What did you see on the way home?

rolf_f

I saw......

I saw a lorry stuck on a gentle hill that was probably shortly going to be gridlocking Leeds unless it got moving.
I saw a car that had descended a slope (steep enough that I was walking down it) and gone through a wall, down a bank and parked untidily in some trees.
I saw a couple of buses that seemed to be playing synchronised manouvering (and traffic gridlocking).
I saw a tipper truck that thought it a good idea to drive along next to me (couple of feet clear) with nowhere else to go despite the surface being slippery and unpredictable
I saw a lot of deceptively slippery road surfaces that cars were, in the few stretches of clear road, whizzing along at a rate that they would have got into trouble if they needed to stop quickly
I saw that the 7.8 miles recorded on my trip meter took 51 minutes and 39 seconds to complete. Still almost 10 minutes quicker than my all time slowest commute home (also in snow).
I saw that 23mm Schwalbe Duranos don't really give a confident ride on packed snow.
I didn't see any cars that I passed again!

I left work at 3 - I should have left earlier......

veronese68

At least you only saw things and didn't hit any of them.

vermin

The inside of a train carriage :oops:

rubertoe

vermin wrote:

The inside of a train carriage :oops:

Mine was a tube.

itboffin

I saw a woman with the most amazing arse wearing skin tight leg ins everything else was a blur.

Yummy

spasypaddy

very nearly the inside of an ambulance

Kieran_Burns

Someone negotiating a sweeping right hand bend with that high friction surface on it at 20mph because there was some snow in the fields.

pete_s

The floor, coming at me very quickly.

Fireblade96

Very little, it was dark, snowing and my glasses were wet.
I did notice a pair of swans swimming on part of the path that's under water again....

byke68

I saw snow..............

meanredspider

Rain and lots of it blown into my face by a wind that went from 5mph to 25mph and swung from SE (following) to NW (headwind) at 5pm on the nail! 105 miles and 1800m in 3 days on Ice Spikered MTB. Legs are gubbed...

Initialised

I didn't see the splatters of road crud hitting my face on the way home until I saw the look on Mrs Ini's face. That's what I get for being the drafting fairy.

Was glad I still had the Snow Studs on I thought about taking them of at the weekend so it snowed today must have done 1000 miles on them this winter.

tetley10

A couple of absolute sorts in a car at a set of lights.
Not much beyond that, I attempted to empty the tanks on the way home.

rjsterry

Nowt to speak of on the way home; eerily quiet in fact, but on the way in, a large skein of geese passed over my head at a height of less than 30 feet.

neilochx

On my commute, I cycle over a runway, pass an airport terminal, go through passport control, pass a gas refinery, cycle along a quiet sea road, pass what I believe are the remains of the earliest roman settlement outside of Italy, I pass a field full of solar panels generating electricity, three brothels, two strip clubs one of which I believe has bed rooms, then the last two miles are pretty unremarkable, though I do pass a Roman Aquifer but i´ve never seen it, I´m not sure what I´m looking for, there are plenty of nesting storks, and I finish off by going over a bridge that was once upon a time a roman bridge.

rolf_f

pete_s wrote:

The floor, coming at me very quickly.

Errrrr - you might want to elaborate on that! :shock:

neilochx wrote:

.......... though I do pass a Roman Aquifer but i´ve never seen it, I´m not sure what I´m looking for,

An aquifer is water bearing rock - eg the Chalk of South and Eastern England. Most aquifers were around a few hundred million years before the Romans so even they aren't old enough to have any claim over their construction! Probably your entire commute is over an aquifer. The Romans might have been the first known to sink wells into it though for water supply.

You might mean a Roman aqueduct which, if intact, would be hard to mistake (like a railway viaduct) but is more likely just foundations or a line in a field. Where is your commute? It sounds like it has everything you could want!

bigmonka

A dead deer
A dead badger
A dead squirrel
A dead fox

All on the same 2mile stretch of road.

rolf_f

BigMonka wrote:

A dead deer
A dead badger
A dead squirrel
A dead fox

All on the same 2mile stretch of road.

Got to say, damn good shot old chap! But doesn't the recoil interfere with your speed stats?

CJ Bill

A pothole
A dint in my rim that quickly split
A train
My LBS

Sharkyssurfers

well err I see dead people :shock:

running red lights
riding in the dark with no lights

walkingbootweather

BigMonka wrote:

A dead deer
A dead badger
A dead squirrel
A dead fox

All on the same 2mile stretch of road.

Game pie for tea tonight?

vermin

Some goats.

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/02/14/goats-yelling-like-humans-compilation/

Subaqua

A florists on the URR. Followed by 1.5 miles of very wobbly riding with 50 quids worth of Kenyas finest hanging in a gift bag attached to my left hand.

Three corners of the bag survived intact.... one corner however did get a chewing from the spokes on 3 or 4 occasions. The roses and I got home in one piece though

jomoj

a rat, a smashed up toilet, a burnt out scooter, rabbits, an oil rig being built or dismantled - not sure which, a pair of knickers on a fence, some pylons, a man lurking in a bush, a lost shoe, some kittiwakes, enormous drums of cabling, mud and an LED illuminated horse.

vermin

jomoj wrote:

a rat, a smashed up toilet, a burnt out scooter, rabbits, an oil rig being built or dismantled - not sure which, a pair of knickers on a fence, some pylons, a man lurking in a bush, a lost shoe, some kittiwakes, enormous drums of cabling, mud and an LED illuminated horse.

The Generation Game has really gone downhill in recent years.

jomoj

vermin wrote:

jomoj wrote:

a rat, a smashed up toilet, a burnt out scooter, rabbits, an oil rig being built or dismantled - not sure which, a pair of knickers on a fence, some pylons, a man lurking in a bush, a lost shoe, some kittiwakes, enormous drums of cabling, mud and an LED illuminated horse.

The Generation Game has really gone downhill in recent years.

I blame austerity.

walkingbootweather

jomoj wrote:

a pair of knickers on a fence....

Those might be mine. Any chance you could post them to me. Don't bother washing them...

rolf_f

jomoj wrote:

a rat, a smashed up toilet, a burnt out scooter, rabbits, an oil rig being built or dismantled - not sure which, a pair of knickers on a fence, some pylons, a man lurking in a bush, a lost shoe, some kittiwakes, enormous drums of cabling, mud and an LED illuminated horse.

This has to be Aberdeen, Glasgow or Middlesborough

neilochx

Re question above, my commute as described above is the journey home to Los Barrios from work in Gibraltar.

jomoj

Rolf F wrote:

jomoj wrote:

a rat, a smashed up toilet, a burnt out scooter, rabbits, an oil rig being built or dismantled - not sure which, a pair of knickers on a fence, some pylons, a man lurking in a bush, a lost shoe, some kittiwakes, enormous drums of cabling, mud and an LED illuminated horse.

This has to be Aberdeen, Glasgow or Middlesborough

Closeish - Newcastle. I don't think they build rigs in 'Boro, just deal with the output. To be fair I've painted it in a poor light, I could have mentioned the bits of Roman wall, the nature reserves and the semi-naked hen parties staggering along the Quayside as well but it's been that kind of day.

vermin

Lots of artics passing at over 70mph within a couple of feet on both sides (I may have taken a wrong turning :shock: )