And today's commuting highlight is...
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Nothing bad (so far, still got ot get home!) just me looking like a bit of a plonker: I have to negotiate about 3 miles of pretty much single track country lanes before getting to the A3 to head into London. I tend to leave anywhere between 6.30 and 7am. Problem is, if it's sunny, at certain points on those lanes I get dazzled by the conbination of low sun and shadowy road to the point where I've nearly ridden straight into the bonnet of a stationary car (they saw me and stopped on one side, but I couldn't see them).
Normally I try to hold a hand up to block the sun, but today I discovered that if I dropped my chin virtually on the tank and made like I was going for a Vmax run, I could just keep low enough that the hedges blocked the sun and I could see. However, 10 seconds into doing this today I encountered a car who basically saw a rider fully tucked in something like this....
![](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/bparkes/Moto%20GP%2008/DSC_0151.jpg)
....resolutely trundling down the road at 15mph trying to stay off the gravelly bit on the middle and keep out of the hedgerow. Must have thought I was some sort of loony and sods law says it was one of our neighbours![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
Normally I try to hold a hand up to block the sun, but today I discovered that if I dropped my chin virtually on the tank and made like I was going for a Vmax run, I could just keep low enough that the hedges blocked the sun and I could see. However, 10 seconds into doing this today I encountered a car who basically saw a rider fully tucked in something like this....
![](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/bparkes/Moto%20GP%2008/DSC_0151.jpg)
....resolutely trundling down the road at 15mph trying to stay off the gravelly bit on the middle and keep out of the hedgerow. Must have thought I was some sort of loony and sods law says it was one of our neighbours
![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day! ![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
black-k1 said:
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day! ![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Exactly ![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
I have contribution...
Filtering between a bus on the left and pickup and the Bus driver starts to move over with me in the middle. didn't check his mirror and didn't indicate.
20 meters late a merc is stationary straddling both lanes and indicating left to obviously go into the left lane. Traffic starts moving I go around him on the right a the nitwit decides he wants to proceed but in the right hand lane again, which I am in as I ride past. Still indicating left I may add. :I
Now I have made it to Norbury.. I f
kwit in a banged up corolla is indicating left and starts moving toward the junction on the left. I start to filter past on the right and the
decides to dart to the right and take the right hand junction. Drives me into the oncoming lane!! I am full on the horn.
Anyway after braking really hard I come back around the bastid and punch his screen! I have no idea why but I really should have stopped to lay one on him.
f
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Filtering between a bus on the left and pickup and the Bus driver starts to move over with me in the middle. didn't check his mirror and didn't indicate.
20 meters late a merc is stationary straddling both lanes and indicating left to obviously go into the left lane. Traffic starts moving I go around him on the right a the nitwit decides he wants to proceed but in the right hand lane again, which I am in as I ride past. Still indicating left I may add. :I
Now I have made it to Norbury.. I f
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Anyway after braking really hard I come back around the bastid and punch his screen! I have no idea why but I really should have stopped to lay one on him.
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308mate said:
tom_e said:
308mate said:
A very angry
in a Toyota Aygo literally trying to kill me.
![coffee](/inc/images/coffee.gif)
Small car syndrome?![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
![coffee](/inc/images/coffee.gif)
Glad your ok
mitzy said:
308mate said:
tom_e said:
308mate said:
A very angry
in a Toyota Aygo literally trying to kill me.
![coffee](/inc/images/coffee.gif)
Small car syndrome?![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
![coffee](/inc/images/coffee.gif)
Glad your ok
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![hehe](/inc/images/hehe.gif)
black-k1 said:
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day! ![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Oh god - I almost forgot its back to school tomorrow. I can't wait for all the school run mums - possibly the poorest/most dangerous driving you are likely to see/survive....![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
supercommuter said:
J B L said:
I swear I'd fail a drug test if I was tested just after my commute on the M25. Filtering through vans is like walking into an Amsterdam coffee shop.
![hippy](/inc/images/hippy.gif)
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Yep - I notice this!![hippy](/inc/images/hippy.gif)
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Biker 1 said:
black-k1 said:
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day! ![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Oh god - I almost forgot its back to school tomorrow. I can't wait for all the school run mums - possibly the poorest/most dangerous driving you are likely to see/survive....![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
Schools in my part of London were back in late last week but its a bit random nowadays.
lindrup119 said:
supercommuter said:
J B L said:
I swear I'd fail a drug test if I was tested just after my commute on the M25. Filtering through vans is like walking into an Amsterdam coffee shop.
![hippy](/inc/images/hippy.gif)
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Yep - I notice this!![hippy](/inc/images/hippy.gif)
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
![smokin](/inc/images/smokin.gif)
Andy XRV said:
lindrup119 said:
supercommuter said:
J B L said:
I swear I'd fail a drug test if I was tested just after my commute on the M25. Filtering through vans is like walking into an Amsterdam coffee shop.
![hippy](/inc/images/hippy.gif)
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Yep - I notice this!![hippy](/inc/images/hippy.gif)
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
![smokin](/inc/images/smokin.gif)
This morning's highlight was being overtaken at warp speed by the P&O cruise ship Britannia on the A20. And there was me thinking the RT was a touch lardy for commuting. This thing made my bike look like a mini moto. Fair play to the rider, he was riding it like it was a KTM 250 EXC.
It looked exactly like this:
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/A5S3hadJ.jpg)
It looked exactly like this:
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/A5S3hadJ.jpg)
CAPP0 said:
This morning's highlight was being overtaken at warp speed by the P&O cruise ship Britannia on the A20. And there was me thinking the RT was a touch lardy for commuting. This thing made my bike look like a mini moto. Fair play to the rider, he was riding it like it was a KTM 250 EXC.
It looked exactly like this:
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/A5S3hadJ.jpg)
You need to man up It looked exactly like this:
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/A5S3hadJ.jpg)
![wink](/inc/images/wink.gif)
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