The dank weather of recent days receded during the night to allow the first hard frost of Autumn. Once the sun was up above the morning mist my cold commute ride became filled with deep reds and golden yellows set against a deep blue cloudless sky.
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| Bushey Park |
I consider myself very lucky to haves some relatively traffic-free paths and roads en route to work, though I have spent a good deal of time and trial searching these out and they often take me out of the way, adding extra miles to the journey. Not all cyclists have such spaces available and the lot of those who face the daily battle in parts of central London is one that must take a deal of courage and dedication.
Sadly it hasn't been a good week in central London for cyclists with four fatal collisions in a week. When will this end? This morning a woman was involved in a collision with a lorry at the notorious Bow roundabout.
Every cyclists who commutes on a bike in and around London deserves a safer and more pleasant journey. Can all those drivers out there imagine what it might be like if we commuting cyclists got back into our cars to come to work??!!
I had considered an all road route through Brentford up to Ealing this morning after muddying up my bike a treat yesterday along the G.U Canal tow path, but the Autumn sunshine and colours 'off road' were too lovely to resist.
This is what cycling should be about.......not the battle for space and struggle for survival that it often seems to be.
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| Frosty Bushey Park |
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| School kids crossing the park on two wheels - Safely! |
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| Gold & Blue - Grand Union Canal near Boston Manor Park |
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