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Confessions of a Cycle Commuter
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Bit crackly. I could try soaking the T-shirt in tea bags and drying it under the hand dryer?
Or keep my jersey on all day which id what I am doing just now. Of course the heating is being efficient for a change!
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I did that yesterday! yellow t-shirt. Just stayed in the office all day :) I ventured out to make coffee, saw someone at photocopier....luckily it turned out to be husband (who'd given me the yellow shirt in the first place).
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As well as forgetting to pack a towel to use at work and doing the 'dry of shame' with a t-shirt, I have also managed to forget undergarments and socks...cue a very, very quick sprint to Primark for cheap make do undies for the day!
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I managed to remove my card and money from my wallet yesterday and the proceeded to pack wallet for gym, then goto tesco. Que me standing forlorn at the checkout as I realised what I'd done. Had to cycle home, grab money, cycle back, be embarrassed. Without the bike would have taken thrice as long however. Tesqous were very good about it though. Kept my stuff bagged at the side and forgot to scan a toothbrush. Score.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Confession: a woman in a small white car wound down the window to tell me that I had been cycling too much in the middle of the road (I might possibly have chosen this position, given that the stretch of road in question has blind bends and double white lines...)
She addressed me as "son". So I was naughty and addressed her as "sir", even though I would be the first to admmit that when it is dark and I'm wrapped up in winter cycling gear, it is not at all obvious that "son" is not an appropriate form of address...
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Two thirds of the way into the office I realised I had neither man bag nor carradice! Cue hard left and double time home. Had the tractor to take the coxwean to my mums... Never change your routine!!
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I walked my bike all the way into my office today rather than putting it down in the wee storage area we use for bikes. My mind was on other things and I just went on auto pilot. Que weird looks from a few people... Luckily lots of the people in the building are mostly out the office or lazy and don't get in till 10:30 or so!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Well today I failed to bring a fresh T-shirt so not only do I still have yesterdays problem but I am also wearing yesterdays t-shirt. And the heating is now fiercely efficient. Go me!
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"lots of the people in the building are mostly out the office or lazy and don't get in till 10:30"
Surely you mean 'on flexitime, sensibly avoiding peak commute time'...
Though if they came by bike, travel time would be more or less the same at any time.
Maybe they are too lazy for that...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Min, time to nip to the shops at lunch time!
Posted 11 years ago # -
You work in a hospital - just steal a consultant's coat.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Min how is your body temperature? Could be early delerium start of the flu? Maybe the heating isn't on at all?
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Who said that??? Penguin.
Willers - I don't work in a hospital I work in a lab so I have my own coat but I can only wear it in the lab.
Steveo - Meh, days nearly over by then! I'll just avoid all human contact as much as possible or just spend the day getting really close to people I don't like. :-D In fact maybe I'll do this more often..
Posted 11 years ago # -
Gift shop? :D
I'll just avoid all human contact as much as possible
I do that as a matter of course...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Argh!
Slightly held up at work, so miss usual train. Puncture on the first leg home, just far enough away from the station that I miss the train at a jog with bike. Fine, wait half an hour for next one. Now an hour behind schedule.
On train, discover have no nitrile gloves in repair kit. Mucky hands time. Whip wheel off bike, remove tube. I have three sizes of spare tube with me, but the upright 700C size, brand new out of the box, has the valve centre missing. Unable to unscrew valve centre from punctured tube, despite using teeth.
Grumble.
Take out puncture repair box. Discover glue is one I thought I'd thrown out. Congealed and doesn't apply. Can't repair tube. Gnargh!
Fine, will get local train home at other end. Reassemble bike, go to train toilet to wash hands. Electric door opens, jams and toilet out of use sign comes on. Squeeze through gap, cover hands in soap, get a dribble of water and no more. Attempt to rinse hands using toilet paper. Fail.
Have massive sulk.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Sounds like the plot to a Mr Bean episode! However, as I was typing that, I realised I've never seen a Mr Bean episode, so I am most likely wrong.
Posted 11 years ago # -
What a shame, Rob! I used to keep a small roll of regular electrical insulating tape in my bag for Faerie attacks. A couple of pieces arranged in an X shape, or one piece wrapped all the way around the tube and overlapped a bit, can make a surprisingly effective emergency patch.
Posted 11 years ago # -
The upright has been condemned to the cupboard for today, so back on the massive-winter-tyred recumbent. Puncture that...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Clean t-shirt min?
Posted 11 years ago # -
I thought she'd decided yesterday that wearing the same one had advantages...
Posted 11 years ago # -
YES! I am so proud! :-)
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Go Min! Go Min! Go Min!
Now. What colour is it :-/
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BLACK! Can't argue with that. And it is merino so it doesn't smell. Foolproof. I hope..
Posted 11 years ago # -
"Sounds like the plot to a Mr Bean episode!"
Mr Bean would have found a solution eventually, possibly packing the tyre with buffet trolley sandwiches or something.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Sadly the Helensburgh train isn't catered.
Whilst recounting this story to my fellow cyclists this morning I discovered that no-one else uses glue any more, but instead these adhesive patches. What is this witchcraft? In fact, when describing my puncture repair technique I might as well have said I sacrifice a goat and pray to the god of vulcanisation, for all the pitying looks I got.
When did the world move on?
Posted 11 years ago # -
My world will be moving back. Adhesive patches are great for 'on the fly', but I've noticed the ones I've attached recently, after a while the adhesive loses its adhesivosity.
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Self adhesives patches are a get you home measure in my experience. Once home, repair properly or replace.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I never repair these days. Just buy tubes in bulk online. Just not worth the risk IMHO and I don't mind carrying a spare tube around. (to be fair I ride with a HUGE chrome bag which looks like I'm carrying most of my worldly posessions around)
Posted 11 years ago # -
A well repaired tube should pose no more risk than the risk of getting another puncture - the solution is vulcanising and creates chemical bonds between the rubber of the tube and of the patch, creating a chemically seamless piece of material.
The stinky, glue-like smell is the solvent evaporating off (hence the need to let it dry before patching).
Of course, a rushed or poorly repaired tube is another matter!
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