You’ve got to watch out for hoardes of Boris bikes all over the cycle lane at the moment 
. It was deserted for the first few weeks of lockdown, but I’ve stopped going that way now because it’s a nightmare if you’re trying to ride reasonably quickly.
Is Richmond Park still closed at the weekends? I know it’s re-opened during the week, but I thought it was still shut at the weekend. The route round the outside is a bit crappy.
I believe it still is.
Broomfield and Dark hill still closed too
What way are you going round? Upper Richmond Rd/ Queens Rd through Ham? Suppose you could go Wimbledon and Combe lane? Both a bit rubbish though
I usually go Upper Richmond Rd/Queens Road/Ham. I live near Oval and work in the City, so I only go that way on a Sunday for my long ride. It’s not too bad early in the morning on the way out, but the road through Ham isn’t great if it’s busy on the way home and I’d rather not have to ride the climb up to Star & Garter with 150km in my legs 
. Fortunately, I’ve hit the lights at the bottom of the climb on green nearly every time, otherwise it’s a nightmare starting off on the steepest bit of the climb.
New workplace is 182km away…hmm…
Sounds perfect for IM training - go for an early morning swim and then ride to work. Do you reckon you’ll be able to fit a 42km run in during your lunch break?
ha ha ha - mine is 188km, but I don’t think they like bikes on the M6 Toll road 
Anyways, it’s actually around 188cm away, as I roll out of bed and onto my laptop now 
A bit late to the rear light party, I have this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/WASAGA-Rechargeable-Intensity-Taillight-Waterproof/dp/B07K65DZFC/ref=sr_1_8?crid=37ARH9V0YSC4W&dchild=1&keywords=flashing+rear+cycle+light&qid=1594907690&sprefix=flashing+rear+%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-8
Very good & for £10 pretty unbeatable value. The strobe effect is impossible for even the most half-asleep driver to miss!
I pair it with a flashing rear light on my helmet 
Think there’s a reasonable chance of clearing 2020 without ever commuting home in daylight 
Yep definitely.
I don’t even know where my London bike is. It might be at the office, it might be outside Euston, or it might have been outside Euston and is now in the hands of a light fingered oik.
Bikes are like gold dust in London. If that bike wasn’t in a secure car park in your office, it’s long gone now 
If its at the office there is an internal locked bike shed so it should be ok there.
Otherwise I am sure it will be gone. The lock cost more than the bike did, be more pissed of about the damage to that.
I’m 100% certain that I will get the call to start working back in the office the very moment it starts pissing it down and blowing an eternal headwind everyday while being dark on both the way in and way home…
Still expect to be WFH for a while but picked up a 1990’s Saracen MTB at the weekend for £85. Pretty good condition for its age, a bit of fettling, some new parts and it’ll be able to cope with the pot holed roads around Glasgow.
Really, really don’t want to be using public transport again. Then again, really don’t want to go back to working in an office, WFH suits me just fine.
Been into the office in Solihull 3 times since March, once by car to acquire my monitors & docking station and twice in the pissing rain by bike carrying laptop & clothes that i’d usually at least have had some of in the office.
Still due to the rain & social distancing managed to avoid having a shower 
The government have released a new guidance document for Local Authorities on how to design cycle infrastructure, as well as changing the Highway Code to make cycle and walking safety more explicit. Could be a bit of a game changer.
There’s the one for me (if it were genuinely used in the way in which it was intended):
20) All designers of cycle schemes must experience the roads as a cyclist. Ideally, all schemes would be designed by people who cycle regularly. But in every case, those who design schemes should travel through the area on a cycle to understand how it feels - and experience some of the failings described above, to understand why they do not work. The most effective way to gain this understanding is to get out and cycle the route and observe users’ behaviour.
I’ve been cycling with Mrs W and it’s been a real eye opener seeing well meaning, but badly designed schemes through the eyes of a new cyclist. And I’m sure most of it has been designed by people or teams with no experience of what it’s like to cycle through traffic. We’re quite lucky in Kingston as we have an active cycling advocacy group and a cycle friendly council, but the standards of what is available ranges from the sublime to the truly terrible.
Yeah there’s probably a ton of examples of cycle routes that were shoved in to tick a box to well meaning but flawed to genuinely good. But getting these designers actually on the roads has got to be a good thing. Like experiencing the amount of road crap that vehicles flick sideways into the cycle lane, making it as good as a bed of nails!
There’s lots of work going on on cycle lanes in London at the moment. I noticed the other week that there’s barriers creating a big cycle lane on Park Lane northbound, so everything apart from buses is now squeezed into a single lane. The intention is clearly to create more segregated lanes so that people who are less confident in traffic will feel happy to ride to work or to the shops.
My commute includes the stretch of CS7 along Southwark Bridge Road. CS7 was one of the first superhighways and was pretty much just blue paint on the road. What they’ve done now is put in a load of curbs and bollards to create a definite seperation between the cycle lane and the traffic lane. To me, as someone who’s been commuting by bike in London for over 20 years these changes make that stretch of road worse than it was before.
The blue lane is only about 1m wide for most of the time and the curbs and bollards have been put on the blue side of the line, so you are actually funnelling everyone into a narrow lane. There’s hardly anyone riding that way at the moment, but in more “normal” times when there are lots of cyclists I think that will get quite frustrating because there isn’t enough space to safely overatake within the lane if there’s a Boris bike wobbling along at walking pace. The curbs are generally in straight line sections even if the lane bends slightly, so ti creates pinch points where the lane narrows even further.
There are a few sections where the lane ends abruptly at a parking space and resumes on the other side. Ideally, I’d start to move wide early to take primary position well before reaching the parked cars. The segregated lane now taeks that option away and runs you pretty much up to the parked car befoe you can start to move out. There’s also a few side roads where cars edge out before pulling out completely. The curbs and bollards again reduce your ability to move wide to avoid these cars without stopping.
It seems churlish to complain about new cycling infrastructure, but I honestly think these modifications at best will slow down my commute and at worst will make it more dangerous.