Your rants here.

SimonAH

Not a rant but a victory dance.

It appears that my message was delivered effectively and the fence stealing scrotum is currently up to his jacksy in sawdust building me a new fence.

I suspect I am perceived as scary. Good.

Fireblade96

People of South Oxfordshire, you're the biggest bunch of rude self-obsessed miserable gits!

Out for a spin round my local rouds, car after car blanked or pretended not to see this cyclist who had pulled right into the verge to give them space or even signalled them it was safe to pass. I applied my usual wave & smile anyway approach, but when the Land Rover approaching decided to drive in my lane rather than risk getting his offroad (shopping) vehicle dusty, while glowering at me, I'm afraid I cracked and called him a tw@t through his open window.

What is it with people round here ? It's a sunny day, the birds are singing, flowes in the hedgerows, tomorrow's a holiday, and yet everyone seems to be posessed with a homicidal grumpiness ?

redvee

The teenager on the wrong side of the road looking the wrong way as I approached him then veering into my path despite my best efforts to avoid him means I spent 3 hours at A&E tonight and have a brake lever size hole in my left thigh and grazes on mt right knee and elbow.Teh bike has come away with buggered faceplates on the STI levers and new tape is needed. :x

SimonAH

Oh, that's a Bitch Shaun, take care mate

sketchley

redvee wrote:

The teenager on the wrong side of the road looking the wrong way as I approached him then veering into my path despite my best efforts to avoid him means I spent 3 hours at A&E tonight and have a brake lever size hole in my left thigh and grazes on mt right knee and elbow.Teh bike has come away with buggered faceplates on the STI levers and new tape is needed. :x

Just seen the vid. Ouch. Get well soon, hope rest of the bike's is ok

CiB

Fireblade; it's not the people of Sth Oxon, it's the roads. I give you Streatly as exhibit #1 -WTF happened there? 40 miles into a good riide, swooping up & down some marvellous empty roads, hit that village, slot right onto the B4009 to get to Newbury and strewth - someone's dumped a cliff face there with a golf course on top. Adopting the traditional phrase associated with a game of soldiers I got off and walked up. Madness, utter madness.

And apologies to the golfist at the top, to whom I may have inadvertently given the impression that I'd ridden up it. No chance.

suzyb

It's just as cold in the office today as it was in the middle of winter

Fireblade96

CiB wrote:

Fireblade; it's not the people of Sth Oxon, it's the roads. I give you Streatly as exhibit #1 -WTF happened there? 40 miles into a good riide, swooping up & down some marvellous empty roads, hit that village, slot right onto the B4009 to get to Newbury and strewth - someone's dumped a cliff face there with a golf course on top. Adopting the traditional phrase associated with a game of soldiers I got off and walked up. Madness, utter madness.

And apologies to the golfist at the top, to whom I may have inadvertently given the impression that I'd ridden up it. No chance.

Ah yes, Streatley Hill. It's a regular part of my riding, but only ever in the downhill direction!

kurako

Why won't that babpiper out the window just STFU.

If I wanted to hear bagpipes I would move to Edinburgh!!!!!

rolf_f

Fireblade96 wrote:

CiB wrote:

Fireblade; it's not the people of Sth Oxon, it's the roads. I give you Streatly as exhibit #1 -WTF happened there? 40 miles into a good riide, swooping up & down some marvellous empty roads, hit that village, slot right onto the B4009 to get to Newbury and strewth - someone's dumped a cliff face there with a golf course on top. Adopting the traditional phrase associated with a game of soldiers I got off and walked up. Madness, utter madness.

And apologies to the golfist at the top, to whom I may have inadvertently given the impression that I'd ridden up it. No chance.

Ah yes, Streatley Hill. It's a regular part of my riding, but only ever in the downhill direction!

You mean the Streatley Hill that gets a toughness score of 5 out of 10 in Simon Warrens "100 Greatest Cycle Climbs"?

jds_1981

City Link - who seem to think that 24 hour delivery (e.g. arriving Thursday) meant it would be okay to deliver my bike on the Tuesday coming & also managed to pringle my back wheel. Separate thread to follow.

Also the at-least 20mph head wind with 40mph gusts on the not-quite c2c due to city links incompetence, weren't much appreciated...

CiB

Rolf F wrote:

You mean the Streatley Hill that gets a toughness score of 5 out of 10 in Simon Warrens "100 Greatest Cycle Climbs"?

Simon Warren may well give it 5 / 10; my legs gave it 17½ / 10 on Friday morning. Stuff 'im.

Mr_Cellophane

Drove from the Blackwall Tunnel to Crystal Palace on Sunday. Absolute appalling standard of driving from everyone. I was passed 3 times while stationary at red lights.
worst was a driver waiting in the left hand lane at the start of the Catford one way the lights changed just as I was about to pull along side him and he shot off straight over and up the wrong way.
Then on the way home one numpty answered his phone while holding a bottle of drink and the steering wheel in his other hand.

Clare_M

I had guessed that it would be a bit busier today as first proper day back after the Easter break, but I wasn't ready for the crazy driving I have witnessed. I got shouted it, forced into the curb and not given way to when the obstruction was on the other side through a village. I had to pull over and stop! I did shout at a van driver and called him an fcuking d1ckhead. The bin man next to me on the pavement was very amused!

Kieran_Burns

MIDGES!!!!!

Dear sweet Jesus and all the babies. I went through the biggest damn' cloud of the feckers at 20+. They hit so hard you can clearly hear the impact on the camera and a freeze frame shows they span half the damn' road!

feckfeckfeck I was still picking the bleeders out in the shower!

I only wish I could get a good image and freeze frame into Youtube 'cos honestly it is utterly minging.

Got a screenshot from the camera:

http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z146 ... midges.png

Jay dubbleU

Clare_M wrote:

I had guessed that it would be a bit busier today as first proper day back after the Easter break, but I wasn't ready for the crazy driving I have witnessed. I got shouted it, forced into the curb and not given way to when the obstruction was on the other side through a village. I had to pull over and stop! I did shout at a van driver and called him an fcuking d1ckhead. The bin man next to me on the pavement was very amused!

NOW you're getting the idea

redvee

Kieran_Burns wrote:

MIDGES!!!!!

+1 The little blighters have made me change my glasses in the last 2 weeks to a pair that has foam between the frame and my face. They don't taste too nice either.

georgee

Why do some cyclists behave well and then have moments of complete mindlessness and almost have to wipe you out! said bloke got a nudge and a rather loud questioning in front of about 10 other cyclists.

nation

This flu thing that a colleague brought back from France.

Have woken up the last couple of days feeling like I've been beaten up.

Train in for me, which is a rant in itself, really. Grrrrrr.

Obie

Rant to self.....Don't accelerate too hard behind a car! Car slams on brakes, I slam on brakes, too late, over handlebars I go. Only made worse by the fact that it happened right in the middle of Parliament Square and I was on the nice carbon race bike.

What a tool...... :oops:

suzyb

I am a complete and utter IDIOT.

I go through and check data a client has given us to make sure it's correct. It isn't, so I take the initiative and remove what needs removed, knowing in my heart that if I do I'll only end up needing to put it back as they wont actually want it removed.

But I still take it out anyway. Only to now have to put it back, only to have to take it back out again when the client does decide that it should be removed.

I HATE THIS F*****G CLIENT.

cyclopsbiker

more frustration than a rant. in London Wed-Fri this week and don't have a bike. tis frustrating seeing you lot out there in the sunshine enjoying yourselves and me walking the pavement. no real opportunity to take a BB for a spin either due to work and socialising. oh well. bye bye London for the last time. back to them Derbyshire hills in a few hours.

Shishman

Second prize goes to....

The Sports Direct lorry with trailer that cut me up and which I caught up and past 1 mile later

First prize to.....

The T1T in the fiesta beeping and shouting at me (in primary) "You are not a f***ing car!" (observation +1) but I had the damn cheek to wave at him and go past the stationary 1 mile traffic jam in front of him!

georgee

so you wait for the three cyclist in front of me at the mini roundabout then think f*ck it and pull out on me! Thankyou, god job you had your window down. I really need start carry a waterbottle to spray idiots with.

suzyb

Just saw the results of the Scottish parliament elections...

F**k is all that can be said.

pianoleo

Silly driver who yelled at me for sitting in front of her in an ASL near Battersea Park yesterday. I was directly in front of a right turn lane, with my right arm out, and (while the light was red) she insisted on my moving over to the right, clapping once I'd done so.

Of course she then tried to cut me up as I turned right and aimed straight for the bus lane.

C**t.

bdave262000

pianoleo wrote:

Silly driver who yelled at me for sitting in front of her in an ASL near Battersea Park yesterday. I was directly in front of a right turn lane, with my right arm out, and (while the light was red) she insisted on my moving over to the right, clapping once I'd done so.

Of course she then tried to cut me up as I turned right and aimed straight for the bus lane.

C**t.

Should have just held your position and ignored her.

Mr Sharky

Prize idiot in the Black Audi A2 this morning.. your car is a wreck and should not be on the road. Spewing out so much burning oil that it was difficult to see the road in front of me... and I mean that literally!

So, driver of Y813 FEC... get your car either fixed or scrapped. It has no business being on the road! Muppet.

Reckless

Daughter got herself a bike to use in London - better than the tube etc. Only had it a few weeks, really enjoying it, and some little 5h1t nicked her saddle, seatpost amd clamp today. Wasn't even quick release. 2hrs walk from home and bike shops closed by the time she could get to them

Sure this probably happens all the time, but makes me very angry. Only worth a few quid on the street, but huge hassle for her.

ariba

Black & red trek rider coming down Jamaica Rd about 530-545pm Friday.
jumped Every single red light - WTF. Also a hot day & you think wearing full length (old, old) tights makes you look "cool"?. I gave up 'cos one RL light too many & I got fed up of seeing a chocolate spider.

Just a heads-up. Red means stop.

another word to the wise.
invest in some new clothing...

t00l