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Glad that you are doing your bit for the community!I made a mistake today. Possibly. Hard to know. Roundabout. Tricky one to get onto. Van driver not signalling, pull out as he passes. Then he signals. I'm going to go behind him but he seems to panic. I dunno, something like that. To quick to register. Perhaps I was daydreaming. I stop. Tell him to carry on (he has passed me and has just come to a complete stop for some reason).
Perhaps I scared him. Perhaps he had a glance at my mortality.
But he quickly regained composure and labelled me a vagina, a masturbator and that I gave all cyclists a bad name.
Phew!
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Anyone know why cyclists throw away those CO2 canisters after using them? Yesterday morning on my sleepy ride in I nearly rode over 3 of them in less than 2 miles. Wonder if there was a cycle event on or something.
What is wrong with a straight forward pump??0 -
Anyone know why cyclists throw away those CO2 canisters after using them? Yesterday morning on my sleepy ride in I nearly rode over 3 of them in less than 2 miles. Wonder if there was a cycle event on or something.
What is wrong with a straight forward pump??
I wondered that a while back. Seemed to be a huge number of punctures around my area... then I figured it was more likely kids using nitrous oxide to get high 0 -
Anyone know why cyclists throw away those CO2 canisters after using them? Yesterday morning on my sleepy ride in I nearly rode over 3 of them in less than 2 miles. Wonder if there was a cycle event on or something.
What is wrong with a straight forward pump??
As above it's N2O... a legel high which nobody is quite sure why it is actually legal, given it has killed a dozen of teeneager over the past few years, probably in excess of some class A drugsleft the forum March 20230 -
Anyone know why cyclists throw away those CO2 canisters after using them? Yesterday morning on my sleepy ride in I nearly rode over 3 of them in less than 2 miles. Wonder if there was a cycle event on or something.
What is wrong with a straight forward pump??
I'm not sure those questions are linked. If cyclists have thrown them away it's because they are idiots.
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Aaah! Nitrous it must be since they look too cheap, shiny and nasty to be bike canisters.0
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Anyone know why cyclists throw away those CO2 canisters after using them? Yesterday morning on my sleepy ride in I nearly rode over 3 of them in less than 2 miles. Wonder if there was a cycle event on or something.
What is wrong with a straight forward pump??
Glad to know I am not the only one (naively) wondering why so many people were puncturing on my commute - especially the not particularly cycle friendly lane of East London. I just looked up Nitrous Oxide on ebay and the little canisters are very similar0 -
Yeah, kept wondering why there were so many punctures in this small alleyway. Okay, there's always smashed bottles but why didn't people just carry the bike for that 10m stretch. Then the penny dropped.Anyone know why cyclists throw away those CO2 canisters after using them? Yesterday morning on my sleepy ride in I nearly rode over 3 of them in less than 2 miles. Wonder if there was a cycle event on or something.
What is wrong with a straight forward pump??
Glad to know I am not the only one (naively) wondering why so many people were puncturing on my commute - especially the not particularly cycle friendly lane of East London. I just looked up Nitrous Oxide on ebay and the little canisters are very similar0 -
Here's an idea, those police officers that we sometimes see hanging about junctions dishing out a few tickets, use them to teach pedestrians how to cross a road.
Cannon St. (and probably everywhere in London) is just a nightmare. Every single day without fail some idiot walks into the road without looking. What planet are they from? How thick can some people be :shock:0 -
Smartphones, stupid usersHere's an idea, those police officers that we sometimes see hanging about junctions dishing out a few tickets, use them to teach pedestrians how to cross a road.
Cannon St. (and probably everywhere in London) is just a nightmare. Every single day without fail some idiot walks into the road without looking. What planet are they from? How thick can some people be :shock:Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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gah damn dog walkers keep your dog on a lead when walking it around paths, or at the very least to heel, it might be a shared cycle route and seem safe to you. but the distance your dog was away from you and not in control blissfully ignoring your plaintive calls, is at least the same distance away as the nearest easily accessible busy main road where motorists pay little to no notice of human sized objects let alone over excitable dogs.0
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How narrow does the East-West Superhighway look?
It's going to be chaos with bikes in both directions as roadies doing 25mph are forced to mingle with tourists pootling on Boris Bikes at barely 5mph...I'm going to stick to the road and take my chances with the lorries and coaches. I've quickly learnt that this cycle-specific infrastructure is only really meant for people who aren't in a rush and who like to pootle along at 10mph max.0 -
How narrow does the East-West Superhighway look?
It's going to be chaos with bikes in both directions as roadies doing 25mph are forced to mingle with tourists pootling on Boris Bikes at barely 5mph...I'm going to stick to the road and take my chances with the lorries and coaches. I've quickly learnt that this cycle-specific infrastructure is only really meant for people who aren't in a rush and who like to pootle along at 10mph max.
+1 ... I would prefer integration ... my current route brings me in from Greenwich along Lower Road/Jamaica Road. This has a bus lane for most of the route, and this feels fairly safe.
Not sure I'd feel fast enough to warrant using the road, but also not sure what I will do if the CSH is filled up with pootlers and not enough room to pass them - feels like I will be forced on to the road. I would however expect drivers to expect cyclists to use the CSH, so would expect the roads to become even more hostile.0 -
Lorry drivers.
You have 4 lengths of your lorry until the back of the traffic jam. I am in front of you.
I am doing 20. You are doing 20.
You give me half a lane (that's actually ok).
Do you think you will complete the manoeuvre and be able to pull back in.
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Super sports or race copies with possibly illegal race pipes on. Why is it acceptable? The bike MOT centres near here change over to a road legal pipe for your MOT then change it back to your race pipe. Some MOT centres here even store the road legal pipe for you. I am not joking. The MOT mechanic will change your exhaust so it meets requirements to be road legal, test your bike then put the race pipe back on that is not road legal. All for a small increase in power that is probably lost by the rider's incompetence on the bike.Harley's.
Why does it need to be so unbearably loud?
BTW IIRC all road legal exhausts have to have an embossed logo and probably reference to the standard. If you do get the chance look for it on any noisy bike. I bet if you get the chance you will see a lot of these fast bikes are sporting aftermarket exhausts without this identification.
Then you also need to know the noise emissions test for exhaust on bikes is pathetic to say the least. You can fit an exhaust that meets the test standard but in use is actually too loud. What is happening the test measures the noise at a certain speed and revs. Most super sports are unlikely to be ridden anywhere near that criteria. This means the pipe can be designed to meet the criteria but give a lot more performance in the rev/speed map that the bike is really used in at the expense of silencing. I know of at least one maker who has a pipe that at low revs and speed behaves like it needs to in order to pass but it then changes characteristics towards a straight through race pipe. That gives it a significant performance boost but it still has the legality of having passed the standard (with the embossing too). It is and never will be quiet in use and will sound just as bad as a race pipe.
My rant over apart from the think bike signs annoy me because when in a car I see bikers going round blind bends the wrong side leaning right over at too high a speed to be safe. I do live near enough to Devils Bridge at Kirby lonsdale to get the TT biker crowd when going and coming back from there and also it is a regular biker's haunt on a popular route so always bikers like that.0 -
Lorry drivers.
You have 4 lengths of your lorry until the back of the traffic jam. I am in front of you.
I am doing 20. You are doing 20.
You give me half a lane (that's actually ok).
Do you think you will complete the manoeuvre and be able to pull back in.
And, even if so, what happens next?
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Shoalers. Bloke on a flat bar Boardman, top speed of about 20. Thanks for repeatedly catching up at lights, spinning off and swerving in front of me immediately. I really enjoyed having to navigate back around your fat arse after every set of lights.
Thankfully, once on the A23 I was able to leave you behind for good you annoying try hard.Kinesis Racelite 4s disc
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Felt Z85 - mangled by taxi.0 -
Shoalers. Bloke on a flat bar Boardman, top speed of about 20. Thanks for repeatedly catching up at lights, spinning off and swerving in front of me immediately. I really enjoyed having to navigate back around your fat ars* after every set of lights.
Thankfully, once on the A23 I was able to leave you behind for good you annoying try hard.
This kind of thing drives me mad, especially when they edge past you at the lights to sit at the front. It's not so much the fact that you have to go around them again, it's their total lack of awareness of what's just happened the previous 4/5 times you've passed them. I don't get it.0 -
T25 bolts on a stem.
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Jumped on the bike this morning, heard a nice clanking sound from the rear end and got shifted into the small cog. Somehow the bolt holding the shift cable had come loose. Probably my fault for not tightening it sufficiently when fitting new cables a couple of weeks ago, but I have been riding it trouble free for 300 miles.
Did a quick fix en route, cable too tight, so 6th is now 5th, 5th is 4th etc, but smooth enough shifting to get me to work. Into the basement/car park and I spot a chap with a bike stand offering bike maintenance. Great timing me thinks, quick loosen of the bolt, move the cable a few mm and re-tighten and I'll be good to go. Love those free services.
Except, it wasn't free. He quoted me £13. Thirteen fricking pounds to sort out the bloody gears, when all it needed was a quick loosen of the bolt, move the cable and re-tighten. 5 minutes work, 10 tops if the gears were a pain to index (which they wouldn't be, limits etc all set up properly). I had to stifle a laugh when he said £13, at which point I obviously did a quick about face and parked the bike up. I'll sort it tonight (or in my lunch hour).
I understand they have to make a living, but that's just daylight robbery.0 -
Except, it wasn't free. He quoted me £13. Thirteen ******* pounds to sort out the bloody gears, when all it needed was a quick loosen of the bolt, move the cable and re-tighten. 5 minutes work, 10 tops if the gears were a pain to index (which they wouldn't be, limits etc all set up properly). I had to stifle a laugh when he said £13, at which point I obviously did a quick about face and parked the bike up. I'll sort it tonight (or in my lunch hour).
I understand they have to make a living, but that's just daylight robbery.
Daylight robbery if you can do it yourself. Reasonable if not.
Bike repair, PC repair, general handyman stuff. All piss easy when you know how to do it, and a bit scary if not.0 -
Except, it wasn't free. He quoted me £13. Thirteen ******* pounds to sort out the bloody gears, when all it needed was a quick loosen of the bolt, move the cable and re-tighten. 5 minutes work, 10 tops if the gears were a pain to index (which they wouldn't be, limits etc all set up properly). I had to stifle a laugh when he said £13, at which point I obviously did a quick about face and parked the bike up. I'll sort it tonight (or in my lunch hour).
I understand they have to make a living, but that's just daylight robbery.
Daylight robbery if you can do it yourself. Reasonable if not.
Bike repair, PC repair, general handyman stuff. All wee-wee easy when you know how to do it, and a bit scary if not.
What he said. For someone with absolutely zero bike maintenance ability (i can just about change a tube/tyre) i'd have jumped at a £13 fix!0 -
Left hooked by a black cab heading up Farringdon Road just after going under the viaduct. He's in the lane for straight on, not indicating. I'm alongside in the bus lane when suddenly he cuts me up to turn left, no indicator, nothing. I shout some choice expletives and grab the brakes, knocking into his cab. The chump gets out and tries to start having a go for me hitting his cab! Cycle off leaving him stopped in the middle of the traffic. I dislike cabbies more and more each day. They drive around spewing out fumes looking for fares, then as soon as they spot one the pricks forget they should check mirrors or signal and just do whatever they like.0
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Left hooked by a black cab heading up Farringdon Road just after going under the viaduct. He's in the lane for straight on, not indicating. I'm alongside in the bus lane when suddenly he cuts me up to turn left, no indicator, nothing. I shout some choice expletives and grab the brakes, knocking into his cab. The chump gets out and tries to start having a go for me hitting his cab! Cycle off leaving him stopped in the middle of the traffic. I dislike cabbies more and more each day. They drive around spewing out fumes looking for fares, then as soon as they spot one the pricks forget they should check mirrors or signal and just do whatever they like.
+1. The Taxi to pavement divebomb is the most dangerous thing I've seen commuting around London.0 -
Left hooked by a black cab heading up Farringdon Road just after going under the viaduct. He's in the lane for straight on, not indicating. I'm alongside in the bus lane when suddenly he cuts me up to turn left, no indicator, nothing. I shout some choice expletives and grab the brakes, knocking into his cab. The chump gets out and tries to start having a go for me hitting his cab! Cycle off leaving him stopped in the middle of the traffic. I dislike cabbies more and more each day. They drive around spewing out fumes looking for fares, then as soon as they spot one the pricks forget they should check mirrors or signal and just do whatever they like.
Glad you ok
The ar5eholes and bad-drivers seem to be out-numbering the old fashioned "best professional driver in the world ain't we mate" at present. Twice I have been saved from nasty situations by superb driving / reactions
by black cabs - but their store of good karma is rapidly diminishing.0 -
Due to some kind of plumbing disaster, the showers at my office are out of service, just in time for the tube strike. So I resolve to gently ride in to minimise the stench, and of course immediately start giving it hammer and tongs, racing some guy along Wimbledon Common down Parkside (scalp claimed at the A3 roundabout). Alas, on New Kings Road, I have to take evasive action around a car that had slowed quicker than anticipated and a fistful of brakes sends me over the bars. Damage included grazed elbow and knee, trashed rear mech (6800
), bar tape, pride.
Anti-rant to the cyclist (black/red SS, bullhorns) who insisted on calling the ambulance as I looked to be in shock and sat with me until it arrived. Thanks again mate.0 -
Due to some kind of plumbing disaster, the showers at my office are out of service, just in time for the tube strike. So I resolve to gently ride in to minimise the stench, and of course immediately start giving it hammer and tongs, racing some guy along Wimbledon Common down Parkside (scalp claimed at the A3 roundabout). Alas, on New Kings Road, I have to take evasive action around a car that had slowed quicker than anticipated and a fistful of brakes sends me over the bars. Damage included grazed elbow and knee, trashed rear mech (6800 ), bar tape, pride.
Anti-rant to the cyclist (black/red SS, bullhorns) who insisted on calling the ambulance as I looked to be in shock and sat with me until it arrived. Thanks again mate.
Bums! GWS.RIP commute...
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Shoalers. Bloke on a flat bar Boardman, top speed of about 20. Thanks for repeatedly catching up at lights, spinning off and swerving in front of me immediately. I really enjoyed having to navigate back around your fat ars* after every set of lights.
Thankfully, once on the A23 I was able to leave you behind for good you annoying try hard.
This kind of thing drives me mad, especially when they edge past you at the lights to sit at the front. It's not so much the fact that you have to go around them again, it's their total lack of awareness of what's just happened the previous 4/5 times you've passed them. I don't get it.
Agreed - nothing more annoying than some f*cktard insisting on pushing in front at every set of lights despite being obviously slower than everyone else. Corollary to that though - some roadies are seriously f*cking slow moving away from the lights - seem to be in some sort of p1ssing contest whereby they won't lower themselves to changing down a gear or two thereby facilitating an efficient (doesn't need to be like a bullet) getaway wthout holding up everything behind them. Then get the ar5e that someone loses patience and comes through.
Bah! I hate everyone! :evil: CS7
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What's a Zwift?0 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHGOHDJlOvM
You might have seen this on the news at some point.
I could write my rant, but as they say a picture paints............0
