Your rants here.

oodboo

Rick Chasey wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Why don't you come to a complete stop. Or look like you're stopping and when they pass jump on their wheel and sit there.

I've tried the looking like you're stopping.

The cheeky bastards wait till you've knackered yourself in the headwind, and then only jump when you've dropped enough speed that it's serious effort to chase back.

I have turned around and waved a few times; a wafting motion away from my backwheel.

Fart?

Ride all over the place swerving side to side?

Stop trying to race them?

If all else fails then stop for a chat.

rick_chasey

Another rant.

Getting my nose cauterised. Booked for Feb 29th.

Meanwhile, whenever I ride my bike (in the cold) it bleeds everywhere.

Not cool.

SimonAH

Hung, drawn and cauterised?

rick_chasey

SimonAH wrote:

Hung, drawn and cauterised?

two out of the 3 isn't bad.

bunter

Bit of a hard one to explain but was singularly terrifying when I realised what the f*cknut had done: Was at the front of a queue at the lights for a busy crossroads (Bastwell in Blackburn). Just before the lights changed I heard a car horn but didn't think much of it. Then, as I set off on green, a car pulled out from the back of the queue of traffic on the other (oncoming) side of the road from about 100 metres back, overtook the line of traffic as it moved off and cut back into the gap between me and the first car in the queue at the other side of the road - as we moved towards each other. I would estimate the driver came at me at about 45 mph. I didn't catch his reg or even have time to realise what was happening until he was gone.

I wish people like this would remove themselves from the gene pool without putting anyone else in danger. What a worthless a**hole.

sparrowlegs78

bunter wrote:

Bit of a hard one to explain but was singularly terrifying when I realised what the f*cknut had done: Was at the front of a queue at the lights for a busy crossroads (Bastwell in Blackburn). Just before the lights changed I heard a car horn but didn't think much of it. Then, as I set off on green, a car pulled out from the back of the queue of traffic on the other (oncoming) side of the road from about 100 metres back, overtook the line of traffic as it moved off and cut back into the gap between me and the first car in the queue at the other side of the road - as we moved towards each other. I would estimate the driver came at me at about 45 mph. I didn't catch his reg or even have time to realise what was happening until he was gone.

I wish people like this would remove themselves from the gene pool without putting anyone else in danger. What a worthless a**hole.

Typical Blackburn driving ! I take my life in my hands when I get out on the bike.
Probs seen you out and about then.
Caz xx

bunter

sparrowlegs78 wrote:

Typical Blackburn driving ! I take my life in my hands when I get out on the bike.
Probs seen you out and about then.
Caz xx

All the worst drivers in Blackburn hang out at Bastwell - I think it must be some kind of conspiracy. See you around, I hope!

redvee

Buying DDR3 ram for my mobo when I should have bought DDR2, should have looked at more than the price and make.
Anybody want to buy 1x 2Gb stick of Kingston Hyper x?

Mr Sworld

redvee wrote:

Buying DDR3 ram for my mobo when I should have bought DDR2, should have looked at more than the price and make.
Anybody want to buy 1x 2Gb stick of Kingston Hyper x?

Ha, ha, ha! Why would anyone one want 1 stick of 2GB RAM? You have to accept you had a fail...

Surely the idea of DDR2 being as cheap as DDR3 would of set the alarm bells off?

redvee

Mr Sworld wrote:

Ha, ha, ha! Why would anyone one want 1 stick of 2GB RAM? You have to accept you had a fail...

Surely the idea of DDR2 being as cheap as DDR3 would have set the alarm bells off?

DDR2 is twice the price of DDR3

SickAsAParrot

Rick Chasey wrote:

Another rant.

Getting my nose cauterised. Booked for Feb 29th.

Meanwhile, whenever I ride my bike (in the cold) it bleeds everywhere.

Not cool.

Oh man, when you can see the poker thing heating up in the fire there it doesn't half give you the willies. Make sure you bite really hard on the towel.

bails87

Mrs Bails' boss gets major nosebleeds due to an allergy to coffee. If he goes in a room that's got a previously coffee filled mug in it, it just pours out. Same if he speaks to someone who's drunk coffee in the previous few hours! :shock:

dhope

redvee wrote:

Buying DDR3 ram for my mobo when I should have bought DDR2, should have looked at more than the price and make.
Anybody want to buy 1x 2Gb stick of Kingston Hyper x?

You can return within 30 days surely...

redvee

dhope wrote:

redvee wrote:

Buying DDR3 ram for my mobo when I should have bought DDR2, should have looked at more than the price and make.
Anybody want to buy 1x 2Gb stick of Kingston Hyper x?

You can return within 30 days surely...

I've asked if possible, I'm thinking not as I only noticed the difference once I broke the seal

davis

Grrrr.... Had a punctured tube sitting around for a while, thought I'd fix it. Spent 30 minutes trying to find the bastard hole (it really annoyed me I couldn't find it so I got fixated... even tried the bowl of water thing). Gave up in frustration and cooked dinner. Sister phones, and as I'm walking around the kitchen on the phone I notice another neatly rolled tube on the shelf.

Puncture found and fixed in about 90 seconds.

GAH!

merkin

davis wrote:

Spent 30 minutes trying to find the bastard hole

Yep I hate it when that happens. :twisted:

davis wrote:

(it really annoyed me I couldn't find it so I got fixated... even tried the bowl of water thing). Gave up in frustration!

Not sure I've tried the bowl of water thing though :shock:

redvee

redvee wrote:

dhope wrote:

redvee wrote:

Buying DDR3 ram for my mobo when I should have bought DDR2, should have looked at more than the price and make.
Anybody want to buy 1x 2Gb stick of Kingston Hyper x?

You can return within 30 days surely...

I've asked if possible, I'm thinking not as I only noticed the difference once I broke the seal

Seller has got back to me and will give me 75% refund, £11 is better than nothing

rick_chasey

*old man post*

(new) neighbours upstairs currently having a party.

In a house converted into flats.

Suffice to say, I can hear the neighbours most of the time anyway.

They're currently singing along (badly) to grandmaster flash.

BORING.

I want to sleep.

veronese68

Rick Chasey wrote:

*old man post*

(new) neighbours upstairs currently having a party.

In a house converted into flats.

Suffice to say, I can hear the neighbours most of the time anyway.

They're currently singing along (badly) to grandmaster flash.

BORING.

I want to sleep.

We used to live in a converted house and I had to laugh when our hard partying neighbour was having a go at this bloke digging a hole in the road outside. He was shouting "why are you doing this now? Don't you know people are trying to sleep?" whilst wearing his dressing gown. The bloke looked utterly bemused as it was 2:30pm.

clarkey cat

Not one to get easily agitated by other road users I was so infuriated by the actions of some BRAT (about a 25 year old girl) last night I was muttering curses all the way home.


I'm on a completely quiet residential street - she is on the pavement on the left hand side walking towards me. There is a pedestrian crossing about 10 metres in front of her - and about 20 metres in front of me - i.e. between us.

She steps out into the road and walks really quickly, diagonally, across the road - I'm thinking, whats going on here so I roll out to the right and she changes her direction seemingly intent on making me hit her. She then screams "you're meant to STOP" at me.

I was just staggered by it - she'd obviously seen that she was near a pedestrian crossing and so she had the right to run into the path of a cyclist on an otherwise deserted street. Mental.

mudcow007

about 2ft off getting left hooked last night

bright sunshine (weird for 16:30) all my lights were on so she obviously seen me

the first thing i notice was the stupid bint turning left as she is along side me, i skid (tyres not underpants) if i hadnt she would have hit me

grr

phy2sll2

A week off the bike after breaking my hip (see previous post) and I'm starting to go stir crazy! I'm confined to my sofa and missing the outside world. Not even the vast amounts of synthetic opiates I'm consuming can make me feel happier.

Plus I can feel myself getting fat and unfit.

veronese68

clarkey cat wrote:

Not one to get easily agitated by other road users I was so infuriated by the actions of some BRAT (about a 25 year old girl) last night I was muttering curses all the way home.


I'm on a completely quiet residential street - she is on the pavement on the left hand side walking towards me. There is a pedestrian crossing about 10 metres in front of her - and about 20 metres in front of me - i.e. between us.

She steps out into the road and walks really quickly, diagonally, across the road - I'm thinking, whats going on here so I roll out to the right and she changes her direction seemingly intent on making me hit her. She then screams "you're meant to STOP" at me.

I was just staggered by it - she'd obviously seen that she was near a pedestrian crossing and so she had the right to run into the path of a cyclist on an otherwise deserted street. Mental.

Explain to her why she was wrong very slowly and emphasise each word with a punch to her head to make sure it gets through her thick skull.

clarkey cat

clarkey cat wrote:
Not one to get easily agitated by other road users I was so infuriated by the actions of some BRAT (about a 25 year old girl) last night I was muttering curses all the way home.


I'm on a completely quiet residential street - she is on the pavement on the left hand side walking towards me. There is a pedestrian crossing about 10 metres in front of her - and about 20 metres in front of me - i.e. between us.

She steps out into the road and walks really quickly, diagonally, across the road - I'm thinking, whats going on here so I roll out to the right and she changes her direction seemingly intent on making me hit her. She then screams "you're meant to STOP" at me.

I was just staggered by it - she'd obviously seen that she was near a pedestrian crossing and so she had the right to run into the path of a cyclist on an otherwise deserted street. Mental.
Explain to her why she was wrong very slowly and emphasise each word with a punch to her head to make sure it gets through her thick skull.

I was tempted... oh boy was I tempted. You don't even know how I tempted I was.

But I really wanted to get back and see the end of the One Show and Matt Baker's lovely goofy smile.

mybreakfastconsisted

She's right, she had priority, pedestrians always have priority over vehicles. She behaved in a silly way, just anticipate and avoid, fantasies about punching her aren't very nice.

dhope

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

She's right, she had priority, pedestrians always have priority over vehicles. She behaved in a silly way, just anticipate and avoid, fantasies about punching her aren't very nice.

Thought that was what CC was saying,that there was plenty of space, he'd anticipated and she was making a point of being an ass.

clarkey cat

I never fantasised about punching her.

I was fantasising about Matt Baker.

clarkey cat

I've just asked Matt for his opinion on this one...

His response:

"It's a tricky one, Cat - and one I oft encountered on my Rickshaw Challenge for Children in Need. I find that despite the word of the 'Highway Code' on the matter, often pedestrians and cyclists have an affinity that other forms of non-self-propulsion transport don't have; to that end, when I am approaching a pedestrian crossing I try to make eye-contact with anyone near the pedestrian crossing to see what their intentions are vis a vis crossing. Often, on a quiet street, a pedestrian will wilfully look as to not cross the road - awaiting my self-propulsed rickshaw to have passed; other times they look me in the face, steely-like as if to say: I assert the Highway Code. Cease thee - I am crossing. In which case I stop. If someone, like in your instance, is just out to make trouble, belligerently asserting some perceived right they have to dash into the road, into your path just to make life difficult for the both of you... well, you should have tw@tted her."

redvee

Veronese68 wrote:

Explain to her why she was wrong very slowly and emphasise each word with a punch to her head to make sure it gets through her thick skull.

If a punch doesn't work, a D-lock is a suitable alternative.

veronese68

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

She's right, she had priority, pedestrians always have priority over vehicles. She behaved in a silly way, just anticipate and avoid, fantasies about punching her aren't very nice.

Pedestrians always have priority, really? Pedestrians have priority on crossings. Walking into a road near a crossing isn't the same. Deliberately walking in front of someone is just plain stupid.
Presumably she wouldn't do this in front of an articulated lorry because even she would realise the danger.