Your rants here.

redvee

Riding along a moderately busy residential road there is a mother and daughter on the pavement, the road goes round a bend and as the M&D get to the bend they carry straight on crossing the road with the mother looking to her right with me approaching from her left. I slowed to allow them to cross and said to the mother it helps to look the other way too and she replied with a mouthful of abuse.

dhope

myHermes
'Not Delivered - Postcode error'

Idiots

muzzan

Not posted on here for ages but.....

Yesterday on ride home I was passed by a huge lorry which gave me what felt like about 1 ft of room. I'm sure it was probably more but felt scary. Caught him @ next lights & had a word. To say the least he was unapologetic. The usual pathetic things like Road Tax were mentioned :roll:

I'm a bit disappointed, Iet anger get the better of me, ended up calling him an @rsehole. I wish I had stayed calm & tried to make him see ho dangerous it was, very windy as well at the time. If he kills someone he will regret it, though not as much as the cyclist & their family will.

There was a number on side of cab, but light changed before I could get it noted. I told him I had recorded it anyway & was going to report him, hopefully it will make him change his behaviour but I seriously doubt it.

seajays

muzzan wrote:

I'm a bit disappointed, Iet anger get the better of me, ended up calling him an @rsehole. I wish I had stayed calm & tried to make him see ho dangerous it was, very windy as well at the time. If he kills someone he will regret it, though not as much as the cyclist & their family will.

You could always say something along the lines of...
"Which one do you think would be easier: Making sure there's enough room to pass a cyclist safely, or having to explain to my 8 year old daughter why her dad is dead, just because you couldn't wait 10 seconds or move your lorry three feet to the right?"

...doesn't matter if you have an eight year old daughter of course... it's a way of making them think!

itboffin

Dont ride across London at midday just don't.

awavey

just occasionally Id like to complete a ride without having to avoid pedestrians wandering in the road/cyclepath randomly, without being chased by a dog off a lead, without getting cut up by or squeezed for space by a car/white van, without other bike riders playing chicken or SCR with me :roll:

at least the headwind was in my favour for once.

asprilla

itboffin wrote:

Dont ride across London at midday just don't.

Correct.

I occasionally come home half day and rush hour is so much easier and safer.

msmancunia

Having to calm down an 18 year old god-daughter who is in tears after being followed and called "fat arse" on a bike ride by a van full of builders and doesn't want to ride ever again. Wish people would think before they speak. :evil:

fatsmoker

Tipper truck driver overtaking at a pedestrian refuge bit of road as we approach a set of lights on red. Dangerous and unnecessary. Cnut!

KnightOfTheLongTights

As a ped - and sometimes as a cyclist - one of the things about drivers that strikes me as most dangerous, while being equally unnecessary, is rapid acceleration from a standstill, in e.g., narrow and quiet side streets, where people are more likely to be walking across the road.
Van and truck drivers are often the worst culprits.
If I was dictator, all motorised vehicles would be fitted with limiters that restricted how fast they could accelerate. And with max speed limiting technology that would somehow receive signals informing it of the local speed limit.

gbsahne001

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.

Twice in one week FFS....

chris_bass

gbsahne 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.

Twice in one week FFS....

If i need to remember to take something to work i leave something on the saddle when i get in the day before (something like a bottle of lube or a multi tool or something) then when I see it the next day it reminds me i needed to take something.

Just an idea :-)

surrey_commuter

Chris Bass wrote:

gbsahne 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.

Twice in one week FFS....

If i need to remember to take something to work i leave something on the saddle when i get in the day before (something like a bottle of lube or a multi tool or something) then when I see it the next day it reminds me i needed to take something.

Just an idea :-)

I lean the item against the front door so I have to pick it up

gbsahne001

Surrey Commuter wrote:

Chris Bass wrote:

gbsahne 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.

Twice in one week FFS....

If i need to remember to take something to work i leave something on the saddle when i get in the day before (something like a bottle of lube or a multi tool or something) then when I see it the next day it reminds me i needed to take something.

Just an idea :-)

I lean the item against the front door so I have to pick it up

It was leant against the back door; I opened the back door, got the bike out, closed the back door and then chose (apparently) to ignore the bright red ortileb pannier in the doorway

chris_bass

maybe lean the bike against the door and put the panniers where you keep your bike?

tgotb

Chris Bass wrote:

If i need to remember to take something to work i leave something on the saddle when i get in the day before (something like a bottle of lube or a multi tool or something) then when I see it the next day it reminds me i needed to take something.

That's fine if you only need to remember one thing.

The closest thing I've found to a foolproof solution is to leave *the pannier* on the bike. Anything else I need to remember goes in the pannier.

That said, I did arrive at a wedding last weekend, only to discover I'd left my suit hanging up at home, 3 hours away. I was wearing shorts and T-shirt :roll:

veronese68

Chris Bass wrote:

maybe lean the bike against the door and put the panniers where you keep your bike?

Don't be ridiculous. How can he ride panniers to work when he forgets the bike?

dyrlac

Discovered ugly looking set of chips in the non-drive side seatstay of my Dolan. Carbon exposed, but no give other than in the surrounding paint layer which looks to have lifted off slightly. Looks like the bike fell heavily onto an edge of some kind. Suspects include cats or children last night or co-workers in the bike garage yesterday (points fingers at own eyes, then rest of world, menacingly).

slowbike

Nice morning

Nice ride despite the headwind ...

Mavic Hub on my K elites - broken on the rear wheel ... one trashed wheel

hegyestomi

Slowbike wrote:

Nice morning

Nice ride despite the headwind ...

Mavic Hub on my K elites - broken on the rear wheel ... one trashed wheel

Don't get too sad, there is a very good deal on the older models (2011) from Canyon outlet store: you have to buy them individually. I think it's under £230 posted

slowbike

Hm .. 120 for a rear - but it's campy not shimano- but whether to pay for that or get a different/better wheel Set?

The Rookie

Just swapped from a Samsung Galaxy to an iphone (company supplied so no choice), WTF, with Strava running I can't post (ride pics) on Facebook or use Googlemaps as Strava is using the 'location services', surely the 'location services' can tell all the other apps where you are just like it can on an Android? That combined with the rubbish alarms setup (compared to android) and so far I'm not overly impressed!

rick_chasey

Been quite painful lying down after my accident which left me with some fairly badly bruised ribs.

Anyway, got up from the sofa last night in a weird way in order to avoid too much chest pain, only to pull what feels like an intercostal muscle on the same side. Agony.

MrSweary

The Rookie wrote:

Just swapped from a Samsung Galaxy to an iphone (company supplied so no choice), WTF, with Strava running I can't post (ride pics) on Facebook or use Googlemaps as Strava is using the 'location services', surely the 'location services' can tell all the other apps where you are just like it can on an Android? That combined with the rubbish alarms setup (compared to android) and so far I'm not overly impressed!

Get used to not being able to do lots of things you took for granted on Android.

My rant : Twunts in Audis. Does just sitting in one of these cars immediately turn you into a complete and utter C*&$?

Brakeless

MrSweary wrote:

The Rookie wrote:

Just swapped from a Samsung Galaxy to an iphone (company supplied so no choice), WTF, with Strava running I can't post (ride pics) on Facebook or use Googlemaps as Strava is using the 'location services', surely the 'location services' can tell all the other apps where you are just like it can on an Android? That combined with the rubbish alarms setup (compared to android) and so far I'm not overly impressed!

Get used to not being able to do lots of things you took for granted on Android.

My rant : Twunts in Audis. Does just sitting in one of these cars immediately turn you into a complete and utter C*&$?

That's about as logical as referring to all cyclists as c@*ts.

veronese68

MrSweary wrote:

My rant : Twunts in Audis. Does just sitting in one of these cars immediately turn you into a complete and utter C*&$?

Yes, sorry about that. One of the many reasons I hate my Audi. :oops:
My rant is people that can't control their dogs. Large weimaraner chased the guy in front of me then turned and went for me in Bushy Park this morning. Luckily I had virtually stopped by the time it turned to me and I'm not scared of dogs. Guy in front was quite shaken by it. The dog had been quite a way off and had run a fair distance to get to us, dogs like that shouldn't be off a lead if they can't be controlled.

timothyw

Brakeless wrote:

MrSweary wrote:

My rant : Twunts in Audis. Does just sitting in one of these cars immediately turn you into a complete and utter C*&$?

That's about as logical as referring to all cyclists as c@*ts.

No it isn't. It's about as logical as saying 'does just riding a fixie turn you into a big bearded, sailor tattooed rolled up jean wearing hipster?'

It's playing on the fact that cunts often choose to drive Audi's. Not everyone who drives an Audi is a cunt. The proportion just seems to be considerable. Similarly, hipsters often choose to ride fixies (not so true anymore, as most hipsters seem to have moved onto vintage steel tourers....)

Why, just this morning, someone in an Audi impatiently overtook me on the blind crest of a hill (about 5 seconds later and they'd have been straight into the car coming the other way) only in order to turn immediately into a driveway to the left, which already had a bloke with a pushchair starting to walk across it - which audi driver proceeded not to wait for and pull in anyway, thus demonstrating themselves a cunt.

KnightOfTheLongTights

How cold?

KnightOfTheLongTights

Veronese68 wrote:

MrSweary wrote:

My rant : Twunts in Audis. Does just sitting in one of these cars immediately turn you into a complete and utter C*&$?

Yes, sorry about that. One of the many reasons I hate my Audi. :oops:
My rant is people that can't control their dogs. Large weimaraner chased the guy in front of me then turned and went for me in Bushy Park this morning. Luckily I had virtually stopped by the time it turned to me and I'm not scared of dogs. Guy in front was quite shaken by it. The dog had been quite a way off and had run a fair distance to get to us, dogs like that shouldn't be off a lead if they can't be controlled.

At the risk of making a further generalisation that will offend certain dog-owners, weimaraners are largely nutjobs.

dhope

KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:

At the risk of making a further generalisation that will offend certain dog-owners, weimaraners are largely nutjobs.

Whoa there! :evil: