Your Commute, in 15 words or less...

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  • RedHobbit
    RedHobbit Posts: 24
    Suburbian rat runs, ring road hell, roundabouts, industrial estate, reversing lorries, up a hill, work.

    Great thread.
  • Breathless Commuter Man
    Breathless Commuter Man Posts: 82
    Frustrated "executives",distracted mommies,road-owning white van men.Always headwind, rarely sunny, but always enjoyable.

    Needed to hyphenate road owning to get down to 15. Hope you will forgive me.
    FCN 8

    2009 Boardman Hybrid Pro
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    A single speed,
    Pearson bestrode.
    Scalps a plenty,
    Badly surfaced road.
    Defeat? I'll never cede.
  • joew4ll
    joew4ll Posts: 43
    one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen!

    That's the pedantic version, I'm not skilled enough to compete seriously, but I'll give a go with ...

    Big hill :shock: great view :) long hill :D crazy overtaking :? , past the queues :D , canal path 8) industrial estate :(
    '07 Focus Izalco Expert - Hairy Baggy Shorts Roadie (FCN 5)
    '02 Marin Bear Valley - MTB on Nobblies (FCN 9)
    '04 Dawes Giro 200 - Fast Hybrid (FCN 7)
  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    Littigator wrote:
    Coriander wrote:
    Old Kent Road, Elephant and Castle, The Mall, appalling state of roads, patient bus-drivers, fun.

    Sorry Coriander but surely this is supposed to be a fact based prose post?!quote]

    No, but they are. Maybe it's because I'm a girl. Or maybe it's because I have a big arse. Or maybe it's because I'm a girl with a big arse.
  • kevinn123
    kevinn123 Posts: 18
    lane, lane, wave, lane, A30, roundabout, work.

    I wave at the motorway traffic on the M3 as I cross the bridge
    - they always look so grumpy
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    up up up DOWN up down up down up down UP UP UP UP

    Journey home the other way round - naturally!

    Not that I'm obsessed by hills or anything!
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    flip flop though some side streets, amble though Bushy park and i'm done, but since i have no fixed place of working my commute can be anything from open door and done to clogged up big roads to waffing along though parks/forgotten bridleways.
  • JMC39
    JMC39 Posts: 38
    1. Through town
    2. Up muddy Hill
    3. Through fam
    4. Through college
    5. Through golf course
    6. Through posh estate
    7. Through another town
    8. Carry bike over railway bridge
    9. Work!

    4.5 miles.
    FNC 13 - Nobbly MTB, Pannier, Normal clothes, and GPS!
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    jashburnham wrote:
    A single speed,
    Pearson bestrode.
    Scalps a plenty,
    Badly surfaced road.
    Defeat? I'll never cede.

    Nice one!
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    jashburnham wrote:
    A single speed,
    Pearson bestrode.
    Scalps a plenty,
    Badly surfaced road.
    Defeat? I'll never cede.

    Nice one!

    I'm waiting for a haiku :wink:
  • phil_ss1
    phil_ss1 Posts: 194
    garage, left, straight, right, left, right, lump, left, right, striaght, right, left, right, bike shed
  • epicyclo
    epicyclo Posts: 10
    Up steep hill, gasping
    Down rocky singletrack, grinning,
    Long muddy lane, slithering,
    Tarmac, pothole dodging.
  • Phekdra
    Phekdra Posts: 137
    Roundabout, river, trees and rabbits, potholes, up hill and down twice, time trial and there!

    Homeward bound in reverse order. 18.5km in each direction - I keep meaning to take a detour when the weather is nice but I can't seem to take it easy when I encounter a hill and only just make it home before collapsing from exhaustion...

    Phekdra
  • Leedsblue
    Leedsblue Posts: 102
    Leeds Ring Road
    hills
    2 major roundabouts
    traffic
    1.5 mile climb to finish
    Return easier
    ============================================

    FCN is minimal as I don't see many bikes on the way to work
  • timmer
    timmer Posts: 6
    From suburbia, South Glos'ter
    to Bristol City Centre
    Exactly 10k
    Cycle path all the way
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    quiet back lanes
    main road
    getting increasingly busy into city
    filtering past stationery grumps
    elated
    "Impressive break"

    "Thanks...

    ...I can taste blood"
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Kingston-City-Kingston.
    Great. And beats public transport.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • number9
    number9 Posts: 440
    Fewer, ffs.


    Downhill, roundabouts, Olympic Park, Victoria Park, Hackney madness, The City beeping, fresh orange juice, ah!
  • OldSkoolKona
    OldSkoolKona Posts: 655
    snooks wrote:
    OldSkoolKona

    How old skool is yer kona?

    The one for my coomute is a '95 Kilauea, so not quite early 90s old skool, but still has the original set up..
  • girv73
    girv73 Posts: 842
    downhill tree lined a-road,
    big ring hammer.
    stop-go lights,
    suicide peds.
    uphill grind home.

    15 words. We should do a Haiku version of this thread.
    Today is a good day to ride
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I'm going to start a "your commute in no less than 1,500 words. Please quote sources and provide a bibliography" thread.
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
    Blog (incl. bikes)
  • Verbal1
    Verbal1 Posts: 1
    Buses.
    School kids running across road.
    Traffic.
    Traffic lights.
    Buses.
    Run the gauntlet of Hammersmith one way system.
    Traffic lights.
    Traffic lights.
    Traffic lights.
    Traffic lights.
    Broken glass.
    Dog poo.
    More broken glass.
    Puncture.
    Dog poo.
    Late to work.
  • on-oneplus26
    on-oneplus26 Posts: 72
    Rain, puddles, spray.
    Main road, high street, rat runs.
    Rain.
    Wet feet, hot shower.
    Desk.
    Stuff I have designed
    www.muckynutz.com
  • 13ADL1X
    13ADL1X Posts: 151
    Downhill Tarmac, Car racing, bus dodging, light waiting, deep breathing, leg pumping, big grinning action.
    The trail is long and my legs are burning but I can't stop smiling.
  • n5gooner
    n5gooner Posts: 21
    A24 to Soho, one bridge, some hills. 23 miles =1 hour of fun each way.

    Think that sums it up nicley!
  • JoeSoap76
    JoeSoap76 Posts: 109
    pothole, pothole, taxi, bus, pothole, traffic lights, up hill, cobbles, work. Wouldn't swap it.
  • heavymtb
    heavymtb Posts: 62
    Some Audi Driving Idiot Nearly Made Me Sterile Thanks To Width Restristors :evil:
    The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart ~Iris Murdoch

    Mama always said I was SPECIALIZED ;-)
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    I've got 2 strands to my journey, interspersed with trains, so:
    1. Short, lots of cars not bikes flattish permanent headwinds regardless of direction
    2. London, central, flat, psycho cars/taxis/buses/bikes/mopeds/peds. RLJ scum. Busy.
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Hilly, stunning, quiet, traffic light free, mostly in an AONB, essential

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