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  • kurako
    kurako Posts: 1,098
    To the guy on the white fixie with blue wheels who I saw coming past Clapham Common. The following things do not make you look cool:

    1. Practicing skids which make it look like you are going to face plant into the road.

    2. Hitting my leg while trying to squeeze between me and another cyclist while we were stopped at a ped crossing.

    3. Getting scalped twice by a guy on a MTB ( me ) and then jumping a red light before I could tell you what a c0ck you are.
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Why are gear hangers so sodding expensive? I mean you can buy a bottom bracket for the same money and the hanger's only a tiddly bit of metal

    And while we're at it, why on earth are they all different?
  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    My commute runs through a small village- it's narrow and parked cars often force drivers to stop and wait until oncoming traffic has cleared.... and I do mean often....

    It winds me up a bit when they overtake on the approach and then get held up by traffic, but hey... they didn't actually know that they were going to have to slow this time... but this morning's driver could see the oncoming car approaching the bottleneck and still insisted on overtaking me (between the speed bumps that I was bypassing at 20mph) and coming to a dead stop in front of me....

    ..!

    I've got his number.... I'll see him again....

    Cheers,
    W.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    will3 wrote:
    Why are gear hangers so sodding expensive? I mean you can buy a bottom bracket for the same money and the hanger's only a tiddly bit of metal

    And while we're at it, why on earth are they all different?

    +1!!!!!!

    I ended up bikeless for 3 weeks because I just refused to pay £24, and had to search around on tinterweb to get cheaper......still cost me £20 :(
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    While we're on bike parts, why is it so complicated trying to buy inserts for Cantilever brake blocks?????? Inserts for everything other form of braking system appear to be easily available! Why not cantis??? Grrrr.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    cjcp wrote:
    While we're on bike parts, why is it so complicated trying to buy inserts for Cantilever brake blocks?????? Inserts for everything other form of braking system appear to be easily available! Why not cantis??? Grrrr.

    Didn't know it was complicated.... not unless I have ordered something that does not fit....
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    cjcp wrote:
    While we're on bike parts, why is it so complicated trying to buy inserts for Cantilever brake blocks?????? Inserts for everything other form of braking system appear to be easily available! Why not cantis??? Grrrr.

    ??? they're' the same as v brakes no?
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    will3 wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    While we're on bike parts, why is it so complicated trying to buy inserts for Cantilever brake blocks?????? Inserts for everything other form of braking system appear to be easily available! Why not cantis??? Grrrr.

    ??? they're' the same as v brakes no?

    :x

    :)

    You see? This is my problem. The Q&As on Wiggle say "no" to the possibility of using the Koolstop mtb V-brake insert jobbies on cantis. I found similar responses elsewhere. So, I either have to buy to the Thinline block (at £9 a pop) or buy Avid RW2 inserts, which seem a little abrasive tbh.

    What are you using on yours, Will? I've got Avid Shorty 6s.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Wow - how on earth do you guys not know v's and canti's are like squids and fish - yes they both live in the sea but come on...

    Trawling my mind CJ but my bro still uses
    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... delID=2964
    on his old specialised stumpy (93) I think...
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    :). This step down from calipers is tricky :wink:

    Cheers. Saw those on CRC and still pondeirng which to buy.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    PBo wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    Why are gear hangers so sodding expensive? I mean you can buy a bottom bracket for the same money and the hanger's only a tiddly bit of metal

    And while we're at it, why on earth are they all different?

    +1!!!!!!

    I ended up bikeless for 3 weeks because I just refused to pay £24, and had to search around on tinterweb to get cheaper......still cost me £20 :(

    Cough, single speed :roll:
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  • d21dga
    d21dga Posts: 113
    Was in front of a mahoosive truck yesterday holding my own. Got to an incline and so was slowing slightly. Plenty of room to overtake, but no. Instead he waits until the narrow, blind humpback bridge on the approaching corner before pulling out and overtaking. The back end of the lorry was too close anyhow but if there had been anything approaching he'd have either crashed into it or squashed me between his truck and the brick parapet. :evil:
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Why, when i am approaching traffic light downhill at a decent speed, the lights are at the bottom of the hill before a small rise then a long flattish section, why do the lights stay red till I have braked to a halt, and put one foot down, then, magically as if my foot going down has hit a hidden button, they turn to green. Me having lost all my kinetic energy have to stand up on the pedals (yes, still in high gear) and mash away..... trying to get the speed back. Grrrr. (Still, this morning in the cold, driving rain I was "glad" of it, as I needed to warm up)
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • kurako
    kurako Posts: 1,098
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Why, when i am approaching traffic light downhill at a decent speed, the lights are at the bottom of the hill before a small rise then a long flattish section, why do the lights stay red till I have braked to a halt, and put one foot down, then, magically as if my foot going down has hit a hidden button, they turn to green. Me having lost all my kinetic energy have to stand up on the pedals (yes, still in high gear) and mash away..... trying to get the speed back. Grrrr. (Still, this morning in the cold, driving rain I was "glad" of it, as I needed to warm up)

    I think there's a special sensor in the pavement :wink:

    There's also lights which can detect when someone on a hybrid is wobbling past you so they can drive towards your fron wheel as you accelerate away!
    Univega 700
    Univega Via Strato
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    cjcp wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    While we're on bike parts, why is it so complicated trying to buy inserts for Cantilever brake blocks?????? Inserts for everything other form of braking system appear to be easily available! Why not cantis??? Grrrr.

    ??? they're' the same as v brakes no?

    :x

    :)

    You see? This is my problem. The Q&As on Wiggle say "no" to the possibility of using the Koolstop mtb V-brake insert jobbies on cantis. I found similar responses elsewhere. So, I either have to buy to the Thinline block (at £9 a pop) or buy Avid RW2 inserts, which seem a little abrasive tbh.

    What are you using on yours, Will? I've got Avid Shorty 6s.

    That's strange. I have shimano 550s (canits) these take the kool stop inserts just fine.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    edited November 2009
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Wow - how on earth do you guys not know v's and canti's are like squids and fish - yes they both live in the sea but come on...

    Trawling my mind CJ but my bro still uses
    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... delID=2964
    on his old specialised stumpy (93) I think...

    Those are for really old cantis that take the post-type brake blocks.
    Modern ones have the dished washer arrangement, same as v-brakes. (or at least mine do)

    looks like the avid shorty 6 ones do too, so you could just fit the insert holder of your choice and away you go.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Back to rants:

    motorists. Please clear your side windows before driving off. THat way you stand a chance of being able to see what's coming down the road and don't have to trust to luck as you pull out at a junction.
  • The Running Man
    The Running Man Posts: 574
    Note to woman driving (if that's not too much of an exaggeration) a green Ford Focus this morning through Lacock. You had 2 kids in the back whose lives you clearly care very little about.

    When I signal from 20-30 yards away that I'm going to turn right at the mini roundabout around the blind corner into the village it does not mean that you should pull out from behind me into the right hand lane and attempt to overtake me when you have no hope whatever of seeing what is coming the other way - and persisting with the manoeuvre so that you go round the roundabout still on the wrong side of the road and have to swerve in front of me to prevent smacking into the front of an oncoming local bus.

    Now what did I do with that bar mounted flamethrower .....................
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  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    Why are disc brake pads all different designs and also why do they hide the model number so making buying replacements doubly difficult?
    +++++++++++++++++++++
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    Panama - finally putting a nail in the economic theory of the trickle down effect.
  • iloveyousew
    iloveyousew Posts: 5
    d21dga wrote:
    Was in front of a mahoosive truck yesterday holding my own. Got to an incline and so was slowing slightly. Plenty of room to overtake, but no. Instead he waits until the narrow, blind humpback bridge on the approaching corner before pulling out and overtaking. The back end of the lorry was too close anyhow but if there had been anything approaching he'd have either crashed into it or squashed me between his truck and the brick parapet. :evil:

    similar thing happend to me this morning.

    truck followed me all the way down Roman Road and decides to overtake at a zebra crossing where the kerb comes out into the road. The passanger shouts at me as he went past so I gave him a smile (and a salute) then he threw a cd at me.

    I overtook him later on though :twisted:
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    iloveyousew wrote:
    d21dga wrote:
    Was in front of a mahoosive truck yesterday holding my own. Got to an incline and so was slowing slightly. Plenty of room to overtake, but no. Instead he waits until the narrow, blind humpback bridge on the approaching corner before pulling out and overtaking. The back end of the lorry was too close anyhow but if there had been anything approaching he'd have either crashed into it or squashed me between his truck and the brick parapet. :evil:

    similar thing happend to me this morning.

    truck followed me all the way down Roman Road and decides to overtake at a zebra crossing where the kerb comes out into the road. The passanger shouts at me as he went past so I gave him a smile (and a salute) then he threw a cd at me.

    I overtook him later on though :twisted:

    was it a good cd at least? :D
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  • iloveyousew
    iloveyousew Posts: 5
    cee wrote:
    iloveyousew wrote:
    similar thing happend to me this morning.

    truck followed me all the way down Roman Road and decides to overtake at a zebra crossing where the kerb comes out into the road. The passanger shouts at me as he went past so I gave him a smile (and a salute) then he threw a cd at me.

    I overtook him later on though :twisted:

    was it a good cd at least? :D

    ha! I doubt it judging from the decorations on the back of the van.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    will3 wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Wow - how on earth do you guys not know v's and canti's are like squids and fish - yes they both live in the sea but come on...

    Trawling my mind CJ but my bro still uses
    http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... delID=2964
    on his old specialised stumpy (93) I think...

    Those are for really old cantis that take the post-type brake blocks.
    Modern ones have the dished washer arrangement, same as v-brakes. (or at least mine do)

    looks like the avid shorty 6 ones do too, so you could just fit the insert holder of your choice and away you go.

    Thanks, chaps. :)
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Look. If you get your car 4" from my back wheel and then try to squeeze past through a non-existent gap, don't look surprised if I follow you into your car park round the corner and harangue you for it. And don't then sit shaking your head denying that you were a chuffing weetabix packet's width away from my wheel - you were; I saw it with my own eyes.

    I've got better things to do than convince you that you just can't drive like that. Accepting straight away that you are a completely brainless second-rate halfwit whose licence clearly fell out of a lucky bag means that you can then start to accept that other road users have as much right to be on that road as you and your stupid poxy little runaround Noddy Mobile that you clearly haven't mastered yet.

    And your moustache makes you look like a dick.

    Grrr.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    To the chap on the BMC filtering through the traffic this morning on Great Smith St or whatever it is:

    Why do you have to cut in front of two bikes all for the sake of gaining three yards when we're all filtering slowly?
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    middle aged ladies in hampton hill, it's great you've got your hi-vis and reflectives but how about some lights if your riding before 7am....
  • cracklebox
    cracklebox Posts: 8
    thing i 'love' about peds...

    don't look and nearly get hit by a cyclist "fucking bikes you bastard"

    don't look and nearly get hit by a car "i was in the wrong i didn't look"

    had one of those rides home where everyone decided to cross the road right in front of me. one dude seemed to get pissed because i didn't stop for him!
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Another effin' slow p******* in my rear tyre for the second day running! Grrrrr! :x
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Cars, when you are going straight on at this junction, please do not indicate left. There is in face a left turn which you are not turning into, and this leaves me stoping at the left turn assuming you are doing as you indicate and cutting across me. It leave me so frustrated when you then go straight on although your indicator is on. I estimate about half the cars indicate left, then go straight on.

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=55.933481,-4.316061&spn=0,359.986246&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=55.933321,-4.316466&panoid=eHEEtYGzp57BXaIJNNooZw&cbp=12,4.24,,0,-5.25
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  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    Dear haggard old cow on Acton Lane on your crappy Zafira. When you overtake me with 2 inches to spare whilst texting on your phone, then stop at the lights 200 yards ahead, still texting, don't be surprised when I tap on your window and ask you to stop.

    If it happens again, I'd appreciate it if you didn't reply with a volley of obscenities a docker would be ashamed of. Anyway I hope you have a bad day. Yours, el_presidente.
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