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Kieran_Burns

aclivity wrote:

aclivity wrote:

Second time that I have been cycling past a pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus in Manchester city centre when it has decided not to wait for me to get past, but just pull out. I complained about pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches to TfGM, who took decisive action by ... passing the complaint on to pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches. Not surprisingly, pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches did nothing.

I stopped next to the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus at the lights, knocked on his door and asked why he, as the pisspoor driver of the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches vehicle, had elected to pull out whilst a vehicle was alongside, and he said he didn't care. Not only that, he said bikes shouldn't be on the road instead of his pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches vehicle. He then shot off through a red light to avoid any further conversation.

So today is a double rant - I shall be emailing TfGM again, and ask them what exactly they expected the aforementioned pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches to do other than file their referred complaint in the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bin, and ask that they perhaps consider asking the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches management to consider educating the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches drivers as to the rules of the road that they are required to obey. They may also want to try to educate the driver of the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus that I spoke with this morning as to why motorised vehicles, such as the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus that he was operating, are on the roads by permit, and why bikes are there by right.

Did I mention that Bluebird Bus & Coaches are pisspoor?

Thinking on, the driver of the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus may not have seen me. I should have offered to let him know when I am alongside in future.

Would tapping firmly on the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus windows with my heavy bike lock be acceptable, do you think?

It makes me so proud to see someone use the rants thread properly

suzyb

Had a clipless moment today

Came to a stop outside the house, left foot unclipped as usual but I started leaning toward the right. Instead of unclipping my right foot or throwing out my right arm which would have had the nice soft grass landing, I tried to grab onto the fence with my left hand and missed :oops:

I now have a nasty gash just below my left knee. Ouch!

nameinuse

Rant at myself this one... Just because there's no good reason for the van in front of you to stop suddenly doesn't mean it won't, and splatting into the back of commercial vehicles isn't a good look. On the plus side, no significant damage to bike or van and driver was very kind; even said "the important thing is that you're ok". Sat at work with a fat lip and sore neck feeling like a right chump, though...

msmancunia

aclivity wrote:

aclivity wrote:

Second time that I have been cycling past a pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus in Manchester city centre when it has decided not to wait for me to get past, but just pull out. I complained about pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches to TfGM, who took decisive action by ... passing the complaint on to pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches. Not surprisingly, pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches did nothing.

I stopped next to the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus at the lights, knocked on his door and asked why he, as the pisspoor driver of the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches vehicle, had elected to pull out whilst a vehicle was alongside, and he said he didn't care. Not only that, he said bikes shouldn't be on the road instead of his pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches vehicle. He then shot off through a red light to avoid any further conversation.

So today is a double rant - I shall be emailing TfGM again, and ask them what exactly they expected the aforementioned pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches to do other than file their referred complaint in the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bin, and ask that they perhaps consider asking the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches management to consider educating the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches drivers as to the rules of the road that they are required to obey. They may also want to try to educate the driver of the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus that I spoke with this morning as to why motorised vehicles, such as the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus that he was operating, are on the roads by permit, and why bikes are there by right.

Did I mention that Bluebird Bus & Coaches are pisspoor?

Thinking on, the driver of the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus may not have seen me. I should have offered to let him know when I am alongside in future.

Would tapping firmly on the pisspoor Bluebird Bus & Coaches bus windows with my heavy bike lock be acceptable, do you think?

The pisspoor Bluebird Bus and Coach company are based near me and I can confirm that they are indeed, very pisspoor. I once rang them up and suggested that they save money by not putting cherished "blue" themed numberplates on their pisspoor buses and should maybe spend the savings on training their pisspoor drivers instead. I didn't get a response.

d.mart

bails87 wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

bails87 wrote:

GRRRRR!

you spoken to a quack yet?

you may need to rest fully for a few weeks?

Yep, was told to leave it for a few more weeks and see how it is. I've recently moved house so am in the process of registering with a new GP, will be making an appointment once that's sorted.

I had two weeks of nothing, no running, no cycling, walking to the car and back and stretching my leg was as active as I got. Did a 3 mile loop, and it's flared up again.

Get a referral to a physio or just see one privately if that's looking like taking a while...GPs will only ever say rest as they are only treating the symptom but sadly that's basically the worst thing you can do

jedster

Can I suggest that you report pisspoor Bluebird Coaches to HM Greater Manchester Constbulary. I appreciate they may also be pisspoor but they might do something. Particularly if you were to opine that said drivers behaviour seemed very erratic even as if he might have been drunk or something...

When I was a student in Manchester many moons ago they had just deregulated the buses meaning that there were about six different bus companies plying their trade down Wilmslow Road, all of them competing to employ the most poorly trained drivers and the most knackered buses and overtaking each other wildly to get the business at the next bus stop. Absolute bloody mayhem - made even a free marketer like me see the bnefit of central planning...

bails87

d.mart wrote:

Get a referral to a physio or just see one privately if that's looking like taking a while...GPs will only ever say rest as they are only treating the symptom but sadly that's basically the worst thing you can do

Thanks, I've been doing some gentle exercises, as recommended by the GP and Dr Google. Probably not quite the same as a 25 mile commute every day though.

The driver's insurers are apparently putting a rehab/physio company in touch with me (at their expense) to get me sorted.

veronese68

Racist bigotted old tossers! I just had to walk out of the office because I couldn't listen to the ramblings of a madman.
We were talking about the coach that was stopped on the M6 toll road because of a container that started smoking when liquid was poured into it. Turned out it was something to do with stopping smoking. The old git of the office said that he'd seen it on the news and they had to check the coach because there were a lot of non-aryans on the coach. I told him he was bang out of order and he told ne how he had to leave a train carriage because an asian looking bloke got on with a back pack. I laughed at him and told him he was insane. He started to go off on one so I left before I said something that would get me in trouble.
The thing that annoys me most is he thinks I'm bonkers, and when he tells my boss he will agree. Being over 60 is not an acceptable excuse.

Edited for spelling mistake due to typing whilst furious.

bails87

Has he been commenting on the Daily Mail site?

Their 'top rated' comments under the m6 toll story:

Pre-moderated, naturally.

veronese68

Wow! I wouldn't want my kids to smoke, but that seems a bit harsh.

iclestu

3 times out of 3 for my last 3 rides, got within 2 miles of end of the ride dry then a deluge to soak me to the skin before the end. I dont mind riding in rain but enough's enough! Drying kit doesnt really happen through day at work (particularly shoes) and putting on soggy gear isnt fun for anyone :?

Topaxci

Wet ride this morning - I can live with that, I quite like commuting in the rain.

However getting to work to find the shower room and locker room completely soaked. Because some selfish a*se must have decided to take a shower with the curtain open, then dance a merry jig whilst in there. Then proceed out to the locker room to wring thier wet clothes out all over the floor outside my locker. Leaving a wet floor with huge puddles of dirty water.

I'm not the tidiest person in the world but I just can't understand how some people can treat communal areas at work with so little regard for others. Took me twice as look at arrive (mainly) dry at my desk than it should have.

Also living the knowledge that as the heating is off, all my wet stuff will still be wet tonight - Oh the joy of soggy shoes!

mudcow007

oh fairy, why do you love me so

cyclingprop

Jamie Oliver. I am neither your bruvva nor your sista, you lispy, pretentious nob.

eyko

On the way home tonight I had one cyclist dive down the left of me as I was signalling and turning left, nearly decapitating himself in the process.

Another who repeatedly parked their by over the white line at traffic lights in front of me, even though I would over take them straight away, the final time they swerved round someone in front of them, no shoulder checking and nearly taking me out.

And then nearly home I have two female teenagers run out into the road right in front of me, cue brakes, swerving and some swearing. Luckily it gave them nothing more than a little scare.

And I thought I was having a bad day on the bike this morning when I attacked the one hill/bump on my route, convinced I'd set a new PB, got to work and found strava hadn't started recording till half way up the hill

redvee

Bin liners not being totally airtight, at least I found the smell in the kitchen but now means I've had to give the kitchen bin a shower!

msmancunia

After cycling through a 15 minute downpour where I got completely wet through, stopped at a pedestrian crossing and looked up to see an ex-boyfriend cross over in front of me and notice me.

I don't want him back but I'd rather he hadn't seen me when I look like someone's thrown a big bucket of dirty water at me.

mudcow007

msmancunia wrote:

After cycling through a 15 minute downpour where I got completely wet through, stopped at a pedestrian crossing and looked up to see an ex-boyfriend cross over in front of me and notice me.

I don't want him back but I'd rather he hadn't seen me when I look like someone's thrown a big bucket of dirty water at me.

there aint nowt shexier than a soggy cyclist in lycra

you have so much to learn.......

veronese68

He was probably thinking something more along the lines of "Blimey, she's riding in this weather. Good for her, I'm too much of a wimp. All that cycling must be keeping her fit, and so on and so forth..."
Besides, I can guarantee that to my mind you looked better than he did.

msmancunia

The worst thing was, I got soaked 11 miles earlier on - it hadn't rained in Salford at that point. So he was walking to work in a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, whilst I looked like i'd been swimming.

And even though I did take my make up off last night (honest!) I can never get it all off and I got to work to find I was rocking two rather attractive panda eyes, just to add to the "look".

rjsterry

cyclingprop wrote:

Jamie Oliver. I am neither your bruvva nor your sista, you lispy, pretentious nob.

Have you been texting him again? Jools'll be on to you if you aren't careful.

clarkey cat

I see his new show is called 'Summer Food Rave Up' or something.

I don't hate him or anything - but I do hate the way he is packaged up as some kind of plucky lifestyle champion - and what I hate more is that people buy into it and watch his programmes and buy his books and cook his 'just chuck it all together' recipes as if they are engaging in some kind of identifiable, aspirational branded activity when actually its just fXXXing cooking.

msmancunia

clarkey cat wrote:

I see his new show is called 'Summer Food Rave Up' or something.

I don't hate him or anything - but I do hate the way he is packaged up as some kind of pukka lifestyle champion - and what I hate more is that people buy into it and watch his programmes and buy his books and cook his 'just chuck it all together' recipes as if they are engaging in some kind of identifiable, aspirational branded activity when actually its just fXXXing cooking.

FTFY

rick_chasey

clarkey cat wrote:

I see his new show is called 'Summer Food Rave Up' or something.

I don't hate him or anything - but I do hate the way he is packaged up as some kind of plucky lifestyle champion - and what I hate more is that people buy into it and watch his programmes and buy his books and cook his 'just chuck it all together' recipes as if they are engaging in some kind of identifiable, aspirational branded activity when actually its just fXXXing cooking.

I prefer his recipes to others.

He's got a good balance between effort in cooking and taste that works for me.

clarkey cat

if you want simple and tasty recipes without soft focus pictures of a fat muppet in a puffy gilet on every page, try this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/074759046X/? ... r0xpwuk0_e

rick_chasey

clarkey cat wrote:

if you want simple and tasty recipes without soft focus pictures of a fat muppet in a puffy gilet on every page, try this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/074759046X/? ... r0xpwuk0_e

You're a mug if you pay for recipe books .

Internet innit?

EKE_38BPM

My car got clamped. I am highly reluctant to pay as the bay is already paid for (but I forgot to put the permit back in the windscreen). I will be removing the clamp myself but I don't have the socket I need right now.

Gotta wait until this afternoon before I can stick it to the man!

clarkey cat

You're a mug if you pay for recipe books .

Internet innit?

I tried downloading Larousse Gastronomique but it crashed my laptop.

cyclingprop

clarkey cat wrote:

You're a mug if you pay for recipe books .

Internet innit?

I tried downloading Larousse Gastronomique but it crashed my laptop.

Larousse is too big for my bookcase. So it lives next to it.

rubertoe

mudcow007 wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

After cycling through a 15 minute downpour where I got completely wet through, stopped at a pedestrian crossing and looked up to see an ex-boyfriend cross over in front of me and notice me.

I don't want him back but I'd rather he hadn't seen me when I look like someone's thrown a big bucket of dirty water at me.

there aint nowt shexier than a soggy cyclist in lycra

you have so much to learn.......

Except the guy i see this morning in white shorts and no mudguards. Not a pretty sight.