I'm looking forward to quiet roads and (hopefully) an equally quiet time in the office. Roll on Monday!
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Who is commuting on Monday?
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Posted 11 years ago #
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I'm looking forward to a long lie and working on the sofa with the fire roaring and the music on.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Thankfully I am now ooty here till January!
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>:(
You've both gone to the bottom of my Christmas card list... ;)
Posted 11 years ago # -
Well if everyone was going to work on Monday you wouldn't have the nice quiet roads. ;-)
Posted 11 years ago # -
My commute is going to be even quieter... On Tuesday :(
Posted 11 years ago # -
Sad but true: I used to love working over Christmas, and especially between Christmas and New Year. Not just the lovely empty trains and quiet roads, but the chance to actually do my own job for a change rather than everybody else's. And then I'd take a break in January when everyone else was back at work (or even better February)
Posted 11 years ago # -
@WC - I wish I could - managed one day this week before being floored with a bug necessitating car to work. Now on 'holiday' and have barely made the bed->sofa journey all day.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'm up in rural Tayside with only got my Dad's budget hybrid to keep the withdrawal symptoms at bay until the 3rd.
If the weather had been good I'd probably have taken the Croix up tomorrow, but it ain't so I won't.
Double no to the Monday commute, therefore.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Today was the last one, now planning to get fat(ter) and slow(er) until January :-)
Posted 11 years ago # -
Minus the front suspension and butterflies, it's a very similar animal. It'll take me to the shops and if the skies clear, I'm only 20 minutes ride from real country dark, so I've taken a pannier and my lights up to go astronoming.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Basic hybrids can ride surprisingly well. My Raleigh Pioneer Trail (an early hybrid, okay it's got a reasonably nice lugged brazed steel frame, but still) has done about 1500km since I picked it up for next to nothing in 2011. Yes, I've fitted drop bars but it rode quite nicely with North Road bars too (wasn't keen on the original straight bars mind you).
Oh, no commuting for me until mid-January. ;-)
Still I'll be on the bike(s) (no car, y'see): got to do shopping, utility trips, leisure pootles with kids, training runs, and if the weather's okay a DIY audax the first week after new year.Posted 11 years ago # -
The shifting on this thing was so horrible I pretty much ran it as a single speed, but the brakes brake and the wheels turn, so I shall stop kvetching.
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I've been off since yeaterday and don't plan to be back until the 3rd Jan.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I shall be cycling to work on Monday. And Thursday, and Friday. And the following Monday. I have to ride 135 miles between tomorrow and the end of the year to get my odometer up to 6000 miles. Eight days of riding available; 17 miles a day should cover it.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Picking up christmas from M&S like a pure Margot Leadbetter then heading to Ben Ledi with number 2 son.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Yep,
Working Mon, Thurs+Fri next week. Hoping for quiet roads.
Happy crimble to all on here and may all your pressies be bike related!Posted 11 years ago # -
Back on bike next thursday earliest. Did a wee cross town erand today overtaking huge lines of cars on last minute missions. Best wishes to all.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Did a spot ofnon-Christmas shopping today, bike was def the weapon of choice, rain varied in intensity but it was warm enough and the time I lost plodding up the horrid hill I more than gained not sitting in queues at the shopping centre :-)
Posted 11 years ago # -
@arellcat you should sign up for the Rapha 500 km over Xmas challenge entitles you to a free buff if you spend 500 pounds (I have exaggerated the prize)
Posted 11 years ago # -
Christm@s & new year in thé netherlands for my gang. Just pumped up the tyres on ma dutch syeed and hey presto! I'm a local.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Did try and persuade my other half that we could cycle to the mall this morning but our borrowed bikes don't have the carrying capacity. Also cycling to an American mall just feels like doing it wrong, although on the whole the drivers are extremely polite and one thing about having really really wide roads is that there's plenty of space to overtake. I get the impression that the drivers of the monster pickups don't want to have to worry about the strange bike thing so they tend to let you go first so you get out of their way. That said, we've seen a bakfiets and a folder here, so there's obviously some sort of a utility bike culture lurking under the surface.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Roads were a bit quieter, but not as much as I'd have imagined. Now sat in the office contemplating a bacon roll and the few things I need to get out of my inbox this morning so I can kick back in the afternoon...
Posted 11 years ago # -
Quite a few folk still working + quite a few folk driving into town early for last minute Christmas presents?
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'm back down in Hartlepool. Cycled back from durham train station in a near gale yesterday which was rather exciting/scary. There were a few idiot drivers so I was always having to make sure I was waiting for a longing gap, then sprinting whenever there was any sort of blind rise/corner.
However with the wind behind me I must have hit 33+ (ran out of gears) for a good long time on the flat which was ace. Although strava wasn't working so I shall not know :(
Posted 11 years ago # -
Out of the centre of town, it was much, much quieter. I ended up going along Corstorphine / St John's Road and it seemed to be just myself, the Airport bus and the taxis all jostling for the bus lane. Much quieter in the work car park too and the office was pretty dead. Left work early about 2 to go do some cheese and booze shopping, had to go through George Street which was dreadful. It seems the done thing to do now is just stop your car in the middle of the road and wait for a space to come free.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Kappers, yes I have noticed that too about George Street.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I tried to cycle along George St this afternoon, too. It was nose to tail from Frederick St to St Andrew Square with no room to filter either. I turned off down Hanover St and went to the German market.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I found myself tacking down the street through the mess of vehicles, moving more often sideyways than forwards
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