Does anyone else forget to scrub their leafmulch-splattered lower legs in the shower? I think today as the first time I remembered.
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Confessions of a Cycle Commuter
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Assuming you don't wear shorts around the workplace perhaps it doesn't matter?
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My flaxen employment-trousers leave my malleoli exposed and I wear the same trainer-socks in the office as I do upon a bicycle so heavily-splattered and unwashed ankles would be perceptible to colleagues, but making sure they're clean whilst the shower is still running would prevent the build-up of excess muck on the towel.
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With the headwind this morning my commute took 13-15min longer than usual. As a result I arrived at 8:00 as the morning meeting was starting. I went there as I was but moved the chair a couple of meters away from everyone else to spare them from smelling my sweaty self.
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I did that at PYSoder berg to avoid getting IainMcR's cold but he moved down one to be near me
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So in a rush to get to School Nativity yesterday, I didn't have time to get changed back into my cycling gear.
Cue this morning. It was only when I got out the shower that I realised I didn't have any trousers, and a morning full of meetings. I'm now sitting at my desk, shirt, smart shoes and cycling longs. It's not a combination that works in any sense.
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Couldn't find microchief's cycling glasses this morning so 'borrowed' Mrs Chief's new ones.
As I was unwrapping microchief at the school gate, I asked where the glasses were - they had been put in my back pocket I was told...
I only thought to check later on and they weren't there :-(
I did recall a slight plastically sound on the commute but didn't think much of it & couldn't remember where.
Retracing my steps I eventually found them, crushed :-(
Still, at least we know what Mrs Chief will get for Christmas ;-)
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shirt, smart shoes and cycling longs
Been there, done that, feel the pain.
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must remember that following the once-every-couple-of-years event of changing the shoes cleats, the adjustment on all of the pedals on of all the bikes have been screwed up as far as they'll go, meaning new cleats are significantly harder to unclip. Managed not to have a classic spd moment when pulling into a ASZ, but very close on several occasions this morning.
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A quiet day in the office saw me have a sort out of over a decade's worth of accumulated stuff in my locker.
As we've gone smart casual, I'm rather over catered in ties and have brought more than 30 home... maybe never to be worn again.
Also in the contents were 5 combs, 4 pairs of pants, 6 pairs of socks (+ 2 odd), a balaclava and a razor!
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You know those days where you should have just stayed in bed... that
Woke up an hour after i was meant to be in the office, scrambled round packing, still not fixed the cdf so had to take the bestudded mtb, got within a km of the office and tyre popped off the rim. Two attempts to refit failed so ended up carrying the bike to avoid damaging the tyre or rim.
Insult to injury, by the time I got out the shower they'd finished serving breakfast!! :(
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Carry an emergency gel in the top pocket of my rucksack for a little boost if I go on an extended commute, especially if I am overambitious and am needing to get to the office quickly.
This morning threw a multitool into the top pocket and whatever way it landed it pierced the gel and created an almighty mess in the pocket. Lovely.
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@paddyirish - I do the same, but 3-4 gels in the bottom of my rucksack. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
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Helpful tip for anyone who wishes their commute was longer: just forget to take your office key with you!
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Riding in this morning and halfway I noticed the torpedo's lighting battery was running rather low on electrons. My auxilliary rear light control box has illuminating switches which weren't illuminating very well, and when I pulled on the brake, the power of the twin brake lights caused my main front lights to lose brightness.
I had to revert to the LED running lights rather than head lights, but I completed my journey safely, flicking on main beam at junctions.
Given the aura of hi-tech surrounding the torpedo, henceforth I shall refer to this type of situation as "a critical power failure in the main deflector shield."
(Battery is now charging)
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In the event of a main power failure one should switch to secondary backups. (Keeping the primary backups as backup)
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last night's trip home from craigleith retail park would have been 40 minutes shorter if i knew more place names in edinburgh. i've never left there heading north, so had no idea i was heading for silverknowles rather than leith, until i got to davidson's mains.
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I got a shock this morning listening to BBC Radio Scotland when I heard the traffic presenter say 'Icy conditions mean hazardous conditions for motorists and cyclists this morning' or words that effect.
I have only ever heard cyclists mentioned in the specific context of the Forth Road Bridge previously, never as a acknowledgment that there are people on bicycles in the general population who might be travelling on the roads and paths.
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I used the bike room at work today for the first time (moved into the new office this week).
I had been told how to get into the underground carpark but the reception had left out some vital details:
- I didn't know the code to get into the actual bike room (dry and with pump and tools! Great!)
- I had to phone reception to get the code
- They hadn't explained how to get to lifts from car park.
- They hadn't explained there were multiple buildings (I was apparently trying to force entry to an entirely different building)This evening I was working late and proceeded downstairs to the bike room...to realise I'd not remembered to write down the code anywhere. Thankfully I met someone in the office upstairs who knew it (having done the same thing himself apparently).
Hope it goes smoother next time.
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Got to work, put the bike away, got ready to have my shower went to my bag to find my towel and found there were no trousers in my bag.
Get cycling kit on again, rush to M&S, pay the emergency trouser tax and got to my desk only 1/2 hr later than wanted...
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@paddyirish, what is the cheapest acceptable pair of trousers in M and S. They open at 8a.m. So have had shirt tax and pant tax off me but trousers from that emporium have a slight Grandad tendency I would struggle with but ultimately accept as we ain't gonna get away with the sans culottes.
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trousers from that emporium have a slight Grandad tendency
never send to know for whom the blue harbour range is designed for; it is designed for thee
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@bax
A rare syntactical error in content as peerless as ever.
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whomst ? no
for != gotcha
the shame of it !
and i used to be a proofreader for mainstream
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@bax do those trews have a hidden elastic expansion In The waist band in case you over do lunch?
Compare to those tartan trews worn by Sir John Sinclair in his painting in the portrait gallery (his wiki page has the painting) why he combined them with the sporran I will never know (well he fancied a dead animal for a pocket)
First man to use the word statistics In English.
Tall lad with tall daughters (Catherine has an Eleanor cross monument at st Colme street) she outed Walter Scott as the author of Waverley and installed the drinking fountain near the binns clock. She was as tall as her dad. The stretch of George St oiutside their house was called The Giants Causeway.
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do those trews have a hidden elastic expansion In The waist band in case you over do lunch?
how the devil would i know.. i'm a YMC | Norse man.. mostly
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pity the man who need eat breakfast / lunch
always FAST til end of labour
draw a distinction
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Always start the day with porridge. Have even convinced Mrs Garto over the years. She used to survive on a coffee only.
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"Do those trews have a hidden elastic expansion In The waist band in case you over do lunch?"
A pet peeve of mine. Why I would need a pair of 32" trousers to stretch up to 35" when They were already an inch or so too big is beyond me.
On the rare occasion I have through lack of choice or mistake had such trousers a functioning belt has stopped such unnecessary expansion.
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