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Ah, my 11am snack :twisted:menthel wrote:0 -
RIP commute...
Sometimes seen bimbling around on a purple Fratello Disc or black and red Aprire Vincenza.0 -
33, but a more minnowesque 73kgmenthel wrote:0 -
dhope wrote:
33, but a more minnowesque 73kgmenthel wrote:
Whippersnapper! It takes quite a lot of effort to keep my weight down to my now substantially less fat 85kg but I really could go for a fry up right now...RIP commute...
Sometimes seen bimbling around on a purple Fratello Disc or black and red Aprire Vincenza.0 -
Manc33 wrote:"due to new Royal Mail restrictions we cannot ship Aerosols"
Just one question - how do the aerosols get to the shop that won't sell them to you? Oh yeah, on the back of a truck along with hundreds or even thousands of other aerosols. Then it drops off a few dozen cans of it at a shop... that then isn't "allowed" to send you one can.
its because the Royal Mail cant guarantee that your few dozen aerosols dont end up being shipped round the country by airplane post, not truck post.
normally retaillers who "post" aerosols, use courier firms instead who can guarantee its road based delivery only.0 -
dhope wrote:
Not in my experience.Manc33 wrote:"Simply put, it's safer for cyclists to ride two abreast, it means that motorists usually have to overtake in a proper manner rather than overtaking in the same lane as the cyclists"
That is a complete reversal of the reality. :shock:
If you're further out in the road there's more chance of being hit. Anyone claiming the opposite is the case is either insane or they want more fatalities.
The rationale goes along the lines of.
Cyclist 1/2 foot from kerb: Motorist doesn't need to move at all to not hit them. Motorist continues on their existing course and passes half a foot from cyclist.
Cyclist 2 feet from kerb: Motorist has to move to not hit them. Having taken the conscious decision to move they end up giving the cyclist another couple of feet of space.
The act of forcing someone to acknowledge an obstacle is enough to kick them into a thought process that they might not otherwise have considered (i.e. have I left this person enough room or am I going to squeeze them into the kerb)
Yes, to say nothing about making it obvious that overtaking is dangerous in some situations, like approaching traffic islands.
When driving, I prefer a cyclist to be a couple of feet out and riding smoothly than hugging the kerb and having to suddenly pull out for potholes etc.
When cycling, I prefer to be a couple of feet out most of the time, except for when I move further out.
Vehicles seem to give me about as much space as I give the kerb.0 -
Never lend out tools, not ever. Seriously unimpressed. :twisted:0
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Oh Carmex that comes in the small yellow tube,
Why are you so f * cking easy to lose?0 -
Manc33 wrote:All motorists will say to that is "You don't have to ride side by side".
Yea, I get that. I was just surprised how aggressive people seemed to be considering we were on side roads and were twice overtaken at points you wouldn't normally be overtaken even as a cyclists riding alone. Once whilst passing a stationary bus and at a pinch point in the road where there was an island that the driver felt the need to swerve around on the wrong side of the road. Anyway, we didn't continue with it after that, it seems to be like a red rag to a bull.0 -
Prhymeate wrote:Yea, I get that. I was just surprised how aggressive people seemed to be considering we were on side roads and were twice overtaken at points you wouldn't normally be overtaken even as a cyclists riding alone. Once whilst passing a stationary bus and at a pinch point in the road where there was an island that the driver felt the need to swerve around on the wrong side of the road. Anyway, we didn't continue with it after that, it seems to be like a red rag to a bull.
I see the drivers perspective on this. By riding 2 up when they want to pass it restricts their overtaking choices much more than a single rider (even if that rider is in primary). This leads to the perception by drivers that you are deliberately and continuously impeding their progress which they see as selfish behaviour. This leads to frustration which then leads to more agressive overtakes.
Even though I rack up a lot of miles and I'm not averse to using primary when necessary to block overtakes I'd never ride 2 up if there was a car following me (safe to pass or not) as I also see it as selfish behaviour. If you had gone single file when the car was behind even if you maintained a primary position when it wasn't safe to pass you would probably get a lot less hassled by drivers.
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A couple of rants.
Close pass by a lorry, that then squeezed me into the curb as he misjudged the speed of oncoming traffic. But that is not the rant, that is just an everyday occurrence. The rant is he then flashed his hazard lights to say sorry, thus denying me the pleasure of ranting at him.
Oh the irony, filtered passed a couple of cars at a traffic calming measure that has a cyclist cut through. Thus getting in front of said cars when they got through the measure, one car got held up behind me until I turned off 10 seconds later, he took same turn and was still stuck behind me as now parked cars make it single lane. Again I usually turn off this road 10 seconds later, but was stuck behind a van that was trying to turn round in the junction. Car driver starts shouting abuse at me for holding him up etc etc. Despite him actually being held up by other cars through traffic calming, needed because cars speed, parked cars on the road, because every household seems to need 3 cars, and a van blocking the road. I can only assume that a large portion of his rage came from the fact that deep inside he knew his 10yr old astra with a bodykit was actually a pile of shit and an embarrassment.0 -
Tried to blag a free cookie from Subway but didn't have a receipt so used a random number for the store ID and a random number for the receipt which worked. A couple of minutes later I got the email but the details said only valid at store situated at 2018 E. Butler Ave, Flagstaff, AZ.I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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That's not a rant, you got a free cookie!!! Some people....;)redvee wrote:Tried to blag a free cookie from Subway but didn't have a receipt so used a random number for the store ID and a random number for the receipt which worked. A couple of minutes later I got the email but the details said only valid at store situated at 2018 E. Butler Ave, Flagstaff, AZ.0 -
I normally stay zen on my commute. I don't take risks, I don't put myself where I shouldn't be, and I rarely manage more than a shake of the head or uncharitable thoughts when I see bad driving. But today all the idiots were out in force.
Incident 1. There's a crossroads. I'm at the front with a car turning right alongside me. I didn't filter to get there, I was just the first to arrive after the lights changed. Because the car is turning right and I'm going straight on the car behind me has to wait for me to go before squeezing through to the left of the turning car. There is then a left turn maybe 5 metres after the crossroads. Guess where he wants to go? And he's already waited long enough so he wants to pass me before he turns. The closest left hook I've ever had that hasn't left a bike shaped dent in the car. My shout was quite loud and sweary.
At the next set of traffic lights I don't bother filtering as I want some time to calm down. I think I've managed. Shortly up the road there's a shop where people ALWAYS park in the (non mandatory) cycle lane. I'm keeping pace with the traffic and move out into the main lane of traffic to go round but the car that's parked decides that I don't matter and pulls out into me without indicating. To be fair I'd often let this one go but I was still clearly a bit wound up as he got a mouthful too.
I then passed my OH who was out for a run and he commented on how I appeared to be powering uphill quite aggressively...0 -
hjghg5 wrote:I normally stay zen on my commute.
Anyone familiar with Kung Fu, the 70s TV series* starring David Carradine as a martial arts and zen master?
He has these flashbacks to his years of training where he underwent various challenges and ordeals designed to test his commitment to the Tao and his zen mastery (carrying a red-hot cauldron with his forearms etc) .
Just amusing myself imagining an episode where he is charged with riding around London, robes flowing, remaining perfectly calm in the face of all sorts of provocation.
Until, under a volley of abuse from a pig-faced white van driver, he snaps, drags the berk through his van window and chucks him over Hammersmith Bridge.
*I only know it from re-runs...0 -
If I've got my arm stuck out, I am signalling my intent to move out of my current line. If I've had my arm stuck out for 3+ seconds you have had plenty of time to see it. So you getting upset and slamming on your brakes because I called you a hand shuffler for trying to force me to go into a bin lorry makes you a douche. You douche.0
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gingaman wrote:If I've got my arm stuck out, I am signalling my intent to move out of my current line. If I've had my arm stuck out for 3+ seconds you have had plenty of time to see it. So you getting upset and slamming on your brakes because I called you a hand shuffler for trying to force me to go into a bin lorry makes you a douche. You douche.
"He came out of nowhere!!!"
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2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter0 -
Witnessed this morning.
A Mum and Dad cycling along, Dad on one of those Dutch Bikes with Bucket out front with the Kid in...minding their own business....Bloody Bus makes an overtaking manoeuvre (doesn't completely make it) then stops to turn right...wedging the Mum against the kerb, nowhere to go.
Bus driver; complete twunt.
It's no wonder some families don't want to risk riding on the road with their kids with crappy driving like that...a so called "professional driver".0 -
Northumbria police overtaking a cyclist doing 22mph over a double solid white line and forcing said cyclist and 2 cars coming the other way to move out of your way is not my definition of attempting a safe overtake.0
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this isnt a rant about the hand waving/hello thing with other riders I get some people dont want to join in with that, its a theres absolutely no need to shout abuse back at someone just because they waved and said hello to you rant :x
also I take it back about MINI drivers, if Im at the approaching a crossroads wanting to turn left and there is traffic thats not clear what they want to do, we'll get along much better together if you dont nudge into my back wheel when I stop.
other than that great ride today :roll:0 -
Tradesmen. All of them.
Currently waiting for some tiles to be re-secured, becuase the guy did them wrong the first time.
Just finished off the landscaping that I've paid someone else to do, and have to get into some argy bargy about the price he's charged me now.
Spent all afternoon in a howling gale jetting water at a new set of French doors trying to figure out where the leak is. Guess what, its leaking exactly where I told the guy that it would leak and where I told him to fix it. And no, the water is not somehow coming through the roof and around the doors and into the next floor down. Water, clever though it is compared to some tradesmen, is not clever enough to avoid new joinery.0 -
This.First Aspect wrote:Tradesmen. All of them.
Conversation with carpenter hired some time back to build some new internal wall framing...
Me: That's a really nice looking square you have in the tool-box!
Chippie: Eh?
Me: Did you ever consider learning how to use it?Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0 -
AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH Nodders insisting on undertaking / pushing past in the couple of feet between me and the kerb on my left when stopped at traffic lights etc. Why? I overtook you like you were standing still about a mile ago and now you have to prove some sort of bizarre tortoise and hare theory by pushing ahead of everyone else / filtering down the inside of buses / vans / whatever just to then hold us all up as you wobble away from the lights. And the Allez Man that came tearing up the inside of me at the lights just before LB this morning whilst I was pootling behind the bus (ie with nowwhere to go) and then nearly got killed because there was no room up the inside of the bus (which was only ever going to pull in to the bus stop anyway) - hence me being in primary behind it - I mean WTF?! How many cyclists need to get killed before you realise that gaining maybe a second or two on your journey probably isn't worth the dumb risk?
Lighter mornings seem to be bringing the worst plastics out already.CS7
Surrey Hills
What's a Zwift?0 -
Got another bloody cold! How annoying.RIP commute...
Sometimes seen bimbling around on a purple Fratello Disc or black and red Aprire Vincenza.0 -
Eventful ride in, two tipper trucks in a row close overtaking and I suspect their top speed, then not 10 minutes later the same but faster and closer from an aster property management company transit.
Country commuting is way more dangerous than London any day of the week especially if you hit the roads after 6:30Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
On top of the throat infection I had at the start of Feb I now have a virus. Meant I spent the long weekend away in Lyme Regis with the wife shuffling around like a ninety year old, zero energy, felt like sh*t. Balls.Kinesis Racelite 4s disc
Kona Paddy Wagon
Canyon Roadlite Al 7.0 - reborn as single speed!
Felt Z85 - mangled by taxi.0 -
Was thinking whilst in work how long it has been since the last PF visit, over 380 miles. Tonight she made another visit
I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0 -
If your wife reads these pages, you may wish to re-phrase that...MrSweary wrote:On top of the throat infection I had at the start of Feb I now have a virus. Meant I spent the long weekend away in Lyme Regis with the wife shuffling around like a ninety year old, zero energy, felt like sh*t. Balls.
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Complete nodder charges through zebra crossing by Westminster, with a pedestrian halfway across. Actually accelerated as the guy walked out ahead of him. When I sidle up next to him at the Parliament Sq lights and politely suggest he gives pedestrians the right of way at crossings (I may have called him an idiot as well), I then get an earful back about how he had 'given him loads of room' and 'wasn't even near hitting him'.
He was also one of these saggy chinstrap, helmet-falling-off-the-back-of-the-head types, so it was probably fool hardy to have tried and reason with him about priorities and common sense.
So I guess I was in the wrong, may now make this a self rant.Offroad - http://www.flickr.com/photos/85423376@N06/8580404560
Onroad - http://www.flickr.com/photos/85423376@N06/85793317250
