Silly commuting racing
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Very clear roads this morning with the added bonus of a tw4t in a white BMW behaving exactly expected. Once marooned in a box junction with cyclists passing your bumper, the obvious this to do is to drive forward to shut the gap while cyclists ride through.
Tedious puncture but otherwise nice to see a blue sky after the weather so far this week!
As for that grauniad article, Canary Wharf Group have an issue attracting businesses to the estate other than cheap grey space or big trading floorplates, only one major creative business ever went there and then got the hell out (now being offered by others) so their extension to the estate is designed to attract these companies with good cycling facilities and better environment while CWG fights safe cycling infrastructure?!? I suspect it more about George Iacobescu getting driven along it each morning or the embankment better serving other developers than him. Maybe get cyclingscore.com to down grade their buildings.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
That accident had happened a fair bit earlier, the roads were cordoned off when I got there at about 7.50am. Think the quieter roads on a Friday helped it not causing total gridlock.0
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Perfect morning to be riding in today. Lovely.0
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All those taxi demo's on London bridge have been about Tooley Street. If you fancy hacking off some gammony folk who's jobs got mechanised by the invention of a sat nav, please complete this:
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/tooley-street/If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
anonymousblackfg wrote:All those taxi demo's on London bridge have been about Tooley Street. If you fancy hacking off some gammony folk who's jobs got mechanised by the invention of a sat nav, please complete this:
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/tooley-street/
With a proposed response from the london cycle campaign here:
https://membership.lcc.org.uk/don%E2%80 ... ley-streetIntent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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rower63 wrote:
You jest, but I've been to a handful of Friends of Richmond Park meetings over the years - they do not like cyclists, at least they didn't then. The arguments you present jokingly were exactly those brought up, except you missed one - pelotons break up herds of deer.hopkinb wrote:
Gets my blood pressure up driving through the park; all those bl00dy cyclists, clogging up the place, pretending they're in the tour of France. Lycra louts. Never stick to the speed limits, don't pay road tax, aren't insured, I saw one run a red light once, and ride on the pavement, nearly hit an old lady he did. Self-righteous tree-huggers the lot of 'em.TGOTB wrote:It's hard to deny that driving through the park is a far more pleasant experience than driving along neighbouring streets...
Just like Friends of Regents Park, the only thing they're friends with are themselves and their own selfish opinion on how the parks should be used (for taking shortcuts in massive cars).Ben
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I avoided the rain this week by only riding Monday and today. Other days were a combination of WFH, team offsite & PT.
I always like riding on Friday, it has a much more relaxed feel to it especially when I saw four guys riding together who I had a vague connection to via mutual riding buddies. It was enough to chat to them from Morden to Elephant & Castle. One of them was riding with a belt drive singlespeed which is always a talking point.
Oh and to top it off I saw #fullfacehelmetguy just shy of the Toulouse Lautrec junction. He always makes me smile.
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Riding this morning was good but you allways see twats on the road
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elbowloh wrote:
So, the bike lane actually increases the amount of passengers per hour, it does not increase pollution (even though claim it does with no evidence) and logically should decrease pollution.cjcp wrote:Worth a read: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment ... ssion=true
They have no reason to rip up the lane apart from ideological reasons?
Yep, a return to the times of old, when the journey between Blackfriars Tunnel and Tower Bridge involved belting it through the Tunnel and making sure you weren't undone by the cr@ppy road surface after Southwark Bridge.
A cyclist was killed along there in 2008 or so, when there were roadworks and a narrowing of the nominal bike lane.
There's no substantive basis for it.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
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Bloke on an Diverge in a fluro boil in the bag rode off the front at VB lights and proceeded to ride the whole way on the far right of the blue paint. Headphones meant he couldn't hear the queue of people asking him to move left and calling him a cnut in equal measure.
One chap wearing a Mallorca 312 kit was quite quick. Both of us had to have our spider senses dialed to max when an 18 wheeler decided to take the racing line over the blue paint on Grosvenor Road.
Other than that, was a good ride in.Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
Sun - Cervelo R3
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Asprilla wrote:Bloke on an Diverge in a fluro boil in the bag rode off the front at VB lights and proceeded to ride the whole way on the far right of the blue paint. Headphones meant he couldn't hear the queue of people asking him to move left and calling him a cnut in equal measure.
Wasn't me!
I thought that tail wind would do me more favours this morning, that said, i'm odds on to hit 9k this year and i'm 0.26kph quicker across the whole year, maybe it was just going back to gears for the commute.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
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Nice video, accurately evokes the feelings of the commuting experience!
The music makes it, I was at some lights huffing and puffing this morning as my HR dropped slowly down from 180 and a guy near me had one of those bluetooth speakers with music on, Porcelain by Moby playing, which helped me chill.0 -
Disproportionate number of Bromptons in the early part of that video!
I feel like I rarely see a Brompton, although maybe I just don't notice them.0 -
MTB-Idle wrote:okay, so it's not big and it's not clever but here's my latest commuting video, best viewed with sound
The Game
On seeing that link, I had a distinct fear you wouldn't have chosen Motorhead. Excellent commuting tunage.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
Jeez that commute looks sketchy. I'd wear a full-face helmet too I think.
Makes my commute through Richmond Park and along the Embankment look positively utopian.
Put my Domane through muddy cx duties at the weekend.
Horrible squealing, grinding braking was everyone's reward this morn. Soz.Always in stealth mode0 -
Observations from four days back in That London, riding occasionally
1 - CS7 is still a horrendous clusterf**k
2 - The bike lines are still painted with blue ice
3 - The tension has been ratcheted up a couple of notches
4 - Commuting into a headwind with a 20kg backpack is still not fun
5 - Box 'Hill' still isn't worthy of the name
6 - What the HELL has happened to the dingy, dank, low-life infested areas around Kings Cross and London Bridge stations?
7 - In the space of 7km (London Bridge to Euston via Moorgate, Old St and Pentonville Road) I had one black cab left hook me, one scaffold lorry pull out without looking and nearly crush me against a bus, two pedestrians walk out on me between traffic whilst looking at their phones and one white van man shout "GETINTHEFACKINCYCORLLANEYOUCAAANT". On a Sunday.
Now safely ensconced back in the NorthFat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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elbowloh wrote:Red steel-framed bike, Arthur Caygill branding.
I have a white Lomo backpack, white mavic helmet.
Nope, but it sounds familiar. will dial it into my memory and say hello next time I see you. I'm normally wearing a black Gabba and on my spesh allez with low key Gerolsteiner branding (on down tube only), circa 2006. There are actually two of those bikes on CS7, I saw the other guy just last week so if you say hello and get a weird response it's probably him!
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Cruff wrote:Observations from four days back in That London, riding occasionally
1 - CS7 is still a horrendous clusterf**k
2 - The bike lines are still painted with blue ice
3 - The tension has been ratcheted up a couple of notches
4 - Commuting into a headwind with a 20kg backpack is still not fun
5 - Box 'Hill' still isn't worthy of the name
6 - What the HELL has happened to the dingy, dank, low-life infested areas around Kings Cross and London Bridge stations?
7 - In the space of 7km (London Bridge to Euston via Moorgate, Old St and Pentonville Road) I had one black cab left hook me, one scaffold lorry pull out without looking and nearly crush me against a bus, two pedestrians walk out on me between traffic whilst looking at their phones and one white van man shout "GETINTHEFACKINCYCORLLANEYOUCAAANT". On a Sunday.
Now safely ensconced back in the North FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
Delightful morning in RP today. Clear skies, red sunrise, decending into the mist from the ballet school....lovely. Then came as close as I ever have this morning to wiping a zombie ped out. She was walking against the traffic going east down the bit of embankment that has the pavement closed. Nothing new there. Then she pulls a hard left straight in front of me without looking with no more than a meter or two to react. If there was someone coming the other way it would have been curtains for me.0
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RP was pretty but flipping cold.
-3, about 10degrees colder than yesterday and I was dressed for yesterday.
Body is definitely entering hibernation mode.Always in stealth mode0 -
martinc wrote:RP was pretty but flipping cold.
-3, about 10degrees colder than yesterday and I was dressed for yesterday.
Body is definitely entering hibernation mode.
One of the good things about having a dog is that the morning walk tells you exactly what you need to wear for the commute...0 -
If you don't have a dog, alternatives include:London-Red wrote:One of the good things about having a dog is that the morning walk tells you exactly what you need to wear for the commute...
- Weather forecast (available on TV or Internet)
- Weather app on mobile phone
- External thermometer
- Looking out of the window (not always as precise, but ice on car windscreens this morning was a bit of a giveaway)
-3°G in the park this morning, more like +3°G in the City.Pannier, 120rpm.0 -
Nice ride but almost put under a car by a chap just moving right without looking as all traffic concertinaed. Stupid of me to be left with an overlap but a good shout at him by the rider behind me. Else a nice group of riders at a good pace, sadly, it was CS7 so no one could have a go, or make any progress.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0
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OK I take the bait. What does -3°G mean?TGOTB wrote:... -3°G in the park this morning, more like +3°G in the City.Dolan Titanium ADX 2016
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He's referring to the strength of gravity. Did you not notice that the Col Du Southwark bridge was hard as f*** this morning?0
