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Blacktemplar

Rick Chasey wrote:

Blacktemplar wrote:

I'll take running away every time, no matter how 'ard (or well-trained) you think you are. Some folks have absolutely no moral code to start with and wouldn't think twice about stabbing you or running you over when they're in that state. I'm a nice middle-class boy that wants to keep all his organs on the inside.

And free of bruising!!

I get enough of that at Karate twice a week! (Note to self: stop letting the mental 6'4" second-dan bloke hit you)

rick_chasey

Veronese68 wrote:

Blacktemplar wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Yeah, it's not worth getting involved in the slanging match...

Mind you, it's really hard to execute a decent roundhouse kick in cleats.......

Indeed, falling over all on you're own when trying to hit someone is not good. Mind you the other party may be laughing too hard to kick you before you get up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... hmqNI#t=9s

dhope

Veronese68 wrote:

Blacktemplar wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Yeah, it's not worth getting involved in the slanging match...

Mind you, it's really hard to execute a decent roundhouse kick in cleats.......

Indeed, falling over all on you're own when trying to hit someone is not good. Mind you the other party may be laughing too hard to kick you before you get up.

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Kieran_Burns

I may have been slightly grumpy this morning

Turning right, there's oncoming traffic so I wait patiently. Traffic clears and I pull off into the junction only to get narrowly missed by some student girly in all the gear tearing past me.

I accelerate up and am matching her speed (nice bod) - she overtakes this old guy on a scaffold special without even a glance behind. This is an NSL stretch of road and narrow...

http://g.co/maps/5z92v (for reference)

(yes, I checked - rang the bell to warn him and said "Morning" as I went past)

then she climbs the hill over the bridge, slowing right down... we get to the approach to the crossroads where she just flings her arm out and without looking pulls across the lane.

I was definitely feeling tetchy, so when I came alongside of her I gave her a filthy look and said she really ought to learn some roadcraft and it's called a lifesaver for a reason.

Really though - no sense whatsoever, it was one blindly risky manoeuvre after another and on fast roads where I know the drivers can be impatient.

(sigh...)

suzyb

Get in my car, turn the key, it starts to splutter into life...then stops

It looks like I'll either be borrowing the parent's car to get to work on Monday or getting up at 5am to cycle the 30 miles. I really hope mother and father let me borrow their car.

Ben6899

suzyb wrote:

Get in my car, turn the key, it starts to splutter into life...then stops

It looks like I'll either be borrowing the parent's car to get to work on Monday or getting up at 5am to cycle the 30 miles. I really hope mother and father let me borrow their car.

5am!? What time do you start work?

Anyway, I hope you get your car sorted okay.

suzyb

9am but the quickest I've done 30 miles in was 2hrs 40 and that was at the end of a summer i'd been riding regularily during so I'd give it 3 hours. Plus time to get ready and changed at work and a little extra just in case.

Mr Sworld

Ouch! That sucks... Good training though... ;-)

redvee

suzyb wrote:

I really hope mother and father let me borrow their car.

Get up early and 'borrow' their car, they'll understand.

rick_chasey

Manged to leave me wallet in the office on Friday night.

Cycled into work on Saturday morning through the p!ssing rain.

So far, so bad.

Was minding my own business on Victoria embankment when I suddenly there was some crazy honking from the car behind - looked over and a guy in a ford fiesta was screaming abuse at me.

"What you f****ing got to say to me you c*nt?" etc etc.

Manged to keep calm and utter "I have no idea what you're talking about" - since he wasn't taking my silence as a cue to leave me alone.

When he realised I was quite happy to agree with whatever he said he left.

Bizarre.

Wasn't another car on the road for a good 100m - nor was I in any way in a position that would slow him down.

suzyb

Maybe he mistook you for someone else.

rjsterry

Rick Chasey wrote:

Manged to leave me wallet in the office on Friday night.

Cycled into work on Saturday morning through the p!ssing rain.

So far, so bad.

Was minding my own business on Victoria embankment when I suddenly there was some crazy honking from the car behind - looked over and a guy in a ford fiesta was screaming abuse at me.

"What you f****ing got to say to me you c*nt?" etc etc.

Manged to keep calm and utter "I have no idea what you're talking about" - since he wasn't taking my silence as a cue to leave me alone.

When he realised I was quite happy to agree with whatever he said he left.

Bizarre.

Wasn't another car on the road for a good 100m - nor was I in any way in a position that would slow him down.

Angry Embankment man in his car?

rick_chasey

if only.

Is it terrible I get a lil excited when I see angry embankment man?

I kinda feel like I KNOW something's going to kick off.

suzyb

Angry embankment man?

king_jeffers

suzyb wrote:

Angry embankment man?

+1

rick_chasey

King Jeffers wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Angry embankment man?

+1

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Stone Glider

Lovely ride today, on my way home on a narrow-ish country road, 40mph limit with me doing about 20and set approx. 1M off the road edge. WVM starts to squeeze past and finds approaching car, so heads diagonally towards the edge with me trying to brake to avoid running into his rear wheel! WVM gets clear and I wave arm in gesture of 'How much space do you need?' A stream of other vans and cars then pass in an orderly manner. So far so ordinary.

I notice the Livery on the van matches the vehicle I met in Salcey Forest about two hours ago. Only then he was creeping along a track and taking all the space, as I approached from ahead. Then it was all thumbs up, smiles and waves as he checked his speed and I rode around him on the grass. So thanks m8! You have the attention span of a goldfish. Plus the spatial awareness of something which hasn't got much spatial awareness :?

straas

Walking to the train station in Leeds this afternoon when I saw an argument between a lad on a mtb with a gash on his head and a van driver.

Plenty of people there and I hadn't seen the incident so carried on.

Woman behind me without an ounce of sympathy for the man;

"They shouldn't be on the road anyway, they don't pay road tax do they? It just doesn't make sense"

She went on to talk about her boyfriend who 'moaned' about being cut up by drivers every day "well he should just be more careful, shouldn't he?"

Felt like tripping her up and telling her to be more careful

nich

Big 4x4 car sitting in a queue of traffic.

Pull up behind it on my bike...wtf, both wing mirrors folded in.

Tap on the and point to the mirrors.

Why on earth did this driver feel it was safe to drive around at rush hour (or anytime!) with no mirrors available.

Pi$$es me right off. Was a posh car as well, no doubt they have buttons that make them work so they don't even have to stick their arm out the window.

Applespider

Last night I was coming home around 8.30 so it was properly dark. A Mini went past me with no lights on at all. The driver (and her partner) carried on down the road past an oncoming vehicle (which surprisingly didn't flash her), around a roundabout where no other car tried to get her attention and then another 1/2 mile before I saw the rear lights suddenly go on. And I'm sure that they only realised because some of the streetlights were out on that stretch so it was particularly dark. Good to know they (and the other drivers) were so observant though. :roll:

andyrr

Approaching a crossroads this morning with green light visible for a fair distance - no way is it going to remain green for much more than a few more seconds. I'm in the RH lane - LH lane is for the left-filter to turn left and if I sit in that lane I'll get cut-up by cars wanting to take the LH turn. 20 metres or so from the lights and just as they turn to amber I'm overtaken on my left by a vehicle that cuts into the RH lane. It's a van. A police van who, to prevent even more drastic a cut-up of me, has to then encroach into the ASL area. Was so tempted to knock on his window and ask him what the hurry was but resisted. Jumped ahead of him into the ASL box and when lights go green he does appear to be quite deliberately hanging back and giving me space. Whiz down to next r'bout 500mtrs or so further on and he overtakes and I just about catch up and witness him take the last exit, ie at 3'O clock position, which he managed to do but using his indicator at the same time as movign the steering wheel was too much effort.
Well done sir, lovely driving.

shouldbeinbed

My f**king offspring has just had my CX bike stolen from the loading area at his work. I gave him a decent solid D lock to use with it but I suspect he's swapped if for some cheap crappy lighter one but won't fess up to that. I'm not sure which one I want to drown in a vat of my urine more, him or the thieving scum.

roger_merriman

Picking the wife up today by car, clearly it's had a cloaking device fitted as I had two cyclist just pull out on roundabouts. Still nice to know the brakes work I guess!

lotuseater

Addison Lee.

Do they have a recruitment policy that selects partially rehabilitated psychopaths?

Last night one claimed I had run into his minibus/van thing while filtering past, "rocking" it and scratching the side....how he knew it was "scratched" on the nearside from the driver's seat without getting out I'll never know...

I hadn't been anywhere near his van and told him so in no uncertain terms. He was simply out for a confrontation, kept chasing me up Devonshire st hassling and trying to cut me up/off. After the 4th time I told him if he didn't desist i would call the police and he buggered off. Wished I had a cam on actually, it's events like this that make you think about getting one...

Total ****. :x

alfablue

Today's commute:

Travelling East along Muller Road Bristol, heading up the hill after the railway bridge. I looked behind, signalled and pulled out to overtake a slow cyclist going up the hill. Took primary as I was just approaching a pinch point. Car behing hoots at me, I look round to see what's up - oh, he's ranting at me because I delayed him ever so slightly! He passes then I get abuse from the passenger in a car four cars behind, as they pass!

God, they own the roads, don't they!!!

Just over the crest of the hill theya re all at a halt as they join the nexy queue, get more abuse as I pass, I say how sorry I was to delay them getting to their next traffic jam.

Some people :roll:

DrLex

In those circumstances, I like to give those oxygen thieves a cheery smile and a thumbs up as I pass.

king_jeffers

Diet out the window this week, just mopped up a Greggs feast... ugh... Start again tomorrow :-)

gbsahne001

Having decided to treat myself to a meal at the village tea rooms at lunchtime (birthday) I didn't bring any lunch in with me. Walking to the tea rooms, I then remember it's a Thursday and they're closed; no lunch for me today , should make going home interesting.

symo

Stella McCartney + New GB Cycling Kit. Awful

Tricycleboy

DrLex wrote:

In those circumstances, I like to give those oxygen thieves a cheery smile and a thumbs up as I pass.

I now wait until on of these pr!cks is particularly irate and blow them a kiss and give a little saucy wave. It is sooooooooooooo satisfying, as you just know that it has wound them up far beyond the point than if you had just given them the finger. And there's nothing they can do about it. Try it, its amazing.