I would probably get on a Boris Bike, or get the 24 or 17 bus and a 4 minute walk
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Queues in cars and at bus stops were mad from the outskirts to the centres today. Lots of mad driver activity too.
be careful out there!
I’m just getting the bike home now
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Boris Bike or Lime bike (or similar) is probably a good call if you are getting there early enough.
There’s usually a rush on them from the station, particularly with the tube not running
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Just feeding back on this, have had a great couple of days Boris biking around The Capital. Actually Santander bikes, is that the same thing? Junior #1 suggested I get a 24 hour pass for £3.50, absolute bargain, have been all over the shop met people for dinner last night and drinks this evening as well as getting a days work in too.
Cracking way to travel around the city, almost like unlocking a cheat code, loved everything about it.
Didn’t have a helmet 
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Took car today, I wasn’t cycling in that 
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Dog walk was bad enough!!!
Reckon I’d have been in Manchester in under 30 minutes today. But probably an hour, or more, getting home 
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Begeezus that was a bit of a shock with the temp. Thought I was going to cook with some light thermal layers and decent autumn gloves. Hands were pretty cold.
Always makes me wonder how we adapt to when it gets proper cold in winter.
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Train tracks on fire, an hour and ten and I’m not even halfway home.
If only there were secure bike storage in Croydon. 
It’s thirty minutes on the bike.
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Massive difference between AM/PM the past two days
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Yup. Need to swap to my winter bag. Almost a complete kit change between the 2 rides.
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Urgh starting to feel like this might be the first winter I don’t make it through.
Combination of the state of a few sections of road with unavoidable road damage (reported again last week - reply 2 hours later to say its been assessed that day and its fine; laughable on many levels) - the low tolerance and/or driving ability of drivers, the struggle of transitioning to darkness and my ever decreasing ability to deal with the cold.
Wasn’t even full on darkness this morning - tho I do find dusk and dawn sometimes more difficult than pitch black. Chill burns when I got into the office… and it’s not even close to freezing yet.
Hmm, going to be a tough few weeks adapting.
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I do find this period harder than Jan/Feb. The memory of warm sunshine riding is just too fresh. Same with running, hard to get out in the cold dusk, but pitch black and raining in February is fine.
But the general driving standards, or my aversion to them, are definitely getting worse. I was riding into low sun last week and very aware that I didn’t trust that drivers could see me. At least they have less excuse when it’s full-on dark.
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It was very weird on my venture to London the other week - driving (or the tolerance to cyclists) was a huge improvement. Despite 25 miles into the city and then heading out to Surrey only recall 1 particularly bad pass.
Yes I have the low sun each way. As much as I hate it I do wonder if its slightly safer me dealing with it than having the drivers heading towards me blinded.
Least the homeward journey is still tolerable on a lighting aspect - tho traffic far worse in the evening.
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I had an action packed 5km commute this morning with 2 firsts..
My first “race”, I overtook a fellow mountain biker around 500m into my ride. It was a very slow overtake up a slight incline. After a couple of 100m I could hear a bit of an odd noise, and after a while wondering what part of the bike it was coming from I realised he must have stuck on my wheel.
After about 1km I thought I’d dropped him on a decent, but at around 4km he came back past me, then turned off in another direction at a set of lights!
Then about 200m from the train station I had a car come out of a junction almost taking me out. Actually this was my first near miss with a car, and first road rage while on a bike (I gave him some colourful language)!
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Can anyone recommend some decent(ish) cheap lights? I resorted to borrowing one from my kids scooter the other day, i reckon it was about 1 lumen 
Only go on the road a tiny bit, most of its footpaths but sections with no street lights.
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I always like moon lights. Good value, last well and always deals on them.
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I was going to recommend the Bontrager ones we have. Then I saw the RRP 
the price we pay is the ONLY benefit we get when Mr is paid minimum wage.
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I’m had my eye on a Moon set (Meteor 400 and Orion) but was but was struggling to find a delivery date and price combo that worked for me.
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Lezyne macro for the proper pitch black, micro for lit urban streets.
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