Your rants here.

TheStone

bails87 wrote:

You want them to lose their jobs because......?

You need to ask ???

redvee

Your dog is not under control when it is trotting along beside you off the lead, your dog is under control when it is on the lead and letting it run free on a shared cyclepath in a tunnel isn't the wisest thing to do is it? Perhaps you can understand my anger when I put my front wheel into the ribs of your dog this afternoon when it ran in front of me and led to me kissing tarmac.

cee

to the twat on the purple girls (low down tube) bicycle shaped object that was far too small for you....

generally, when you get to a set of traffic lights, and someone is at the front of the queue indicating left, it is generally considered polite to either wait behind them, or indeed, move to the right of them, so that you don't block their path when you want to go straight ahead.

The fact that I said thanks d1khed, was a genuine measure of my regard for your thoughtfulness....

no matter how hard you then remonstrate as you stop before clearng the junction, does not make you any more right, and does not make my assessment of your behaviour any more wrong.

I bet you dont have a pump or patches with you and I hope you get 2 p**ctures

Sailorchick

Travelling along London Road in Soton last night, towards city centre.

Get close to the lights and I'm riding in primary as about to move into the right hand lane, lights are green. I hear the car behind me (200m back) gun it for the lights. I move over into the right hand lane (left lane is all traffic left turn only, right hand lane is straight on for buses/taxis/cycles only so this should mean he goes in the left lane and well away from me). The engine behind gets close and I realise this guy is not slowing for the turn, and worse still he decides to overtake me on the right (oncoming traffic lane), swinging round the front of me as I enter the junction. He must have been doing in excess of 30mph and was incredibly close as he swung across the front of me.

Have however discovered the advantage of open top cars. He knows exactly what I think of him and his driving. Having scared the crap outta me I think everyone on that junction was aware of his stupidity!

bearfraser

DOGS
CHAVS
&BMW's

jzed

Sketchley wrote:

8 days without riding! Not happy!

This is the reason for n+1!

welkman

A pair of Peacocks blocked my magnificent progress into work this morning. I am not a female peacock, I am a man in a rush and I am totally non plussed by your 'displays'. Why the farmer feels the need to own quite so many peacocks is beyond me.

UndercoverElephant

JZed wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

8 days without riding! Not happy!

This is the reason for n+1!

Yes, indeed. In fact it's the reason for n+2. :twisted:

bails87

TheStone wrote:

bails87 wrote:

You want them to lose their jobs because......?

You need to ask ???

Yes, I'm asking why people who work in universities should be sacked because government policy and banking behaviour went wrong. I don't see the link.

SimonAH

Selling motorcycle, visit this afternoon from potential purchaser.

Last night checked bike - battery dead as a doornail. Charger happily buzzing away but producing nary a volt at the clips. Also got letter from daughter's school informing me that today (Friday) they would be very grateful if parents could come for a couple of hours to take part in a 'green initiative' which translates to digging over the garden area and clearing out the (punctured liner so just a pit of smeg) pond. Booked last minute day off from the office to acheive the above.

......turns into anti-rant....

Charger problem was that one of the leads had become tugged free internally. Fix took 30 seconds. Battery charged. By 9:30 bike was started and running happily.
Clearing pond at the school was a hoot, hooked up with a couple of interesting people amongst the other dads. Rescued frogs, relocated them to the pond in my garden. Loooverly sunny day.

.....turns back into rant.....

Looks like I've volunteered to reline the pond in concrete. Arse.

sheep_go_baa

SimonAH wrote:

Looks like I've volunteered to reline the pond in concrete. ars*.

Don't you just hate those 'engage mouth before brain' moments...

TheStone

bails87 wrote:

TheStone wrote:

bails87 wrote:

You want them to lose their jobs because......?

You need to ask ???

Yes, I'm asking why people who work in universities should be sacked because government policy and banking behaviour went wrong. I don't see the link.

I'm asking where were all these economists when the damage was being done? The crash wasn't an unfortunate accident, it had to happen.

As an aside - part 1 (wasn't the original point I was ranting about):
A lot of people were employed and paid over the odds while the boom was in full flow. It's unfortunate but inevitable (and sensible) that it now reverses.

As an aside - part 2:
Is our educational system in danger of becoming a pyramid scheme. When the best (or the only) jobs available to graduates is in education then it is exactly that. It's hard to see where 9k/year for a course could be spent other than wages/pensions and lecturer jobs at my university I wouldn't even dare to describe as part time.

kurako

I've been carrying shoe covers in my bag all week and today the weather was nice and I had to fit jeans so I thought "I can take these out. Won't be needing these today".

FAAAAAAAACK!!!!

hoolio

Green Peugot hatchback driven by oldish man with white hair. It's a side street wide enough for one car. You see me coming, pull out and drive at me. I grab the brakes and swerve towards the parked cars that line the road.
You then give me a thumbs up to say "thanks", which appears genuine. You d.ck.

Woman who "just had to" overtake me with a close pass and then brake hard for the red light. Nice one. Even more impressive when in order to beat me away from those lights you floored your citroen at the kids still on the crossing on the other side of the junction. They actually screamed and ran! Such a shame you then had to brake so hard for the stationary traffic 20yards on. FFS, what is wrong with you?

SickAsAParrot

Woke up this morning with the bottom of the fridge swimming with milk from one of those stupid f**king Country Life milk bags which wasn't sealed at one end properly. We won't be buying any more of those, useless piece of dipsh*t ecologist cr*p.

Mr Sworld

SickAsAParrot wrote:

Woke up this morning with the bottom of the fridge swimming with milk from one of those stupid f**king Country Life milk bags which wasn't sealed at one end properly. We won't be buying any more of those, useless piece of dipsh*t ecologist cr*p.

Decant it into a glass jug?

SickAsAParrot

Mr Sworld wrote:

Decant it into a glass jug?

I did, from the dishcloth I was trying to soak it up with, but there's no way I was drinking it afterwards. Goddamn Tescos, Tescos sucks. Morning commute was fine incidentally.

bails87

Thanks to On One for sorting out my replacement MTB wheels, but when I double check that you're definitely sending them to my home address it would be nice if you actually sent them where you said you would.

They've arrived at work, I'm on the bike, so I've got to leave them here overnight and can't (finally) rebuild the 456 until tomorrow night now. Grrrr!

roger_merriman

There is a reason zig zag road has that name Endomondo! if i've Sweated my way up on 48*16 single speed with mud guards, paniers etc then as the crow flys line is not helpful for knowing just how slow it was!

Kieran_Burns

This bloody wind is really getting on my tits right now.

Just to add insult to injury it bloody well actually DID change around from a headwind on the way to headwind on the way home. Baking bloody hot both ways and struggling into a this God awful wind.

Some days it's just no fun.

graham.

Kieran_Burns wrote:

This bloody wind is really getting on my tits right now.

Just to add insult to injury it bloody well actually DID change around from a headwind on the way to headwind on the way home. Baking bloody hot both ways and struggling into a this God awful wind.

Some days it's just no fun.

Not a million miles from you and I noticed that, headwind in both directions, and the return trips uphill!
I was sweating like a fat man at a disco!
Graham.

asprilla

To the old lady who turned right from Richmond Road to Kings Road in Kingston this morning; impressive effort. Not only did you completely fail to notice the red light you pootled though, but then you failed to notice that I was in the road.

I bet when you pulled over and I, in a very restrained fashion, indicated that you should watch what you were doing, you thought that I was a very rude young man and that cyclists are a bloody menace...

king_jeffers

Graham. wrote:

Not a million miles from you and I noticed that, headwind in both directions, and the return trips uphill! I was sweating like a fat man at a disco! Graham.

+1

Been like that the last couple of weeks on my commute, head wind coming in and going home. Still I could do with the exercise.

hargo

Getting outbid on several bikes and pipped by minutes to one I was after on Gumtree, genuine bargain too. Gutted.

Oh and hi to all, I'm new and trying desperately to get a decent bike 2nd hand and failing quite miserably so I can start reducing my mileage and cost and combine it with training for my first tri

SickAsAParrot

SickAsAParrot wrote:

Not really a rant but got taken out by a dog for the first time on the way home last night.

Going through park, 2 lady joggers on on right hand side of path coming towards me so I go to the left (didn't spot lead carried by one of them, uh-oh...). Pass them then suddenly said dog jumps out from bushes and goes between front and back wheels, back wheel thrown out one way, then the other and I'm off.

To be fair they were very nice and concerned about me and apologized profusely, and the dog seemed fine, shaking its lake water off and looking happy as larry, so we left it at that.

I've got a bit of scraped skin on one knee and twisted my foot (presumably an SPD thing), which has stiffened up this morning, hopefully it goes ok before monday.

Here we go again, clobbered off for the second time in 3 weeks this time by a kid on a bike. There were two of them going down the inside of a main road messing about and showing off like they do, I go to give them a very wide berth at 25mph (no traffic at this point) just in case, and one of them still manages to drift out straight into me anyway. Lost a patch of skin on my left elbow and road rash all down the same leg as before. No twists this time tho.

Spent the next 5 minutes trying to straighten out his mashed up gears so at least he could get home. My bike was fine, thanks Scott, quality product.

richVSrich

SickAsAParrot wrote:

SickAsAParrot wrote:

Not really a rant but got taken out by a dog for the first time on the way home last night.

Going through park, 2 lady joggers on on right hand side of path coming towards me so I go to the left (didn't spot lead carried by one of them, uh-oh...). Pass them then suddenly said dog jumps out from bushes and goes between front and back wheels, back wheel thrown out one way, then the other and I'm off.

To be fair they were very nice and concerned about me and apologized profusely, and the dog seemed fine, shaking its lake water off and looking happy as larry, so we left it at that.

I've got a bit of scraped skin on one knee and twisted my foot (presumably an SPD thing), which has stiffened up this morning, hopefully it goes ok before monday.

Here we go again, clobbered off for the second time in 3 weeks this time by a kid on a bike. There were two of them going down the inside of a main road messing about and showing off like they do, I go to give them a very wide berth at 25mph (no traffic at this point) just in case, and one of them still manages to drift out straight into me anyway. Lost a patch of skin on my left elbow and road rash all down the same leg as before. No twists this time tho.

Spent the next 5 minutes trying to straighten out his mashed up gears so at least he could get home. My bike was fine, thanks Scott, quality product.

that sucks! but wondering if theres anything you else can do, like ease off a bit, ping your bell a few times ?

king_jeffers

SickAsAParrot wrote:

Here we go again, clobbered off for the second time in 3 weeks this time by a kid on a bike. There were two of them going down the inside of a main road messing about and showing off like they do, I go to give them a very wide berth at 25mph (no traffic at this point) just in case, and one of them still manages to drift out straight into me anyway. Lost a patch of skin on my left elbow and road rash all down the same leg as before. No twists this time tho. Spent the next 5 minutes trying to straighten out his mashed up gears so at least he could get home. My bike was fine, thanks Scott, quality product.

I've noticed over the last month the popularity of kids with push scooters, hop on the road, off the road... only a matter of time I think before we cross paths :?

flicksta

King Jeffers wrote:

SickAsAParrot wrote:

Here we go again, clobbered off for the second time in 3 weeks this time by a kid on a bike. There were two of them going down the inside of a main road messing about and showing off like they do, I go to give them a very wide berth at 25mph (no traffic at this point) just in case, and one of them still manages to drift out straight into me anyway. Lost a patch of skin on my left elbow and road rash all down the same leg as before. No twists this time tho. Spent the next 5 minutes trying to straighten out his mashed up gears so at least he could get home. My bike was fine, thanks Scott, quality product.

I've noticed over the last month the popularity of kids with push scooters, hop on the road, off the road... only a matter of time I think before we cross paths :?

I've seen, in the last 24 hours, pedestrians walking in the road with their back to traffic rather than the pavement, where the pavement was completely clear, a rollerblader in the road and three or four adults on micro scooters.

MonkeyMonster

The dude who walked through the blackfriars tunnel - WTF were you thinking.

The wvm who indicated micro seconds before swinging into the other lane almost into me - you sir are a cnut. Back tyre skid tastic.

hfidgen

Saw a lady in a red dress on a boris bike in the blackfriars tunnel 2 weeks back. She was in the outer lane, taking primary at about 6-8mph.

I don't think anyone had any idea why, but it didn't half cause a mess and some swearing.