So much fun on the way home, flying through the traffic, tyres scrapping the curb, pedals clipping the curb, clipping the odd wing mirror, racing for the lights, lactic giving up as you pedal even faster, racing other cycle commuters, arms getting jarred by potholes, speed wobble on the downs and finally a skid as you pull up to the garage! 😈
then you go in the house, take off your shoes and post this shit?
lactic acid on the brain
No shoes still on took off my helmet and gloves though. Here let me pass you your golf trolley.
you don't even have to stop at red lights. 🙂
I especially love it when I pass some of the Lazy Gits! I work with sat in traffic
they usually then whine about the traffic the next day
cue smug face 😀
Here let me pass you your golf trolley 😆
you don't even have to stop at red lights.
One but you can practise track standing, although I don't care if people run them just gotta look out for pedestrians as they tend not to wear helmets.
The lass at work cannot understand why I don;t drive. Nice lady but so funny as she just cannot get her head round it. I'm off for food 😀
Got the rage this afternoon, but it ended up putting me in a good mood. Just fitting some wider bars and shorter stem to the FS. Commute on that tomorrow then 🙂 🙂 🙂
I've been awake for 36 hours so my commute home may be a little sketchy
commuter racing is ace!
I've been awake for 36 hours so my commute home may be a little sketchy
What you been up to? Not at work surely.
bakes - stop working so hard (I used to do the same when pulling all nighters - the ride home was often a bit wobbly).
I don't do any of this aggro riding. Instead, I get to ride out through the burbs and through open countryside every morning, and then back through it in the evening. A round trip of 34 miles of cycling happiness. 😀
So much fun on the way home, flying through the traffic, tyres scrapping the curb, pedals clipping the curb, clipping the odd wing mirror, racing for the lights, lactic giving up as you pedal even faster, racing other cycle commuters, arms getting jarred by potholes, speed wobble on the downs and finally a skid as you pull up to the garage!
Urban MTB commuting is my favourite extreme sport - the much higher risk of serious injury (or worse 😯 ) makes things like base jumping altogether too tame for me! 😈
What you been up to? Not at work surely.
Yep. Sucks the big one, but had to be done.
I can't feel my teeth and my eyes feel like someone's put talc in them.
WTF are you doing for 36 hours straight?? You better not be a doctor...
just writing a little 120 page report
got myself into a bit of a pickle with a manic workload and thought I'd get myself back on track by working through
this was all on top of stinking 2-day hangover after my stag do at the weekend
I agree - I get more of a thrill commuting to work like a maniac than I do hooning it down a rocky section of trail! Sure my discs get hotter too 😉
DrP
im off to commute home now
sun is shining, traffic will have calmed enough i can get some speed up without risking being tboned by a chelsea tractor
(there are a lot of them in chelsea btw)
So much fun on the way home, flying through the traffic, tyres scrapping the curb, pedals clipping the curb, clipping the odd wing mirror, racing for the lights, lactic giving up as you pedal even faster, racing other cycle commuters, arms getting jarred by potholes, speed wobble on the downs and finally a skid as you pull up to the garage!Urban MTB commuting is my favourite extreme sport - the much higher risk of serious injury (or worse ) makes things like base jumping altogether too tame for me!
I know what you mean I'm actually slightly dissapointed when the traffic isn't busy feels like its not combative enough when the roads are too quiet 🙂
Cycling is fun. Yes?
Mixing it in traffic is for noobs.
Chill out and you'll live longer.
Mixing it in traffic is for noobs.Chill out and you'll live longer.
Touch wood... been doing it for 20 years, and have been fine, plenty of close calls, but I've always seen them coming and avoided the bang (rapidly followed by my blowing up at the unfortunate offender!)
I've always loved the thrill and daring of riding in heavy traffic... I'm either very lucky or very good at it, one or the other... touch wood again!
I rode in the full 24 miles to work via tow paths this morning. saw the sun come up and loads of wild life yet only 3 humans 😀 just under 2 hours of bliss.
can't grasp how people do that distance or more every day... think I will stick to breaking it up with a train until I am fitter 🙂
That is a lot maxray I'm doing 70 mile a week commuting. Did you cycle back?
I've had a couple weeks of good commuting until some class A tw*t walked out in front of me today without looking. meh.
I rode in the full 24 miles to work via tow paths this morning. saw the sun come up and loads of wild life yet only 3 humans just under 2 hours of bliss.
Now that's sounds more like my kind of commute than the OP!
I did my first every bike commute last Friday, and can't believe that I didnt do it sooner! 12 miles each way through south manchester and over to warrington, avoiding the busy roads, enjoying early morning and evening sunshine, plus a few vaguely interesting bits to boot 🙂
Did it again Mon & Tues but was working away today, and I really missed getting out on the bike in the morning....
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Fortunately or unfortunately my commute doesn't involve any roads, Milton Keynes is full of dedicated cycle ways plus i an have almost door to door canal ride (puncture nightmare)it got a little stale after a couple of years so i now go out of my way to search out any ramp, stairs, drop off and even detour to the on route skate park now and again. The bit i like is that the company give me a car and I choose to leave it on the drive way most days (they love that). Lunch time blasts are always a winner too.
Commute of 2 halves for me. Cross town to start with all the fun that entails. (Tip for van and wagon drivers don't drive like a fool and cut me up in your mobile advert). Then some quiet country roads. Or else it's a riverside pootle out of town followed by a 2 mile section of road then finishing up on the river again for an MTB trip. I then get to work with bikes for the day, nothing fancy on the fleet though.
You should try lugging a 3 & 4yr old in a trailer on your commute. That'll slow you down my boy. Oh yes laddy boy.
Simply & utterly no better way to start/finish a day than a bike ride in.
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Hers a couple from my commute I sometimes take the scenic route that runs near the river and farmers fields, or more often the direct tarmac route.
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