Hello...Hello... Is There Anyone out there?

spen666
spen666 Posts: 17,709
edited December 2008 in Commuting chat
noticed there seem to be a lot less people on bicycles in the last couple of weeks.

Where are all you fair weather cyclists?

Come to think of it, the traffic on the roads in London on my commute has also been much lighter in last few weeks. Credit Crunch biting? Less people working? Less construction vehicles on the roads etc?
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  • jjojjas
    jjojjas Posts: 346
    no change up here, just no cycles today as its pretty bad snow...so seems like more cars. Otherwise traffic, cycles etc seem pretty much the same.
    it looks a bit steep to me.....
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I think the weather is putting paid to the ambitions of the fairweather cyclists. Sorts the wheat from the chaff.

    I saw 3 cyclists this morning, but there were plenty of places to tether my bike, so I'm not complaining!
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    business as usual in edinburgh.....didn't get the snow we were promised by the met office though :cry:
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  • spasypaddy
    spasypaddy Posts: 5,180
    not got a job so have nowhere to ride to!
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  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I think the weather is putting paid to the ambitions of the fairweather cyclists. Sorts the wheat from the chaff.

    I saw 3 cyclists this morning, but there were plenty of places to tether my bike, so I'm not complaining!
    Yeah.. trouble is its not supposed to be about beating anything, anyway I haven't been out this week as I have a cold. :cry:
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    I'm a sorry old crock at the moment with some winter buggy thing and a bad knee so I'm giving myself some recovery time, but I did not realise that my absence was so keenly noticed.
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  • chromehoof
    chromehoof Posts: 79
    'round these parts theres a lot less cyclists, but then theres also a lot less motorists. I didn't think the recession had dug in that deep just yet. I'm think I thought wrong!

    Nice clear cycle lanes. Less cars to bug you. Life is good.

    until january that is when I'll probably get laid off to.

    and to whoever said they'd no place to cycle to. No excuse, get out and cycle anywhere at all. Beats the hell out of having to cycle to the same place every day.
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    boybiker wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I think the weather is putting paid to the ambitions of the fairweather cyclists. Sorts the wheat from the chaff.

    I saw 3 cyclists this morning, but there were plenty of places to tether my bike, so I'm not complaining!
    Yeah.. trouble is its not supposed to be about beating anything, anyway I haven't been out this week as I have a cold. :cry:

    Incoming...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...injury and rest for me a the moment :cry::( :x :roll:
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Have been at my gf's the last two nights and I don't have my bike there, so it's been the tube for me. This morning there's no way I'd have ridden even if I had had the bike.

    By next Monday it'll have been almost a full week since my last ride :shock:
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    biondino wrote:
    Have been at my gf's the last two nights and I don't have my bike there, so it's been the tube for me. This morning there's no way I'd have ridden even if I had had the bike.
    By next Monday it'll have been almost a full week since my last ride :shock:

    Tart, call yourself a cyclist.

    What's wronmg with a bit of wind and rain- didn't stop some of us riding in :D
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Yeah you tell him Spen....I even brought my hangover with me...the rain helps blast it away :evil:

    ps Biondino when are you going to drop this nonsense about a gf :wink:
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  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    I'm having to go to stacks of Xmas dos so have only done about 3 days on the bike in the last two weeks... man i'm really feeling it. not least because the bus and tube is fecking awful.
    point your handlebars towards the heavens and sweat like you're in hell
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    biondino wrote:
    Have been at my gf's the last two nights and I don't have my bike there, so it's been the tube for me. This morning there's no way I'd have ridden even if I had had the bike.

    By next Monday it'll have been almost a full week since my last ride :shock:

    WTF. That is a weak, weak excuse. :shock: MTFU! I don't keep a bike a my girlfriend's - I just cycle there and then cycle to work in the morning - just as I did this morning.

    MTFU Biondino - you bring shame on yourself, your girlfriend and your bike. :D
  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    Littigator wrote:
    boybiker wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I think the weather is putting paid to the ambitions of the fairweather cyclists. Sorts the wheat from the chaff.

    I saw 3 cyclists this morning, but there were plenty of places to tether my bike, so I'm not complaining!
    Yeah.. trouble is its not supposed to be about beating anything, anyway I haven't been out this week as I have a cold. :cry:

    Incoming...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    explosion.png

    That was a Littigator patent force 9 HTFU bomb!
    Owwww!! I didn't need that :shock:
    Its not me ;-( the guy who is coaching me shouts at me if I ride with a cold
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    What girlfr... oh, right, yes, of course! My girlfriend! The one I'm going out with!

    Tuesday I didn't ride to work, and Tuesday and Wednesday night's I stayed at my (real, honest) girlfriend's house. Sod going all the way back to mine on public transport to pick it up! Especially in the freezing and/or wet 'n' horrible weather.
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    biondino wrote:
    What girlfr... oh, right, yes, of course! My girlfriend! The one I'm going out with!

    Tuesday I didn't ride to work, and Tuesday and Wednesday night's I stayed at my (real, honest) girlfriend's house. Sod going all the way back to mine on public transport to pick it up! Especially in the freezing and/or wet 'n' horrible weather.
    do you find your ,cough. girlfriend needs inflating more in the cold weather? :wink:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I didn't mind the rain this morning so much, but then I do have a nice hot towel-drying thing to dry my stuff on...

    It was quite windy though.

    And furthermore, excuses excuses! Come on people! MTFU FFS!

    Biondino, the queston is not so much 'why didn't you go home and get your bike' as 'why didn't you just ride to work in the first place?' Hmmmmmmmm?

    And boybiker, I don't understand your point about 'beating anything' so stop being a girl about it and MTFU or expect more missiles from Littigator.
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  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I didn't mind the rain this morning so much, but then I do have a nice hot towel-drying thing to dry my stuff on...

    It was quite windy though.

    And furthermore, excuses excuses! Come on people! MTFU FFS!

    Biondino, the queston is not so much 'why didn't you go home and get your bike' as 'why didn't you just ride to work in the first place?' Hmmmmmmmm?

    And boybiker, I don't understand your point about 'beating anything' so stop being a girl about it and MTFU or expect more missiles from Littigator.

    Yes Miss I don't know what I was thinking.
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    boybiker wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I didn't mind the rain this morning so much, but then I do have a nice hot towel-drying thing to dry my stuff on...

    It was quite windy though.

    And furthermore, excuses excuses! Come on people! MTFU FFS!

    Biondino, the queston is not so much 'why didn't you go home and get your bike' as 'why didn't you just ride to work in the first place?' Hmmmmmmmm?

    And boybiker, I don't understand your point about 'beating anything' so stop being a girl about it and MTFU or expect more missiles from Littigator.

    Yes Miss I don't know what I was thinking.

    That's better.
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    edited December 2008
    This is the first day I heven't cycled all week. And only because I have no work to go to on a Thursday :D

    Planning to WTFU and get back on tomorrow...
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    boybiker wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I didn't mind the rain this morning so much, but then I do have a nice hot towel-drying thing to dry my stuff on...

    It was quite windy though.

    And furthermore, excuses excuses! Come on people! MTFU FFS!

    Biondino, the queston is not so much 'why didn't you go home and get your bike' as 'why didn't you just ride to work in the first place?' Hmmmmmmmm?

    And boybiker, I don't understand your point about 'beating anything' so stop being a girl about it and MTFU or expect more missiles from Littigator.

    Yes Miss I don't know what I was thinking.

    That's better.

    Please Miss can I frow anuvver bomb at 'im anyway please can I Miss?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Littigator wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    boybiker wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I didn't mind the rain this morning so much, but then I do have a nice hot towel-drying thing to dry my stuff on...

    It was quite windy though.

    And furthermore, excuses excuses! Come on people! MTFU FFS!

    Biondino, the queston is not so much 'why didn't you go home and get your bike' as 'why didn't you just ride to work in the first place?' Hmmmmmmmm?

    And boybiker, I don't understand your point about 'beating anything' so stop being a girl about it and MTFU or expect more missiles from Littigator.

    Yes Miss I don't know what I was thinking.

    That's better.

    Please Miss can I frow anuvver bomb at 'im anyway please can I Miss?

    Oh alright then Littigator since you asked so very nicely. Perhaps it'll teach the young man that we don't stand for moaning in my classroom.

    But no more bombs after that without asking.

    *pushes glasses up nose and adjusts bun*
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  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    ..just nod if you can hear me...
    is there any-one at home?"

    (sorry)
    pretty quiet round here, too. No problem getting my bike on the train the last few days!

    Cheers,
    W.
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Littigator wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    boybiker wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I didn't mind the rain this morning so much, but then I do have a nice hot towel-drying thing to dry my stuff on...

    It was quite windy though.

    And furthermore, excuses excuses! Come on people! MTFU FFS!

    Biondino, the queston is not so much 'why didn't you go home and get your bike' as 'why didn't you just ride to work in the first place?' Hmmmmmmmm?

    And boybiker, I don't understand your point about 'beating anything' so stop being a girl about it and MTFU or expect more missiles from Littigator.

    Yes Miss I don't know what I was thinking.

    That's better.

    Please Miss can I frow anuvver bomb at 'im anyway please can I Miss?

    Oh alright then Littigator since you asked so very nicely. Perhaps it'll teach the young man that we don't stand for moaning in my classroom.

    But no more bombs after that without asking.

    *pushes glasses up nose and adjusts bun*

    WOOHOO!

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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    *pushes glasses up nose and adjusts bun*

    Hmm, repressed adolescent fantasies appear to be emerging. I await the rest of this thread with, um, interest.
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    biondino wrote:
    Have been at my gf's the last two nights and I don't have my bike there, so it's been the tube for me. This morning there's no way I'd have ridden even if I had had the bike.

    By next Monday it'll have been almost a full week since my last ride :shock:

    apologies in advance......

    not much point in staying with the gf then.....AND you didn't get out on your bike. :oops: :oops:

    again....sorry
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  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    Awwwww Miss, Litigator keeps throwing bombs at me and he drew a big willy on the blackboard when you weren't looking
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Even fewer on the roads today. - both cyclists and motorised traffic


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  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    Yes :D
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
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    Given up waiting for Fast as Fupp to start stalking me

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