What's the most unusual way you could get to work?

[tim]

My idea of exotic travel these days is going home using the Woolwich Ferry, when it's working, rather than THE DLR.

Of course, having become inured to it, I nolonger notice quite how bizarre the DLR, itself, is.

 

[kebabking]

Skiing, and separately, a helicopter.

 

[JimW]

Skiing, and separately, a helicopter.

Chocolate delivery?

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Bus to Putney then inflatable kayak down the Thames to Pimlico.

Sounds doable.

Once you've got the kayak out of the backpack and blown it up if should be a peace of cake

 

[planetgeli]

A massive 120 tonne plane has landed on a Welsh beach

If they can pick me up, they can drop me off.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I saw a guy using a "grown up" version of a push scooter on the path the other day.

No you didn't, you saw a guy using an unusually large child's toy.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

No you didn't, you saw a guy using an unusually large child's toy.

Ha ha...
It did have lights though and looked quite sleek.

 

[Rebelda]

I dunno, hopping? I could swim but it would be an indirect route and mostly rat piss.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I like the idea of one of these. The seat looks comfortable and the basket is huge...Big enough for my workload.

 

[wiskey]

It's powered. I'm not confident sharing space with them because I don't know how they brake.

You lean backwards to brake I think.

They seem very manoeuvrable (that's a crazy word to spell and now I'm not even sure it's a word), we spent a week watching a guy with one working on a campsite last year, it coped with rough terrain and gradient very easily.

When we first moved to Bristol there was a guy I'd see commuting to work on a unicycle wearing a suit and clutching a briefcase, it worked for him but I'd feel vulnerable.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

You lean backwards to brake I think.

They seem very manoeuvrable (that's a crazy word to spell and now I'm not even sure it's a word), we spent a week watching a guy with one working on a campsite last year, it coped with rough terrain and gradient very easily.

When we first moved to Bristol there was a guy I'd see commuting to work on a unicycle wearing a suit and clutching a briefcase, it worked for him but I'd feel vulnerable.

I'd wonder how many times you'd fall off just getting the hang of it.
That would put me off a bit.

 

[neonwilderness]

If I'd been working when I was 6 I could have used the caterpillar monorail that ran through the Garden Festival next to me



I could swim most of the way, but the water is pretty manky. I wouldn't fancy going though the culverted bit of the river either

 

[wiskey]

I'd wonder how many times you'd fall off just getting the hang of it.
That would put me off a bit.

He was teaching people by them holding his shoulder, I think they work like gyroscopes so once you've got your balance sorted you shouldn't fall off. He happily trundled off to the pub in the nearest village on it.

 

[maomao]

You lean backwards to brake I think.

They seem very manoeuvrable (that's a crazy word to spell and now I'm not even sure it's a word), we spent a week watching a guy with one working on a campsite last year, it coped with rough terrain and gradient very easily.

When we first moved to Bristol there was a guy I'd see commuting to work on a unicycle wearing a suit and clutching a briefcase, it worked for him but I'd feel vulnerable.

The vehicle itself is such a tiny part of the mass that if it stops suddenly surely the rider/driver just keeps moving forwards?

 

[Baronage-Phase]

He was teaching people by them holding his shoulder, I think they work like gyroscopes so once you've got your balance sorted you shouldn't fall off. He happily trundled off to the pub in the nearest village on it.

How fast do they go? Potentially?

 

[maomao]

It's just occured to me that I live on a tributary of the Thames and work bang on the Thames so I could swim if I wanted. Large parts of the Rom/Beam are culverts though so I'd probably need scuba gear. Shouldn't take much over 24 hours each way. Upstream on the Thames may be a challenge though.

 

[JimW]

Here's the electric trike take the daughter to and from preschool in:


Charging up with a two-pin plug! You can see where knocked one of the wing mirrors off already getting through our narrow gate from our narrow alley.

 

[Teaboy]

It's just occured to me that I live on a tributary of the Thames and work bang on the Thames so I could swim if I wanted. Large parts of the Rom/Beam are culverts though so I'd probably need scuba gear. Shouldn't take much over 24 hours each way. Upstream on the Thames may be a challenge though.

Well you'd better get going if you want to make it in on time on Monday.

 

[marty21]

I have walked home from work, took about 4 hours (2 hours actual walking , the rest of the time was pit stops in pubs )

 

[JimW]

... the rest of the time was pit stops in pubs ....

The only real way to do it!

 

[maomao]

Well you'd better get going if you want to make it in on time on Monday.

I'm four on four off and off shift in four and a half hours. Should be home for Sunday dinner.

 

[maomao]

I have walked home from work, took about 4 hours (2 hours actual walking , the rest of the time was pit stops in pubs )

I used to walk to work in ec1 every day when I lived round the corner from you. It was only an hour.

 

[marty21]

I used to walk to work in ec1 every day when I lived round the corner from you. It was only an hour.

I do walk a lot more now , I get off buses or tubes a stop early (tube) and several stops early (buses) and walk .

 

[Pickman's model]

I think that's something I could try. There is one crazy steep bridge known as "heart attack bridge" that could cause a problem
If I get up enough speed to make it half way over I'm sure I'd get to the other side. If not, then I may feature in someone's YouTube clip which could go viral.

Get a rocket to boost your speed

 

[Pickman's model]

I do walk a lot more now , I get off buses or tubes a stop early (tube) and several stops early (buses) and walk .

Whenever you see an inspector

 

[maomao]

I do walk a lot more now , I get off buses or tubes a stop early (tube) and several stops early (buses) and walk .

The best thing about living where you do is the walking. Used to love the marshes. Now I've moved out to the suburbs and I don't have half as much green space on my doorstep.

 

[ice-is-forming]

Sometimes I swim to work.. if I walk then I walk up the beach.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Sometimes I swim to work.. if I walk then I walk up the beach.

Sounds idyllic.

 

[marty21]

The best thing about living where you do is the walking. Used to love the marshes. Now I've moved out to the suburbs and I don't have half as much green space on my doorstep.

I love walking on the marshes

 

[ice-is-forming]

Sounds idyllic.

When the kids were little I'd pick them up from school with this long bit of rope with Inner tubes attached to it. Then I'd walk home through the ocean towing them behind me