Your rants here.

Rich158

It was very nearly teh first big off of 2010 as well. Being side swiped at over 20mph by some little urchin scared the crap out of me, how I managed to stay upright is beyond me. Believe me, what I bellowed at the time left him in no doubt as to my feeling at his actions

Kieran_Burns

I'm honestly amazed it's taken one of us this long TO rant

joshtp

fliping brakles bmx's, they ruin the image of cycling, they are anoying, dangerouse, and they dont understand the concept of "dirt" or "something thats not riding bikes on walls and not being able to stop" (im a mtb'er) they wind me right up!

rolf_f

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I'm honestly amazed it's taken one of us this long TO rant

That's because most of the forum members have wussed out of bike commuting these last two weeks and those that have mtfu'd haven't had so much to rant about what with the cars either absent or mostly stationary.

downfader

Rolf F wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I'm honestly amazed it's taken one of us this long TO rant

That's because most of the forum members have wussed out of bike commuting these last two weeks and those that have mtfu'd haven't had so much to rant about what with the cars either absent or mostly stationary.

Drivers have carried on as normal here - with several serious crashes as a result. :?

MonkeyMonster

Had an absolute twunt (in some of back open trailer thingey) this morning who over took myself and another only to pull in ahead into the cycle lane with heavy traffic as well. Quick shoulder check and signal and I moved into the traffic but what a silly bunt.

knappers

Heres my rant, well if it qualifies as one.

Havent been able to cycle for a couple of months now, most annoying, done my tendon in in my left hip and sometimes unable to push down on the peddle, any remedies welcome because now I have to suffer the idiots on the bus, who seem to think we all like the same crappy distoted hip hop shit on their mboile phones and the ignorrant bastards who don't know what a bloody queue is, and those retards that just because they have got the window seat means they can occupy both seats and make it very difficult for you to sit down next to them, and the body language says 'don't sit next to me'.

Well you llittle shit!, i'm sitting here I've paid for a fucking seat as well and you will move your fucking bag and legs. ARSEHOLE!!

This morning just said 'scuse me' and promptly sat on his bag and leg, fuck him!! ignorant bastard didn't like it and had aface on all the way into town, well give him his dew he actually had his baseball cap on the right way.

AH I feel better!for that.

zanes

You were the cyclist with hi-viz and a mirror riding through Frocester towards Leonard Stanley at ~0820 today

I was the bloke in a white Fiat 500 behind you

She was the cow in a renault saloon behind me

You were fine, doing about 20 in a 30. I was waiting until we were out of the 30 and around the blind bends. She didn't like this. I overtake in 2nd, you look a bit shocked, she's in the wrong gear :roll: . She and I drive to the ebley bypass junction. She winds the window down and starts to get a bit cross. The lights turn green, I ignore her and drive off.

Yes, I know I was in a car but I've been here before and it's sort of like bike related. I miss cycle commuting Until back to Bath next year

kurako

First rant of the year for me. This really gets my goat though. Stuck in traffic (lights/ ped xings) and some tool comes wobbling up the inside and cuts in front just as I'm moving off. You really need to stop that. Especially if you've just traded in your hybrid for a yellow Giant Defy like the bloke who did it to me outside the Courts of Justice this morning :evil:

Cafewanda

My first in a while.

Wednesday evening I decided to go home via Southwark Street, across Blackfriars Bridge to Waterloo and up to Vauxhall. Turning left to go under the railway bridge, then a right towards South Lambeth Road, I shoulder-check both sides frequently as I'm always worried some tool will get too close despite the sunlight-type street lights and my high-viz/lights garb.

You stupid forker in the dark car (yes, I've noted your registration :evil: ) hit me with your wing mirror and all you could do was look. Not even an apology, you cnut. Dammit I really need to get my D-lock attached to the handlebars cuz I really would have put it through your rear window, despite the traffic :x

A few mins later I had to get onto the pavement once the shock hit me. Rode home even slower than usual. Not getting me off the road!

marchant

Bah, it seems someone's stolen my lock from work (unlikely as it seems), presumably for the big beefy chain it was attached to. My only consolation is that it wasn't locking up my bike at the time.

Also (not cycling rant), a bloody cat attacked and mortally wounded a pigeon in our garden this morning, so guess who had to finish the job...

kr1s

A guy in a van, right over to the left in slow/stopped traffic. So the manouver is to pass him on the right at which point he abuses me and trys to shout the highway code at me.

Sorry mate but Im a nobody just making my way through the mobile car park and your the heating engineer in the van with your mobile number on the side. How many phonecalls have you had this week for pizza and taxis LMAO

CiB

Drove to school today instead of the usual scooter / bike options. It's always busy in the school car park, today more so.

So: women - and it is women - when you return to your car, why can't you just jump in and go, to create a vacant parking space? When there's a queue and it's going nowhere because I'm expecting you there - you who's just climbed into your car and started it and put the lights on so it's obvious that you intend to move on - why can you not just move out of the space that you no longer need and that I would like to occupy, and then do all your women's faffing about whilst sitting in the queue 50 yards away to get out of the car park? And when I gesture towards the space you're still in but no longer need, just go. Don't sit there with a blank face wondering why no-one is moving. Go, move out of the way and vacate the space. You can put your seat belt on, check your lovely hair and makeup and find Radio Local when you're out of the way.

Applies equally to schools, supermarkets, and road side parking. Get in your car, start it up and clear off. Do the faffing about when you're out of the way, out of my way, and not holding the world up. Useless, every one of 'em.

Blokes? In, fire it up & away. Bish bash bosh gone. Easy. Women - watch and learn, especially if you go to my kids' school.

iain_j

Ranting at myself today. I was fine all day yesterday. Went to bed last night and pulled the quilt up, and nearly went through the roof - felt like someone had stuck a screwdriver between my ribs. No matter what way I lay in bed it hurt. Didn't sleep well. Breathing hurts today as does any twisting or stretching. Strangely enough though, riding to and from work was mostly painless (except for twisting to look behind me - glad I went in early on empty roads!).

I was hoping to get out for my first "proper" ride of the year at the weekend. All I want to do is ride my bike. Booger :x

pst88

Dropped my sodding chain this morning. I've been meaning to increase the chain tension for ages but kept putting it off and thought no harm would come of it. Set off early to get to work in good time for an important meeting, everything was going fine until I went over a bump and suddenly I was freewheeling which I didn't think was possible on a fixed gear bike. I look down and there's my loose chain flapping around the chain rings, not snapped, just popped off. I slow down (lucky I've got a front brake eh?) and inspect the damage; a massive gouge in the chainstay where the chain jammed in. Hopefully it's just cosmetic but still annoying. A few minutes with the spanner and I had the wheel repositioned, chain tensioned and back on my way. Still got in fairly early but not as much as I'd like. I'm annoyed with myself for not sorting it out earlier, plus all the bastards that came past on bikes and didn't stop to see if I was ok. I was but it's still nice for people to stop and check.

cjcp

CiB wrote:

Drove to school today instead of the usual scooter / bike options. It's always busy in the school car park, today more so.

So: women - and it is women - when you return to your car, why can't you just jump in and go, to create a vacant parking space? When there's a queue and it's going nowhere because I'm expecting you there - you who's just climbed into your car and started it and put the lights on so it's obvious that you intend to move on - why can you not just move out of the space that you no longer need and that I would like to occupy, and then do all your women's faffing about whilst sitting in the queue 50 yards away to get out of the car park? And when I gesture towards the space you're still in but no longer need, just go. Don't sit there with a blank face wondering why no-one is moving. Go, move out of the way and vacate the space. You can put your seat belt on, check your lovely hair and makeup and find Radio Local when you're out of the way.

Applies equally to schools, supermarkets, and road side parking. Get in your car, start it up and clear off. Do the faffing about when you're out of the way, out of my way, and not holding the world up. Useless, every one of 'em.

Blokes? In, fire it up & away. Bish bash bosh gone. Easy. Women - watch and learn, especially if you go to my kids' school.

+1,000.

I don't have a car park to deal with when I drop the eldest off, just the playground. Why oh why do they stand around gassing with their prams, often two abreast, at the gates?

Ab-so-looot-lee so spacial awareness whatsoever.

tailwindhome

Light needs 3 AA batteries

Batteries come in packs in multiples of 4

I'm not taking it any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

redvee

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Light needs 3 AA batteries

Batteries come in packs in multiples of 4

I'm not taking it any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only got one gadget like that but I'm with you, just buy 3 packets but sods law states that when you need 3 batteries you only have 2 spares.

el_presidente

To the wobbly girl on the sit up & beg who RLJed all the way up Kensington High Street this morning. It's really not wise to squeeze into an 18 inch gap between me and a Suzuki GSX-R, just as the lights go green, when the biker has his left indicator on. You're lucky he checked his blindpsot as he made the turn or he would have wiped you out. Sadly I don't think you even realised what you had done.

the other me

when I put my bike in a bike rack on a train I expect it to be there, in the same rack, when I go to get it back.
If you get to the train after me you have to use the racks that are left. You do not get to move my bike so you can have the rack instead, thats not how it works.
I don't care if it looks better than the other racks, I don't care if you have sh!t you want to pile on top of it, but I DO care when people feck around with my stuff.

You don't bump peoples cars out of a car park if they have a 'better' space than you do you? well its the same thing.

(and I all but got accused of nicking someones else bike as I appeared to almost randomly select another bike (mine) from the other side of the rack !)

there, that feels better already

attica

Mr Rob Milne, if somebody on a bike is indicating quite clearly that they want to turn right as the car in front of you overtakes them, it is not time to put your foot down.

You should know this you really really should.

Why? Becauise not only do you have your name writ large on your car, but it also says "school of motoring" on it.

Do you teach your students thoose hand signals too?

%$*& *&("£$ %^$£"!£^

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

rjsterry

Attica wrote:

Mr Rob Milne, if somebody on a bike is indicating quite clearly that they want to turn right as the car in front of you overtakes them, it is not time to put your foot down.

You should know this you really really should.

Why? Becauise not only do you have your name writ large on your car, but it also says "school of motoring" on it.

Do you teach your students thoose hand signals too?

%$*& *&("£$ %^$£"!£^

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

Just in case you wanted to send a message direct:

http://www.driving-schools-uk.com/Weston%20Super%20Mare

I should probably get on with some work now

attica

haha, I thought about posting his address too, but figured that was possibly a touch OTT.

Suffice it to say "I know where you live 4rsewit"

rjsterry

Attica wrote:

haha, I thought about posting his address too, but figured that was possibly a touch OTT.

Suffice it to say "I know where you live 4rsewit"

Having seen some of the driving down on the sea front at Weston, perhaps that is what he teaches them :roll:

Mr_Cellophane

Attica wrote:

Mr Rob Milne, if somebody on a bike is indicating quite clearly that they want to turn right as the car in front of you overtakes them, it is not time to put your foot down.

You should know this you really really should.

Why? Because not only do you have your name writ large on your car, but it also says "school of motoring" on it.

Do you teach your students those hand signals too?

%$*& *&("£$ %^$£"!£^

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

I don't think hand signals form part of the driving test these days.

waddlie

Lovely ride home tonight along the Pill path, over the Avonmouth bridge and then back up the bastard hill of Shirehampton...

....and then, 200 yds from home, one of WorstBus's finest decides to overtake. No problem, there's plenty of room. Only some dozey eejit half pulls out of a t-junction on the left and stops. I can't go through or the bus will kill me. The bus can't go through either in case I make a break for it. So we both come to a stop in the middle of the road and double-team the plank with a bit of verbal. Suitably chastened, she backs up into the side street. Bus driver and I give each other a nod and a smirk, and carry on on our merry way. Sweet.

redvee

Waddlie wrote:

Lovely ride home tonight along the Pill path, over the Avonmouth bridge and then back up the bastard hill of Shirehampton...

Park Hill or Lower High Street? I guess Park hill, if the other you seriously need to MTFU. I too had an experience of the best of Worstbus a few days ago. Coming past the new Primark in Brizzle and a bus at the bus stop indicates then pulls out when I get to within 10 foot of the bus luckily I had the camera running.

waddlie

redvee wrote:

Waddlie wrote:

Lovely ride home tonight along the Pill path, over the Avonmouth bridge and then back up the bastard hill of Shirehampton...

Park Hill or Lower High Street? I guess Park hill, if the other you seriously need to MTFU. I too had an experience of the best of Worstbus a few days ago. Coming past the new Primark in Brizzle and a bus at the bus stop indicates then pulls out when I get to within 10 foot of the bus luckily I had the camera running.

Whichever one goes past the golf club. It's not the hill itself that's the problem, it's the motorists flying past me at 40+ inches from my handlebars. There's already two shrines by the side of the road so I've decided to change my route before I become the third...

I remember the good old days when Primark was Bentalls...

Furbes

My biggest rant probably will be always bloody taxi drivers , thinking they own the road ! :evil:
Everyday i find myself screaming at them !

Furbes

the other me wrote:

when I put my bike in a bike rack on a train I expect it to be there, in the same rack, when I go to get it back.
If you get to the train after me you have to use the racks that are left. You do not get to move my bike so you can have the rack instead, thats not how it works

Can't you lock your bike to the rack ? (probably a silly question) .