My commute...read it and weep boys, read it and weep...(56k)

fisha

Lots of pics .... sorry 56k users ....

Well, got up, looked out the window to see not a cloud in the sky ... i'll take the bike to work this morning, and cause it was just soooooo nice, i decided to take the camera to show you guys down south in the cities, in the jams, fighting with the buses what yer missing out on.

So, onto the pictures.

Open the door ( i'm doing work on the kitchen ) to see the sun coming in ... oh its going to be a nice ride I think:


Get the bike out of the garage ... yes, it really is a mess like that all the time :


and head out on the open road leaving the town...it soon turns into single road after 1/2 a mile...


pass the first field of horses, dozing about in the morning sun. Megan ( standing ) and Ted (lying down) :


and soon reach the farm where I have to deal with the horses before carrying on.. This is what i have to deal with ... lovely presents ....


which is a full barrow full every morning!:



drag the big sleepy head ( Troy ) out of the stable and head off to the field with the other one ( Molly ) and put them out in the field...





Then jump back on the bike and carry on up the road to work...


Its basically a bike long slog up the hill . . .


just past the top, someone has decided that christmas has come early:


and then start the descent back down to Loch Thom ... you can see Ben Lomond in the background



When down at the loch, they are doing a ton of work to repair the old Greenock cut, which was the old water supply to the town. This is some of the new gates they have put in ...


Carry on a bit more and through the middle of a farm:


at this point, i have a choice, i could simple take the left route and carry on down the road which is sweeping fast corners and really good fun, OR, i could take the path that follows the cut .... its a nice day . . .which do you think i took? of course, just to rub it in,i took the right ...



pretty huh ?



I stopped numerous times to take in the view and take a few shots .... looked at the bike and realised i'd better make a move on to get there:


so, about a mile along the cut, i look to my left and see the factory below...


but i'm up here, and the factory is down there .... so how am I going to get down there? well the turn off is here. The path goes right and I go straight on:


Its a singletrack path made by the sheep and a few walkers and runs straight down the contours. Even though its a mountain bike frame, trying to brake with 1" slick tyres makes for a tricky descent.


Reach the railway line, jump over the gate onto the bridge over:




and reach work:




So there you go, my commute. not bad huh ? I took photos on the way home, which I'll put in another thread later ....

nortones2

Hard life commuting there! Friends live across the Clyde in Helensburgh. I was nearly posted up to Glasgow but foolishly declined. Ah well....

adifiddler

fisha wrote:

I love the view

You have some lovely countryside there, it must be a pleasure to ride.

delcol

if carlsbreg did commutes they would probably be.

fisha

you know, i almost considered using the carlsberg line for the topic ttle.

ddraver

cannot believe you have a singletrack decent on your commute

sonofabitch.........

helz

What's with the "read it and weep BOYS"? Are women excluded in this thread? :evil:

Yes I am in a sulk because I want your commute

fisha

heres another from the morning . . . a panorama looking down the clyde round and up north towards bloch lomond: ( you'll need to scroll cause the forum doesn't seem to like wide images ( daft setting if you ask me )

helz

Looks like a complete dump. Give me Jamaica Road and a facefull of Central London exhaust fumes any day.

Flycatcher

Wow, where did those bluy skys come from? It was so grey here today.

fisha

blue skies come from putting the image together and tweaking the saturation amongst other things. but there really was no clouds.


Sorry Helz . . . you can only fit in a limited number of characters in the title field

davidmckin

Pshaw, my commute to work along Dumbarton Road is far nicer, what with the....er....taxis and...em...buses and that.

Jacomus-rides-Gen

Yeah... well... uh, I ride through Battersea Park every day... thats quite pretty and and all your open space, rolling hills, deserted roads and clean air... ah, who am I kidding, I'm jealous!

Thanks for the pics, was really nice to look at on this grey morning we are having in London today.

lateralus

jammy git

misterben

fisha - for what it's worth I work in the Blue Building, although I come from the other direction (Glasgow).

fisha

ah - the dot.com building ( or rabbit hutch as i call it )

I work for Lenovo in OB1 ... the office area near the main entrance.

misterben

We've not been called dot.com in ages

I prefer cowshed to rabbit hutch, but there you go

Chriscommuter

What no London bendy buses, no black cabs, no RLJer's, no potholes, no psycopathic chavs in souped up cars looking to take you out, no jaywalking pedestrians, no p1ssing rain, no motorcycle couriers using the bike lane etc etc

I don't call that a "commute" that's more like a beautiful relaxed sunny ride...oh hang on it is!!! Grrrr....

Hairy Jock

Ay, it a tough life yous leads...

donnie murdo

I actually just moved up from London to Inverclyde for the reasons shown in your pictures and also to return to my native land.

I am fortunate enough to commute to work in the same area. My morning ride takes me right along the Clyde through Greenock with the views over to Helensburgh and the hills of Cowal behind it is a fantastic commute.

It beats the Central Line any day of the year.

fossyant

Very pleasant. Where are the traffic jams to filter down....?

At least I don't have to muck out the horses on the way though.