Just started riding to work

mailmannz

thanks to the bike to work scheme (just a pity ours is through Halfords!).

Anyway, here are some observations after a week of riding;

1. Exercise in the mornings does wonders for alertness and general feel good! I havent felt this good in the mornings for years!

2. The route from home to work is fantastic. Very little traffic and actual marked and fully seperated bike lanes for most of the way in to work!

3. I still managed to bike in even though it rained (earned some brownie points with the hard core cyclists at work when I walked in with my wet shorts and gortex jacket on! ).

4. How dangerous are those farken steel manhole covers when they are wet!?!?

Even in my car Ive managed to lose some traction on the road while cornering down by Mudchute DLR station on the Isle of Dogs! I was quite cautious coming in to work this morning in the rain though but even then I still managed to get my back wheel caught on a couple metal manhole covers today and felt the wheel loosing grip on the road.

All in all Im enjoying being back on the road. And fingers crossed I wont come across some of the agro bastards some of you have!

Regards

Mailman

delcol

All in all Im enjoying being back on the road. And fingers crossed I wont come across some of the agro bastards some of you have!

its only a matter of time they are out there belive me,...

glad to that even the rain didnt dampen your spirits :roll: .....

and its so true what you say about the alertness i actually enjoy my 6 mile commute into work it makes me ready for the crap 8 hour shift that awaits,..

and those bloody man hole covers also the white lines and the shiney bit were 2 strips of tarmac join,.... all become deadly when wet

mailmannz

Ive found the round about by Canary Wharf (the one with the traffic light tree) quite difficult to negotiate.

Not only do you come down from the top of westferry circus right in the middle of the road but as you ride around the traffic island its quite lumpy and Ive found indicating with the right and then left arm quite difficult. Throw in to that the rain and a wet metal manhole cover and it was almost disaster tonight!

Mailman