good. ended up being half an hour early for an appointment though, and had to wait around. tsk.
i love it though, cycling in london is thrilling
 
puncture yesterday, in the fucking rain.
forgot to bring the key for the security skewer.
argh...

today is great - i love this weather.
mild and cool.
 
Someone had their bike nicked at work yesterday, don't know what it was or the circumstances. We're on a business park on the edge of town with cameras on the car park, I've always been relaxed with mine chained up in the racks here, always leave the lights attached etc. Kind of pissed off that this has happened, I might have to revive the pub bike for commuting or have to use the keycode shed in the other office over the road (which is a couple of minutes walk). Cunts.

I did leave relatively early last night so it was possible that the robbed bike was taken after I'd left (under cover of darkness), as I'm sure they'd have had a go at taking mine (it's got a D-lock, but a fairly basic Halfords one). One guy here just used to loop his chain lock around the bike and not actually secure it, it's that sort of place.

There's been a spate of thefts in Leeds recently, it has the look of a professional gang at work. Most thefts I've heard of in the past have been from people's sheds and garages, not many taken from the street or workplace.
 
Ugh. :(

My commute this morning was honking, took 50 minutes to do the 7 miles to Bloomsbury, got stuck at every light, I think. Generally horrible.
 
Pulled out from a turning and bang I'm on the floor wondering what happened. Adrenaline kicked in and I stupidly carried on to work, then started messing stuff up and the next thing I know I'm packed off to spend the rest of the day in A&E with concussion.

Home now, sore but all in one piece.
 
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