Your rants here.

aclivity

If Darwin did take the opportunity on a RLJ - how would you react?

Just wondering, having seen lots of summer bikers start appearing (and RLJ'ing, of course). I think it is a difficult one, personally I would want to help the cyclist but I couldn't help give the driver support if / when it came to a case in law?

vimfuego

Yeah similar to you I think. I guess maybe if the driver was somehow still reckless - maybe on the on the phone or something - which meant they could've stopped / avoided the collision but didn't, then maybe there's a 50/50. But it would be hard to support someone that blatantly RLJ'd and had done so deliberately for miles beforehand. Ultimately if a collision occurred it would be their fault for being in the way having flouted the law - hard to pile all the blame on a driver in those circumstances

kiwimatt

Why is it the drivers of the very smallest cars seem to have the least spatial awareness. The drivers of larger vehicles seem to be doing better (sweeping generalisation) but almost every day I have a moment of Fiesta/Fiat/Mini rage as my right elbow is nearly taken off

Kieran_Burns

I was irked enough this morning to ping an email off to the Estate agents whose employee thought texting on the phone was permissible while driving.

As it turns out he was late for work as well (their hours are from 8:30 and he was still in traffic at 8:35) so he may be in a spot of trouble there as well

xbnm

To the person drying the silver hyndai you are not a traffic light or a traffic control officer it is not your job to stop in the middle of the road to let people out for no reason on a quite road.

If you're going to pull out in front of me when there really isn't enough room, immediately stopping in the way to let some pedestrians across the road at a traffic island giving me nowhere to go is not clever. Repeating this further down the road to let cars turn right is not clever either particularly when peugeout van man is trying to overtake into a non existent gap while were all doing 30mph downhill.

veronese68

XBNM wrote:

To the person drying the silver hyndai ...

I have no idea how old the aforementioned driver is, but it made me think of this:

veronese68

Went to have a nice lunch with the Mrs at a little Italian deli in Twickenham. I'd got less than 200 yards to the first set of lights that were on red. Urban dual carriageway, very small turning on the left, bigger turning on the right and a bike lane down the left of the traffic to a bike box. I've passed the second car and am slowing alongside a small red van when the lights change. I brake harder to come out from the side of the van in case he moves across whilst pulling away. No, he swung a sharp left without indicating. If I hadn't braked hard I'd have been in his passenger door. Then a learner bus driver making me very nervous, but all was fine as I kept well away and didn't make the pass as I didn't want him behind me. Get to Twickenham in one piece to find they are working around the bike stands I usually use are being worked around, the bikes locked to them have been lifted up by the workmen, not particularly carefully. So I asked them where some other stand were. I went to the other stands to find they'd all been dug up, so no bike stands. Luckily I found some railings to attach the bike to. But is it that hard to ensure one set are accessible? Anyway, eventually I enjoyed my lunch.

Kieran_Burns

Wind or rain, wind AND rain all week.

Drive in today. Blazing sunshine.

Thanks, thanks a bunch.

Anonymous

Shifter cable broke one hour into a 2.5hr training ride this am. Pushing 50x11 for 25 miles was tough work. CBA to change it so took it to the LBS but they are fully booked. Bought a replacement for 13 quid. Daylight robbery.

Apparently getting the ferrule out the shifter body can be sweary.....

keyser__soze

coriordan wrote:

Shifter cable broke one hour into a 2.5hr training ride this am. Pushing 50x11 for 25 miles was tough work.

Front derailleur broken too?

anonymousblackfg

Keyser__Soze wrote:

coriordan wrote:

Shifter cable broke one hour into a 2.5hr training ride this am. Pushing 50x11 for 25 miles was tough work.

Front derailleur broken too?

If dealing with the embarrassment of spinning around on a compact, the last thing he'd want to do is been seen riding the 34.

Anonymous

abfg got it in one.

In my defence when I bought the groupset, it was the first time it was on sale for £300 (the 11sp 105) and only came in compact and 11-28 flavour. At least I had the decency to change to a 11-25.

I do have a 36T inner ring, but no torx keys to fit it.

DJFish

Cab drivers.
That is all.

Kieran_Burns

Canteen this morning

Who the ****ing hell gets a coffee and ****ing pours in one sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then the milk.

And Stirs.

How this person is not dead is beyond me.

Captain Slackbladder

How acceptable has it become for drivers today to use a mobile phone when driving? I've lost count over the last few weeks how many I've come across. Not so much the phone to the ear but the classic between the legs texting or browsing the net.....idiots!

rubertoe

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Canteen this morning

Who the ****ing hell gets a coffee and ****ing pours in one sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then the milk.

And Stirs.

How this person is not dead is beyond me.

Surely its milk first?

GiantDance

Bloody Cricket

kurako

Today coming up North End Road I saw something I have never seen before. It was a fully loaded skip lorry pulling a trailer with another fully loaded skip. Not just one lorry either but two side by side. Talk about jaws of death!!!

rubertoe

GiantDance wrote:

Bloody Cricket

i thought it was going better than expected.

GiantDance

rubertoe wrote:

GiantDance wrote:

Bloody Cricket

i thought it was going better than expected.

Bit better now but at one point it was 31-4

davis

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Canteen this morning

Who the ****ing hell gets a coffee and ****ing pours in one sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then the milk.

And Stirs.

How this person is not dead is beyond me.

Revolting. If you're going to have milk and sugar in your coffee, then obviously the technique to grab 3 sachets and rip off the top of all 3 at once, pour them in with one hand while the other hand reaches for the milk. No need for stirring, either.

Burn them. Burn them with fire.

elbowloh

davis wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Canteen this morning

Who the ****ing hell gets a coffee and ****ing pours in one sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then the milk.

And Stirs.

How this person is not dead is beyond me.

Revolting. If you're going to have milk and sugar in your coffee, then obviously the technique to grab 3 sachets and rip off the top of all 3 at once, pour them in with one hand while the other hand reaches for the milk. No need for stirring, either.

Burn them. Burn them with fire.

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a fully trained barrista?

rubertoe

elbowloh wrote:

davis wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Canteen this morning

Who the ****ing hell gets a coffee and ****ing pours in one sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then the milk.

And Stirs.

How this person is not dead is beyond me.

Revolting. If you're going to have milk and sugar in your coffee, then obviously the technique to grab 3 sachets and rip off the top of all 3 at once, pour them in with one hand while the other hand reaches for the milk. No need for stirring, either.

Burn them. Burn them with fire.

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a fully trained barrista?

Works at Starbucks head office?

veronese68

elbowloh wrote:

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a poorly trained barrista?

FTFY.

elbowloh

rubertoe wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

davis wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Canteen this morning

Who the ****ing hell gets a coffee and ****ing pours in one sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then another sachet and stirs.

Then the milk.

And Stirs.

How this person is not dead is beyond me.

Revolting. If you're going to have milk and sugar in your coffee, then obviously the technique to grab 3 sachets and rip off the top of all 3 at once, pour them in with one hand while the other hand reaches for the milk. No need for stirring, either.

Burn them. Burn them with fire.

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a fully trained barrista?

Works at Starbucks head office?

Don't like starbucks coffee. Too milky and weak.

mattsaw

GiantDance wrote:

rubertoe wrote:

GiantDance wrote:

Bloody Cricket

i thought it was going better than expected.

Bit better now but at one point it was 31-4

That was better than expected. :shock:

tgotb

elbowloh wrote:

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a fully trained barrista?

Someone who doesn't want to blow several quid on a cup of coffee?

I like a nice cup of coffee as much as the next person, and love my espresso machine, but when I'm at work I drink the cr*p from the machine. For the annual cost of two cups a day of fancy coffee, I can spend a week cycle touring in the Alps.

Kieran_Burns

TGOTB wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a fully trained barrista?

Someone who doesn't want to blow several quid on a cup of coffee?

I like a nice cup of coffee as much as the next person, and love my espresso machine, but when I'm at work I drink the cr*p from the machine. For the annual cost of two cups a day of fancy coffee, I can spend a week cycle touring in the Alps.

Just to clarify: We have a Starbucks in our canteen.

elbowloh

TGOTB wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a fully trained barrista?

Someone who doesn't want to blow several quid on a cup of coffee?

I like a nice cup of coffee as much as the next person, and love my espresso machine, but when I'm at work I drink the cr*p from the machine. For the annual cost of two cups a day of fancy coffee, I can spend a week cycle touring in the Alps.

Was only joking, I rarely drink coffee. More of a tea kind of guy.

tgotb

elbowloh wrote:

TGOTB wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

Who the feck gets coffee from a canteen rather than a skinny, soya, double shot, extra hot cappuccino lovingly made by a fully trained barrista?

Someone who doesn't want to blow several quid on a cup of coffee?

I like a nice cup of coffee as much as the next person, and love my espresso machine, but when I'm at work I drink the cr*p from the machine. For the annual cost of two cups a day of fancy coffee, I can spend a week cycle touring in the Alps.

Was only joking, I rarely drink coffee. More of a tea kind of guy.

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Ah yes, so you were!
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