Your rants here.

awavey

elbowloh wrote:

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.

stop having the latte then

actually last Starbucks I had, because yeah I couldnt find any other coffee shop, was actually very nice,maybe their master blenders have finally worked out how to do it properly

itboffin

Starbucks !!! :shock:

i just brought up a bit of sick, which incidentally contained more caffeine than any Starpukes

Mods lock this thread please its been violated :?

rubertoe

Feckityfeckfeckfeck.

That is all.

aclivity

F155 YCF VW Scirocco decided to turn left in Manchester city centre - ignoring the 2 cyclists who were going straight ahead. Very annoying!

davis

Nearly killed by a big truck.

He overtook going up hill, and there was a big tanker coming the other way. No room. Nowhere to go.

The tanker driver did what he could by shoving his into the hedge (I could see him shaking his head and looking quite scared).

The overtaker then pulled in to a lay-by 20m up the road. I didn't have much left to say anything beyond "bit more room next time please". Didn't get any details.

Just terrifying.

Thanks to the tanker driver. He might have saved my life.

Bum.

elbowloh

davis wrote:

Nearly killed by a big truck.

He overtook going up hill, and there was a big tanker coming the other way. No room. Nowhere to go.

The tanker driver did what he could by shoving his into the hedge (I could see him shaking his head and looking quite scared).

The overtaker then pulled in to a lay-by 20m up the road. I didn't have much left to say anything beyond "bit more room next time please". Didn't get any details.

Just terrifying.

Thanks to the tanker driver. He might have saved my life.

Bum.

Sounds scary, but happens all to commonly.
Almost got squished in my car by a construction/tipper truck last night. Was on the inside lane of 2, he just decided to change lanes without looking or was not able to see me. Only stopped his manoeuvre when I beeped a few times at him. If they can't see a big saloon car, then a cyclist has no chance.

davis

Oh he saw me; Exposure Blaze and RedEye micro and he was behind me for a short while. He just DGAF.

elbowloh

davis wrote:

Oh he saw me; Exposure Blaze and RedEye micro and he was behind me for a short while. He just DGAF.

Sorry, yeah clearly he's just a cnut.

il_principe

PowerMeter won't be with me for the weekend. Ordered on 06/05 and it was only dispatched from Germany yesterday. :evil:

jedster

The tanker driver did what he could by shoving his into the hedge (I could see him shaking his head and looking quite scared).

Sounds horrible. Thank god it was a tanker driver coming the other way. They are genuinely the best. Some joker driving a skip truck and it might have been worse.

elbowloh

On a group ride yesterday, going along a tiny narrow track lane in Surrey, hedges on both sides and a blind bend. Some twat in a merc decides this is an ideal place to overtake, but there's a car coming in the other direction which he could not see. We all had to stop sharply, causing one of our group to come off. The guy in the merc drives off and he's actually laughing at the accident he causes. Absolute twunt. Didn't get the number unfortunately.

Pityacker

Figured out why there's so many rants about those in big metal boxes on here the other day on my first ride on the roads in many a year (even if it was just a short blat around the local industrial estate and back). Stopped at traffic lights entering a roundabout as second wheel (car in front and behind both playing nice), hear sirens making their way through over a dozen cars further around the roundabout but not close enough to hinder us as the lights change. Car in front and I get to the next lights, car behind has taken an exit, ambulance gets closer so I move into the kerb from my usual position. Ambulance goes through, a numpty overtakes another car behind me that had moved for the ambulance and barges in front of me, cutting up the car behind in the process. Nice car driver behind was happy to let me get back up to speed when the lights changed like. Thinking about it, the numpty was probably the idiot who cut me up on the same roundabout later in the day when I was in the car heading to work. Had another pillock cut me up less than half a mile later - had I not checked my shoulder before signalling I'd have probably had my arm smacked, he was that close.

redvee

Knew the rear tube was soft, still rideable but soft enough to need 3-4 strokes from the trackpump so pumped it up this morning before work and managed to blow the tube. Not sure how, I just replaced it with a brand new tube and pumped it up and carried on readying myself for the commute. One mile into the commute the new tube is flat, rode/walked home and swapped bikes and went the short route to work and got in 10 mins after I normally do, not late for work though, just later than I normally am.

adambruntlett

redvee wrote:

Knew the rear tube was soft, still rideable but soft enough to need 3-4 strokes from the trackpump so pumped it up this morning before work and managed to blow the tube. Not sure how, I just replaced it with a brand new tube and pumped it up and carried on readying myself for the commute. One mile into the commute the new tube is flat, rode/walked home and swapped bikes and went the short route to work and got in 10 mins after I normally do, not late for work though, just later than I normally am.

Sounds like there's something stuck in your tyre that's punctured both tubes. I'd take it off and check it for a piece of glass/metal/stone or something.

adambruntlett

My rant for the day - the fucking State Opening of Parliament can piss right off. I was having a decent commute until I slipped onto the Embankment at Blackfriars, then it all went to shit. Sat in snarled up traffic all the way to BB, then had to go over Westminster Bridge, sat while the lights refused to turn red and crawled round to Vauxhall. Serves me right for thinking how strangely quiet it was coming through Clapton and Hackney.

Oh, and I also nearly got flattened by a bloke in a white Astra Van who decided to just cross the road straight in front of me near Hoxton Station. Bender. Thankfully I shouted at him before he could smear me across his windscreen.

Otherwise,m all is right in the world!

KnightOfTheLongTights

Eurosport Giro coverage: If Rob Hatch doesn't stop pronouncing Contador it in what he imagines to be an authentic fashion (Con-TAHdoor), and at a frequency of about twenty times a minute, I can see myself in the market for a new TV...

chris_bass

The tediously relentless and constant windy weather! It is doing my head in now, it seems like all year we have had at east 25mph gusts and usually more than that. There has been the odd day where its been calmer but far more often than not it is annoyingly windy. It needs to stop and stop soon!! although there doesn't seem to be any let up coming

redvee

adambruntlett wrote:

redvee wrote:

Knew the rear tube was soft, still rideable but soft enough to need 3-4 strokes from the trackpump so pumped it up this morning before work and managed to blow the tube. Not sure how, I just replaced it with a brand new tube and pumped it up and carried on readying myself for the commute. One mile into the commute the new tube is flat, rode/walked home and swapped bikes and went the short route to work and got in 10 mins after I normally do, not late for work though, just later than I normally am.

Sounds like there's something stuck in your tyre that's punctured both tubes. I'd take it off and check it for a piece of glass/metal/stone or something.

New tube has been in since Wednesday and still inflated, tyre not checked.

reformedfatty

Only a small rant today

Closure of a good stretch of the Bristol - Bath cycle path for resurfacing. Fair enough.

Diversion route just been 'surface dressed' and consequently covered in loose gravel.

Joined up thinking it is not.

gbsahne001

went to take pannier off of the rack upon arrival at work, only to find rack empty. Confirmation has been received that I left it at home, which is a small blessing but it means, no food, no wallet, no spare tubes / tyre levers, no tools, no phones and off course no clothes.

As it's a Monday today's the day I normally bring new clothes in, so I'm currently sat in bib shorts and a bright Planet X top; hopefully my boss won't show up today.

dhope

gbsahne wrote:

went to take pannier off of the rack upon arrival at work, only to find rack empty. Confirmation has been received that I left it at home, which is a small blessing but it means, no food, no wallet, no spare tubes / tyre levers, no tools, no phones and off course no clothes.

As it's a Monday today's the day I normally bring new clothes in, so I'm currently sat in bib shorts and a bright Planet X top; hopefully my boss won't show up today.

Well, you could just nip home... it's not like that'd be a 50 mile round trip or anything...

gbsahne001

dhope wrote:

gbsahne wrote:

went to take pannier off of the rack upon arrival at work, only to find rack empty. Confirmation has been received that I left it at home, which is a small blessing but it means, no food, no wallet, no spare tubes / tyre levers, no tools, no phones and off course no clothes.

As it's a Monday today's the day I normally bring new clothes in, so I'm currently sat in bib shorts and a bright Planet X top; hopefully my boss won't show up today.

Well, you could just nip home... it's not like that'd be a 50 mile round trip or anything...

Toying with the idea at lunchtime; if I go direct then it's only a 14 mile round trip

reformedfatty

gbsahne wrote:

went to take pannier off of the rack upon arrival at work, only to find rack empty. Confirmation has been received that I left it at home, which is a small blessing but it means, no food, no wallet, no spare tubes / tyre levers, no tools, no phones and off course no clothes.

As it's a Monday today's the day I normally bring new clothes in, so I'm currently sat in bib shorts and a bright Planet X top; hopefully my boss won't show up today.

Did you at least get a good time with the reduced weight?

rower63

gbsahne wrote:

went to take pannier off of the rack upon arrival at work, only to find rack empty. Confirmation has been received that I left it at home, which is a small blessing but it means, no food, no wallet, no spare tubes / tyre levers, no tools, no phones and off course no clothes.

As it's a Monday today's the day I normally bring new clothes in, so I'm currently sat in bib shorts and a bright Planet X top; hopefully my boss won't show up today.

Funnily enough I did the same today, except I felt something was wrong after a few minutes then realised and turned back.

veronese68

Had to drive in. Went to tax the car online over the weekend to discover the MOT ran out last week so need to get it done today.

chris_bass

Veronese68 wrote:

Had to drive in. Went to tax the car online over the weekend to discover the MOT ran out last week so need to get it done today.

You should be fine, cyclists don't pay road tax, right!?


annoyingly, my insurance, MOT and car tax all run out within a few weeks of each other so it makes renewing them all a PITA

veronese68

Chris Bass wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Had to drive in. Went to tax the car online over the weekend to discover the MOT ran out last week so need to get it done today.

You should be fine, cyclists don't pay road tax, right!?


annoyingly, my insurance, MOT and car tax all run out within a few weeks of each other so it makes renewing them all a PITA

Sailed through, White Stick Motors to the rescue.

redvee

gbsahne wrote:

went to take pannier off of the rack upon arrival at work, only to find rack empty.

Had the same thing happen to me a few years back but noticed mid-ride. Retraced a mile or so but no joy, bag was handed in and the only thing missing was £30 in my wallet which was still there. I now have my bag positioned so that I can straighten my leg and my calf will contact it despite the bag being an Ortlieb with the fittings that clamp round the top rail.

mrtuk

Lorry stopped at red light indicating left at top of Tooley Street this morning. I pull in behind as turning right over London Bridge. Complete numpty then pulls up inside the lorry but he wants to turn right. Lights go green, numpty slowly sets off ... lorry driver fortunately sees him, but not impressed and gives a blast of the horn and some verbal abuse. I mention to said numpty as going over London bridge that it was a pretty stupid thing to do to go up the inside of a lorry that's indicating left... he just shakes his head cycles off, then does the same thing up the inside of a buss at the north end of London bridge.

rubertoe

Hit a ped at low speed this morning.

He went all ninja on my ass and appeared out of no where from behind a WVM.

he got the shock of his life and dropped one of the two coffees that he was holding. No damage to either of us though. I checked he was ok and then made my way to work.