How was your commute ... today, yesterday, last week ...

[jasonc]

lazy riverloop this morning having a chat to a riding buddy then onto the ride to work day breakfast held in the law courts in Brissy.

[find_bruce]

Struggle street for me coming in to work today - the whole family have had some lurgy for nearly a month now & Dr is apparently clueless as to the cause. To lousy to go to work yesterday, but went for a longer commute in to see if that helped. I was slower than grass growing, but still quicker than the cars parked on their way into the CBD.

lazy riverloop this morning having a chat to a riding buddy then onto the ride to work day breakfast held in the law courts in Brissy.

Good to hear you are on the road to recovery

I temporarily have an office mate which has me on my best behaviour, trying to pick my moment to roll my lower back out without her thinking I'm dying, not leaving dank lycra hanging everywhere etc. She's a super-girly millennial so mostly ignores me when not giving me mild side-eye for dragging a comb through my hair while I sort and stack emails. I've implored her to say something if my gear stinks, so we'll see how that goes ...

That's one tactic I suppose. Personally I would go the other direction. Sure it may be anti-social, but you get your office back. Yes I do have my own office, why do you ask ?

[jasonc]

Good to hear you are on the road to recovery

Yes, thanks. Still not 100% but significantly better. Friends of mine have struggled with it for a month. Mrs JasonC is on some steroids because it got onto her chest. The weather is making it very easy to commute at the moment. Got a couple of options for tomorrow. Trying to work out which one I want to hurt myself with.

[jasonc]

options were shot this morning after puncturing a few kms from home meaning I'd be late for the group ride. couple of coot-thas instead

[find_bruce]

Next time can someone warn me before Moron Motorist Monday. My commute is mostly peaceful, but when the morons arrive, they do so en masse.

#1 was the concrete mixer on the wrong side of the road, driving straight at me,

#2 was the motorbike who MGIF so he could pull into his driveway in 100m,

#3 was the moron who pulled out of his driveway, nearly collecting moron #2. I then did a lap of the bay run, so a break from the motorists. Sure there were plenty of dumb pedestrians, but they are oh so predictable & much less deadly.

Almost into work when #4 in a holden caprice (the 80s are calling & they want their car back) is doing about 20km/h until I pass him, which apparently so stung his tragically low self esteem that he had to suddenly accelerate to keep up with me. 500m later the same pathetic tosser dives up the left hand lane to get in front before slowing down to a crawl.

My only consolation is that is my monthly quota, so should be some peaceful days coming up.

[singlespeedscott]

Winter must be coming as this morning was my first commute of the year with arm warmers

[fat and old]

A really nice pleasant ride from job to job today. Balwyn to Lilydale to Warburton via the rail trail. Bar the horsey poop it was sweet way to spend the morning.

[tez001]

Getting a bit sick of the headwinds on the commutes home over the past couple of days from Sidney cbd out west!

[Lukeyboy]

Good to hear you are on the road to recovery

Yes, thanks. Still not 100% but significantly better. Friends of mine have struggled with it for a month. Mrs JasonC is on some steroids because it got onto her chest. The weather is making it very easy to commute at the moment. Got a couple of options for tomorrow. Trying to work out which one I want to hurt myself with.

What recovery??? You can still ride a bike to work so you mustn't be too bad I'm hoping to ride my bike from work for the first time in over a month tomorrow

[jasonc]

single figures in Brisbane this morning. garmin go down to 8 degrees. thankfully temperature inversion meant it was warmer on coot-tha. that is except for the cold reception from the police (no, i didn't get booked).

[caneye]

first single digit commute of the year. full-length gloves.
sunny crisp morning. there's nothing like commuting in winter.

[padfoot]

A quick thank you to the gentleman who cleared the shopping trolleys off the bike path in Balgowlah Monday morning.
Much appreciated.

[fat and old]

Driving rain, cold gale force headwind and some asshat straight off the Houseos set with a nasty big dog who thought it was funny when Fido tried to get a piece of me. It ended badly.

Character building commute

[jasonc]

f&o - did you dog actually get a piece of you?

5.3 degrees in brisbane this morning.

[fat and old]

Just scratched me a tiny bit before I belted it and surprised the thing. Yeah, big enough to poc on the head without leaning over too much I absolutely hate people who put me in the position of hurting a dog

[fat and old]

Yeah, morning ride cold and wet. 10 degrees, but colder feeling than that.

[jasonc]

I absolutely hate people who put me in the position of hurting a dog

hitting the dog is self defence. hitting the idiot on the other end of the dog is assault for some reason

[fat and old]

I absolutely hate people who put me in the position of hurting a dog

hitting the dog is self defence. hitting the idiot on the other end of the dog is assault for some reason

Nah, not last night...we came off about even

[Lukeyboy]

5.3 degrees in brisbane this morning.

Not when I woke up

[jasonc]

5.3 degrees in brisbane this morning.

Not when I woke up

one day you'll mature from your teenage years and get up before 10am. one day.

[__PG__]

My Sidi Diablo Goretex MTB boots arrived yesterday, just in time for this morning's wet commute.

Dry feet and no booties..what a concept.

Well they failed this morning. Feet and boots got saturated.

I wear latex dry-suit seals around my ankles to stop water running in from the top of leg. Looking at my wet inner soles it seems and feeling around the boot it seems that water penetrates around the tongue.

Looks like that if its really coming down, you still need your booties.

I'm also going to try to silicone the cleat holes in the sole, although the SPD design makes this somewhat problematic.

At least my Gore-Tex MTB gloves worked well.

[Lukeyboy]

5.3 degrees in brisbane this morning.

Not when I woke up

one day you'll mature from your teenage years and get up before 10am. one day.

I got the day off.... to kick your ass!

I'll see you soon!

[jasonc]

Not when I woke up

one day you'll mature from your teenage years and get up before 10am. one day.

I got the day off.... to kick your ass!

I'll see you soon!

you bringing milk shakes or sausage rolls?

[Lukeyboy]

Winner shouts?

[jasonc]

Winner shouts?

sms me when you get here.