Your rants here.

bdave262000

I had four middle aged women shouting Jedward at me from their people carrier all the way along the embankment from the Albert Bridge to Parliment Sq at 8am this morning. The fact that I'm 6ft3, 17st and look nothing like either of the Jedward's didn't seem to dampen their enthusiasm. They were also holding up some placard which I didn't manage to read.

It was funny at first then got mildly annoying and embarrassing after a few minutes then slightly bizarre.

TheEnglishman

EKE_38BPM wrote:

4 years after being hit by a car when cycling to work, I woke up this morning with a stiff neck.
Whiplash. The 'gift' that keeps on giving.

Fantastic!

Koncordski

Felt quick this morning, Strava app failing to upload. Grrrrrr

seanorawe

ROUNDABOUTS!!!!!!!!!!!

Pulled up to a roundabout on my commute today. Not one car indicated where they were going. Eventually the way was clear and off I went. Only to be deafened by an old mans horn blasting in my ear. He saw me go then tried to speed behind me to go left, but I was blocking his exit BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY STARTED TO GO!!!!!!!

Hate roundabouts! When will people learn, that cyclists have right of way the same way cars do?

seanorawe

Koncordski wrote:

Felt quick this morning, Strava app failing to upload. Grrrrrr

This is so annoying! :evil:

Sharkyssurfers

seanorawe wrote:

ROUNDABOUTS!!!!!!!!!!!

Pulled up to a roundabout on my commute today. Not one car indicated where they were going. Eventually the way was clear and off I went. Only to be deafened by an old mans horn blasting in my ear. He saw me go then tried to speed behind me to go left, but I was blocking his exit BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY STARTED TO GO!!!!!!!

Hate roundabouts! When will people learn, that cyclists have right of way the same way cars do?

that's the same for pedestrians that press the crossing button, just as I unleash hell for a strava segment :evil:

SimonAH

Good weather promised for the weekend.

I am 86% Snot 10% Cough and 4% Chicken soup.

Going to try the time honoured Scotch and Chilli technique this evening I reckon.

DrLex

SimonAH wrote:

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Going to try the time honoured Scotch and Chilli technique this evening I reckon.

Hopefully both taken orally and sequentially.

TheEnglishman

DrLex wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

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Going to try the time honoured Scotch and Chilli technique this evening I reckon.

Hopefully both taken orally and sequentially.

Rectally - it's the only way to be sure!


Anyway - I'm trying to book a ticket on the Eurostar for September. Only I can't. Eurostar financial people - you're not helping yourselves if you can only book a ticket a week in advance on your website! :evil:

SteppenHerring

So, there's 3km to go in the TdF stage, management aren't around so you dig out the phone and headphones, browse to Steephill, wait for the damn long page to load, locate a video feed, find it doesn't work, try another, have to wait then trying to dismiss the massive add across the video click the wrong thing, can't got back, reload steephill, load another stream, wait ages and see most of the screen taken up by another ad with the stage winner's arms in the air above it.

At least there was a replay.

redvee

Traffic blocking the road as I was doing well on a Strava segment, drafted a pick-up briefly at 30mph then dropped down to a steady 25mph and caught the queue traffic 200 yds from the end of segment and couldn't pass the traffic at speed.

EKE_38BPM

EKE_38BPM wrote:

4 years after being hit by a car when cycling to work, I woke up this morning with a stiff neck.
Whiplash. The 'gift' that keeps on giving.

Day 2 of pain. The stiffness has increased. I can't turn my head and swallowing hurts. The pain is so bad that I can't do the exercises to take the pain away, Catch 22. The drugs ain't strong enough.


Can I sue the dozy driver again or should I just burn her house down?

rick_chasey

TfL keep f*cking me.

EKE_38BPM

Rick Chasey wrote:

TfL keep f*cking me.

If only there was some way to travel around London that didn't rely on TfL or using motorised transport. Ideally it would be fast, cheap and help to keep you fit too.

I am a dreamer. Such a perfect transport solution will never exist.

Flyingbogey

Was within a mile of finishing my commute home this morning when I was egged! Descending col du stoneleigh when something hit my right lower leg, I was still trying to work out what it was when a second one struck on the rump! Luckily for me they bounced off and broke on the floor and the youths declined my offer of a punch up thus saving me an ass whooping as well. That'll teach me for riding home at 2 am on a Saturday morning!

jakjtb

two people from yesterday should be given medals for amazing driving. one taxi driver who overtook me and then parked right infront of me in the middle of the road....so i gave him some constructive feedback about how i thought his driving was.
the second was a lady who pulled out of a side street on the opposite side of the road at the speed of a lame snail and then did the same as the taxi driver but this time even closer to me. i thought her car would look nicer with only one wing mirror and so did this minor alteration for her, free of charge, she wasnt pleased so we had a conversation and then i was on my merry way.

EKE_38BPM

jakjtb wrote:

two people from yesterday should be given medals for amazing driving. one taxi driver who overtook me and then parked right infront of me in the middle of the road....so i gave him some constructive feedback about how i thought his driving was.
the second was a lady who pulled out of a side street on the opposite side of the road at the speed of a lame snail and then did the same as the taxi driver but this time even closer to me. i thought her car would look nicer with only one wing mirror and so did this minor alteration for her, free of charge, she wasnt pleased so we had a conversation and then i was on my merry way.

I've also done this impromptu bit of customisation. It's a service I hate providing but sometimes I think it's necessary.

msmancunia

I have a dirty old man style bad cough and a cold and a nose whistle that I just. can't. get. rid. of.

*does impromptu nose whistle*

CiB

jakjtb wrote:

the second was a lady who pulled out of a side street on the opposite side of the road at the speed of a lame snail and then did the same as the taxi driver but this time even closer to me. i thought her car would look nicer with only one wing mirror and so did this minor alteration for her, free of charge, she wasnt pleased so we had a conversation and then i was on my merry way.

Gotta say if I made bit of a minor driving error that resulted in some minor inconvenience to a cylcist and as a result the victim decided to meter out his own form of instant justice by causing a few hundred quid's worth of damage to my property, said victim might find himself wishing he hadn't.

Perhaps because it was a lady driver eh? No wonder people hate cyclists. Sheesh.

EKE_38BPM

EKE_38BPM wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

4 years after being hit by a car when cycling to work, I woke up this morning with a stiff neck.
Whiplash. The 'gift' that keeps on giving.

Day 2 of pain. The stiffness has increased. I can't turn my head and swallowing hurts. The pain is so bad that I can't do the exercises to take the pain away, Catch 22. The drugs ain't strong enough.


Can I sue the dozy driver again or should I just burn her house down?

Day 3 of pain. The drugs are working and I can now do the exercises to stretch my neck muscles. I can now turn my head about 60° to the left and about 30° to the right before the pain kicks in. I can now swallow without pain. Sudden movements (like nodding or sneezing) still hurts.
I've been booked in to see a trainee physiotherapist (a friend of a friend) on tuesday. Even if he makes it worse I shall still have to say thankyou as he is a very good kickboxer and can easily kick my butt especially in my current condition.

I'm going for a short spin on the bike. I can perform shoulder checks if I push through the pain barrier.

msmancunia

EKE_38BPM wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

4 years after being hit by a car when cycling to work, I woke up this morning with a stiff neck.
Whiplash. The 'gift' that keeps on giving.

Day 2 of pain. The stiffness has increased. I can't turn my head and swallowing hurts. The pain is so bad that I can't do the exercises to take the pain away, Catch 22. The drugs ain't strong enough.


Can I sue the dozy driver again or should I just burn her house down?

Day 3 of pain. The drugs are working and I can now do the exercises to stretch my neck muscles. I can now turn my head about 60° to the left and about 30° to the right before the pain kicks in. I can now swallow without pain. Sudden movements (like nodding or sneezing) still hurts.
I've been booked in to see a trainee physiotherapist (a friend of a friend) on tuesday. Even if he makes it worse I shall still have to say thankyou as he is a very good kickboxer and can easily kick my butt especially in my current condition.

I'm going for a short spin on the bike. I can perform shoulder checks if I push through the pain barrier.

EKE - not sure if it's easy for you to get to, but when I lived in London I went to the British School of Osteopathy at Borough. It's amazing - you usually get seen by a final year student, supervised by an academic, with a junior scribing. It's dead cheap, lovely treatment rooms, and it's dirt cheap. And you're helping someone to learn! They've sorted my stiff neck and lumbago out twice now.


http://www.bso.ac.uk/information-for-pa ... so-clinic/

merkin

CiB wrote:

jakjtb wrote:

the second was a lady who pulled out of a side street on the opposite side of the road at the speed of a lame snail and then did the same as the taxi driver but this time even closer to me. i thought her car would look nicer with only one wing mirror and so did this minor alteration for her, free of charge, she wasnt pleased so we had a conversation and then i was on my merry way.

Gotta say if I made bit of a minor driving error that resulted in some minor inconvenience to a cylcist and as a result the victim decided to meter out his own form of instant justice by causing a few hundred quid's worth of damage to my property, said victim might find himself wishing he hadn't.

Perhaps because it was a lady driver eh? No wonder people hate cyclists. Sheesh.

Agreed. There was only one criminal in the above incident. if had been a van full of scaffolders i doubt you would have been quite as brave.

rick_chasey

Not really a rant, I'm quite relaxed about it, but nowhere else to put it.

So my olympic RR tickets haven't arrived yet.

I call the helpline, and I get two options, - buy tickets or speak to customer services.

So I hit 2 for customer services and get some guff about a high volume of calls, and that you should only call if it's less than 7 days for your event and your ticket hasn't arrived yet.

Great, I'm thinking, I get to speak to them.

The information women then, with no options to hit another number or speak to anyone says "this call will now disconnect" and it does.

No option to actually speak to anyone.

WTF?

twist83

msmancunia wrote:

I have a dirty old man style bad cough and a cold and a nose whistle that I just. can't. get. rid. of.

*does impromptu nose whistle*

I will join you on this. I decided what would help is a 40 mile lap at 7.45am on Saturday morning to the Coast and back. Felt fine until Sunday when my body decided to punish me for doing that to it while it was trying to fight a cold

Also the idiot in a 4x4 that decided to try and squeeze past us on a descent coming home. We know how wide we are and she didnt. Had to tuck in elbows and everything incredibly close to the bike and just squeezed through. Thanks Love next time wait in the passing point.

chedabob

Rick Chasey wrote:

Not really a rant, I'm quite relaxed about it, but nowhere else to put it.

So my olympic RR tickets haven't arrived yet.

I call the helpline, and I get two options, - buy tickets or speak to customer services.

So I hit 2 for customer services and get some guff about a high volume of calls, and that you should only call if it's less than 7 days for your event and your ticket hasn't arrived yet.

Great, I'm thinking, I get to speak to them.

The information women then, with no options to hit another number or speak to anyone says "this call will now disconnect" and it does.

No option to actually speak to anyone.

WTF?

Mash the hell out of the buttons and eventually the system will give up and put you through to a real person.

redvee

chedabob wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Not really a rant, I'm quite relaxed about it, but nowhere else to put it.

So my olympic RR tickets haven't arrived yet.

I call the helpline, and I get two options, - buy tickets or speak to customer services.

So I hit 2 for customer services and get some guff about a high volume of calls, and that you should only call if it's less than 7 days for your event and your ticket hasn't arrived yet.

Great, I'm thinking, I get to speak to them.

The information women then, with no options to hit another number or speak to anyone says "this call will now disconnect" and it does.

No option to actually speak to anyone.

WTF?

Mash the hell out of the buttons and eventually the system will give up and put you through to a real person.

*# repeatedly usually works with most phone systems.

CiB

The Cycle Show (ITV4 last nigth).

Juvenile puerile execrably crap attempt at being 'exciting', 'fun', 'with it', 'edgey'. A p!ss poor Top Gear impersonation that aimed low and missed by going even lower. If this had gone out on CBeebies it still would have under-estimated its audience.

Just how moronic do the producers & presenters think the average cyclist is? Wayne Hemmingway (let's crowbar a cycling Name into the show lads) appears in a piece on safety with his helmet on looking for all the world like a leprechaun after a night out and takes 2 minutes to help inform us that helmet & gloves are good, and that we should look around.

Rob Hales - how to ride up a hill. And down it again. No - you don't say. The odd looking bloke who's name I missed ends up on some kind of treadmill challenge. And the whole background atmos of having a noisy excited fun crowd in the background was so utterly bad as to be utterly bad. I hope next week's is better.


This is how the media treats cycling. Danny Baker's stand-in on Saturday who did the 'eeeh aahm a big thick northerner me' pretending not to understand cycling and tried to feign interest in the TdF but didn't even get close. His oppo on the show made the standard giggly girl comment - 'how do they sit on those uncomfortable saddles for all that distance? No wonder they stand up so much', Yer daft bint - the saddles are wonderfully comfortable, that's why we sit on them and pedal for 6, 7, 8 12 hours at a stretch.

Or 5Live last night on the Drive Time show having some presenter 'being Brad Wiggins' by dressing up in lycra with the inevitable jokey 'ooo I don't think Wigan's ready to see me in lycra yet'. Why ever not? You're human shaped aren't you? Northern people have seen bicyclists before. Do you imagine that you're so spectacularly special that you alone in lycra will cause people to faint? Prat. By the time he'd got the Oakleys on and had perched himself on fiiiiiiive thoooooouuuuusand pounds???????????????? worth of racing bike I'd given up - Clue was on R4 by then.

Will those of you in the media please get into your dense skulls that pretending that cycling is really difficult or only for special people etc is a sh"t approach. We're adults. Treat us like adults, not like The Cycle Show did on its first stab, or 5Live etc who imagine we need to have this and every other subject chopped pureed and reduced to the level that a four year old can cope with. Bastards.

msmancunia

CiB wrote:

The Cycle Show (ITV4 last nigth).

Juvenile puerile execrably crap attempt at being 'exciting', 'fun', 'with it', 'edgey'. A p!ss poor Top Gear impersonation that aimed low and missed by going even lower. If this had gone out on CBeebies it still would have under-estimated its audience.

Just how moronic do the producers & presenters think the average cyclist is? Wayne Hemmingway (let's crowbar a cycling Name into the show lads) appears in a piece on safety with his helmet on looking for all the world like a leprechaun after a night out and takes 2 minutes to help inform us that helmet & gloves are good, and that we should look around.

Rob Hales - how to ride up a hill. And down it again. No - you don't say. The odd looking bloke who's name I missed ends up on some kind of treadmill challenge. And the whole background atmos of having a noisy excited fun crowd in the background was so utterly bad as to be utterly bad. I hope next week's is better.


This is how the media treats cycling. Danny Baker's stand-in on Saturday who did the 'eeeh aahm a big thick northerner me' pretending not to understand cycling and tried to feign interest in the TdF but didn't even get close. His oppo on the show made the standard giggly girl comment - 'how do they sit on those uncomfortable saddles for all that distance? No wonder they stand up so much', Yer daft bint - the saddles are wonderfully comfortable, that's why we sit on them and pedal for 6, 7, 8 12 hours at a stretch.

Or 5Live last night on the Drive Time show having some presenter 'being Brad Wiggins' by dressing up in lycra with the inevitable jokey 'ooo I don't think Wigan's ready to see me in lycra yet'. Why ever not? You're human shaped aren't you? Northern people have seen bicyclists before. Do you imagine that you're so spectacularly special that you alone in lycra will cause people to faint? Prat. By the time he'd got the Oakleys on and had perched himself on fiiiiiiive thoooooouuuuusand pounds???????????????? worth of racing bike I'd given up - Clue was on R4 by then.

Will those of you in the media please get into your dense skulls that pretending that cycling is really difficult or only for special people etc is a sh"t approach. We're adults. Treat us like adults, not like The Cycle Show did on its first stab, or 5Live etc who imagine we need to have this and every other subject chopped pureed and reduced to the level that a four year old can cope with. Bastards.

... and breeeaaaathe.

(I haven't seen it yet).

rick_chasey

Cycling's a pretty boring activity really.

What's nice about it is you can go really far on your own steam.

It gives you a sense of freedom and you get to see a lot of the your local little world.

Then you get all the advantages of any endurancey exercise - runners high, eating loads without worry, keeping fit.

That's about it really.

I don't think there's enough in amateur cycling to make a program out of it.

mudcow007

CiB wrote:

Gotta say if I made bit of a minor driving error that resulted in some minor inconvenience to a cylcist and as a result the victim decided to meter out his own form of instant justice by causing a few hundred quid's worth of damage to my property, said victim might find himself wishing he hadn't.

Perhaps because it was a lady driver eh? No wonder people hate cyclists. Sheesh.

+1 id be pretty pished to be honest my wing mirrors are them stupid auto dimming things so god knows how much they cost

i dont understand the whole kicking cars either?

My rant today, weather is fabulous, not even a breeze cruising along at 19mph when a swarm of midges literally cover me, on the upshot of it im now full of additional free fly based protein