What can I say. I have had a great week on a bike. I broke the highway code more often than normal as well. Writing this blog makes me feel more guilty about it. I suspect if more cycled I would. At the moment i rarely overtake or am held up by a cyclist. I feel alone out there.
Probably do a 100k on week, as mates are warming up to do the Tour de France etape. I just want to see how well they ae doing. One month to go.
Friday, 1 June 2007
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
great day
The way in no trouble, is it a school holiday? Work late. To much to do. Cycle home, sunshine and tail wind. Coast down the hill at 35. Duck onto cycle path, avoid the pedestrians on it. Then cycle along by the river, avoid the ducks, geese, pigeons and squirrels. Loiter in the sun. Evenings like today are why I cycle.
Monday, 28 May 2007
Hi,
Todays a bank holiday - no work, its raining still, has been for near thirty hours. It will still be wet tomorrow. I'll cycle with water proofs, gaiters and boots. Dry feet rule.
I'd planned to go for a 100k ride today, to be honest, in the rain and wind, thats unlikely. I think I'll go for a run.
Todays a bank holiday - no work, its raining still, has been for near thirty hours. It will still be wet tomorrow. I'll cycle with water proofs, gaiters and boots. Dry feet rule.
I'd planned to go for a 100k ride today, to be honest, in the rain and wind, thats unlikely. I think I'll go for a run.
straight off
Straight off. A quick overview of me.
I am placing this here a simple diary of my commute to work, by bike and by car.
I cycle nearly every day.
I don't cycle far, only 6 miles each day. Nothing. Sometimes i will do 20-50 miles, I know and have known many people who do that distance daily.
I am one of those cyclists, I filter to the front of queue's.
I will watch opposing traffic lights and jump when those lights turn.
I will filter left on a red light in the UK.
I have commuted by bike for over a decade, I started off with the highway code, I evolved the ways I break the highway code.
All recent studies report that those who stick to the highway code put there lives at the mercy of others.
You place your live at the hands of others if you cycle on roads in UK. As this simple blog will show; I'd say a fortnight does not go past where I haven't, with full legal right of way, not had to come to a stop from full speed or make an emergency maneuver.
The above is not including all the usual issues you come across driving, riding cycling to work. Just the mad things motorists/cyclist/pedestrians do.
I obey the highway code otherwise. I reread the highway code at least once a year.
I pull over for emergency services, I stop at most red lights.
I will sit in traffic if the is no viable way ahead.
I prefer decent cycle paths.
The cycle routes in general in the UK are the worst in Western Europe. Except some of the leisure routes, which can be superb.
I am not a old lady, a mid thirties, fit cyclist, riding a bike I put together.
Its a fast bike 11-27 ratio at rear, 50-34 compact at the front. I have the strength to run 50-13 easily on the flat without pushing myself.
I reach over 30mph on mild downhills, I will be over 20mph on the flat in still conditions. unladen.
I still get overtaken, downhill in 30mph limits. I am not slow up hill.
I keep to the side of the road where safe.
So I thought I'd place my experience on the net, the are many others.
I hope though that something can be done to improve cycle commuting. At the moment its more danger and hassle than a car commute, you have to be dedicated.
I am placing this here a simple diary of my commute to work, by bike and by car.
I cycle nearly every day.
I don't cycle far, only 6 miles each day. Nothing. Sometimes i will do 20-50 miles, I know and have known many people who do that distance daily.
I am one of those cyclists, I filter to the front of queue's.
I will watch opposing traffic lights and jump when those lights turn.
I will filter left on a red light in the UK.
I have commuted by bike for over a decade, I started off with the highway code, I evolved the ways I break the highway code.
All recent studies report that those who stick to the highway code put there lives at the mercy of others.
You place your live at the hands of others if you cycle on roads in UK. As this simple blog will show; I'd say a fortnight does not go past where I haven't, with full legal right of way, not had to come to a stop from full speed or make an emergency maneuver.
The above is not including all the usual issues you come across driving, riding cycling to work. Just the mad things motorists/cyclist/pedestrians do.
I obey the highway code otherwise. I reread the highway code at least once a year.
I pull over for emergency services, I stop at most red lights.
I will sit in traffic if the is no viable way ahead.
I prefer decent cycle paths.
The cycle routes in general in the UK are the worst in Western Europe. Except some of the leisure routes, which can be superb.
I am not a old lady, a mid thirties, fit cyclist, riding a bike I put together.
Its a fast bike 11-27 ratio at rear, 50-34 compact at the front. I have the strength to run 50-13 easily on the flat without pushing myself.
I reach over 30mph on mild downhills, I will be over 20mph on the flat in still conditions. unladen.
I still get overtaken, downhill in 30mph limits. I am not slow up hill.
I keep to the side of the road where safe.
So I thought I'd place my experience on the net, the are many others.
I hope though that something can be done to improve cycle commuting. At the moment its more danger and hassle than a car commute, you have to be dedicated.
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