Your rants here.

hfidgen

Evans Cycles

For replacing a 11-27 tooth casette with a 12-25 cassette on the service, leaving me spinning down the road wondering what the F is going on.

They've also stripped the thread on the little screw on the rear derailleur which cocks it to a higher position.

Going to slowly wind myself up during the day to unleash on the unfortunate sales rep who first notices me this evening.

Better bloody turn it round in 24 hours this time too... *grumble grumble*

sheep_go_baa

hfidgen wrote:

Evans Cycles

For replacing a 11-27 tooth casette with a 12-25 cassette on the service, leaving me spinning down the road wondering what the F is going on.

They've also stripped the thread on the little screw on the rear derailleur which cocks it to a higher position.

Going to slowly wind myself up during the day to unleash on the unfortunate sales rep who first notices me this evening.

Better bloody turn it round in 24 hours this time too... *grumble grumble*

Do bear in mind that mistakens happen. The true reflection of a businesses customer service is in their handling of a mistake. I would give them chance to resolve the problem first; if they fail to do this then open the doors to fire and brimstone :twisted:

sketchley

A quick add up, 41 fucking red lights on 13 mile commute this morning. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the RLJers........

jonny_trousers

hfidgen wrote:

Evans Cycles

For replacing a 11-27 tooth casette with a 12-25 cassette on the service, leaving me spinning down the road wondering what the F is going on.

They've also stripped the thread on the little screw on the rear derailleur which cocks it to a higher position.

Going to slowly wind myself up during the day to unleash on the unfortunate sales rep who first notices me this evening.

Better bloody turn it round in 24 hours this time too... *grumble grumble*

Oh dear, I'm not sure that Evans always employ staff who know what they are doing. I was in there last week and although the girl who served me was very friendly, she didn't have a clue. She didn't know how you shift using Shimano STI levers, I heard her advising a customer of about 5'10 that he needed to order in a 53cm frame and I had to wince as I watched her remove the pedals on a brand new Bianchi Via Nirone with the wrench clattering all over the bike.

Hope they sort your problem quickly.

king_jeffers

Evans are utter shite. Placed an order ages ago for SPD shoes, they arrived about 2 weeks later and they had shipped the wrong size. Now have to go through the joys of reordering and will probably have a similar wait. To top it off they never reply to emails or answer the phone... terrible service.

Drysuitdiver

To the 4 RLJers i kept scalping this morning on the way in. don't tut at me because i have stopped at the red light it means stop you funking cnuts. four times i passed you with you spinning away like crazy and getting nowhere fast. oh and the pavement where you hopped onto to avoid stopping in one place isn't a shared use cycle path, that starts after the lights

king_jeffers

Drysuitdiver wrote:

To the 4 RLJers i kept scalping this morning on the way in. don't tut at me because i have stopped at the red light it means stop you funking cnuts.

Kudos

cyclingpast

Two for me:

Yesterday had one idiot turning right across my path whilst I'm going at about 25, my braking locks up both wheels, skids me 90 degrees to the left and i end up parallel to their car about 2 inches away. They didn't even look once.

But the one that really peed me off was this morning. I don't mind that much if someone behind beeps me, because I'm not going to move to secondary right next to a line of parked cars no matter how much you beep. I'm not livid about close passes either as long as they're not dangerously close. What really grinds my gears is the huge wad of spit the asbo-collecting chavvy pikey scumbag in the passenger seat launches at me after a string of expletives which I presume are the extent of his vocabulary. It's just utterly disgusting.

MonkeyMonster

it's at least 15 minutes until I am on bike!

kurako

King Jeffers wrote:

Evans are utter shite. Placed an order ages ago for SPD shoes, they arrived about 2 weeks later and they had shipped the wrong size. Now have to go through the joys of reordering and will probably have a similar wait. To top it off they never reply to emails or answer the phone... terrible service.

Why don't you just order them online?

keyser__soze

Tyres were a bit flat this morning so I get the track pump out to top them up to 115psi (they're rated to 140). Get bike downstairs ready to ride and bang, the rear tube blows out big time, so much so the woman across the street thought it was gunfire (in Richmond?!?). Come back inside and find the tube shredded but no failure of the rim tape or anything caught. It's also the bloody Stelvio+ tyre that's impossible to get back on. New tube fitted, tyre back on with help from levers again, get ready to leave once more and bang! The sodding front tube has blown, this time due to perished rim tape. Decide to ditch bike for the morning. Clearly track pump pressure gauge is miles out.

On a positive note (and to prove to Sketchley amongst others that it's the Stelvio/WH-R535 combi that's a biatch to fit) I fitted the Conti GP4000S on both wheels of my girlfriend's new RS80s without any trouble whatsoever, slipped on no problem. Seriously wondering if the Stelvio+s are worth it as they weigh a ton and will be a total PITA to replace on the road.

jedster

Rant: on my way home, strange ping from the rear wheel followed by a nasty grinding crunch and rapid deceleration. Turns out that a spoke had broken and fouled the rear mech. Mech cage sheared off and (replaceable) drop-out bent.

Anti-rant: It happened 40 metres from my front door - could have been a lot worse. Plus the LBS fitted in the work very quickly for me. Still... £105 bill for a broken spoke*

*before anyone says I've been mugged:
105 mech £35
new drop out £20
new spoke £2.50
new cable £5
labour £25
VAT the rest
As usual, LBS's know how to charge for spares but not too egregious.

nich

My work just emailed us saying a bike was stolen from the public cycle racks outside, which just so happens to be where I lock my bike. Not mine, but it just makes me fed up.

I was just getting confident about locking it up outside too, sigh, nevermind.

will3

jedster wrote:

105 mech £35
new drop out £20

105 rear mech = 30+ parts
drop out (mech hanger?) = 1 part

those mech hangers are fecking expensive.

king_jeffers

Kurako wrote:

King Jeffers wrote:

Evans are utter shite. Placed an order ages ago for SPD shoes, they arrived about 2 weeks later and they had shipped the wrong size. Now have to go through the joys of reordering and will probably have a similar wait. To top it off they never reply to emails or answer the phone... terrible service.

Why don't you just order them online?

I did originally :?

kurako

King Jeffers wrote:

Kurako wrote:

King Jeffers wrote:

Evans are utter shite. Placed an order ages ago for SPD shoes, they arrived about 2 weeks later and they had shipped the wrong size. Now have to go through the joys of reordering and will probably have a similar wait. To top it off they never reply to emails or answer the phone... terrible service.

Why don't you just order them online?

I did originally :?

Yikes! Time to vote with your feet I think (pardon the pun).

king_jeffers

Kurako wrote:

Yikes! Time to vote with your feet I think (pardon the pun).

Chain reaction cycles here I come! So begins another rant...

Put new brake pads on my tektro auriga pro discs. All was great until coming home yesterday when applying the back brake the bike began to judder violently. Came home and have major wheel rub. Took the pads out on one of the pistons is way over, long story... but think I need to bleed the brakes, halfords don't stock the kits so over to chain reaction. Hopefully get here soon and I'm hoping that will solve the problem... No commuting for me for a few days :?

optimisticbiker

jedster wrote:

new drop out £20

You were mugged... unless your dropout is very esoteric they're normally a lot less than that.. indeed when I had one snap and drop the mech into the rear wheel the LBS replaced it for free... I only paid for the mech, a new cable and chain (both needed doing anyway) and fitting...

mudcow007

riding through an industrial estate this morning, i'm passing a few parked vans when a white van pulls out from between them i see it an slow down, the van then creeps out (it looks way overloaded on the rear end) into the middle of the lane, so i over take it, shake my head an carry on.

i have to stop about 200 yards up the road at lights, i turn around an the van has parked up on the pavement so i shake my head again an the driver beeps at me.....grrr

so i ride over to him an say "whats the matter with you" an here ensues a conversation with a neanderthal with classics like "nah i didn't cut you up" & "i didn't see you"

to make me feel better im going to describe the driver

Fat, ginger and driving a white van, ahhhhh much better

thank you please

Mr Sharky

FFS - why do you need to park on the pavement right outside the after school club where you know kids will be coming out and wanting to cross the road... but who will have restricted views thanks to your selfishness? :evil:

The entrance to the bleeding car park is literally less than 20m away and you've driven past it to park on the pavement... after which you will have to drive further on, turn round and then drive back down the road whereas the car park has 2 exits and is easier to get in/out of.

Add to this the fact that the you are on the Board of Governors at my Daughter's School.. and the school occasionally have to send out letters to parents telling them about the dangers of parking on the zig-zags (presumably agreed by the Board)...

One rule for us, and one for you eh? F*ckwit! :roll:

jonny_trousers

Mr Sharky wrote:

FFS - why do you need to park on the pavement right outside the after school club where you know kids will be coming out and wanting to cross the road... but who will have restricted views thanks to your selfishness? :evil:

The entrance to the bleeding car park is literally less than 20m away and you've driven past it to park on the pavement... after which you will have to drive further on, turn round and then drive back down the road whereas the car park has 2 exits and is easier to get in/out of.

Add to this the fact that the you are on the Board of Governors at my Daughter's School.. and the school occasionally have to send out letters to parents telling them about the dangers of parking on the zig-zags (presumably agreed by the Board)...

One rule for us, and one for you eh? F*ckwit! :roll:

You should have taken a picture of their parking mate and sent copies of it to the head. Selfish and dangerous parking.

Drysuitdiver

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

Mr Sharky wrote:

FFS - why do you need to park on the pavement right outside the after school club where you know kids will be coming out and wanting to cross the road... but who will have restricted views thanks to your selfishness? :evil:

The entrance to the bleeding car park is literally less than 20m away and you've driven past it to park on the pavement... after which you will have to drive further on, turn round and then drive back down the road whereas the car park has 2 exits and is easier to get in/out of.

Add to this the fact that the you are on the Board of Governors at my Daughter's School.. and the school occasionally have to send out letters to parents telling them about the dangers of parking on the zig-zags (presumably agreed by the Board)...

One rule for us, and one for you eh? F*ckwit! :roll:

You should have taken a picture of their parking mate and sent copies of it to the head. Selfish and dangerous parking.

i did this and the cops were more interested I had taken pics outside a school. you couldn't make it up.

suzyb

Drysuitdiver wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

Mr Sharky wrote:

FFS - why do you need to park on the pavement right outside the after school club where you know kids will be coming out and wanting to cross the road... but who will have restricted views thanks to your selfishness? :evil:

The entrance to the bleeding car park is literally less than 20m away and you've driven past it to park on the pavement... after which you will have to drive further on, turn round and then drive back down the road whereas the car park has 2 exits and is easier to get in/out of.

Add to this the fact that the you are on the Board of Governors at my Daughter's School.. and the school occasionally have to send out letters to parents telling them about the dangers of parking on the zig-zags (presumably agreed by the Board)...

One rule for us, and one for you eh? F*ckwit! :roll:

You should have taken a picture of their parking mate and sent copies of it to the head. Selfish and dangerous parking.

i did this and the cops were more interested I had taken pics outside a school. you couldn't make it up.

There was an article like that in my Gran's local paper. Parents had been taking pictures of motorists speeding past their kids school and the police were more interested in that than they were those speeding past a school at 40 mph :roll:

redvee

Had the misfortune of riding past a school at kicking outtime with all the schoolrun mums n dads picking up Janet & John to take them the 1/2 mile home. Cue a 300yd section of slow moving traffic cause of cars parked on either side of the road and the drivers looking left and right for their offspring with sudden left hand turns to the pavement so that their kids only have to walk across the pavement. If this was a primary school I could understand it but this was 11+ secondary.

Mr Sharky

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

You should have taken a picture of their parking mate and sent copies of it to the head. Selfish and dangerous parking.

Aaah, the parking wasn't outside the School, it was outside the after School club (separate company runs it, nothing to do with the School, different place altogether) sorry for the misleading rant.... however, the dangerous parking still applies. What really got my goat was that she is on the Board of Governors and I would imagine has to ratify the School sending out letters about parking on the zig-zags so should know better!

She actually told me that she has a disabled child and parking there makes it easier to get them in and out of the car to be able to collect her other child from the after School club... when I looked in the car there was no other child (I do know she has a disabled child though) and she wasn't displaying any disabled badge... to which she said "This is the first time I've ever come here without them" (yeah, course it is... seen her before doing the same thing).

I did point out that even with a disabled badge it was still illegal to park on the pavement and was partially blcking the gate into the club too, but she didn't seem to care. Her husband does the same most of the time... can't stand the arrogant attitude that they are above the law and don't care about anyone else's child's safety as long as it's easier for them.

Mr Sharky

Whilst ranting about idiots at the after School club one just left me speechless a few weeks ago....

Driving to pick up her precious children down a narrow street next to a park where loads of kids play... she's on the phone and pulls up onto the pavement right outside the club... still yacking away and blocking about 2/3 of the width of the pavement.

Hello? Engage brain you stupid bint!!!! My Wife told me to bite my tongue as I was ready to have words with her... just can't believe the idiocy of some people!!!

bdave262000

mudcow007 wrote:

so i ride over to him an say "whats the matter with you" an here ensues a conversation with a neanderthal with classics like "nah i didn't cut you up" & "i didn't see you"

to make me feel better im going to describe the driver

Fat, ginger and driving a white van, ahhhhh much better

thank you please

So why does him being ginger make you feel better?

mudcow007

bdave262000 wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

so i ride over to him an say "whats the matter with you" an here ensues a conversation with a neanderthal with classics like "nah i didn't cut you up" & "i didn't see you"

to make me feel better im going to describe the driver

Fat, ginger and driving a white van, ahhhhh much better

thank you please

So why does him being ginger make you feel better?

because, im safe in the knowledge that i can go out into the sun without turning into a pork scratching, the WVM on the other hand would be like one of those vampires off the movies where they go into sunlight

fatbabyjake

Weather has been wet and windy for the last month or so but the past few days have been quite nice so I took today off work, with the plan of just heading off on my bike and see where the mood took me..

Wife was on night shift so got up just after 7 to get the boys up and ready for school. The sun was shining and the birds were singing.

The second I stepped out the door to walk the boys to school, it started pi**ing it down.

Has it stopped yet? Has it bo**cks! I'm still heading out but it would have been so much better if it was dry.

My first day off for myself for months and this is my reward!

fatbabyjake

Oh and the fathers day presents I ordered from Amazon on Wednesday (and paid for delivery rather than the usual freepost option to ensure they get here in time) still haven't been despatched yet. Van Dammit!!

Compare that to CRC. I ordered new pedals last Thursday afternoon, took the freepost option and found them waiting for me when I got home from work on Friday afternoon.