Ride Entry – 3rd June 2009
Bike: Humuhumu
Distance:29 miles
Reasonable commute. No serious issues. Not very sunny but still good. I’ve refined my processes at work now, I leave more stuff in my locker so there’s less to carry round and I’m getting quite adept at a very fast strip wash. The cleaners are on to me now and have started saying I can’t use the disabled toilets until 7am.
Incidents of note: Woman who works at our place approached me and told me I should be using the cycle lanes instead of the road, idiot! I’ve not worked out who she is yet but once I do it might be karma time on the IT front.
Also, on the way home I cracked and rode like a cock through the traffic, in and out very fast. I just took control and made moves I knew were safe rather than obeying any rules. Good fun but dangerous.
The freehib on the humu is now slipping a lot, need to get that replaced, hope that the standard shimano freehub fits most things as Sheldon suggests because you certainly can’t buy DX freehub specific freehubs any more.
June 3, 2009 10:43 pm 4 Comments
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By Dave, June 4, 2009 @ 9:27 am
my boss at current job has seen me biking and mentioned she hates cyclists filtering through stationary traffic! HAH like that’s going to stop me!
also, had a c0ck try to ram me from a side road. barely had time to swerve let alone do anything else. He got beeped from behind and then had the gall to give me and them the finger (returned of course) and then speed off.. All of 20 yrds to the traffic lights.. Seriously contemplated going and having a word, but decided it wasn’t worth it. Got a concerned motorist ask if i was alright n’all.
i’d almost gone for a week without issues then.. ahh cycling we love it!
By admin, June 4, 2009 @ 10:39 am
The daft thing is that cyclists filtering through stationary traffic doesn’t affect drivers in anyway. It’s not like we’re going to hold them up at all by doing so and the traffic jams are after all, caused by cars, not bikes. It’s more jealousy that we’re moving and they’re not than anything else. When I’m driving and I see cyclists doing this it just makes me wish I was on my bike.
By D0NK, June 8, 2009 @ 10:12 am
From a thread on STW lately theres a few people who think filtering=certain death
By Tom, June 8, 2009 @ 11:54 am
Tell her to reread the highway code. She obvioulsy needs to having forgotten some of it.