Your rants here.

gbsahne001

redvee wrote:

Snapped my front Road Racer on the way home tonight on the Bristol-Bath cyclepath. All I have left are the struts and the nose piece. Looked for the rest of the guard but it hid itself in the bushes...... Off to Evans with a pricematch tomorrow.

I hope it's from one of the people they price match against. I got caught earlier in the week with a kryptonite lock from a genuine site and they wouldn't match it, as the site was not on their list.

Evans lost the sale and I got the lock a few days later.

DrLex

bails87 wrote:

[...]toppled over with one foot on the verge[...]

Twisted ankle, surely? Book 'im, Danno!

redvee

gbsahne wrote:

redvee wrote:

Snapped my front Road Racer on the way home tonight on the Bristol-Bath cyclepath. All I have left are the struts and the nose piece. Looked for the rest of the guard but it hid itself in the bushes...... Off to Evans with a pricematch tomorrow.

I hope it's from one of the people they price match against.

Yes, it was their pricematch list that found me the best deal, £21.50 against Evans proce of £29.99

gbsahne001

rant at self: just spilt a pint of boiling water over my leg, be interesting to see how this develops overnight

sketchley

PT this morning, on short walk to station witnessed several cyclist with no lights disappear after 50 meters or so in the fog. ....

anonymousblackfg

Ton's without lights in the fog this morning, including a twunt in ful London Dynamo kit jumping the lights through Kingston. Fingers crossed his pinarello snaps.

Ben6899

To the bloke on the Cervelo TT bike in Regents Park yesterday: "Grease the freaking chain, man! It's annoyingly noisy and I'm pretty sure it's fecking around with your times."

nameinuse

Stuck inside and working from home because of the after-effects from an unplanned flint-related dismount on my MTB on Saturday. Perfect commuting weather today, and I'm hobbling around wondering how long it'll be before my knees feel strong enough to get back on the bike...

Kieran_Burns

Feck.

Main commute road is shut for 3 weeks.

This means either tacking Bunny Hill both ways or looping through a stupidly busy stretch of NSL where drivers have no regard for the more vulnerable and is used as a rat run for people avoiding the A453 in Nottingham.

Balls.

Tricycleboy

Pretty ignominious ride home tonight. Managed to get into an argument with a chap who took exception to my light being too bright (its set on medium brightness (for this reason), not on strobe, i was 3 bike lengths behind him and to his left) I do wonder what he does with actual bright stuff- like car/ motorbike headlights etc. Shouldn't have told him to p!ss off though, while being a bit precious, he didn't mean any harm.

And 15 mins later had to come to a hairy skidding stop from 25+ at a zebra crossing as a woman walked out and i couldn't see her as she was obscured by a couple of riders i was overtaking. should have seen her/ not been going that fast though. Wasn't her fault and i think i scared the sh!t out of her.

Still will try and do better tomorrow.

redvee

Washed my bottle over the weekend abd squirted the suds out through the nozzle and all I could taste today was the pomegranet and honeysuckle washing-up liquid

Mr Sworld

Man Flu the last two days... And its been perfect cycling weather down here.

Probably taking tomorrow off as well. Bolx... :-(

rjsterry

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Bunny Hill

You know what you have to do...:)

It's not as though it's called something scary like Hardknott.

Mr Sworld

Google Elm Grove and Bear Road in Brighton and tell me anything in London is as steep as them. :-D

cjcp

Millbank looked more like a Skyride this morning. That was great to see. Not so much the absolute tool on the hybrid who flew up the inside of everyone, squeezed into the bike lane (at speed, at the last minute) from the bus lane/turning to Millbank Tower, immediately moved across so he was outside the right-hand side of the bike lane to start overtaking, seemed to have near-contact with a ride he was overtaking, then moved back to the inside of the bike lane in time for LBR.

The worst piece of cycling I've seen in a long time.

rick_chasey

Millbank is kinda crazy.

Definitely take it easy round there till it's spread a bit.

Kieran_Burns

rjsterry wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Bunny Hill

You know what you have to do...:)

It's not as though it's called something scary like Hardknott.

Go look in anti-rants

rjsterry

Kieran_Burns wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Bunny Hill

You know what you have to do...:)

It's not as though it's called something scary like Hardknott.

Go look in anti-rants

<sighs disappointedly> still, nice of them to be so considerate.

Kieran_Burns

rjsterry wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Bunny Hill

You know what you have to do...:)

It's not as though it's called something scary like Hardknott.

Go look in anti-rants

<sighs disappointedly> still, nice of them to be so considerate.

Now go look a couple of anti-rants further up

rjsterry

Kieran_Burns wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Bunny Hill

You know what you have to do...:)

It's not as though it's called something scary like Hardknott.

Go look in anti-rants

<sighs disappointedly> still, nice of them to be so considerate.

Now go look a couple of anti-rants further up

Ah. Well there you go, see?

I'd love a hill like that on my commute - the best I can manage is this

Tony-J

Right...Tried to two days time off work, haven't gone sick in six years and haven't had a day's holiday in over six months. I finish at midnight, the only way usually to work is bike, a 19 mile round trip. I've had one day refused: can't get anyone to cover but Thursday a guy called Pete is staying late to do part of my shift...but get this, he has to leave at 10pm because there is no way for him to get home after that time, no public transport so he's got special dispensation for being a hero. This guy lives two streets away from me in the same village and he has a bike in his shed, he claims to be on a fitness drive: he's joined a gym. It's too hard for him to cycle to work for one night and he gets away with it. He's TWENTY years younger than I am. No thought for me cycling every day all Winter in Northumberland through the dark and cold, oh no...the rules don't apply to me apparently, I'm different.

nameinuse

...And doctor's orders are no bike until weekend after next. Also means that I'll have to go to work on public transport. Urgh.

tigger123

haven't had a day's holiday in over six months.

Sounds like you need to find yourself another job. I have to survive on 42 days holiday a year.

rick_chasey

Sat down on the sofa last night at around 9pm.

Suddenly, my back hurts.

Cue night of writhing pain.

Figured I could still get on the bike - tried getting on it in the morning to check.

Err no.

Fingers crossed this doesn't continue.

I'm 23 FFS.

mudcow007

chain snapped...AGAIN on my mtb.

i got about 100yards from work when *ping* my knee smacks the stem then the "love spuds" land on the stem too

loads of swearing from me much to the amusement of work men close by

grrr

richVSrich

Rick Chasey wrote:

Sat down on the sofa last night at around 9pm.

Suddenly, my back hurts.

Cue night of writhing pain.

Figured I could still get on the bike - tried getting on it in the morning to check.

Err no.

Fingers crossed this doesn't continue.

I'm 23 FFS.

yoga / pilates
if youre feeling tough: bikram / hot yoga
(i only manage to go about every other week to hot yoga but it really helps - esp if most of the day is spent sat at a desk)

rick_chasey

richVSrich wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Sat down on the sofa last night at around 9pm.

Suddenly, my back hurts.

Cue night of writhing pain.

Figured I could still get on the bike - tried getting on it in the morning to check.

Err no.

Fingers crossed this doesn't continue.

I'm 23 FFS.

yoga / pilates
if youre feeling tough: bikram / hot yoga
(i only manage to go about every other week to hot yoga but it really helps - esp if most of the day is spent sat at a desk)

Ssh..

My girlfriend's yoga obsessed. She's desperate to do couples yoga.

Will. Not. Do.

veronese68

Couples yoga? Is that not some sort of euphemism. Where's GregT when you need him?

rick_chasey

Veronese68 wrote:

Couples yoga? Is that not some sort of euphemism. Where's GregT when you need him?

I said more or less the same when she mentioned it.

I got ಠ_ಠ.

richVSrich

Rick Chasey wrote:

richVSrich wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Sat down on the sofa last night at around 9pm.

Suddenly, my back hurts.

Cue night of writhing pain.

Figured I could still get on the bike - tried getting on it in the morning to check.

Err no.

Fingers crossed this doesn't continue.

I'm 23 FFS.

yoga / pilates
if youre feeling tough: bikram / hot yoga
(i only manage to go about every other week to hot yoga but it really helps - esp if most of the day is spent sat at a desk)

Ssh..

My girlfriend's yoga obsessed. She's desperate to do couples yoga.

Will. Not. Do.

lol! think of the brownie points dude!

my friend had a funny yoga story last week:
she's in yoga and the instructor speaks to a guy who is struggling next to her (who has obviously been dragged along by the girlfriend).. the instructor goes: "do you do any other sports? no? thought so..."
ouch