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Tipper Trucks. Just way too many and going way too fast. Had 3 or 4 seemingly racing each other westbound down Abingdon Street/Millbank. There are 3 busy Zebra crossings down there and it is shaded so not easy to see, but they were flying along and overtaking me (FTR I was doing almost 25mph, just to try and pace them and see how fast they were going). One of them had to slam his brakes on both sides of the roundabout at the north end of Lambeth Bridge as he was desperate to get across, only for a ped to be on the crossing.
They're lethal and scary as hell, even for someone who's pretty confident and commutes through central London most days. No idea what the solution is, as there's obviously a lot of construction work going on and building materials need to get to and from sites.0 -
Tipper Trucks. Just way too many and going way too fast. Had 3 or 4 seemingly racing each other westbound down Abingdon Street/Millbank. There are 3 busy Zebra crossings down there and it is shaded so not easy to see, but they were flying along and overtaking me (FTR I was doing almost 25mph, just to try and pace them and see how fast they were going). One of them had to slam his brakes on both sides of the roundabout at the north end of Lambeth Bridge as he was desperate to get across, only for a ped to be on the crossing.
They're lethal and scary as hell, even for someone who's pretty confident and commutes through central London most days. No idea what the solution is, as there's obviously a lot of construction work going on and building materials need to get to and from sites.
This is a real real problem - the way vans and smaller HGVs (and even bigger ones) hoon around: even if they aren't breaking the speed limit, it's the crazy acceleration from a standstill and manouevring at inappropriate speeds that is a danger to all and sundry.
Elderly woman was nearly killed last night near our work by a lorry - the sidestreets round here are lethal for vans screaming into them from the High St. (Though obv. cannot say this was def. fault of driver, I'd lay odds on it.)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/elderly-lady-seriously-injured-after-being-hit-by-lorry-in-west-london-10448680.html0 -
Tipper Trucks. Just way too many and going way too fast. Had 3 or 4 seemingly racing each other westbound down Abingdon Street/Millbank. There are 3 busy Zebra crossings down there and it is shaded so not easy to see, but they were flying along and overtaking me (FTR I was doing almost 25mph, just to try and pace them and see how fast they were going). One of them had to slam his brakes on both sides of the roundabout at the north end of Lambeth Bridge as he was desperate to get across, only for a ped to be on the crossing.
They're lethal and scary as hell, even for someone who's pretty confident and commutes through central London most days. No idea what the solution is, as there's obviously a lot of construction work going on and building materials need to get to and from sites.
I can think of a solution but I'd end up in prison.
All I can think of is report them to the police and to the company they work for.
You might get more mileage with reporting it to the company they work for.
A quick explanation of how bad it'll look on social media with all the videos that you will post of the bad driving can sometimes focus the mind.
I lucked out when I reported a bus to the transport manager of the company, turned out he was a keen cyclist and made sure he warned the driver(s), put up notices at the depot and gave me his details to contact him directly if anything else happened.
It worked as well, after that they were much more forgiving.0 -
Garmins:
1) London to Dover, 97 miles through wind and rain. Get to Dover, save ride. Saves. Turn off garmin. Get on ferry "stuck loading profiles". Force into mass storage mode. Any sign of ride. NO. A deep scan of the garmin - nothing. There is a ".bak" file at the time the garmin shutdown and lost my ride. Send to Garmin. Can they decipher the file. NO. WTF is the point of the backup file. And why do rides not continually write to the device so in the eventuality of a failure you can at least recover something.
2) Calais to Amiens - 107 miles battling for 6-7 hours through wind and rain. Finally the sun comes out. I pull into a garage to restock water bottles. Press stop. Go into garage, come out. The garmin has auto-shutdown. Device is back to zeros. Is my ride in activities? No. Did it come back up no. Fecking thing. Who creates a data recording device whose default is not to save a ride. Madness. The default should be to save everything and let the used decide to delete it later
I had an inkling Garmins would pack in given the weather, so wrapped the garmin and mount in a clear bag to prevent water getting in, and still over 200 miles gone. Then the 800 ran out of juice 2 hours from paris as I hadn't expected the 510 to pack in so early, and the 800 with maps running doesn't last long.
Overall I have 77 miles recorded out of 297 ridden. 5.5 hours of 21 hours riding. Annoyed is an understatement.0 -
Garmins:
1) London to Dover, 97 miles through wind and rain. Get to Dover, save ride. Saves. Turn off garmin. Get on ferry "stuck loading profiles". Force into mass storage mode. Any sign of ride. NO. A deep scan of the garmin - nothing. There is a ".bak" file at the time the garmin shutdown and lost my ride. Send to Garmin. Can they decipher the file. NO. WTF is the point of the backup file. And why do rides not continually write to the device so in the eventuality of a failure you can at least recover something.
2) Calais to Amiens - 107 miles battling for 6-7 hours through wind and rain. Finally the sun comes out. I pull into a garage to restock water bottles. Press stop. Go into garage, come out. The garmin has auto-shutdown. Device is back to zeros. Is my ride in activities? No. Did it come back up no. ******* thing. Who creates a data recording device whose default is not to save a ride. Madness. The default should be to save everything and let the used decide to delete it later
I had an inkling Garmins would pack in given the weather, so wrapped the garmin and mount in a clear bag to prevent water getting in, and still over 200 miles gone. Then the 800 ran out of juice 2 hours from paris as I hadn't expected the 510 to pack in so early, and the 800 with maps running doesn't last long.
Overall I have 77 miles recorded out of 297 ridden. 5.5 hours of 21 hours riding. Annoyed is an understatement.
Ouch.
Can you manually add miles to your totals on the Garmin Connect, to cover such eventualities?0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19677156#p19677156]Snakebite the 2nd[/url] wrote:
Ouch.
Can you manually add miles to your totals on the Garmin Connect, to cover such eventualities?
Exactly the solution Garmin came up with. You can add miles, but its not the same as seeing your actual speed, your heart rate, covering segments, the actual elevation covered, the actual route in a nice red line down the map. I'd just get a normal cycle computer if I just wanted to add up miles.
My garmin fails very rarely. But the one time I absolutely want it to work two of them go wrong.0 -
My garmin (800) fails fairly regularly tbh. 1 in 5 rides it will just not record some or all of the ride, even though it appears to be recording.
Also, when it does record a ride, it doesn't recognise a load of segments that have been recognised by everyone else's garmins who I rode with.0 -
Is that a garmin or a strava problem?My garmin (800) fails fairly regularly tbh. 1 in 5 rides it will just not record some or all of the ride, even though it appears to be recording.
Also, when it does record a ride, it doesn't recognise a load of segments that have been recognised by everyone else's garmins who I rode with.
I believe strava will hide segments that it thinks not important.
You can try to remove the old rides from the unit, I had a problem once with mine and a quick removing of rides sorted it out and the unit also become faster.
Now a proper rant:
I hope I hope I hope I left my G800 on the other site on my desk and not lost it!!!
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My garmin (800) fails fairly regularly tbh. 1 in 5 rides it will just not record some or all of the ride, even though it appears to be recording.
Also, when it does record a ride, it doesn't recognise a load of segments that have been recognised by everyone else's garmins who I rode with.
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You can try to remove the old rides from the unit, I had a problem once with mine and a quick removing of rides sorted it out and the unit also become faster.
This. Seems to fix any of my garmin issues.
While we're on rants about garmins, I really would like the 520 to arrive soon. Pretty please?0 -
The issue with segments - not sure could be garmin or strava.
Is that a garmin or a strava problem?My garmin (800) fails fairly regularly tbh. 1 in 5 rides it will just not record some or all of the ride, even though it appears to be recording.
Also, when it does record a ride, it doesn't recognise a load of segments that have been recognised by everyone else's garmins who I rode with.
I believe strava will hide segments that it thinks not important.
You can try to remove the old rides from the unit, I had a problem once with mine and a quick removing of rides sorted it out and the unit also become faster.
Now a proper rant:
I hope I hope I hope I left my G800 on the other site on my desk and not lost it!!!
The issue with not recording rides in the first place (partial or the whole ride) is completely the garmin's fault!0 -
All this talk of failing Garmins is not helping.
I'm meant to be getting one!0 -
In all honesty I think I've only every lost one ride on my 800, and you can take a backup battery to charge it (look up Anker) while not using it on a ride. I wipe all old activities on at least a weekly basis.Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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I I wipe all old activities on at least a weekly basis.
This.Kinesis Racelite 4s disc
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Canyon Roadlite Al 7.0 - reborn as single speed!
Felt Z85 - mangled by taxi.0 -
In the Gents: If I have considerately pulled the rolling hand-towel down after I've dried my hands to present a clean section, you do NOT then have to pull it down again once, let alone TWICE.
It's unnecessary and wasteful and it means the bloody things only ever last half a day and then we have to use the useless sodding air-dryer.0 -
On the subject of Garmins...
When you go into activities on my 800 it shows activities from a couple of years ago rather than the new ones. They upload OK to Strava but you can't review them on the unit itself. More of an annoyance than a big issue as it does have the data, but I delete the old activities to free up some space in the hope of fixing the issue.
When I delete the data I go into activities and it is empty, which is right. But then after I do another ride all the old data comes back again. This has happened on a couple of attempts to delete the old stuff. I just wish it would stay deleted!0 -
Pedestrians who walk up to a pedestrian crossing. Press the button and then walk anyway. So the lights go red, then eventually a green man turns up, pedestrian is already long gone, then a 12-15 second countdown, then nothing, then red man, then eventually I get a green light.
DONT PRESS THE FECKING BUTTON UNLESS YOU INTEND TO CROSS ON THE GREEN MAN!0 -
After hundreds of miles of riding around on fast and sometimes narrow A-roads in Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire for the last 5 days and being really impressed by the space I was given by the thundering juggernauts*- to be run off the road a few miles from home on the Epping New Road because a silver Micra driver just had to pass me right at the traffic island
* BTW - this is not irony. Not once did I feel that anyone had squeezed past - and regularly I heard the sound of lorries slowing cos they could not pass safely; every time I could, I dodged onto verge and got a "thanks mate"0 -
This really winds me up, news organisations when you report a news story, I do not want to hear what people posted on Twitter in reaction to the story. It is not news! If I wanted to know what people posted on twitter, then i'd bloody look on twitter.
The Today programme (in the news bit) this morning. The newspapers do it in their online pages, even some of the broadsheets. The Guardian, The Times, i'm looking at you.0 -
You wait ages for the lift. Storm in before anyone else when it arrives. Then get off at the first bl00dy floor squeezing your way back out through everyone else. Use the f'ing stairs you lazy clown! it's quicker.CS7
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What's a Zwift?0 -
Where the bloody hell is this storm of biblical proportions?! Was going to cycle in this morning but didn't fancy 40+ miles in torrential rain so got PT instead.
I feel robbed, and all because, in this day and age, we can't successfully predict the weather 8 hours in advance.
(I know I could've cycled anyway when I saw the drizzle but I assumed that it was the precursor to THE FLOOD)Giant Defy Advanced 0 - Best
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Some fucker stole my one and only KOM this morning. I'm now going to have to go and get it back. I'm thinking Saturday morning, nice and early when there's no traffic. Thankfully it's only a couple of miles from my house.0
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Where the bloody hell is this storm of biblical proportions?! Was going to cycle in this morning but didn't fancy 40+ miles in torrential rain so got PT instead.
I feel robbed, and all because, in this day and age, we can't successfully predict the weather 8 hours in advance.
(I know I could've cycled anyway when I saw the drizzle but I assumed that it was the precursor to THE FLOOD)
Presently filling the channel according to Rain Today (some bits showing in white which means over 50mm/hr)Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Where the bloody hell is this storm of biblical proportions?! Was going to cycle in this morning but didn't fancy 40+ miles in torrential rain so got PT instead.
I feel robbed, and all because, in this day and age, we can't successfully predict the weather 8 hours in advance.
(I know I could've cycled anyway when I saw the drizzle but I assumed that it was the precursor to THE FLOOD)
It was down over Brighton way this morning.
Torrential first thing, got lighter and now I am at work it is, well Biblical.
Local flooding reported.
Loads of places report being under a couple of inches of water, with Tesco being ankle deep in the lobby.0 -
I should have packed my gabba. Wet dog look it shall be tonight
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Now I hesitate to come over all 'MTFU' etc - but it is warm out there. What difference does rain make?
I'm just wearing a slightly heavier jersey and some arm-warmers ....0 -
Still dry up here in the North West.
Gentleman Caller is currently camping in a tent in Lyme Regis
Commute: Chadderton - Sportcity0 -
Thought it would never end here in Battersea but it's stopped as we approach home time - hope it holds off until I get back at about 6.
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As KnightOfTheLongTights says, it is at least warm. Come November when it's dark, wet, and sub-5 degrees this will be a distant fond memory.0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19678951#p19678951]KnightOfTheLongTights[/url] wrote:Now I hesitate to come over all 'MTFU' etc - but it is warm out there. What difference does rain make?
I'm just wearing a slightly heavier jersey and some arm-warmers ....
I hate it.
Don't mind wet, don't mind warm, but wet and warm? No.
You either wear warm weather cloths which get soaked, then you get cold, or you wear a waterproof outer layer and no matter how thin it is you get too hot and sweaty.0 -
This really winds me up, news organisations when you report a news story, I do not want to hear what people posted on Twitter in reaction to the story. It is not news! If I wanted to know what people posted on twitter, then i'd bloody look on twitter.
The Today programme (in the news bit) this morning. The newspapers do it in their online pages, even some of the broadsheets. The Guardian, The Times, i'm looking at you.
The guardian pages would be somewhat short if they didn't report on what random people said on twitter to other random people.FCN 9 || FCN 50 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19678951#p19678951]KnightOfTheLongTights[/url] wrote:Now I hesitate to come over all 'MTFU' etc - but it is warm out there. What difference does rain make?
I'm just wearing a slightly heavier jersey and some arm-warmers ....
well don't then.....wear your normal jersey0
