Your rants here.

rubbercolin

nothing worse than prius smugness........

just wag the finger and fight the power....

:evil:

asprilla

Daft bint who pulled out in front if me as I approached Shephard's Bush; shrugging is not an effective way of saying "I'm sorry I pulled out of a side road without looking to my right and yes I do understand that I could have done some serious damage or even killed you."

el_presidente

Dear red-headed lady in a blue jacket on a silver De Rosa going west through Trafalgar Sq / the Mall / Constitution Hill at 6 yesterday evening Your use of a Garmin speedometer thingy is a bit superfluous when you are going that slowly, a calendar might be more appropriate. And don't try to make up time by RLJing through tiny gaps between pedestrians you complete muppet.

cjcp

el_presidente wrote:

Your use of a Garmin speedometer thingy is a bit superfluous when you are going that slowly, a calendar might be more appropriate.

Retch

Oi. Darling. You might be looking great in a tight top thing with your hair all curly and... Look, just buy some lights, yes? It's DARK and you're pootling around Tower Hill.

cjcp

To the the SSer dressed in black, the chap on the orange Litespeed and the chap in shorts on the blue and silber Giant:

if you're gonna take a tow from Chelsea Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge, then down Millbank (although the Litespeed spun past by the Morpeth, to be re-passed further on), and in the case of the Giant, down much of Temple Embankment, into a decent headwind, at least have the courtesy to say "thanks".

asprilla

Excellent attempt at mass murder this morning by the Luton Van performing a u-turn on Putney Bridge. Full marks for causing 5 roadies to take evasive action.

Obviously the collective noun isn't a peloton, but an invisible of cyclists.

MattFT

to the angry hybrid rider cycling north up Exhibition Road in Hyde Park yesterday. Just because you're in hi-viz and have lots of lights doesn't mean you bomb up a shared peds/cycle path at 20mph shouting angrily at any ped or fellow cyclist who is even close to getting in your way.

Bad form.

Levi_501

I used public transport today, nuff said.

itboffin

Levi_501 wrote:

I used public transport today, nuff said.

Oh dear where do we send the flowers?

asprilla

Two rants today:

1) the bloke in the London Cycle Safe high viz who went straight through the lights at the end of Putney Bridge and then all along Upper Richmond Road.

2) my front deraillure for giving up this evening as I came into RP. Gutted.

cjcp

Along the NKR this evening, filtering up the bike lane in traffic, and had to stop at a zebra crossing for a middle aged chap walking his bike, who, having seen me stop, then hops on his bike, wobbles along the bike lane barely faster than I could crawl, no rear light. Grrr. :x

Anonymous

Thanks to the nobber who pulled out in front of me as I was on the mini roundabout, who then drove up beside me, resting on his horn for 40 yards, in Greenhithe last night about 5:45 pm.
The Lord then smiled upon me as the next junction had a red light. Said driver and myself had to stop. I got off my bike and walked round to his window. Suddenly I did not exist. he locked his doors and stared straight ahead. I knocked on his window, he had also become deaf.
55 plate dark blue BMW 3 series, you fcukin wuss, I win.

benno68

I take offence at people beeping at me for no apparent reason, this has happened 3 times this week, one of them was beeping at every given opportunity - like when a bus stopped infront of him at a bus stop!

It's almost like they're saying "I'm coming through - get out of my way", what do they want, shall I roll the fecking red carpet out for them.

Today one guy followed me into a side street, I stopped to enquire why he beeped at me, for some reason he chose not to stop and discuss.

rjsterry

The lady on the tourer bimbling along Clapham Road, north of Stockwell this morning. If you want to ride that slowly, fine, but it would be good manners to keep in so that other riders and vehicles can get past. To then RLJ after you have caused everyone else to miss the green is just plain rude.

Oh, and to the umpteenth BMW driving halfwit (it really does come with the keys doesn't it) at Oval tube lights: one of the downsides of driving a car is that you have to wait in queues at traffic lights. If you want to filter down the inside:

A: GET A BIKE!
B: If you absolutely cannot wait your turn, at least use your fecking indicators so that others have some warning of your idiocy.

You were only 3 cars back from the lights anyway! And to then tailgate me up to the end of Kennington Lane - what exactly are you trying to prove?

Feel better now.

il_principe

To the COMPLETE FUCKWIT who cut me up on Wandsworth roundabout last night - BUY SOME FCKING LIGHTS YOU MASSIVE TIT. That roundabout is busy as hell and I don't appreciate numpty ninjas forcing me into evasive action on a four lane stretch of road in the dark.

W*NKER.

That is all.

Kieran_Burns

Il Principe wrote:

To the COMPLETE FUCKWIT who cut me up on Wandsworth roundabout last night - BUY SOME FCKING LIGHTS YOU MASSIVE TIT. That roundabout is busy as hell and I don't appreciate numpty ninjas forcing me into evasive action on a four lane stretch of road in the dark.

W*NKER.

That is all.

There are some people that really get the idea of the rant thread....

suzyb

1. Just because you are in a sport utility vehicle doesn't mean you can leave your common sense at home. When a roundabout has two lanes leading on and four exits it is common sense (and quite possibly in the highway code) that the left lane is for exiting at one of the first two exits and the right lane for exiting the last two.

So please use your common sense and do not decide to turn right from the left hand lane. If I had been any faster a cyclist or another motor vehicle you were hitting me.

2. Please Mr lorry driver wait until after the cyclists has passed you before hissing whatever on a lorry hisses when your about to pull away (hand brake perhaps). You may have seen the cyclist but they don't know that and you hissing scares the crap out of them and makes them swerve to try and avoid you when you pull out even though you do not intend to until they have passed.

antfly

rubbercolin wrote:

nothing worse than prius smugness........


:evil:

There aren`t too many smug Prius drivers at the moment!

Chewy Cheeks

Boris Johnson, from now known as BJ.

Closing the bridges all at the same time is dim.

Then not being aware of roadworks on the approaches to all alternative bridges is
just downright crass.

I gave you a go because I was so sick of Ken L.

2 hours for a 15 mile journey on a Sunday with three kids in the car expecting lunch
and an afternoons frolics not just once but twice has made me sick of you.

biondino

Chewy Cheeks wrote:

I gave you a go because I was so sick of Ken L

rolf_f

Kieran_Burns wrote:

There are some people that really get the idea of the rant thread....

Good point - all this mild sarcasm is unbefitting of a rant thread!

OldSkoolKona

TfL, my cycle to work is fun enough, I don't need additional pinch points added in to 'improve road safety' and force me to have to take primary position past a set of traffic lights that did not exist before.

Silly motorist who got upset that I held them up for 3 seconds through said 'facility' - my holding of my finger and thumb up at you to indicate a distance was pointing out how close you came to me before I wrapped my knuckles on your car - it could equally have equated the size of your manhood given the way you over reacted. :evil:

Specialized UK - all of this takes place on your doorstep at your office in Chessington - do none of your employees cycle to work or take an interest in the road beside them? This would be a prime opportunity to show your advocacy credientials :?: :?:

And relax..... :?

W1

Are you a Condor black-tight-wearing bespectacled red light jumping roadie drafting fairy rding along the Embankment? If so, get off my wheel. And, once you've saved enough energy by literally climbing onto the back of my bike, don't push through at the lights and grab the wheel of the next half decent rider. If you want to be towed all the way home in a close convoy get on a train.

MonkeyMonster

OT rant at parents who break their PC's and then call offspring at work having installed the mother fecker of all evil malware on their home pc and now need assistance but have forgotten all IT knowledge they ever had...

itboffin

MonkeyMonster wrote:

OT rant at parents who break their PC's and then call offspring at work having installed the mother fecker of all evil malware on their home pc and now need assistance but have forgotten all IT knowledge they ever had...

This will help.

"I'm sorry you have the wrong number" then hangup

cjcp

itboffin wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

OT rant at parents who break their PC's and then call offspring at work having installed the mother fecker of all evil malware on their home pc and now need assistance but have forgotten all IT knowledge they ever had...

This will help.

"I'm sorry you have the wrong number" then hangup

OT, but why is the wrong number never engaged?

CiB

MonkeyMonster wrote:

OT rant at parents who break their PC's and then call offspring at work having installed the mother fecker of all evil malware on their home pc and now need assistance but have forgotten all IT knowledge they ever had...

Set em up with a cheap 2nd hand laptop loaded with Linux Mint. Worked for me - not a peep on the unofficial tech support front, just a couple of happy in-laws who can surf & email away without a care. It helped hugely that they didn't have to unlearn Windows.

essexian

Okay, if you knew that your dog chased and bites cyclists do you:

1): Make sure you are awake when you are out walking said mutt on a shared path rather than not be aware a cyclist is coming towards you from behind (she must have been able to hear me as I was braking: they squeek: everyone else could hear me).

2): Shout a warning about the dog but only when said cyclist is 20 yards past you with the dog bearing down on him

3): Allow a dog which chases cyclists and bites to wonder around off his lead and without a muzzle

Well, the moron women in the red coat on the Greenway in Haughton Staffs did just that at 8.10am this morning. The said dog tried to take a lump out of my back tyre but did not puncture it. It tried to get me, but a kick to the head put it off. And she wondered why I shouted a mouthful of abuse at her from a safe distance. If the dog had managed to bite me, then I would have not been best pleased (understatement).

Spoiled an 18.8 mile pre breakfast ride.

suzyb

itboffin wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

OT rant at parents who break their PC's and then call offspring at work having installed the mother fecker of all evil malware on their home pc and now need assistance but have forgotten all IT knowledge they ever had...

This will help.

"I'm sorry you have the wrong number" then hangup

It doesn't help when you live in the same house and you get called to help because the laptop just switched off even though it is plugged into the mains.

Anyone care to guess what the problem was.