Pavement Superman
Todays thoughts are “Ow!” and “Actually, I was quite lucky”. Recently when heading from Horningsea in to Fen Diton I’ve been using the new cycle path. I still don’t like using it because it puts you against traffic (crossing the two A14 sliproads, and crossing to the right to get on it leaving Horningsea) rather [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A few bits
I bought one of those little £25 clip-on cameras last week with the intention of mounting it to the bike somewhere. I didn’t expect to get any exciting videos from it, but there might be something interesting and it’s only £25. It seems to have a very slow charge, and very high discharge rate though. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )RTA
Well, that’s my first experience of being hit by a car. I was lucky, can’t see any injuries or damage right now. I don’t wish to try it again though. If I had to put the blame anywhere it would be the white van that was parked in the cycle lane, not the driver of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be A Cock On Your Way Home From Work Day
OK, pardon the swearing but it really felt like it today. I think I counted seven, in an 8 mile journey! Here they are (just getting this off my chest): Cock 1: Pulled out in front of me from a side road on the right while I was on the Science Park ring road, forcing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This weeks’ bad drivers (and bike riders)
This week, commuting to work, I’ve had 2 and a half bad drivers. Including one near miss. The first one and a half were on Wednesday morning in Waterbeach. There are normally two rows of parked cars along the road between Waterbeach station and the church (I think they are the unofficial ‘park and ride’). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Making the target, against the wind
After yesterday I had 25km left to make the weekly Garmin Connect goal. I was however knackered this morning. Partly, possibly, for a moderate length of ride. Partly from the other half having a boat race to get to and being up at 4:00am this morning. It rained buckets overnight, and was very windy still when I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Two days of wind so far
It’s windy on the fens again. 25mph is what the regional forecast said, I really must get/find something that tells me what it is locally. The first half of each commute has been fantastic, then I get to turn around after crossing the river! This morning I managed to average 34km/h on the way up [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lighter evenings
The evenings are getting lighter. This means I should be able to extend my commute home a bit, more chance of making the Garmin Connect goals. I managed it today, by calling in at Homebase and taking the longer route there and back, I got in 23km instead of 12km on the way home. When the mornings [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Rounding up the week
It was wet this morning. YES! Wet isn’t icy, wet is much safer to ride in. I had a decent journey to work at a decent speed without any worry about slipping of stopping distances. The journey home was similarly good too, slightly spoiled by a white van and a lot of traffic. Actually the lot of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A good commute spoiled
Some might argue that there’s no such thing as a good commute, but my ride home today was so close to just being a good ride rather than an essential part of the working day. The days are getting longer so it’s still light when I get home now (just), no more trying to block [...]
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