Starting to go this month 
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look at the charge on your phone though 
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It’s reached us now, about 35 minutes to go barely 5k, I suppose I was at least dry 
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Almost had a head-on with another cyclist this morning. Which is ironic, as most mornings I don’t see a single other cyclist for the whole 20km.
There is a pinch point where there is a service building ?? an electricity substation taking up 80% of the pavement. There’s no visibility past it, it’s a big cube about 3m tall & so I just swing round it. Without braking because I have got complacent.
Only this time another westerner, a young lady on an eMTB was doing the same thing from the other direction. We slammed on the brakes and luckily she leaned right and I also leaned right & we narrowly avoided each other.
Feel like have now used 7 of my 9 cycling lives out here & it’s definitely time to come home.
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Advice from the commuters please.
My current office has a drying cabinet, so you can stick your rain soaked gear in after arrival and it’s toasty warm and dry by the time you leave in the evening. It’s an amazing luxury.
There is now a plan afoot to move offices and it’ll only have a communal shower (shared with other building tenants) and no drying facility or anywhere to hang wet stuff.
The thought of putting on wet, cold gear to cycle home is giving me the shivers.
Any clever ideas from the experts on how you deal with this? My only idea was to have a 2nd set of cycle gear for on the way home, but that means carrying even more stuff, which is a bit of a pain.
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Is there not somewhere you can leave a second set? It doesn’t take up much room if you leave it in the office.
If it’s still raining on your way home, just dry the spare set at home overnight and when you leave the office the next day, your original gear will be dry.
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There’s nowhere to leave stuff in office, it’s all hot-desking, so I’d need to bring stuff back and forward each day, best option I can see is carry a 2nd set for ride home. Once we’re into better weather I expect it’ll not be so much of an issue, but over winter it’s a bit of a pain.
I had in mind an invention that was a heated bag that you stuff all wet gear in, plug it in under desk then at least it’s warm wet stuff for riding home. Maybe a kickstarter idea I need to think about. 
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A sort of incubator for microbes?
I just grimmace & put the wet stuff on & go hard in the first mile or two to warm up.
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So much for green transport, it doesn’t go well with hotdesking.
For now I’ve still got the option of drying things in the server room but I doubt you’ll have that option?
Other than that carrying more stuff.
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I’ve got nowhere unfortunately, everything will be in a bag under desk.
It does seem like a backward step from a place that has underground secure bike store, tool station/pump, full locker room with showers and a drying cabinet. New place has outside bike shelter, shower in the disabled toilet and nowhere to leave stuff.
It kind of pushes me towards the bus or driving.
More bike luggage and 2nd set of gear is the best solution I think.
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Just walk around all morning in your cycling clothes, moaning.
Or move jobs?
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I like your first option.
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Have to say that offering locker space should be a minimum for hot desking in my opinion. We have a changing area, it’s not exactly secure, but I leave all kinds of crap in there, spare work clothes, spare workout clothes, towel, trainers, shoes, even a tie. Wet stuff gets hung up on hangers and left to stink the place out. I also hate commuting with stuff, so I drive on days to take clothes and laptop to/from the office. If I was hotdesking, I would still want somewhere to leave my laptop so I wasn’t needlessly hauling it to/from work.
Back in the CRT days I used to dry out wet shoes on the back of my monitor, but sadly that’s not going to work anymore. I say hang your wet clothes in the office as a form of dirty protest until they provide some proper facilities.
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I used to keep a couple of hangers around and hang stuff under my desk.
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This. Absolutely this.
Shared office spaces with no showers or bike storage also not great.
All well and good having free hot drinks and tofu scratchings, or Friday breakfasts - but all I want is a shower, locker and drying cabinet.
Mind you, one of the drying cabinets at work calls me a slut 
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I got a bit spoiled by two previous buildings I worked in with good showering facilities and proper drying rooms.
The parking place was 5 days a week in the office and there was somewhere safe to store my bike, but no showers. Fortunately there was a Pure Gym around the corner, so I joined that and showered there in the morning. There was nowhere to dry kit in the office though, so either change back into the kit from the morning or carry a fresh set for the journey home.
The new job only has a single shower room on site, but as far as I can tell there’s only one other person using it and he’s one of the IT guys and is only in every other week. I’ve got my own office, so I should be able to hang my kit on the back of the door in there without offending anyone
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- Hang it where people hang wet coats
- Stuff it on to radiators so everyone gets the odours
- Lay it out on one of the “hot desks” until dry
- Forward all complaints to the ass who made commuting so much more unpleasant
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What?!?!
Missed this one 
You change jobs as often as I do
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I’ve been patiently waiting for the Blackpool update!
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