Your rants here.

mudcow007

not really a rant but....

caught up with a bus today for a bit of casual drafting only to get a full face of diesel fumes, it took me about 5 mins to stop coughing it was rank

Sharkyssurfers

complete tool in astra estate this morning overtakes then immediately turns left into petrol station, meaning I have to take avoiding action, if I wasn't late for the train, I would of shoved the petrol pipe somewhere

Kieran_Burns

Last night - about 3am I woke up really thirsty so I staggered into the kitchen to get a glass of water.

I trod on a slug.

I
trod
on
a
slug

A slug. It was huge and I trod on it.

There is nothing, NOTHING as bad as treading on a slug and having it explode all over your foot in the pitch black.


(any rumours that I squealed like a little schoolgirl and leapt into air are completely unfounded and I will sue anyone who continues them)

msmancunia

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Last night - about 3am I woke up really thirsty so I staggered into the kitchen to get a glass of water.

I trod on a slug.

I
trod
on
a
slug

A slug. It was huge and I trod on it.

There is nothing, NOTHING as bad as treading on a slug and having it explode all over your foot in the pitch black.


(any rumours that I squealed like a little schoolgirl and leapt into air are completely unfounded and I will sue anyone who continues them)

I too have done this, and it's horrible - I seem to have a pet one in my kitchen and I have no idea how it's getting in.

But, one thing worse than treading on a slug is treading on a huge frog and doing a four foot skid. I had my wellies on but it put me off my food for the rest of the day.

the other me

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Last night - about 3am I woke up really thirsty so I staggered into the kitchen to get a glass of water.

I trod on a slug.

I
trod
on
a
slug

A slug. It was huge and I trod on it.

There is nothing, NOTHING as bad as treading on a slug and having it explode all over your foot in the pitch black.

I dunno, doing the same thing (middle of night, wandering around barefoot to get some water) I once trod on that nights 'gift' from the cat and the entrails of half a mouse (don't know where the head was, never found it) came squishing up between my toes.

I don't think I have ever been more disgusted

twist83

dhope wrote:

twist83 wrote:

Getting the Santa Cruz ready for a jaunt in Wales for a week next month. Rear wheel off and cassette off spend a sunny afternoon cleaning the cassette, strip down the Hope Pro 2 hub. Put it all back together, go to put in the lock ring for the cassette. Very carefully as normal. Starts to tighten and then goes stiff. uhh ohh I know it is in straight though. Back it out carefully but it has can openered a 2mm strip of the freehub thread :evil:

£58 for a new Freehub body BUGGER! Wanted to ride this weekend as well. It also needs new bearings on the VPP pivot link and a new headset. Then telling the missus I need about £200 of work/repairs which is nearly as much as the cottage is costing us for the week.....

Edinburgh Bike sale tomorrow
From
http://ancillary.edinburghbicycle.com/c ... sories.pdf

HOPE FREEHUB BODY ALUMINIUM FOR PRO3, 75% off... £13.74

Just seen this sadly I have an old Pro 2 which this will not fit

SteppenHerring

Grrr.

Bloke on the Vuelta highlights keeps saying "bonification". This annoys me as I swear it's not a word. So I googled and apparently it is. Well it shouldn't be.

suzyb

If you're thinking of googling the word, the second result is not really safe for work :shock:

SteppenHerring

suzyb wrote:

If you're thinking of googling the word, the second result is not really safe for work :shock:

I get nothing unsavoury as this is my work machine so I haven't been searching for filth on it. Google tunes your results to previous searches. Not saying anything.

roger_merriman

SteppenHerring wrote:

suzyb wrote:

If you're thinking of googling the word, the second result is not really safe for work :shock:

I get nothing unsavoury as this is my work machine so I haven't been searching for filth on it. Google tunes your results to previous searches. Not saying anything.

Not my cup of tea or even bacon! but yes I see the 2nd link Suzy see's

DrLex

roger merriman wrote:

SteppenHerring wrote:

suzyb wrote:

If you're thinking of googling the word, the second result is not really safe for work :shock:

I get nothing unsavoury as this is my work machine so I haven't been searching for filth on it. Google tunes your results to previous searches. Not saying anything.

Not my cup of tea [...]

Never look up teabagging in Greg's Urban Dictionary.

Micro-rant: failed to unclip SPDs this morning and thus fell over at the traffic light for the first time in a decade. Gave bike a Basil Fawlty-like kick much to the amusement of the driver behind. Loose flaming cleat!

veronese68

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Last night - about 3am I woke up really thirsty so I staggered into the kitchen to get a glass of water.

I trod on a slug.

I
trod
on
a
slug

A slug. It was huge and I trod on it.

There is nothing, NOTHING as bad as treading on a slug and having it explode all over your foot in the pitch black.


(any rumours that I squealed like a little schoolgirl and leapt into air are completely unfounded and I will sue anyone who continues them)

I know I'm an old git, but, slippers man, slippers.
I too have had unwelcome parcels from cats in the past.

rick_chasey

Surprised no-one is questioning the presence of a slug in someone's kitchen.


This, I would not stand for or on .

Kieran_Burns

Rick Chasey wrote:

Surprised no-one is questioning the presence of a slug in someone's kitchen.


This, I would not stand for or on .

I'll just let that comment slide

-spider-

Where's DDD when you need to slug it out?

desweller

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Surprised no-one is questioning the presence of a slug in someone's kitchen.


This, I would not stand for or on .

I'll just let that comment slide

You don't need to take any nonsense from someone who averages - averages! - nearly 20 posts a day. Besides, he lives in London, which (as everyone knows) is basically sterile for a 5 mile radius from the centre.

msmancunia

Friend's cat dragged a live squirrel through the cat flap last week when she was out. When she got home the squirrel was in the breadbin, the cat was eyeballing it from the kitchen sink and it looked like they'd both had a dirty protest all over the walls. Cue contract cleaners entering stage left...

mudcow007

suzyb wrote:

If you're thinking of googling the word, the second result is not really safe for work :shock:

eugh!

i like my fair share of naughtyness but that is ranker than rank

cyclingprop

So I know physiotherapists are known as physioterrorists in many circles. Now I know why: she spent half an hour making me properly gasp in pain while rubbing my calf (which is apparently too tight) and causing achilles tendinitis. Never felt pain like it, so it had better make me quicker or else!

merkin

mudcow007 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

If you're thinking of googling the word, the second result is not really safe for work :shock:

eugh!

i like my fair share of naughtyness but that is ranker than rank

I can see that game ending in tears. If you are chewing bits of bacon there it could well end up with a painful case of "mistaken identity" and an embarrassing trip to A&E.

gbsahne001

They were out in force last night

I had 2 cars beep at me with fingers pointing to the cycle path, even though I was travelling reasonably fast; they received reciprocal gestures.

Young woman forced me to one side at a traffic light line, I was slowing down to the line for a red, when she overtakes with less than a car length to the line, consequently was half in the correct lane and half in the adjacent filter lane. When asked "what was the point of that", she replied, "I didn't think you were going to stop at the red."

Later on I witnessed another cyclist being bullied by a car driver but from what I saw the car driver seemed to come off worse.

Blacktemplar

SteppenHerring wrote:

Grrr.

Bloke on the Vuelta highlights keeps saying "bonification". This annoys me as I swear it's not a word. So I googled and apparently it is. Well it shouldn't be.

I know I should know the answer, but who is the Scottish commentator that sounds like Frankie Boyle? I keep expecting him to break into some wildly inappropriate swearing.....

Blacktemplar

merkin wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

suzyb wrote:

If you're thinking of googling the word, the second result is not really safe for work :shock:

eugh!

i like my fair share of naughtyness but that is ranker than rank

I can see that game ending in tears. If you are chewing bits of bacon there it could well end up with a painful case of "mistaken identity" and an embarrassing trip to A&E.

^^this. Brings new relevence to the expression "meat & 2 veg"

Torvid

Blacktemplar wrote:

I know I should know the answer, but who is the Scottish commentator that sounds like Frankie Boyle? I keep expecting him to break into some wildly inappropriate swearing.....

it's probably Brian Smith

Blacktemplar

Farking. Wet. Weather.

Glorious sunshine today, but new bike arrives tomorrow. Guess what also arrives? Yup, most of the moisture content of the North Atlantic air mass. Bollox. :evil:

Blacktemplar

Blacktemplar wrote:

Farking. Wet. Weather.

Glorious sunshine today, but new bike arrives tomorrow. Guess what also arrives? Yup, most of the moisture content of the North Atlantic air mass. Bollox. :evil:

And yes, I know - MTFU

But as we all know, carbon fibre dissolves in the rain......

unscarred

Got yelled at by a driver for using a pedestrian crossing on my bike. Except it's a shared use crossing, for pedestrins and cyclists.
The main thing that annoyed me was he drove off before I could point out how incredibly stupid he was.

CiB

For a long while I've kept a spare pair of socks in my cupboard here so that if it rains I don't have to go home with cold wet socks on. Lycra dries pretty quickly, cotton socks don't.

Got a reet good drenching this morning on the final few miles in, which was nice. Just checked for socks to find them Not Here, but recall a dim memory of taking them home some months ago for some reason or other, probably quite justifiable at the time. What a prize buffoon...

Maybe the Wiggo / Lance black socks look will do to get home.

gbsahne001

Technically it's still Summer, so why do my feet feel like lumps of ice

mudcow007

wee bit chilly here this morning

lovely sunshine though

headwind all the way in plus my rear hub/ freehub is making some funky noises