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How was your cycle commute?

Twat in a car decided not to slow down for me as I was rolling across a zebra crossing (yes I've seen you, beeping at me won't help) and clipped my back wheel which is now wobbly.

Decided to wait until bike shop people have told me I need a new bike before reporting it to the police... Though even if I do does the fact he was driving without due care and attention (I presume that he was doing this even though I wasn't fully dismounted?) take precedent over the fact I wasn't properly dismounted? He also didn't stop to see if I was okay, but then if you're not going to slow down for someone who is starting to cross on a zebra crossing then presumably you wouldn't stop even if you mowed them down completely!?!? :( :confused:
 
Main thing is that you're ok, Chem.

Unless you have witnesses and/or the incident on camera I wouldn't hold out any hope of the police being interested.
 
Yeah, that's the second time, in more or less the same place, that someone in a car has hit my bike, and I've been okay both times! I am grateful for that.

But it is a really shit bit of street to navigate on a bike, especially at rush hour. It's this clusterfuck here - entering the map from top left, crossing two zebra crossings then having to cross the T-junction at Dyke Road Drive, which is always a gamble because people constantly emerge from there onto Preston Rd, and also people cross the busy Preston Rd over from Springfield Rd up Dyke Road Drive.

Today's incident happened on the second zebra crossing.
 
Third ride into work today. Fitness is definitely improving - was able to cycle up some hills yesterday and feel a lot less achey setting off now. also, faster.

Worries about being gendered correctly were resolved today as I was told off by another cyclist ( i cycled through a red light but she was on the pavement!!) who said "Red light, lady!" :p:D
 
My leg is still fucked up and I'm on the bus this week as a consequence. 1hr15 this morning, so frustrating seeing other people out riding. Usually takes about 30 mins on the bike. It didn't actually hurt when I was riding, until I unclipped or put my foot down to stop.
 
Got to college yesterday to discover that I had forgotten to pack a clean t-shirt. Had to take a ride out to an out of town shopping centre, wait ten minutes for TK Maxx to open then spend ten squids on the least awful t-shirt I could find.
 
We're running gigs at Rich Mix all week this week, so been riding a differnt route, and late at night.

Whole clutch of Strava best times. Two punctures - think Shoreditch must have more broken glass on the roads than my normal route!

Then last night ,some oddness; coming thru Stockwell, by the tube, I see a pedestrian punching a stationary Add Lee cab - the driver and he are having some major barney, shouoting and the like. The puncher then turns away from the cab, and runs straight at me - from my left-hand side. No way I could stop as doing 20+ at that point, couldn't swerve round as I had cars to my right, so I just put my shoulder down and braced myself fior impact. He struck me a glancing blow wit -0i think - his head or shoulder, I wobbled but stayed on. I shoulderchecked back and he's then scremaing at some other person in a car. Nutcase.

My upper arm hurts like hell, and had a nice bruise today.
 
Deleted, simply because it was an unnecessary rant about a shit driver and I don't want to preach to the converted.
 
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Another Monday, another ride into work. Hoping I'll be fit enough to do it twice this week with no train assistance.
 
On my normal route there's been builders lorries parking in the cycle route, so signs have gone up telling them not to, they're now parking in the cycle lane across the road.
 
Just had an email to say my Pashley's ready to be picked up from the shop.:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

They've had it six weeks! I daren't ask what the bill's gonna be :eek:
 
Winot said:
Feel free to rant - sometimes we just need to let it out :)
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I was just shouted at and possibly offered some kind of physical battle by an impatient driver who seemed unwilling to wait until there was a gap in the traffic turning right at a T-junction.

I'm sure he went home, realised his error and had a good pray for his soul, or something.
 
Feels like summer.
Shirt pretty much unzipped to the waist, pelting it along, flies in the mouth, arriving hot and sweaty.
What cycling was made for (flies aside, I'm veggie!)
 
Loving CS3 along Embankment - it's not even on my route to work but it's such good fun that I keep getting lured away from my direct route to take it in.... :cool:
 
I always plan my weekend morning rides, usually the night beforehand and just in my head, but for some reason I was totally uninspired either yesterday or today. I went out in the end and had quite a good ride, but I still buy totally into the route I took.

Hopefully I'll be more creative tomorrow.
 
Anyone have any experience with electric bikes? I am starting a new job, other side of London and I have been thinking of getting a conversion kit or something to help speed my journey along.
 
ferrelhadley said:
Anyone have any experience with electric bikes? I am starting a new job, other side of London and I have been thinking of getting a conversion kit or something to help speed my journey along.
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Quite a lot of experience of working with them as a mechanic and my advice is not to try to convert an existing bike as it will give you the worst of both worlds. Buy one of the newer dedicated electric bikes, with a Shimano or Bosch motor and a bottom bracket mounted drive rather than a hub drive as they will give you a much more normal feeling centre of gravity. Off the top of my head the Whyte Coniston is good but there are others which are also good from Giant and Haibike.
 
I played out on bikes pretty much all weekend (did about 65 miles total, on a mountain bike, mostly off road) and seem to have given myself a nice big crop of saddle sores despite wearing padded shorts as normal :( it's really not fun. I had to ride home from work bmx-style standing up because it was just too much by the end of the day. I might have to get some bum chamois cream at this rate :(
 
weepiper said:
I played out on bikes pretty much all weekend (did about 65 miles total, on a mountain bike, mostly off road) and seem to have given myself a nice big crop of saddle sores despite wearing padded shorts as normal :( it's really not fun. I had to ride home from work bmx-style standing up because it was just too much by the end of the day. I might have to get some bum chamois cream at this rate :(
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Ouch :(. You have my sympathies - I had todo similar along a-roads home one night after I started commuting by bike after a hefty lay off.

Edit: but yay on being able to get out on yer bike all weekend.
 
I managed my longest ride ever yesterday - 162 miles. I plastered my arse with sudocrem before setting off which did the job a treat :oops:.... no saddle sores whatsoever - fucking knackered legs mind....
 
Ridiculously warm and summer like this morning both waya, though a thunder storm appears to be about to break above my head.

In other news, I posted a time on one strava segment that is still standing as the fastest of the day. Only 0.2km and not a kom, but in having that.
 
Cycled in fro second day in a row. Set off late though so decided to augment my ride with a train section. Trouble is the train bit took as long as me cycling it would have!!! I don't know how that works. Well, that's learned me.

Felt pretty fit yesterday - no more saddle soreness, legs not aching badly today. Feel like I'm getting my mojo back.

Even the traffic yesterday wasn't too bad.

eta: and the only idiots who have annoyed me so far have been ones on bikes.
 
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