Your rants here.

mudcow007

very very very nearly got squished last night

basically the dock road (busy road with trucks funnily enough through Liverpool docks) im travelling along with traffic (doing about 26mph) a pick up truck starts to over take me then decides the upcoming traffic means he has to move over sooner, so he moves over to where i am when he gets to within a few inches of my bars i whack the side of the pick up with my hand an shout "F*?!% Off" i pickup driver looks out the rear at me shakes head an carries on.

unbeknown to me there was a Police car parked on the side of the road which witnessed it all, next min blue flashing lights an wailer's on. i turn off at this point not realising the Police had gone after the pick up. So i stop an turn around to see if it did go after him, i catchup to the Police car an it has indeed pulled him. When i arrive the drive is getting a bollocking from the Policeman

Result....an order is restored!!

sketchley

Nearly very nearly had nasty smash on NKR last night, just before seeing nasty smash a little further on. Hope that guy is ok. Anyway just passed the petrol station van is indicating and turn left into side road before the pub, no problem there as I see him indicate I slow and I time it to go passed after he's made the turn, which I do, only to find a women in a green mini coming out of the side road turning right has encroached across the bike lane while the van made the turn. I saw the car and she was stationary before the van started turning, she would have and should have been able to see me. Anyway scary moment when the van completes the turn and I've got 10ft or so to stop. Fortunately not going that fast, but another danger the spider sense is going to be looking out for in the future.

clarkey cat

got in the fixie this morning... hadn't ridden it in a while so was looking forward to a bit of a spin class... got one mile up the road and the chainset fell off! Not the chain... the actual chainset.

Walked home. Got PT.

shedman

clarkey cat wrote:

got in the fixie this morning... hadn't ridden it in a while so was looking forward to a bit of a spin class... got one mile up the road and the chainset fell off! Not the chain... the actual chainset.

Walked home. Got PT.

Did you install it the right way?

clarkey cat

:oops:

Ben6899

clarkey cat wrote:

got in the fixie this morning... hadn't ridden it in a while so was looking forward to a bit of a spin class... got one mile up the road and the chainset fell off! Not the chain... the actual chainset.

Walked home. Got PT.

Fooking heck! What type BB and chainset?

Did the whole set leave the spindle? Or the rings leave the spider?

Either way... fook! And you're lucky to be okay.

bails87

Had to give an idiot Audi driver some instructions last night.

Coming up to a large RAB over a dual carriageway, I took primary, intending to take primary all the way across the RAB, and to the set of lights that are ~50 yards after it. Through that whole stretch of road there are two lanes, so if I take a lane there's still a whole lane free for drivers to pass me, not that they're much quicker round the RAB.

On the approach to it, Mr Audi tries to overtake me, gets level with me, then we're at the queue of cars waiting to join the RAB so he brakes and squeezes me to the kerb. I position myself back in front of him, wait for the cars infront to go, then we go.

I'm in primary again and go round the RAB, then turn off towards a red light, I can tell he's still trying to get past without going out of his/our lane. We stop at the red light, I turn round, point at the empty lane to his right and make a very clear "go out and round" signal with my hand.

He managed to decipher it and went round safely, I gave him a wave of thanks, but he shouldn't have to be told to do that really, should he?!

suzyb

I find that on dual carrigeways occasionally. Some people just seem to ignore the completely empty lane and squeeze past.

I really don't understand that at all. Why would you overtake anything, no matter how slow it is without using an empty lane if it's there.

bails87

suzyb wrote:

I find that on dual carrigeways occasionally. Some people just seem to ignore the completely empty lane and squeeze past.

I really don't understand that at all. Why would you overtake anything, no matter how slow it is without using an empty lane if it's there.

Yeah, I think you've said that before, and I agree. It genuinely does seem to be worse on a dual carriageway than a normal road. There's a perfectly safe lane to your right, just use it!

clarkey cat

Fooking heck! What type BB and chainset?

Did the whole set leave the spindle? Or the rings leave the spider?

Either way... fook! And you're lucky to be okay.

On inspection it was the chain ring bolts... they had all fallen out!!!
Explains the rattling...

cush123

Ellis Brigham. . . £6 ofr delivery of my new £300 Goretex ski jacket and it took you 5 days to get it to me. Was that really neccessary? Take a lesson from Wiggle and CRC.

Ben6899

clarkey cat wrote:

Fooking heck! What type BB and chainset?

Did the whole set leave the spindle? Or the rings leave the spider?

Either way... fook! And you're lucky to be okay.

On inspection it was the chain ring bolts... they had all fallen out!!!
Explains the rattling...

Easy to fix, then. Shame about the big paint chip taken out of your ego.

clarkey cat

Easy to fix, then.

SSSHHHHHHH!!!!! you'll wake the missus.
It looks catastrophic so that should be good for a couple of hundred pounds of upgrades.

desweller

Godammit. 7 days before I leave for a cycling tour in Vietnam and I've caught a stinking, filthy, grotty, snotty, streaming, flaming, bloody cold. Feckity feck feck feck.

rolf_f

Don't normally post in here but........

TBH, weather was looking a bit dingy for a proper ride so I thought I'd do something smarter and do some hill reps. And at the same time give 3 of the bikes a bit of a checkover - I'd just changed the rear mech on the Dawes and new brakes on the MTB so they needed testing.

Anyway, the plan was to do 10 reps to the top of the hill above mine and back - 20 miles and 2600 or so feet of climbing. The Dawes test went well enough though I reckon I need to tweak the alignment of the front mech (which I'd not noticed being off on account of the state of the rear mech. If rear mechs were 1970s childrens programmes, my rear mech was Bagpuss).

Then the MTB which seems to have a chain/cassette incompatibility issue which is annoying as the cassette has lowish miles. Anyway, first run up the hill and I deviate right a little to avoid a shiny metal plate in the road. A moment or two later I get hooted at by car so I give the traditional salute (two fingered kind - the single digit version is just common!).

So, 50 yards up the road he stops. In the middle of the road - and waits for me to catch up. We are now on the steepest part of the hill (he's stopped on the bend/kink.....) and he starts giving it all about me 'wobbling all over the narrow road'. Now there was no other traffic aside from us, at that point visibility was clear and he was well behind me when I went round the plate. I try to tell him why I 'wobbled' despite also having the hill to cycle up and eventually he gives a grudging apology - I acknowledge with a nod of the head and he accelerates away - and then stops again! "So my apology isn't good enough for you?" he says. "How about I stop and give you a kicking". So I just tell him to grow up at which he says "Oh right, I should grow up" before clearing off and letting the queue stuck behind him go. I suppose I should have suggested he read the highway code on how to pass cycles but I doubt it was worth it.

Anyway, I then change to the Ribble for the final 5 hill repeats and all goes quietly (bloody cold toes aside) until my last descent of the hill back to home. When some dopey bitch in a Peugeot or Corsa (bound to be one of the two - it always is) decides it would be a good idea, at the aforementioned kink, to overtake me despite the fact that she couldn't see round the corner and I was already doing 30 which is the limit in the village. So I have the pleasure of rounding this kink at 30mph with an idiot driving next to me about a foot away for a good fifty yards. After the corner, she does get ahead and if she looked in the mirror she'd have seen another, no fingered gesture. Of course, now she is deccelerating infront of me as there is a parked car to get round. I start to move out to clear it as well as there is a van behind me. Only there isn't. All of a sudden that too is driving alongside me at 30mph. Obviously he saw the braindead cow being thick and decided there wasn't enough stupidity in the world and that he should join in.

TBH, I blame that one on me. Normally on that descent I take primary all the way from the top of the hill - on a quiet Sunday, having done the descent 9 times already, I let myself get cornered. Just goes to show how much safer it is to use primary - particularly when you are travelling at the speed limit.

suzyb

It's been quite a mild winter...until today. -6C on the way in and I'm now sitting in the office shivering (again).

Really how can someone so fat be so cold but all the stick insects in the office be fine.

Kieran_Burns

I was surprised to find that a couple of people queuing in traffic decided they did not like me overtaking them in the 2 mile queue they were stuck in and edged OUT, pushing me into oncoming traffic as I overtook them.

So, you're stuck in traffic and want to kill someone who is keeping fit and moving more quickly?

Lovely people.

Ben6899

suzyb wrote:

Really how can someone so fat be so cold but all the stick insects in the office be fine.

Is that a serious question?

Gussio

Dropped my Pompino while paying no attention and took a big chip out of the paint on the top tube. Most irritating.

rick_chasey

A rant at myself.

I keep losing kit. Most recent is my earwarmers. Find it unbearable riding without earwarmers unless it's over 10 degrees.


Grr.

(Got that nut off by the way. Foot ontop of bottom bracket, head against the wall to balance, two hands on the spanner, pulling upwards)

rjsterry

Rick Chasey wrote:

A rant at myself.

I keep losing kit. Most recent is my earwarmers. Find it unbearable riding without earwarmers unless it's over 10 degrees.


Grr.

(Got that nut off by the way. Foot ontop of bottom bracket, head against the wall to balance, two hands on the spanner, pulling upwards)

Pics! We. Need. Pics.

king_jeffers

Gritter goes to overtake me....yeeoeoowowowww!!!!! ow, ow ow! Pellets of salt on cold, cold legs really wakes you up.

suzyb

Ben6899 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Really how can someone so fat be so cold but all the stick insects in the office be fine.

Is that a serious question?

Well sort of tbh. In an office of ~12 people why is it always me and one other woman who are the ones always so cold when everyone else is fine. What is different about us that makes us feel the cold in this office so much.

Kieran_Burns

suzyb wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Really how can someone so fat be so cold but all the stick insects in the office be fine.

Is that a serious question?

Well sort of tbh. In an office of ~12 people why is it always me and one other woman who are the ones always so cold when everyone else is fine. What is different about us that makes us feel the cold in this office so much.

You're wimmins - the weaker sex. Us men are 'ard and never feel the cold.


(for everyone's information I am moving to another country under an assumed name for no particular reason)

Kieran_Burns

King Jeffers wrote:

Gritter goes to overtake me....yeeoeoowowowww!!!!! ow, ow ow! Pellets of salt on cold, cold legs really wakes you up.

Got this twice on Saturday - overtaken by one in Derby City centre (ow ow ow ow) and then sat behind it at a set of lights..... a LONG way behind it!

Then out in the country past Etwall, a Derbyshire County Council one COMING THE OTHER WAY - I'm doing 20 ish, and he's doing 40 ish... OW OW OW OW OW OW OWWWWWWWW! I turned my head away and the bloody stuff was pinging off my helmet!

asprilla

Apparently Keo have stopped making their non-grip cleats because americans keep falling over and suing them.

Balls.

The non-grip versions last so much longer than the grippy ones.

Double balls.

Ben6899

suzyb wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Really how can someone so fat be so cold but all the stick insects in the office be fine.

Is that a serious question?

Well sort of tbh. In an office of ~12 people why is it always me and one other woman who are the ones always so cold when everyone else is fine. What is different about us that makes us feel the cold in this office so much.

Body heat is lost through the skin. If one has a greater surface area of skin, then one will lose heat more readily. That could be a reason why "someone so fat" feels cold while "all the stick insects" feel fine. There is no scientific backing to the common thought that "fat people stay warm because of all the insulation".

rick_chasey

Ben6899 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Really how can someone so fat be so cold but all the stick insects in the office be fine.

Is that a serious question?

Well sort of tbh. In an office of ~12 people why is it always me and one other woman who are the ones always so cold when everyone else is fine. What is different about us that makes us feel the cold in this office so much.

Body heat is lost through the skin. If one has a greater surface area of skin, then one will lose heat more readily. That could be a reason why "someone so fat" feels cold while "all the stick insects" feel fine. There is no scientific backing to the common thought that "fat people stay warm because of all the insulation".

I figured smaller people have a bigger surface area - weight/volume anyway.

rjsterry

True, most (warm blooded) animals in that live in cold climates are fairly large

suzyb

That makes sense as the other woman is quite tall.