Your rants here.

james-m-h

my rant is htc highroad dispanding (i) we can all chip in and sponser them ourself?

suzyb

Cycling home this evening I round a bend and see a little way away a luminous jacket, on the road going the same way as me. And the jacket doesn't disappear as soon as I've seen it.

"Is this a potential scalp" I think to myself as I watch the jacket. It is...he or she is not travelling fast, I may be able to catch them. I try and hold my pace, I'll have to climb the hill the jacket is just beginning to climb and I don't want the embarrassment of passing them only to blow up and be re-passed.

I continue on, slowly getting closer confident I will get a scalp before I have to turn off. The jacket goes around a bend and disappears out of site. It doesn't take me long to get to the bend. I invisige passing the jacket before the crest of the hill. I get round the bend...and no jacket They're gone, turned off the main road into the junction. My chance of a scalp...was gone

(I did see the jacket again, a she when I got to the junction. She must have turned off and had a bit of a rest as they re-appeared at the give way waiting to turn and head back down the hill)

And all that was after my first leming pedestrian. A guy who didn't bother waiting for the green man he pressed the button for and crossed the road right in front of me. So right in front of me I'm not sure I would have missed him without him skipping out the way :roll:

sketchley

Cut up by an Addison Lee taxi this morning who pulled into the cycling line without even indicating. I lost it somewhat. Having chased him down and tapped on window asking him to lower it, he didn't, so I opened the door and gave him a massive rant, to which he apologised then I slammed his door really hard.

Is it worth complaining to Addison Lee? Any one had any success with that? Not 100% sure of number plate but I think they track using GPS.

MonkeyMonster

Been off for 2 weeks with house move and holiday. First (red) lights I stop at... All 5 (3 nodders, 2 roadies) just ignore the cars go through.

Thanks for the reminder there are some serious cnuts on bikes out there...

It ended better thought - see anti-rants.

suzyb

Oi stupid bint in the Meriva. When someone is indicating right coming up to a right hand junction it typically means they will be turning into that junction. Which means you DON'T overtake them.

Luckily I heard the increasing engine noise as you began to accelerate and realised what you were doing before I started turning.

redvee

Sketchley wrote:

Cut up by an Addison Lee taxi this morning who pulled into the cycling line without even indicating. I lost it somewhat. Having chased him down and tapped on window asking him to lower it, he didn't, so I opened the door and gave him a massive rant, to which he apologised then I slammed his door really hard.

Is it worth complaining to Addison Lee? Any one had any success with that? Not 100% sure of number plate but I think they track using GPS.

You'll have a long wait as they get so many driver complaints it will take some time to get round to your complaint

northstar

To the miserable looking pedestrian in teddington, work out when someone is doing you a favour and less of the dirty looks you silly person and smile or the wind might change and you will be a miserable looking cow forever...

jds_1981

Pedestrians who get to a zebra crossing on their mobiles, stop & decide to chat rather than cross. Another of my "Come-on, either cross or don't" pieces of advice came out.

marchant

And to the d1ck with the dog, who has the nerve (or is genuinely thick enough) to look surprised when I shout at him, because his dog has wandered over to my son's kite and p1ssed on it; yes it is your responsibility to control your dog. If you can't control it don't let it of the lead. That area is not there solely for dog-walking,

The Running Man

Cyclists : drive me witless : well not proper cyclists obviously but persons of unknown parentage riding 2 wheeled BSOs.

Came down London Road this morning and apart from the fact that Mr Numpty was riding on the pavement and then jumped off into the road in front of me he proceeded to weave in and out of the traffic moving from inside to outside as he pleased.

This obviously confused the hell out of the drivers as I got some verbal when I passed them on the outside and then filtered correctly into the inside cycle lane at the traffic lights by the Bath RFC training ground.

Still on the outside Mr Numpty flies through a gap in the traffic behind me and then has the nerve to start drafting and trying to overtake!!!!!!???

Just touched the afterburners and wasted him .... bloody tourists!

nich

Seems to be a trend that I make my way through London Traffic without any problems, get a few streets away from my home then a tosspot ruins it all.

Chap in red car that came past me leaving almost zero room. A big FU. :x

Ben6899

"Umberto. The next time you and Maria take out a Boris bike apiece to make your way through Stratford on a Saturday afternoon... Can I suggest you try and gee up Maria's confidence for her own safety? You need to encourage her to maintain the speed in order to control and eventually eradicate the wobbling.

Otherwise you might end up with an ex-Maria and we'd all hate for that to happen."

I was driving with my eyes closed just waiting for a stack or collision. And I needed a poo.

SimonAH

Brand new speedy geared bike. Thighs like a.pair of pot bellied pigs following mucho unicycling. Body rested, mind clear. Physique fixie honed.

Ready to light up my commute with a thin trail of burning Conti rubber.

Leave house into wall of wind.

Leave office to find it's turned 180 degrees.

Certain that people in cars were giggling at me.

redvee

SimonAH wrote:

Certain that people in cars were giggling at me.

Not just car drivers that laugh at you, everybody does it. Just most do it behind your back

SimonAH

redvee wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

Certain that people in cars were giggling at me.

Not just car drivers that laugh at you, everybody does it. Just most do it behind your back

Shaun, it's a.good.thing you live that side of the bridge. On this side (what with your sexy avatar and all) we'd use you as a sex slave and then sell you on to Cornwall when your looks started to go.

il_principe

F*CKING GARMIN.

On Sunday in RP I was putting in a fair effort in the 3 lap challenge, nailing it down Sawyers when my Edge 705 just pops out of it's mount. Slammed on the brakes and managed to retrieve it. Any notion of a good time is now gone. The mount has completely failed, so the computer popped out still attached to this bit:



So no disaster, computer still working fine. Then last night same thing happens to a different mount, only this time It was on the commute and I didn't notice straight away, could have happened anywhere along a 2/3 mile stretch of road that includes Vauxhall gyratory and 9 Elms, so 2/4 lanes of traffic. Tried retracing but it's just impossible, so one £250 computer complete with European maps gone, and of course I paid more than £250 when I bought the damn thing.

So f*cked off. I managed to lose my old Edge 305 on the commute earlier in the year as well.

I hear the mount on the Edge 500/800 is far better, but ARGH!!


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redvee

Il Principe wrote:

F*CKING GARMIN.

On Sunday in RP I was putting in a fair effort in the 3 lap challenge, nailing it down Sawyers when my Edge 705 just pops out of it's mount. Slammed on the brakes and managed to retrieve it. Any notion of a good time is now gone. The mount has completely failed, so the computer popped out still attached to this bit:



So no disaster, computer still working fine. Then last night same thing happens to a different mount, only this time It was on the commute and I didn't notice straight away, could have happened anywhere along a 2/3 mile stretch of road that includes Vauxhall gyratory and 9 Elms, so 2/4 lanes of traffic. Tried retracing but it's just impossible, so one £250 computer complete with European maps gone, and of course I paid more than £250 when I bought the damn thing.

So f*cked off. I managed to lose my old Edge 305 on the commute earlier in the year as well.

I hear the mount on the Edge 500/800 is far better, but ARGH!!

OUCH!, can say I never had a problem with the mount on my 705, it was just the computer that kept failing for one reason or another. Garmin couldn't replace the last time I sent it back so asked it I wanted an 800 instead The quarter turn mount does feel more secure, you're going to notice the computer turning through 90 degrees.

bails87

1. Stupid old man who overtook very close last night, only to immediately turn left into a pub car park. When I asked if next time he overtakes a cyclists, could he leave more room he said

But I didn't touch you

Me wrote:

That's not really the point, you were this far away from me, you should leave much more room

But there was a car coming the other way

Me wrote:

.....well don't overtake if there isn't room to do it safely

He looked at me as if I'd told him I was the National Pudding Inspector and I was there to WIBBLE count his blamange quota, but only if he'd paid his snozzberry tax. Like a properly incredulous, bewildered look when I suggested not squeezing through a gap that wasn't big enough, only to turn left straight away, saving 2 seconds on his journey.

Then his wife chipped in with

well, why don't you ride on the pavement

She said she rides on the pavement all the time. Probably because she's scared of drivers like her husband, who, incidentally probably doesn't have much respect for cyclists because 'they're always riding on the pavement' because of drivers like him.....:roll:

I just left by politely asking him to leave more room in future and wished them a pleasant evening.

2. The dual carriageway thing that I think has been mentioned before. On a'normal' road, people will, for the most part, move out across the centre line to pass me, on a road where there is more than one lane going in each direction they seem less willing to move out, and stick to their lane instead even though the overtaking lane is empty. It's backwards, and a PITA!

4. There was a three, but I've forgotten it!

Torvid

The guy in the green Golf, now with no passenger side mirror, my elbow is fine but checking your mirror as you sped off is not cool.

bails87

Aha,
Number 3: The amount of people driving round with wing mirrors either missing or, even more strangely, folded in. Seriously, how terrible must you be at driving to be merriliy going round roundabouts, chainging lanes etc without realising that both your wing mirrors are folded flat against the doors?

Torvid

bails87 wrote:

Aha,
Number 3: The amount of people driving round with wing mirrors either missing or, even more strangely, folded in. Seriously, how terrible must you be at driving to be merriliy going round roundabouts, chainging lanes etc without realising that both your wing mirrors are folded flat against the doors?

I'm starting to wonder about this myself i saw a bus last week with both mirrors folded flat, how can that be safe ...

W1

bails87 wrote:

Aha,
Number 3: The amount of people driving round with wing mirrors either missing or, even more strangely, folded in. Seriously, how terrible must you be at driving to be merriliy going round roundabouts, chainging lanes etc without realising that both your wing mirrors are folded flat against the doors?

I sometimes offer to unfold them, particularly after a near miss.

suzyb

bails87 wrote:

2. The dual carriageway thing that I think has been mentioned before. On a'normal' road, people will, for the most part, move out across the centre line to pass me, on a road where there is more than one lane going in each direction they seem less willing to move out, and stick to their lane instead even though the overtaking lane is empty. It's backwards, and a PITA!!

It's not just drivers around here that do that then.

redvee

A friend is after a 2nd hand starter roadbike so I met up with him today and we had a look at a few offerings in some of the shops in Brizzle. What peed him off was that Evans didn't have any road bikes under £600, even amongst their sale stock. He could have had a balance bike but at 38 I think he's out grown them

Secondly, I managed to break a spoke again on my rear wheel but at the time I was wheeling the bike on a public footpath. Second spoke to go on the rear wheel which has straightpull spokes which are a bugger to find so looks like a new hub and wheel rebuild.

W1

Roadies. If you've fitted SPDs, try and learn how to use them before going on the road. To push to the front in all your shiney gear, and then fail to clip in "at the off", coming to almost a complete stop having pushed off from the kerb, blocking everyone whilst you fumble around for the cleat - is bloody irritating.

mudcow007

hangovers....that is all

bails87

People who indicate right whilst overtaking, then as soon as the nose of the car is past you, indicate left. When there's a left turn coming up.

The left hook sensors have been working overtime in the past few weeks, without an actual left hook :roll:

sketchley

If you buy a ticker to go to Shakespear's Globe to watch a play watch the f@cking play and don't have picnic all through the first half. If you must eat find quiet food to eat so there is none of the that rustling going on! Very off putting.

mudcow007

Sketchley wrote:

If you buy a ticker to go to Shakespear's Globe to watch a play watch the f@cking play and don't have picnic all through the first half. If you must eat find quiet food to eat so there is none of the that rustling going on! Very off putting.

this gets on my thripnies at the cinema too grrr!

i remember telling someone at the flicks to be quiet as they were making loads of noise eating, talking etc the guys responds was "im a policeman" to which i responded with "i'm very happy for you, but can you still shut the hell up"

sketchley

mudcow007 wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

If you buy a ticker to go to Shakespear's Globe to watch a play watch the f@cking play and don't have picnic all through the first half. If you must eat find quiet food to eat so there is none of the that rustling going on! Very off putting.

this gets on my thripnies at the cinema too grrr!

i remember telling someone at the flicks to be quiet as they were making loads of noise eating, talking etc the guys responds was "im a policeman" to which i responded with "i'm very happy for you, but can you still shut the hell up"

At least in cinema you get amplified sound track through speakers etc. Actors at the globe are simply using their voices and natural acoustics of the place. Was very annoying, particularly when they started take pictures of there picnic!