Your rants here.

sketchley

FFS another puncture this morning in the same wheel. 5 in less than 2 hours of riding time.

Rant at self, don't assume the tube doesn't have a (slow) puncture just because the valve came out when it first had the puncture on the road and was chaning the tube.....

If the tyres flat when I get back to bike tonight I'm going to be pissed....

redvee

Sketchley wrote:

If the tyres flat when I get back to bike tonight I'm going to be pissed....

Bit like the sound the air made as it left the tube

suzyb

After watching the Olympics Team GB's kit has grown on me. But now I want to buy a couple of things I can't find anywhere that has stock

Sharkyssurfers

Sketchley wrote:

FFS another puncture this morning in the same wheel. 5 in less than 2 hours of riding time.

Rant at self, don't assume the tube doesn't have a (slow) puncture just because the valve came out when it first had the puncture on the road and was chaning the tube.....

If the tyres flat when I get back to bike tonight I'm going to be pissed....

are your spokes ok on that wheel, they are not the cause of the pf visit?

jedster

I experienced quite the most "remarkable" piece of cycling yet this morning. And not in a good way.

I'd just pulled out of Bayswater Road onto the Marble Arch roundabout and moved over to one of the right hand lanes because the left-hand ones were full of traffic queuing to get down to Oxford Street. I accelerated up to about 18-20 mph and the traffic to my left began to move about the same speed. Just then a bloke on some sort of hybrid in non-cycling gear appears out of a gap between the vehicles on my left heading across my front wheel from 90 degrees. Evidently he has ridden straight ACROSS four lanes of heavy traffic to get to me. Bit like that 80s computer game with the frog crossing the road (Frogger?). I'd have loved to see that but he was hidden by the van to my left which he had narrowly avoided...

I brake, he swerves, and just gets round my front wheel.

I'm pretty much lost for words but manage a Wildean put down "You TW@T!".
He responds by laughing like a maniac and shouting "I know!" before bumping up the kerb onto the Marble Arch island.

There are some genuine nutters out there...

sketchley

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

FFS another puncture this morning in the same wheel. 5 in less than 2 hours of riding time.

Rant at self, don't assume the tube doesn't have a (slow) puncture just because the valve came out when it first had the puncture on the road and was chaning the tube.....

If the tyres flat when I get back to bike tonight I'm going to be pissed....

are your spokes ok on that wheel, they are not the cause of the pf visit?

Yes there fine, this was stupidity in not checking the tube was infact ok before putting it on.....

clarkey cat

oh no - tyre is okay I hope?

phy2sll2

jedster wrote:

He responds by laughing like a maniac and shouting "I know!"

Ah well, that's OK - carry on, as you were etc.

cookdn

Sitting at home in the office and one of the mains wired smoke detectors in the house has just started to complain that it's backup battery is failing. Do we have a 9V PP3 in the house? Would seem not after a 15 minute fruitless search that turned up every other battery type I can think of, disposable and rechargeable, including a strip of CR2032s.

Now need to make a special trip to the local ASBO (ASDA) before it drives me insane with it's random beeping every sixty seconds or so.

Edit - Ahhh .. another one has started up in sympathy.

sketchley

my smoke detectors, fitted for free by London fore brigades, use non changeable lithium batteries last 25 year apparently

the_fuggler

el_presidente wrote:

The Fuggler wrote:

No visits for a year and now three in ten days. Must have run over a black cat or something....

Time for new tyres I suggest

Yep - forms have been submitted in triplicate to the EPO. Just waiting for sign-off...

asprilla

Shiny Bikes. Ordered nearly a month ago and after threatening to go to PayPal to recover my cash it finally turns up yesterday. Unfortunately it's wrong. Instead of a right hand Apex shifter I get a pair of S500 singlespeed levers.

Complain this morning and promised a call back but don't get one.

I would blame Wiggle, but this is clearly Shiny Bikes' fault.

bails87

Is there a cryptographer in the house?

If so, could they help the drivers round here decipher this complex message:

aclivity

I've got one of those on my commute, here: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=miry+l ... 2,315,,0,0

I've taken to riding in the middle of the road, playing chicken with the cars being the only way to get through.

bails87

I did that, took a really strong primary on the approach to it because there was a car coming. The driver looked straight at me then went anyway.

There is a bike gutter down the side, but it's full of branches and foot deep leaf piles!

sketchley

I get that a lot, I guess some drivers do not think a bike is a vehicle

SimonAH

The non-drive side chainstay on the Litespeed is so friggin' massive and the spoke clearance so tight it's taken me over an hour to figure out how to mount my speed / cadence sensor.

In addition to the positioning issues I had to modify the mounts as I am out of skinny cable ties and needed to use fatter ones, and on four seperate occasions I had to cut off cable ties and fit new ones as I got them upside down, or fed the end of one into the head of another, or managed to include a spoke in the loop. Not a fettling god today.

Having done that I spent another hour trying to find the manual for the thing to set it up with the smaller wheel diameter than with the big fat cross tyres on my CX before thinking "I bet I can download it" which of course took no time at all d'oh!

Still, the good news is that it's fitted and working and I can now go out and see if the beastie is as fast as it feels :-D

Blandiblub

Only recently started commuting to work - couple of times a week. As I work on a 7 day shift basis, I'm working today so thought Sundays would be a good day to bike it.

At about 0930, Old Kent Road, SE London. Nearly left hooked just travelling down the road (not at lights or anything). Car comes up on right of me, indicates left and just does it - literally inches from my front wheel.

A loud expression of my frustration followed and I carried on.

Awful, awful driving.

jzed

Crank broke 5 miles into the 12 mile journey to work. 1 footed pedalling was not fun.

rick_chasey

JZed wrote:

Crank broke 5 miles into the 12 mile journey to work. 1 footed pedalling was not fun.

TBH, that's in hero territory.

Mr Sworld

JZed wrote:

Crank broke 5 miles into the 12 mile journey to work. 1 footed pedalling was not fun.

That's very Zen... A bit like one hand clapping.

Kieran_Burns

Mr Sworld wrote:

JZed wrote:

Crank broke 5 miles into the 12 mile journey to work. 1 footed pedalling was not fun.

That's very Zen... A bit like one hand clapping.

The sound of one hand clapping is: cl

So the action of one foot pedalling would be: ped

8)

mudcow007

gah!

clicking/ creaking saddle

ive removed/ refitted about 4 times now - each time cleaning n' greasing

after a few days it clicks an creaks again

suzyb

I am fucking fed up with work today.

I'm supposed to be working on a website just now that needs to be finished by next month. Yet I haven't a fucking clue what I'm supposed to be coding because all I have is a few meeting notes, an unfinished site map and a couple of emails. And as per usual the client's "action by" items, which might actually help me proceed haven't been gotten around to.

:evil: :evil:

Kieran_Burns

suzyb wrote:

I am ******* fed up with work today.

I'm supposed to be working on a website just now that needs to be finished by next month. Yet I haven't a ******* clue what I'm supposed to be coding because all I have is a few meeting notes, an unfinished site map and a couple of emails. And as per usual the client's "action by" items, which might actually help me proceed haven't been gotten around to.

:evil: :evil:

Cats. Do pictures of Cats. This always works. People like cats.

DrLex

Here are some cracking ideas from Simon.

(reminded, as there's a missing cat poster story on the same site. Some language NSFW.)

Mr Sworld

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Cats. Do pictures of Cats. This always works. People like cats.

Easy.... That's 2 grand pleze...

UndercoverElephant

mudcow007 wrote:

gah!

clicking/ creaking saddle

ive removed/ refitted about 4 times now - each time cleaning n' greasing

after a few days it clicks an creaks again

Have you tried oiling the ends of the rails, rather than just where the clamp is?

keyser__soze

Pretty-much new Ultremo ZX deformed about 20 miles into our 80-miler to Brighton and left me having to buy a new tyre from a very local LBS in Cobham who only stocked Kenda tyres (who? I hear you all ask) at pretty hefty prices.

Then my right shifter lever broke off just after Box Hill. Left me with 50/11 and 34/11, making some of the short-but-steep climbs en-route a little painful. Fortunately we did Devil's Dyke and not Ditchling. Now to see if I can get the shifter changed under warranty as it seems to be a common issue with SRAM Force. Fortunately K has a spare RH Force shifter from her crash wreck so I can switch it over but I'll need new cables as I can't extract the old gear cable from the broken shifter.

Back on the commuter and have noticed the headset only likes the bike steering in one of six pre-set directions, fortunately including straight on, so think it's notched and needs replacing. The press-fit BB also clicks like crazy once a pedal rev. Going to be an expensive month getting it all fixed.

suzyb

Mr Sworld wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Cats. Do pictures of Cats. This always works. People like cats.

Easy.... That's 2 grand pleze...

My boss is on BR :shock: