Your rants here.

dhope

suzyb wrote:

And Mr cyclist, at least make it look like a bit of an effort when you scalp me. It's embarassing having someone just saunter by

Sounds like SCR to me. Don't hate the player... :twisted:

Kieran_Burns

dhope wrote:

suzyb wrote:

And Mr cyclist, at least make it look like a bit of an effort when you scalp me. It's embarassing having someone just saunter by

Sounds like SCR to me. Don't hate the player... :twisted:

I was that cyclist today - I went past this guy like he was standing still.

I didn't feel bad about it.

Does that make me a bad person?

suzyb

Kieran_Burns wrote:

dhope wrote:

suzyb wrote:

And Mr cyclist, at least make it look like a bit of an effort when you scalp me. It's embarassing having someone just saunter by

Sounds like SCR to me. Don't hate the player... :twisted:

I was that cyclist today - I went past this guy like he was standing still.

I didn't feel bad about it.

Does that make me a bad person?

Yes.

nich

Nice ride home, sadly had to apply breaks which ended up in a skid.

A rather large group including a mother with a pram decided to dash across the road.

Nee mind, next time wait till it's clear, and maybe even considering using a ped crossing a a few yards up the road? :roll:

EKE_38BPM

notsoblue wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

I'm laid up in bed with a severe case of man 'flu because my next door neighbour wanted to show off his new bike and sneezed at me.
His whole family have a cold and now so do I. Thanks a lot Mr Titlow.

And, your bike is pants too, I was just being polite. That welding was awful and the pedals look rubbish. I do like the look of the wheels though. I don't think they are any good, but they look pretty.

I thought you had photoshopped that frame.... Hydroforming has a lot to answer for!

You should see the welds, it looks like a five year old did them.
The wheels have a funky spoke layout, no doubt purely as a marketing feature (unlike any other funky spoke layout) and the rims have braking surfaces despite the brakes being mechanical discs.

EKE_38BPM

Peddles (when not talking about selling scams)
Breaks (when not talking about things falling apart)
Disks (in a cycling context)

Those spelling mistakes bug me more than they should.

desweller

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Peddles (when not talking about selling scams)
Breaks (when not talking about things falling apart)
Disks (in a cycling context)

Those spelling mistakes bug me more than they should.

It really greats, don't it.

cyclingpast

Lovely weather, go out into the garden to work on the MTB.
Weather still looks okay in the afternoon so take the MTB to Brockwell Park to give it its first proper ride on the BMX track there.
200 metres from the BMX track, chain breaks, no chain tool. Starts raining. B*gger.
Get home and realise that the spoke light on the rear wheel of the roadie has fallen off at some point, then take a look at the MTB chain and realise it's just been several chains bodged together. Today has not been a good day...

jzed

To the chap on the old school green Pinarello at Vauxhall Bridge lights, who was having a slanging match with the motorbike in the ASL. No idea what your beef was but then to set off from the centre and head left and take my space and force me over to the central reservation coming across the bridge is out of order. You looked at me with amazement when I asked you WTF - muppet - what do you think I was annoyed at you about.

cyclingpast

Today gets worse. HMRC are trying to take more of my money. B*stards.

EKE_38BPM

DesWeller wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Peddles (when not talking about selling scams)
Breaks (when not talking about things falling apart)
Disks (in a cycling context)

Those spelling mistakes bug me more than they should.

It really greats, don't it.

LOL. Nice won.

Drysuitdiver

nich wrote:

Nice ride home, sadly had to apply breaks which ended up in a skid.

A rather large group including a mother with a pram decided to dash across the road.

Nee mind, next time wait till it's clear, and maybe even considering using a ped crossing a a few yards up the road? :roll:

now imagine you as them on your bike and you on your bike as a car.

it works both ways.

soundninjauk

Tektro selling spare disc brake pads without the little spring that goes between them. You know, the spring that always breaks, and can't be replaced without ordering it from someone who'll take two weeks to get it to you.

Arses.

nich

To the roadie that looked back at his mate.

Be careful will you, you swerved rather poorly out into the road while doing so. And it just so happened that I was coming past both you and you're buddy.

Maybe the banging music from your headphones caused you to have balance issues?

Nice lot of RLJ'ing too. Poor show chaps, poor show

Drysuitdiver

the knuckle dragging tard driving a white Vauxhall Vivaro - FP59 UXL from capita IT services Clipping me with your wing mirror means you passed me too close . good job i had the camera working today.

Kieran_Burns

Drysuitdiver wrote:

the knuckle dragging tard driving a white Vauxhall Vivaro - FP59 UXL from capita IT services Clipping me with your wing mirror means you passed me too close . good job i had the camera working today.

If you want contact details for who to complain to, please let me know

(Kieran@capita....)

Marcus_C

We drive on the left in this country, Idiot, people who've been driving for more than five minutes shouldn't need other cars around to remind them.

tptvmbircn

where is my karate monkey frame, that 20" in stretch pants black...

bibib

Not so much a rant.

Guy overtook a slow cyclist on the cycle path whilst someone was coming the other way.
There was enough room to squeeze through but I heard the person mutter about them as a I overtook into the opening a few seconds later.

I seem to think that everyone wants to go faster than me and it frustrates me when getting overtaken.
I overtook the guy from above and thought that I could sense something. I lost him at the lights but he managed to overtake me on the last 100metres of my journey as I slowed down as some slow cyclist literally were having trouble going in a straight line and staying on their bike. (bad start from lights). Anyway he overtook me then. I sensed some smugness he probably saw me get off my bike to walk to the office though.

keyser__soze

To the idiot on a bike who hit my girlfriend (also on a bike) as she was turning right (with right of way) at the Mortlake roundabout heading onto Mortlake High street: it's not okay to zoom off so long as the other person manages to get back to their feet - hanging around long enough to actually check there's no damage or injury is the absolute minimum necessary, as is a profuse apology. Thanks to the car driver who stopped to making she was ok.

nation

If I had a helmet cam I'd have one for Gaz's Silly Cyclists.

My commute takes me across Salford Circus, which is big three lane spiral roundabout underneath Gravelly Hill Interchange. It's a junction with the M6, and there is traffic that comes straight off the motorway on to the roundabout, so the speeds are quite high.

Guy on a full-sus BSO this morning sailed down the inside of the queuing traffic and onto the roundabout without breaking his cadence. Then proceeded to move straight across three lanes of fast moving traffic I'm amazed nothing hit him.

Kieran_Burns

nation wrote:

If I had a helmet cam I'd have one for Gaz's Silly Cyclists.

My commute takes me across Salford Circus, which is big three lane spiral roundabout underneath Gravelly Hill Interchange. It's a junction with the M6, and there is traffic that comes straight off the motorway on to the roundabout, so the speeds are quite high.

Guy on a full-sus BSO this morning sailed down the inside of the queuing traffic and onto the roundabout without breaking his cadence. Then proceeded to move straight across three lanes of fast moving traffic I'm amazed nothing hit him.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:



:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:


:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Sweet Jesus.

(for anyone not familiar with the Gravelly Hill Interchange - it's more familiarly known as the Spaghetti Junction)

thelawnet

Proceeding along a 30mph road with traffic calming white broken lines on carriageway edge at about 20mph, perhaps a little more, in the middle of the lane here:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 2,,0,15.43

there are 3 cars coming the other way and a white utility vehicle behind me. He beeps his horn at me, I turn around and he gestures at me to move over, so I give him the finger.

Road is not a busy one and a few seconds later the oncoming carriageway is empty but Mr. K486SOS is not passing me so I turn around to see why, and see that he has turned left into a cul-de-sac. Google Maps tells me the total distance he was on the road was 400 metres, he's still turning and I am a good hundred metres past so he must have lost 10 seconds maximum.

K486SOS you are an idiot....

walkingbootweather

Crank worked itself loose this morning. LBS happy to lend me the tool to tighten for free. Just as well because once I got to work I discovered I'd left my wallet at home.

Anyone able to lend me a couple of quid for a sandwich?

thelawnet

Not sure what this particular copper was doing, but I'm riding along a minor road towards a junction, where I will turn left into a major (30mph urban/A road, fairly quiet), doing 22mph, cop car coming along but still a way away, he puts his lights on slow flash, so I stop.

He continues driving within the speed limit and when he passes me, he turns them off again.

I pass him down the road, where he is waiting at a red light, which I bypass by using the toucan crossing to go to the other side of the road.

Was on my way to Vision Express, there was a gaggle of posh 7-year-old girls in there, one said 'Mummy, why are all the staff in here brown?'. Mum says 'That's just the colour of their uniform'. Girl: 'No not the uniform, their skin!'. I smirk at the mother as she leaves.

suzyb

Travelled all the way to Glasgow, none of the shops I tried had the part I was looking. Should have just ordered from the internet in the first place.

nation

Kieran_Burns wrote:

nation wrote:

If I had a helmet cam I'd have one for Gaz's Silly Cyclists.

My commute takes me across Salford Circus, which is big three lane spiral roundabout underneath Gravelly Hill Interchange. It's a junction with the M6, and there is traffic that comes straight off the motorway on to the roundabout, so the speeds are quite high.

Guy on a full-sus BSO this morning sailed down the inside of the queuing traffic and onto the roundabout without breaking his cadence. Then proceeded to move straight across three lanes of fast moving traffic. I'm amazed nothing hit him.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Sweet Jesus.

(for anyone not familiar with the Gravelly Hill Interchange - it's more familiarly known as the Spaghetti Junction)

It's not actually that bad. Since it's a spiral roundabout you just need to make sure there's enough of a gap in the traffic when you join to get established in your exit lane. Once you're there it's fine. Trying to meander from lane to lane like that guy did is pretty dicey, though.

mudcow007

just been coming home along here bus is sat at the bus stop, im probably going about 20 -22mph when he decides to indicate an pull out as im alongside the bus.

so im pedalling along side until i reach the cab an shout "what are you playing at" he shouts back "its a f**king bus stop"

anyways he slows down to letme get in front the he over takes me to get stuck in traffic about 400 yards down the road.

i ride over to window an say "open your window" he shouts back "im pressing my button to call the police"!

writting it down on here doesnt seem as bad to be honest but at the time i thought i was going to be squished i got all the details of the bus, shoul i report him?

he obviously didnt look in his mirror when he pulled out or thought "its only a bike"

redvee

Yes, report the driver and incident. If he pressed teh button then there will be a record somewhere and an incident form for him to fill out too.

EKE_38BPM

Definitely report him.
In an ideal world you would have the route number, direction of travel (and landmarks) of the bus, road name, description of the driver, bus number and registration
e.g. No.32 bus travelling north on Shimano Street (outside the Evans bicycle shop) at 14:43 on14/4/11. The driver was a white male, clean shaven and with blonde hair and glasses. The bus number is EN432 and the registration number is LV55 BUS

I understand that it is highly unlikely you got all of those details, I did say ideal world, but with all of that info the driver won't be able to wriggle out of it with a "It wern't me, guv."

Bus depots have loads of posters telling drivers to look out for cyclists and to check their blind spots before moving off (at least in London). If you were in front of the bus you will be on the bus' CCTV. The hard drive gets overwritten every 10 days, so get your complaint in sharpish.

As a private citizen, you cannot request the footage. Any request must come from your insurance company, your solicitors or the Police.