Your rants here.

rick_chasey

rjsterry wrote:

Sheesh, you do seem to attract more than your share Rick.

You can't be THAT surprised. :P

Aside from the Pikey woman last week, I haven't had any hassle for over a year!

veronese68

Rick Chasey wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

red light jumpers...
if you can see your behaviour is adding to the general consensus that cyclists don't obey rules YET you continue - I detest you, I hope you get blown off your bike (ie no one else is involved) into a river and float away to a different country.
if you can't see your behaviour is adding to the general consensus that cyclists don't obey rules then I pity you.
If you happen to have a view that people are stupid to tihnk one persons behaviour is indicative of others - this is irrelevant - mobs aren't intelligent.
and breathe...

Adding to this... how come they never see that their actions have consequences that may affect others... I was nearly wiped out today by a car taking avoiding action due to a RLJer coming in from the right and turning into our traffic flow. He wasn't going that fast so I caught him up and told him what I thought of his actions... his response (the clean version) "not my problem".... short of beating him senseless with my d-lock there wasn't a lot more to say

I had a motorist say this to me once having flagged him down after he left hooked me. After I said "it'll be your f**king problem in a minute mate" he went white and drove off rapidly, much to the amusement of two blokes standing on the pavement.

Yeah that's probably not the best cause of action. I've been kicked whilst lying on the floor by drivers for doing less.

I think Sketchley has the physical presence to get away with this rather more than you do. Definitely helps if you look intimidating enough when you threaten someone. Sadly, I don't.

rjsterry

Rick Chasey wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Sheesh, you do seem to attract more than your share Rick.

You can't be THAT surprised. :P

Aside from the Pikey woman last week, I haven't had any hassle for over a year!

(Tempting fate, but...) I've had one guy throw a drinks can at me in 10 years, and I don't exactly have much 'physical presence' either.

*Dusty*

Still no go on the cycle to work scheme in our place. Seems to be a case of "we don't have to, so we ain't gonna"

That said, if the girls in the personnel office wanted it, it would have been here years ago.

veronese68

Young girl that works in admin has been having trouble with her hip. She was moaning that she's only 23 and shouldn't be falling apart. Then says "It's not like I'm 43!" What's wrong with 43? It's not that bloody old, I'm not that decrepid. Cow!

rick_chasey

rjsterry wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Sheesh, you do seem to attract more than your share Rick.

You can't be THAT surprised. :P

Aside from the Pikey woman last week, I haven't had any hassle for over a year!

(Tempting fate, but...) I've had one guy throw a drinks can at me in 10 years, and I don't exactly have much 'physical presence' either.

I have noticed the amount of hassle I get in life is roughly inversely proportional to my age. (starting from about 6 or 7).

CiB

Oh FFS. Can I just go home once without some smartar$e making a comment on the fact that I happen to have a bike as a transport solution?

How many variations of "blimey you must be brave/mad/cold/hot/bonkers/Lance Armstrong to bike in" are there? Maybe I'll start passing comment on your means of transport - "a Corsa? WTF do you want one of those for? Prat."

Leg it sonny before I run you down in the car park.

notsoblue

rjsterry wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Sheesh, you do seem to attract more than your share Rick.

You can't be THAT surprised. :P

Aside from the Pikey woman last week, I haven't had any hassle for over a year!

(Tempting fate, but...) I've had one guy throw a drinks can at me in 10 years, and I don't exactly have much 'physical presence' either.

I had some kids throw a whole fish supper at me from the window of a hatchback once. And my 'physical presence' is often raised as a cause for concern by my GP.

optimisticbiker

Sketchley wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

red light jumpers...
if you can see your behaviour is adding to the general consensus that cyclists don't obey rules YET you continue - I detest you, I hope you get blown off your bike (ie no one else is involved) into a river and float away to a different country.
if you can't see your behaviour is adding to the general consensus that cyclists don't obey rules then I pity you.
If you happen to have a view that people are stupid to tihnk one persons behaviour is indicative of others - this is irrelevant - mobs aren't intelligent.
and breathe...

Adding to this... how come they never see that their actions have consequences that may affect others... I was nearly wiped out today by a car taking avoiding action due to a RLJer coming in from the right and turning into our traffic flow. He wasn't going that fast so I caught him up and told him what I thought of his actions... his response (the clean version) "not my problem".... short of beating him senseless with my d-lock there wasn't a lot more to say

I had a motorist say this to me once having flagged him down after he left hooked me. After I said "it'll be your f**king problem in a minute mate" he went white and drove off rapidly, much to the amusement of two blokes standing on the pavement.

I should point out, in case anyone is confused (and i suspect they are) it wasnt the driver I spoke to, it was the RLJer.... :roll:

suzyb

notsoblue wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Sheesh, you do seem to attract more than your share Rick.

You can't be THAT surprised. :P

Aside from the Pikey woman last week, I haven't had any hassle for over a year!

(Tempting fate, but...) I've had one guy throw a drinks can at me in 10 years, and I don't exactly have much 'physical presence' either.

I had some kids throw a whole fish supper at me from the window of a hatchback once. And my 'physical presence' is often raised as a cause for concern by my GP.

You just don't get that in Scotland. We're too greedy to chuck food at anyone.

sketchley

Veronese68 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

red light jumpers...
if you can see your behaviour is adding to the general consensus that cyclists don't obey rules YET you continue - I detest you, I hope you get blown off your bike (ie no one else is involved) into a river and float away to a different country.
if you can't see your behaviour is adding to the general consensus that cyclists don't obey rules then I pity you.
If you happen to have a view that people are stupid to tihnk one persons behaviour is indicative of others - this is irrelevant - mobs aren't intelligent.
and breathe...

Adding to this... how come they never see that their actions have consequences that may affect others... I was nearly wiped out today by a car taking avoiding action due to a RLJer coming in from the right and turning into our traffic flow. He wasn't going that fast so I caught him up and told him what I thought of his actions... his response (the clean version) "not my problem".... short of beating him senseless with my d-lock there wasn't a lot more to say

I had a motorist say this to me once having flagged him down after he left hooked me. After I said "it'll be your f**king problem in a minute mate" he went white and drove off rapidly, much to the amusement of two blokes standing on the pavement.

Yeah that's probably not the best cause of action. I've been kicked whilst lying on the floor by drivers for doing less.

I think Sketchley has the physical presence to get away with this rather more than you do. Definitely helps if you look intimidating enough when you threaten someone. Sadly, I don't.

I also get called a fat cnut a fair bit. Often random, unprovoked out of white van men.... It's only if they try and kill me that I use my "presence", stick and stones and all that. Plus I can give as good as I get verbally. Still proud of the fact I've not hit anyone in anger in over 25 years.....

PaulC7

My rant is about getting a job.

I packed my last job in end of Nov due to being away 5 nights a week and having £40 in my pocket at the end of it.

Ive been looking for another job without much look due to catch 22...

one job i seen needed me to have a certificate... so looked at getting that certificate it turns out to go on a course for it i need to be referred to them by my employer...so that leaves me at square 1.

And how do i get experience at something if all employers are looking for experienced people no-one is willing to give us the time.

A few years ago i thought i would be happy on the fork lifts so spent my money and time getting my license to just be told the same old... were looking for someone with experience... a license lasts 5 years not one interview i got.


Just very frustrating.

notsoblue

suzyb wrote:

notsoblue wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Sheesh, you do seem to attract more than your share Rick.

You can't be THAT surprised. :P

Aside from the Pikey woman last week, I haven't had any hassle for over a year!

(Tempting fate, but...) I've had one guy throw a drinks can at me in 10 years, and I don't exactly have much 'physical presence' either.

I had some kids throw a whole fish supper at me from the window of a hatchback once. And my 'physical presence' is often raised as a cause for concern by my GP.

You just don't get that in Scotland. We're too greedy to chuck food at anyone.

Actually, it was about a mile from Gretna Green

optimisticbiker

Car Insurance companies and auto renewals... on a multicar policy why does an non-driving related claim for the main driver on car 1 result in 15% increase in premium (annoying but understandable), a 40% increase for car 2 where said driver is a secondary driver (outrageous) but no increase on car 3 where said driver is also a secondary driver (errr?). There's no increase in risk on cars 2 and 3 unless the laws of physics have somehow changed. Bl**dy insurance companies, want their cake and eat it too...

If you can do a better price why not quote that in the first f**king place and save me an hour on the phone with some numpty to get to the right answer....

That is all...

jzed

Buying a house, call up mortgage company, mortgage done "That'll be £999 booking fee, unrefundable to secure youir rate", reluctantly pay. 30 minutes go by me thinking of the foregone contribution to a new bike when the estate agent calls, "Sorry but the vendor is in financial difficulties", check my lifes manual of negotiation strategies and conclude they'll be asking for more money. Nope. "The bank is repossessing the property so unless you can complete in 2 weeks". Feck feck feck feck feck. Why didn't I just buy a new groupset.

rjsterry

JZed wrote:

Buying a house, call up mortgage company, mortgage done "That'll be £999 booking fee, unrefundable to secure youir rate", reluctantly pay. 30 minutes go by me thinking of the foregone contribution to a new bike when the estate agent calls, "Sorry but the vendor is in financial difficulties", check my lifes manual of negotiation strategies and conclude they'll be asking for more money. Nope. "The bank is repossessing the property so unless you can complete in 2 weeks". Feck feck feck feck feck. Why didn't I just buy a new groupset.

That sucks.Any chance that you could push it through in 2 weeks or have you cut your losses?

Got dicked around by a vendor before: A couple splitting up and selling their home, just what we were looking for, first miniRJS on the way, so emphasised that we were keen to move quickly and that our sale was as good as completed. All was going fine, then they just disappeared off the radar - the estate agent resorted to waiting outside their front door as they weren't answering the phone. Turned out they had got back together and decided not to sell - SO happy for them. Thankfully, it was just 8 weeks of time, rather than any money that was wasted - people do sh!tty things when large amounts of money are involved.

sketchley

JZed wrote:

Buying a house, call up mortgage company, mortgage done "That'll be £999 booking fee, unrefundable to secure youir rate", reluctantly pay. 30 minutes go by me thinking of the foregone contribution to a new bike when the estate agent calls, "Sorry but the vendor is in financial difficulties", check my lifes manual of negotiation strategies and conclude they'll be asking for more money. Nope. "The bank is repossessing the property so unless you can complete in 2 weeks". Feck feck feck feck feck. Why didn't I just buy a new groupset.

The inner demon in me says phone the vendors bank, or get your broker to do the same and negotiate with them directly. Chances are you'll get it cheaper after repossession than before. Also tell seller that as the house is / will be repossessed it'll have bad credit against it that you will need to deal with = reduced price.

Seriously really seriously phone their bank, explain the situation and explain you are happy to discuss a purchase at a better price and quicker than they will get at auction. They will jump at the chance and you'll save a few thousand if not more, which you can use to buy the groupset.

veronese68

JZed wrote:

Buying a house, call up mortgage company, mortgage done "That'll be £999 booking fee, unrefundable to secure youir rate", reluctantly pay. 30 minutes go by me thinking of the foregone contribution to a new bike when the estate agent calls, "Sorry but the vendor is in financial difficulties", check my lifes manual of negotiation strategies and conclude they'll be asking for more money. Nope. "The bank is repossessing the property so unless you can complete in 2 weeks". Feck feck feck feck feck. Why didn't I just buy a new groupset.

That's very annoying. Mortgage companies seem to be really difficult at the moment. We are trying to remortgage at the moment. The loan is less than 20% of the value of the house, we've never missed a payment and have no bad history. Yet, thay are making us jump through hoops.

the_fuggler

Sketchley wrote:

JZed wrote:

Buying a house, call up mortgage company, mortgage done "That'll be £999 booking fee, unrefundable to secure youir rate", reluctantly pay. 30 minutes go by me thinking of the foregone contribution to a new bike when the estate agent calls, "Sorry but the vendor is in financial difficulties", check my lifes manual of negotiation strategies and conclude they'll be asking for more money. Nope. "The bank is repossessing the property so unless you can complete in 2 weeks". Feck feck feck feck feck. Why didn't I just buy a new groupset.

The inner demon in me says phone the vendors bank, or get your broker to do the same and negotiate with them directly. Chances are you'll get it cheaper after repossession than before. Also tell seller that as the house is / will be repossessed it'll have bad credit against it that you will need to deal with = reduced price.

Seriously really seriously phone their bank, explain the situation and explain you are happy to discuss a purchase at a better price and quicker than they will get at auction. They will jump at the chance and you'll save a few thousand if not more, which you can use to buy the groupset.

Absolutely - there is definitely a deal to be done there. And you might get the cash for the groupset back along with the money for something nice to attach it to. The worst they can say is no.

sketchley

JZed wrote:

Buying a house, call up mortgage company, mortgage done "That'll be £999 booking fee, unrefundable to secure youir rate", reluctantly pay. 30 minutes go by me thinking of the foregone contribution to a new bike when the estate agent calls, "Sorry but the vendor is in financial difficulties", check my lifes manual of negotiation strategies and conclude they'll be asking for more money. Nope. "The bank is repossessing the property so unless you can complete in 2 weeks". Feck feck feck feck feck. Why didn't I just buy a new groupset.

Also one more point. You agreed the £999 on the phone I assume, so distance selling regulations apply you have legal right to cancel in 14 days and they have to give full refund within 30 days. See http://whatconsumer.co.uk/cooling-off-a ... ellations/

jzed

Already got a massive discount. Thought it was weird at the time that they only pushed me up very little. Now know why.

I can move fast but not 2 weeks and wouldn't want to waste more money on legal fees, survey costs if the end result is the bank still reposs it. Buying a repossessed house shouldn't affect credit rating as its done of name and date of birth first.

Would try the vendors bank but trying to find the right person could be difficult. Current thinking would be to slash the price with the bank and offer to take out a mortgage with them to give them a chance to earn a bit of interest.

sketchley

JZed wrote:

Already got a massive discount. Thought it was weird at the time that they only pushed me up very little. Now know why.

I can move fast but not 2 weeks and wouldn't want to waste more money on legal fees, survey costs if the end result is the bank still reposs it. Buying a repossessed house shouldn't affect credit rating as its done of name and date of birth first.

Would try the vendors bank but trying to find the right person could be difficult. Current thinking would be to slash the price with the bank and offer to take out a mortgage with them to give them a chance to earn a bit of interest.

A property search here http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/www/wps/ ... pdC5kbw!!/ will give you access to a download of a title register (£4) that looks like this http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/www/wps/ ... gister.pdf it will tell you the lender.

re Credit rating. You won't be affected but some lenders in future if you apply for new credit might look at history of property which you may then have to explain. This will help http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/mortga ... ossessions also top tip in there about current owners stripping fixtures and fitting, so don't agree until post repossession.

sketchley

As for right person at the bank, ask for repossessions or debt recovery department, you have nothing to loose.

McNulty

:evil: I totally wiped out this morning, I took a right hand bend too fast and bang! Grazed chin and knees - I think my bikes ok as it looks like the only damage is the rear mech cable has come un-done - one upside was that I wore bib shorts today instead of tights so no clothing damage! the car behind and the one behind that stopped to see if I was ok :oops:
Im a bit bemused as to why I went over, its my normal commute route and there are no painted lines or metal grates around - however I took my good bike this morning and the tyres were freshly pumped - is the lighter bike + rock hard tyres + damp road likely to make anything slidier?

I had too walk the last mile with blood running down my leg, dripping from my chin and pushing my stricken bike - i felt a strange mix of manliness and total embarressment!

bails87

McNulty wrote:

I took my good bike this morning and the tyres were freshly pumped - is the lighter bike + rock hard + damp road likely to make anything slidier?

Rock hard tyres and damp road, yep. GWS!

I also took the good bike, for the first time since about October. I wasn't planning to, but the CX had a puncture and I couldn't be bothered to fix it, so took the Ribble. Obviously, swapping the seatpost, saddle, lights and pedals over, and pumping the tyres up was much quicker than fixing a puncture..... :oops:

Anyway, I was 5 minutes quicker on the way in, sub 50 minutes rather than 55, and the (old, external cables) 105 on the Ribble is much lighter, like feather touch light, than the new (hidden cables) 105 on the CX.

I was going to get rid of the Ribble in the spring as well....

That said, I do want some new wheels for the CX, I could drop over 550g from the current (2.2kg) ones for under £300, and that would be using MTB 29er rims, so still tough enough. That should sharpen up the CX a fair bit, so might get rid of the advantage of the Ribble.

So my 'rant' is that I've got more bikes than I know what to do with....

McNulty

well now I know!
By coincidence my nice bike is a ribble and I too was going much faster overall this morning - infact I was on for my first sub-1hour commute (its 50 yards under 20 mles) before I hit the tarmac. :evil:

Kieran_Burns

My left knee is in agony.

I don't know what the hell has changed but I was at a near standstill getting home last night. I drove in today and it hurt even depressing the clutch pedal!

Right knee which is usually the weak link is fine, but left one... ARGH! Right along the kneecap down on the inside. Feck it's painful.

asprilla

The tile shop. I'm not a tiling expert but I want my shower retiling. I tell the staff what I want and they get them for me. The plumber comes to fit them and discovers that they aren't compatible because they are different thicknesses. Tile shop fucksock employee won't take the tiles back (£40 a tile!) because they have been opened) and then tells me that providing the information that the tiles couldn't be used together 'isn't part of the service they offer'. We ask if he can recommend anything we can use instead and he comes back a white one to contrast nicely with the majority of tiles in the shower, which are white.

Mrs A has just stormed out of the shop demonstrating some exquisite anglo saxon.

I'm also buying some furniture but I want some changes making to one of the wardrobes. It currently has a shelf at the bottom but I want four additional shelves on the right hand side instead of the hanging space. After two weeks discussing this on the phone and in person I now have to drive to the shop tomorrow and draw a sketch for them.

Specialized Needs

I believe that if you told them what you wanted the tiles for, and they failed to provide suitable tiles, then they have breached the contract of sale (or summat like that) - but IANAL.

I accept that proving that you told them the purpose might be problematic, though.

CiB

Kieran_Burns wrote:

...the first of many excuses for not doing this year's big works charity cycle challenge. Probably.