Your rants here.

desweller

CiB wrote:

Some absolute bell end in Cake Stop has just spilled the beans on today's TdF events, not with a post that tells all, but with a thread title that tells all, so even with bookmarks to that and various other of these forums it's there. in yer face. Git.

Highlights 7-8? No need now. Watch this afternoon's live coverage later as live? I'd just be waiting for whatever it was to happen.

Why not engage your brain before posting stuff like that? eh? Git. Utter git.

Thanks for the heads up! Hadn't got as far as Cake Stop - won't be doing so now!

CiB

Bell End has changed the title. Safe to proceed to the nuttier side of BR, just for the shorts & knitting threads.

shouldbeinbed

F*& #ing BBC north west tonight did the same with the result. Avoided twitter, here etc Bob had changed his thread but I avoided it anyway.

Ten to bloody seven and they show the finish in all its glory without any leave the room now warning, spoiler tossers

suzyb

BBC Scotland did that on Monday and Tuesday. Managed to avoid reading the result both days only for them to spoil it when they told us where David Millar was in the standings.

Must have been a slow sports news couple of days though as they've not mentioned it since.

davis

Dear Car Makers,

I do not want baubles, gimmicks, flashy blinkenlichten, or frippery.
I do not want 20 different sensors that misread data or fail.
I do not want auto-dimming or auto-folding mirrors.
I do not want electric seat adjustment.
I do not want alloy wheels or low profile tyres.
I do not want power steering.
I do not want a trip computer.
I do not want parking sensors.
I do not want an ECU in charge of whether the engine runs or not.
I do not want an immobilizer.
I do not want leather seats.

Instead:

I want to actually go somewhere in my car.
I want it to be reliable, comfortable, simple, and well-built. I want enough
space in the engine bay so that replacing a small part does not involve hours
and hours of removing and replacing extra cruft.
I want the inevitable problems to be tangible, mechanical ones, not voodoo-led
electronic "diagnostics".
I want it to be fairly economical.
I want it to carry a bike easily.

Thank you.

gbsahne001

PF struck whilst out on a run through tracks and woods today, not a problem, takes rear wheel off and gets ready to change inner tube.

1st rant at me.... forgot tyre levers, thankfully though being a big chunky tyre it comes off without needing them.

2nd rant this time at Topeak; Road morph barely a year old, it decides to give up working half way through the tyre's pumped up. Am now wondering what to do, as I have no other means of inflating the tyre, after all in 30 years I've never had a pump break on me and I'm in the middle off nowhere.

Anti-rant: thanks to the fellow off roader who just happened to pass by 5 mins later who stopped and lent me his pump.

janm399

Squeaky. Cleat. For. Three. Hours... and breathe.

Got home, cleaned up some muck that had built up underneath it and all is well again.

CiB

Not a rant, more a resigned shrug.

Did an enjoyable 47 mile pootle to pater's ranch this morning. Wife + boys followed later by car for the ad-hoc family gathering & to bring me home. And I've only left my road shoes up there.

Bother.

mudcow007

did a charity ride last week, 56 miles from liverpool to chester to liverpool -

this is suppose to be a "family fun ride" so why do club riders (ellesmere port club) ride in a pack of about 30, 4 cyclists wide bunching up an surrounding younger (what looked like) inexperienced riders an RLJ

also over taking people with a few cm's isnt cool

hfidgen

They sound like eedjits tbh

Had a few grumbles at cyclists who looked like they should know better today including a roady in yellow strip on a Cervelo who took umbridge at being overtaken and then proceeded to ride like a tool up mile end road trying to overtake cars in an attempt to lose me. When he finally pushed a car into the bike lane cutting up a whole bunch of nodders I called off the chase. Which SCR rule is it about not ending up in hospital or putting other people there? There needs to be one if there isn't already.

That was after we'd lost the suicidal RLJ'ing fixie... I imagine he IS in East London Hospital by now.

Oh, and the SMIDSY in the Porsche :roll:

Oh, and the drafting fairy who practically pushed me into the back of a bus. At least he said thank you when I told him to get the fudge in front and fudge off. (Red shorts, blue helmet, black rucksack)

As you can see... one of those commutes...

jonny_trousers

My first experience of fitting a new tube and tyre to an Easton EA50. Just as fun as I'd heard it was going to be :shock:

jds_1981

hfidgen wrote:

Had a few grumbles at cyclists who looked like they should know better today including a roady in yellow strip on a Cervelo who took umbridge at being overtaken and then proceeded to ride like a tool up mile end road trying to overtake cars in an attempt to lose me. When he finally pushed a car into the bike lane cutting up a whole bunch of nodders I called off the chase. Which SCR rule is it about not ending up in hospital or putting other people there? There needs to be one if there isn't already.

It's rule 1 - http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... 70&start=0

hfidgen

Good - Rules 1 & 2 mean my scalp remained intact

Off the bike today due to stinking cold... perhaps explains my grumbling last night!

Sailorchick

Damned cold! After a sailing competition in Wales first weekend in July I brought home the worst cold I've had in years. No cycling at all last week as was totally feeble and knocked out, got lots of sleep in though.

Back on the bike for the first time on Saturday and my aerobic fitness is still totally buggered! My commute is only 3.5 miles (hilly) but its killing me this week as as soon as I do any exercise I'm coughing and out of breath almost instantly! I don't feel ill anymore just would like to be able to breath properly!

Kieran_Burns

hfidgen wrote:

Good - Rules 1 & 2 mean my scalp remained intact

Off the bike today due to stinking cold... perhaps explains my grumbling last night!

The Running Man

Lovely ride in this morning spoiled only by 3 WVM numpties. I gave 2 of them a bit of a barrage and a of shake of the fist but it was only when I reviewed my video that I realised how close they were and how lucky I was.

So the 1st guy :
I was approaching a right hand turn with a filter lane. I signalling right and had just started moving out to take the turn and he decides he's going to overtake me, forcing me to get my hand out of the way quick and abort the manoeuvre before he runs into me.

Not content with driving really close to me he then makes the turn himself and I follow him, and he then slams on his brakes either to make me go into the back of him or to give me a mouthful. In the end he thought better of it and shot off.

2nd guy was just a complete tosser and almost forced me off the road going through Melksham by seriously cutting me up at a set of traffic lights and squeezed me so much I had to bail out into the left filter lane to avoid getting sideswiped.

What the feck is wrong with people?? Is my life of so little value that it's worth risking it for 20 seconds on someone's journey time .....

jds_1981

share the footage?

Applespider

Going through Dulwich Park tonight - two lads playing football in the main road into the park where cars park. I mean, there's the whole bleeding park to play in! Anyhow, I slow down to give them a wide berth and one numpty high kicks the ball right to where I'm going to be and the other idiot runs backwards to bounce it off his chest. I missed him by about an inch thanks to a loud shout and some heavy braking. Not sure which was more stupid - the one who kicked the ball obviously into my path or the one who ran backwards on what is, in effect, a road to get it.

Anti-rant - a few minutes later I was sat at the lights going onto South Circular in the ASL and a red car was creeping slowly into it in the other lane. A group of teenagers were on the pavement and started shouting to me - 'You can take him, you've still got a wheel length on him' which cracked me up. So when the lights changed, I put it down a bit... to cheers from the three lads. :P

Anonymous

The well received (online) LBS where they threatened 200 quids worth of new chains, mechs, etc because my chain slipped out of top (easiest) gear on the back.

Got it home and had a fiddle and now it is smooth as silk, baby. - the gear wire had stretched, so just needed readjusting.

The guy just had a prod at the front chainring then said 'its old, its worn, you need a new one'

Rather than asking me to explain more clearly (as I clearly wasnt 100% sure what I was on about) and saying 'oh thats easy to fix'
Bit miffed as if you google the shop, its highly well received, and the shop always defends people who rate it badly.

They'd be pushed to defend this one...

The Running Man

@jds_1981

I would but the files are quite big and i have no software to edit the wretched things down ....

I'll ask in the office :?

bails87

The Running Man wrote:

@jds_1981

I would but the files are quite big and i have no software to edit the wretched things down ....

I'll ask in the office :?

Windows Live Movie Maker is free and does the job well enough.

gbsahne001

This mornings fools:

WVM attempts to overtake me as I'm approaching a T junction and whilst I pause to check it's OK he overtakes with me just moving off the white lines. I then see him 2 mins up the road, undertake a line of cars approaching a roundabout and then cut 3 cars up on the roundabout.

Roadie; attempts to undertake me at traffic lights, overtakes me as we're approaching the next set as I'm slowing to wait in line (difficult to get to front) and attempts to push to the front, but gets caught out; car beeps at him.

Next set of lights; RLJ, naturally.

Next set; goes for a gap, which isn't there and has to slam the brakes on and look a fool, sandwiched between a bus and a car; car beeps (pattern forming here)

Am sitting behind him now; not drafting, as he's all over the road, cars beeping at him again, this time he's doing the wonker sign at them, car slows, opens window and has a go (rightly so, as he's clearly unsafe)

Having got fed up of watching these antics, (dont really want to see an accident) I go past up to 26mph and find that he's decided to hang on my back wheel but either he can't or wont pass. I really don't want this idiot sitting on my back wheel, so I turn off, and head into work an alternative route.

The Running Man

Here's the 1st one ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhU9kbaePv0

And the 2nd one here ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdnN-t_6r8

mudcow007

The Running Man wrote:

Here's the 1st one ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhU9kbaePv0

And the 2nd one here ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdnN-t_6r8

blimey the first one was close, i love the wagging finger

hfidgen

Kieran_Burns wrote:

hfidgen wrote:

Good - Rules 1 & 2 mean my scalp remained intact

Off the bike today due to stinking cold... perhaps explains my grumbling last night!

thanks ^^

Back on it tomorrow - I promise

Anonymous

Alarm didn't go off this morning, so all the excitement of another cycle in was ruined when I not only had to get the sodding tube into work, but I had to relive the misery all the way home...

jonny_trousers

So after three weeks of waiting it's finally my turn to take the new second-hand Fratello into Condor for a full service. As I'm checking it in I mention to the lad serving me that I want a shorter stem, as I feel a touch overstretched, so he takes me over to my bike and immediately tells me it's too big for me. I say, "What? a 55?" (I'm over 5' 10) and so he flips it, looks at the BB and tells me it's a 58! I know that makes me sound like a complete tool for buying the thing, but in my defence, it was advertised as a '55' and measuring the top-tube with a tape measure shows it's pretty much 55cm. The lad then goes on to say that if I was to walk into Condor and insist on buying myself a '58' they would refuse to sell me one. Bike sizing is so damn variable. Anyway, looks like I'll be ordering that Genesis Equilibrium frame after all.

The Yan to the Condor experience's Ying, however was me stopping to apologise after I clipped a WVM's wing mirror on my way in only for him to smile, wave and mouth "No problem." The world's gone mad I tell ya!

The Running Man

I'm starting to get a persecution complex ...... :roll:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czqw6HRGo8

Kieran_Burns

The Running Man wrote:

I'm starting to get a persecution complex ...... :roll:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czqw6HRGo8

that was a case of follow the lorry and "HOLY HELL!!! A CAR!!!"

bails87

The Running Man wrote:

I'm starting to get a persecution complex ...... :roll:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czqw6HRGo8

It's obviously because you've got a camera, you're seeking out these confrontations on purpose!





Which camera are you using btw?