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Dog Breath wrote:Idiot F**k-wit Drivers 2
Nearer home, on a single carriageway road with the national speed limit of 60 mph, a line of cars were happily progressing at 50mph. Suddenly, brake lights were on and we were all down to less than 30mph.
The Reason ? There was a Gatso speed camera. But why the need to hit the brakes hard when they are already doing 10mph less than the speed limit. Are they so unaware of their surroundings and their speed that upon spotting the offending speed camera they panic and hit the brakes. Aarghh !!!
How long was the line of cars? Chances are the first driver only dropped about 5mph, but this will be increased by every car in the chain so by the time it gets to you, you have to drop 30mph. If the line is long enough, cars at the back will have to stop.
It's the same effect you saw with the rubber-neckers, who again probably only slowed down by a few mph, with enough cars behind them to cause all those tailbacks.0 -
Eau Rouge wrote:Dog Breath wrote:Idiot F**k-wit Drivers 2
Nearer home, on a single carriageway road with the national speed limit of 60 mph, a line of cars were happily progressing at 50mph. Suddenly, brake lights were on and we were all down to less than 30mph.
The Reason ? There was a Gatso speed camera. But why the need to hit the brakes hard when they are already doing 10mph less than the speed limit. Are they so unaware of their surroundings and their speed that upon spotting the offending speed camera they panic and hit the brakes. Aarghh !!!
How long was the line of cars? Chances are the first driver only dropped about 5mph, but this will be increased by every car in the chain so by the time it gets to you, you have to drop 30mph. If the line is long enough, cars at the back will have to stop.
It's the same effect you saw with the rubber-neckers, who again probably only slowed down by a few mph, with enough cars behind them to cause all those tailbacks.
They talked about this on the telly. Its a knock on effect as you say.
I had two drivers today that I had to react to. One was a council transit style van (now I never usually get trouble off those guys I have to be honest). He overtook me as I followed a bus up shirley road this morning, and he must have been about an inch off my elbow. I politely shouted out "You're too close mate!" and fair enough he pulled further out giving me more space.
Then on the way home this afternoon a lady driver did the exact same thing. So I shouted the same polite warning. What was odd was that she then took her eyes off the road and turned around to give me this confused look. :shock:
So I mouthed the word "naughty" and shook my head. All that rush to overtake me and she was turning 50 feet down the road. She appeared to be driving her husband around... 0 -
downfader wrote:She appeared to be driving her husband around...
driving him around the bend!!
I'm here all week<a>road</a>0 -
el_presidente wrote:downfader wrote:She appeared to be driving her husband around...
driving him around the bend!!
I'm here all week
I was one step ahead. I left the "..." on the end for you.
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thankyou Ernie Wise 8)<a>road</a>0
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I've been cycling to work for quite a while now and wondered if other cyclists got the same treatment as I do on the road, and it seems to be very similar probably due to the very low IQ of the people who perform these aggrivating assaults and have a very small set of assaulting tricks.
I think I have finally reached the point where I have become the man from the film "Falling Down".
Yesterday an absolute idiot hurled a full plastic drinks bottle at speed which luckily glanced of my buttocks and exploded against the wall at the side of me, this is the straw that has broken the camels back. I think that the next idiot that does so much as antagonise me on my way home again will unfortunately be beaten to a pulp, theres one thing that really riles me is faceless cowards who for some reason seem to think that they can do whatever they want and get away with it, and appear secure that if you do do anything to them it's you who will be in court, but enough is enough and it's time for retribution, my next message will probably be from a prison I think. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:0 -
now that's what I call ranting! chapeau sir<a>road</a>0
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knappers wrote:I've been cycling to work for quite a while now and wondered if other cyclists got the same treatment as I do on the road, and it seems to be very similar probably due to the very low IQ of the people who perform these aggrivating assaults and have a very small set of assaulting tricks.
I think I have finally reached the point where I have become the man from the film "Falling Down".
Yesterday an absolute idiot hurled a full plastic drinks bottle at speed which luckily glanced of my buttocks and exploded against the wall at the side of me, this is the straw that has broken the camels back. I think that the next idiot that does so much as antagonise me on my way home again will unfortunately be beaten to a pulp, theres one thing that really riles me is faceless cowards who for some reason seem to think that they can do whatever they want and get away with it, and appear secure that if you do do anything to them it's you who will be in court, but enough is enough and it's time for retribution, my next message will probably be from a prison I think. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Knappers, front and back sports cameras
Then take said footage to rozzers.0 -
I was on the bus today...
On the way back, witnessed a POB scooting up the left hand side of the bus while we were waiting in traffic, then disappearing up the left hand side of the bus in front, just as the lights turned green. He reappeared behind it as the bus pulled away, then decided to turn right. Without even a glance backwards, he pulled across the bus lane (with my bus moving in it) and 2 lanes of now moving traffic to get to a right turn filter. How he survived I will never know...
I was also quite annoyed by the helmet that was hanging off the back of his head. Obviously 3 sizes too big and no attempt to wear it properly.0 -
whyamihere wrote:I was on the bus today...
On the way back, witnessed a POB scooting up the left hand side of the bus while we were waiting in traffic, then disappearing up the left hand side of the bus in front, just as the lights turned green. He reappeared behind it as the bus pulled away, then decided to turn right. Without even a glance backwards, he pulled across the bus lane (with my bus moving in it) and 2 lanes of now moving traffic to get to a right turn filter. How he survived I will never know...
I was also quite annoyed by the helmet that was hanging off the back of his head. Obviously 3 sizes too big and no attempt to wear it properly.
Actually today... Going up hill today I see a kid riding around a blind bend, the wrong side of the road on a little BMX. I was fairly knackered (been a f***ing hard week at work) and so wasnt as quick up there as I usually am, and I'm thinking "please dont let a car hit him!"
A car came swinging down the hill towards him, saw the kid and made an evasive action. :shock: Kid jumps on the pavement and rides off down a side road and dissapears.
I would have been quite tempted to have a little word with him. Perhaps not PC thesedays.. I had the same feeling of how did they avoid that!0 -
Okay, I'm going to see how many people I can irk.
Something that annoys me, for no good reason - people who start off cycling by putting their left foot across their right, onto the pedal, then swinging the other leg over the saddle.
Its not a horse.
If you saddle was high enough, you wouldn't be able to do it so whereas you might think its somehow clever, cyclists know that you are a prat who thinks they are somehow clever.
It DOESN'T demonstrate oneness with your bicycle and years of experience, its just camp.
Please stop.0 -
<sucks air through his teeth, grimaces, nods head in agreement>FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
/Rant
GL Mills Building Contractors of Epsom, you really need to teach your drivers how to, er, drive. Had one pull out in front of me, completely oblivious to me as I took some serious evasive action (fortunately I place myself in the road in a position to be able to do that going past a side road). So oblivious that even after he pulled out he didn't see me so I didn't even get the pleasure of sharing my thoughts on his parentage
/Rant Over
Btw, AT, either I've misunderstood your description of your pet peeve of how people get on a bike or you've never mountain biked or cycle crossed. Struggling to see how else you get back on a bike at speed in a race if you've had to run through a section.0 -
Always Tyred wrote:
If you saddle was high enough, you wouldn't be able to do it
What? how inflexible are you?Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
Always Tyred wrote:Okay, I'm going to see how many people I can irk.
Something that annoys me, for no good reason - people who start off cycling by putting their left foot across their right, onto the pedal, then swinging the other leg over the saddle.
Its not a horse.
If you saddle was high enough, you wouldn't be able to do it so whereas you might think its somehow clever, cyclists know that you are a prat who thinks they are somehow clever.
It DOESN'T demonstrate oneness with your bicycle and years of experience, its just camp.
Please stop.
ummmm... how the hell else do you get on a bike? :?
Leap over the back cowboy styleeee? :shock:Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter0 -
I knew I'd irk people. So I'll do it some more.
Personally, I get on the bike before I start trying to ride it, but that's just me. I don't see any technical benefit to using the bike as a scooter for several yards until you have enough speed to just about pull off the ghey cowboy move.
If you are going to ping your bell and wobble about smiling inanely at your cleverness at being able to mount a bike in this way, I guess its fine.
Its also only a practicable move if you have neither toe clips nor clipless pedals.0 -
I used to do that on my bike in Oxford - it was a ladies bike so had a step-through top tube thing.
I also used to stop in the same manner, left foot over right,weight on the pedal, coast to a stop.
Would that have irked you too?0 -
See what AT is saying and I have to say that I too get on my bike before setting off (i.e. right foot in clips on pedal standing up on the bike then set off then left foot into clips when I have some speed). If I'm feeling lazy though I will swing off the bike and scooter it to the bike park at work but that's another matter.
Anyways to my RANT....Coming into work this morning my front tyre sidewall split and had an F'ing blowout :x Spent ages trying to put a new inner tube in (in vain as the split was too big and the new inner burst as I was pumping it up). Serves me right for keeping the stock tyres on (Kenda Kriterium) I guess but still bludy annoying. What really irked me (like that word) was that 5 cyclists (no essageration) passed me on the pavement at that point and 2 police cars (on the road beside me), one of which the occupants sniggered at me, b*strds, Cardiff police are crap!!! So I had to walk 2miles into work and have to go buy and fit some new rudy tyres at lunch time :evil: :evil:0 -
Always Tyred wrote:I knew I'd irk people. So I'll do it some more.
Personally, I get on the bike before I start trying to ride it, but that's just me. I don't see any technical benefit to using the bike as a scooter for several yards until you have enough speed to just about pull off the ghey cowboy move.
If you are going to ping your bell and wobble about smiling inanely at your cleverness at being able to mount a bike in this way, I guess its fine.
Its also only a practicable move if you have neither toe clips nor clipless pedals.
My irk level was zero, my confusion quotient maximised. I just couldn't think how else to get going. :P
Plus I couldn't see how you would not be able to swing your leg over the saddle if it is adjusted properly. mine is, and I do.
Plus plus I also swing my leg over coming to a stop when I am getting off. It must the CX 'er in me Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:I used to do that on my bike in Oxford - it was a ladies bike so had a step-through top tube thing.
I also used to stop in the same manner, left foot over right,weight on the pedal, coast to a stop.
Would that have irked you too?
Yes, very much so. I'd have gone up to you and said, "Stop, that's silly."0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:I used to do that on my bike in Oxford - it was a ladies bike so had a step-through top tube thing.
I also used to stop in the same manner, left foot over right,weight on the pedal, coast to a stop.
Would that have irked you too?
Were you at Oxford uni?
If this is a puncture rant now {and why not) I got a puncture on my MTB and changed the tube ok, ten yards down the path it goes flat again.I had forgotten to check the tyre and there was a piece of metal in it.I took it out and fixed the tube with one of the patches I had just started carrying.100 yards down the path the tube starts snaking out of the tyre,I jump off the bike desperately trying to let the air out but it is too late and it explodes in my face,blinding me in one eye.I have one patch left so I retrieve the original tube and despite being attacked by a swarm of flies and honked by tossers in cars I retain enough compusure to fix the tube and ride home before having a tantrum.Smarter than the average bear.0 -
But, when Crossers get back on they just leap on indiscriminately, crunch their balls to a paste and flap around in a hurry to find the pedals. None of this effeminate right over left nonsense.Kieran_Burns wrote:Always Tyred wrote:I knew I'd irk people. So I'll do it some more.
Personally, I get on the bike before I start trying to ride it, but that's just me. I don't see any technical benefit to using the bike as a scooter for several yards until you have enough speed to just about pull off the ghey cowboy move.
If you are going to ping your bell and wobble about smiling inanely at your cleverness at being able to mount a bike in this way, I guess its fine.
Its also only a practicable move if you have neither toe clips nor clipless pedals.
My irk level was zero, my confusion quotient maximised. I just couldn't think how else to get going. :P
Plus I couldn't see how you would not be able to swing your leg over the saddle if it is adjusted properly. mine is, and I do.
Plus plus I also swing my leg over coming to a stop when I am getting off. It must the CX 'er in me0 -
Its not all that, you know. Some real idiots go there.antfly wrote:Were you at Oxford uni?0 -
antfly wrote:If this is a puncture rant now {and why not) I got a puncture on my MTB and changed the tube ok, ten yards down the path it goes flat again.I had forgotten to check the tyre and there was a piece of metal in it.I took it out and fixed the tube with one of the patches I had just started carrying.100 yards down the path the tube starts snaking out of the tyre,I jump off the bike desperately trying to let the air out but it is too late and it explodes in my face,blinding me in one eye.I have one patch left so I retrieve the original tube and despite being attacked by a swarm of flies and honked by tossers in cars I retain enough compusure to fix the tube and ride home before having a tantrum.
OK, ok, you win your puncture rant was much more impressive
At least it was sunny this morning in Cardiff and I had a pleasant 2mile walk with my bike without having to contend with a down pore etc....Just wondering what tyre to get now, all so rudy expensive!!!0 -
Always Tyred wrote:
But, when Crossers get back on they just leap on indiscriminately, crunch their balls to a paste and flap around in a hurry to find the pedals. None of this effeminate right over left nonsense.Kieran_Burns wrote:Always Tyred wrote:I knew I'd irk people. So I'll do it some more.
Personally, I get on the bike before I start trying to ride it, but that's just me. I don't see any technical benefit to using the bike as a scooter for several yards until you have enough speed to just about pull off the ghey cowboy move.
If you are going to ping your bell and wobble about smiling inanely at your cleverness at being able to mount a bike in this way, I guess its fine.
Its also only a practicable move if you have neither toe clips nor clipless pedals.
My irk level was zero, my confusion quotient maximised. I just couldn't think how else to get going. :P
Plus I couldn't see how you would not be able to swing your leg over the saddle if it is adjusted properly. mine is, and I do.
Plus plus I also swing my leg over coming to a stop when I am getting off. It must the CX 'er in me
I'm a CX'er with STYLE then 8)Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter0 -
Rockbuddy wrote:antfly wrote:If this is a puncture rant now {and why not) I got a puncture on my MTB and changed the tube ok, ten yards down the path it goes flat again.I had forgotten to check the tyre and there was a piece of metal in it.I took it out and fixed the tube with one of the patches I had just started carrying.100 yards down the path the tube starts snaking out of the tyre,I jump off the bike desperately trying to let the air out but it is too late and it explodes in my face,blinding me in one eye.I have one patch left so I retrieve the original tube and despite being attacked by a swarm of flies and honked by tossers in cars I retain enough compusure to fix the tube and ride home before having a tantrum.
OK, ok, you win your puncture rant was much more impressive
At least it was sunny this morning in Cardiff and I had a pleasant 2mile walk with my bike without having to contend with a down pore etc....Just wondering what tyre to get now, all so rudy expensive!!!
I was determined not to walk even if it killed me but it took me nearly an hour to do the couple of miles home after the puncture.Smarter than the average bear.0 -
Always Tyred wrote:
Its not all that, you know. Some real idiots go there.antfly wrote:Were you at Oxford uni?
And I, briefly, was one of those idiots.0 -
Details,we need details.Were you sent down?Smarter than the average bear.0
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antfly wrote:Details,we need details.Were you sent down?
No, I left of my own accord.0 -
I doubt that. Shady character, this LiT. Were you caught with a French/English English/French Collins Gem in an exam? I knew it.lost_in_thought wrote:
No, I left of my own accord.antfly wrote:Details,we need details.Were you sent down?0
