Your rants here.

itboffin

Because that's balls! If you eat a balanced diet you get almost all the water you'll need, do you ever remember as a kid drink 2ltrs a day? Er no

suzyb

Yeah but you'd need to eat a balanced diet. And I'm pretty sure I've not done that since I was on baby food

Tesco diets is trying to teach me though

saladfunky

Curse the potholes!!! 2 punctures this week due to not being able to avoid them. I am starting to report them via www.fillthathole.org.uk.
:x

Paul E

Why is it the weather has been nearly perfect all week and then 2 hours before I get my bike home at last after it's been in scotland since I bought it a couple of months ago it's starts to pee down #shakes fist at the sky#

PBo

thank you sheffield council.

by and large, sheffield's not the worst for cycle facilities - even if my requests to bulldoze the hills keep going unanswered. But why would you route a proper cycle path over the canal via a bridge with a big shiny metal drain cover which takes up all the apex of a 90 degree bend - which today was very wet hence slippery....? My hip and elbow would like to know......

Cafewanda

Asprilla wrote:

Cafewanda wrote:

Pardon my ignorance, but what's a flouro nodder? :?

Hoping desperately I'm not one

A wearer of a flouro jacket who nods their head from one side to the other as they mash along very slowly in too high a gear.

Phew. Lucky escape!

msw

@splottboy

a cushy job in the Army

thanks, now there's coffee all over my screen

suzyb

Mr dumper truck driver, when you pull up next to a cyclist at a two lane roundabout please hold your line when you go around the roundabout and do not move back into the left lane when you are no where near past the cyclist.

I'd rather not end up as road kill.

Bassjunkieuk

Need to post this on here and possibly my first for a proper cycling rant.
I managed to fit the Blackburn rack to the wife's hybrid bike today so we can take it away and use it with the child seat we'd pick up recently whilst were at Centre Parcs next weekend.

I needed to get the bike back from my parents house so rode it home whilst the wife took 2 of the kids bikes back in the family car. Now I'm a fairly competent cyclist and I'm used to riding in town and drivers giving me next to no space when passing and just accept it.
What really annoyed me today was that I was riding home WITH THE CHILD SEAT ON (thankfully the youngest was in the car with the wife) yet I still had a couple of drivers giving me no room, including one sh!tehead private taxi driver who passed with a little space but then either him or the car coming the other way decided to sound their horn!

The 2 that really pi$$ed me off tho were near the end at temporary lights. The first was coming over a single lane bridge where the women who was behind me in the queue squeezed past, thinking back I could have ridden further over but have done that section before on my normal bike and haven't had people push past (admittedly I get moving a bit quicker on the road bike!). The second was at the next set of lights where the driver behind me raced round and then turned left, clearly cutting into my line around the cones and this was despite her being there when it was red and I'd indicated my intention to turn left.

I think the reason these 2 incidents have really annoyed me is the fact that I COULD have had my child in the back and these drivers still drive like that and for what, saving a few precious seconds off their stupid journey? Also and I know this might be insignificant but both drivers where women and I know this sounds extremely sexist but I really do expect them to be more careful drivers, especially if you suspect the rider in front *might* have a child on the back.

Roll on next week when I can get out on car free roads around the Longleat resort :-) Just so I end on a happy note when I took the smallest BJUK out for his first ride in the bike seat today he thoroughly enjoyed it and Mrs BJUK has done a super job of making him a really nice seat cover/body cosy from scratch this afternoon :-)

rjsterry

I'd like to say I was surprised by this but, sadly, I'm not. Perhaps you need to wobble nervously as you ride. I've heard tell this makes people give you a wide berth . The irony is, I would put money on one of these halfwits being unwilling to let their children out on bikes, because the roads are too dangerous.

BTW, you'll have to let me have the details of that seat cover/body cozy - sounds just the job. I'm starting to plan (way too far ahead) taking the littl'un on her first ride.

The Running Man

To the woman in the Renault Espace who swore at me for tapping on her passenger window at the lights at Melksham this morning.

When the lights are green and you're at the front of the queue it means go : not sit there blocking the road through a whole light sequence while you're texting someone on your mobile phone.

Sometimes I just despair .... :roll:

el_presidente

Dear self-important cyclist at Trafalgar Square this morning. If you have a bike with 2 panniers don't be surprised when you find it difficult to rudely push past 3 (THREE) waiting cyclists to get to the front of the lights. Also you may wish to pay more attention as you scraped your pannier along an M3, luckily avoiding scratching it but pulling off the (hideous) Hi-Viz cover in the process.

When someone (me) stops to tell you that your stupid cover's fallen off, a thankyou might be nice rather than storming off in a huff moaning about the BMW in the ASL. You're lucky the BMW driver didn't stop and have a go at you, if he had I would have been on his side. A little more consideration and patience go a long way.

kurako

el_presidente wrote:

Dear self-important cyclist at Trafalgar Square this morning. If you have a bike with 2 panniers don't be surprised when you find it difficult to rudely push past 3 (THREE) waiting cyclists to get to the front of the lights. Also you may wish to pay more attention as you scraped your pannier along an M3, luckily avoiding scrathing it but pulling off the (hideous) Hi-Viz cover in the process.

When someone (me) stops to tell you that your stupid cover's fallen off, a thankyou might be nice rather than storming off in a huff moaning about the BMW in the ASL. You're lucky the BMW driver didn't stop and have a go at you, if he had I would have been on his side. A little more consideration and patience go a long way.

Good rant. LMAO!

"But you have to get to the front. It's safer!" - every wobbly nodder in London

el_presidente

he wasn't a nodder, that's what made it worse. Just thought he was better than everyone else.

kurako

Even worse. Nodders you can cut a bit of slack cos they don't know any better. Guess he's just a knobber ( as they say in the Highlands ).

londonbairn

The following annoyed me greatly yesterday/today

1) The guy on a Specialized dressed in black with no helmet on Oxford Street. Firstly in the slow moving traffic, you decide to swing in the lane with no indication or looking behind you nearly going into me. I question your movement then you launch in abuse, I say you give cyclists a bad name, you look puzzled at that, then go onto break nearly every red light. Suffice to say even the red lights couldnt help you when you got out paced.

2) The women pulling out of Hyde Park on Bayswater, you didnt bother looking at traffic at all, you pulled out of a junction onto traffic, forcing 2 vehicles to slow down suddenly. I was shocked and surprised you were not hit. As if this wasn't enough for you to risk your life, you decide going down Bayswater into Notting Hill hat it would be a great idea to swing across lanes without looking back or any indication, thankfully unlike you I keep aware of my surroundings and could move away from you safely. I then told you that your movements were grossly unsafe and you pootled on with no care in the world.

3) To the 2 scooters this morning turning left onto Portman Street on Oxford Street, why on earth did you decide it would be wise to overtake a left turning lorry on the right into the junction and cutting him up? Do you have a wish to be hit?

That is all for today

asprilla

To the woman on Hammersmith Roulette Wheel this morning; what I think I'm doing is joining the roundabout in lane two, going around the roundabout in this lane and then exiting from that lane at the appropriate place.

What I think you were doing was trying to go form lane one to lane three over the top of me if requried.

Satu

Attn: neighbours!

The next time you and your squealing friends insist on singing[1] "I will survive" at the top of your voices at 11:30 on a weeknight, I assure you that you will not, in fact, survive.

Some of us work for a living!


Lack of sleep makes Satu something something.

--
[1] And I use the term loosely.

asprilla

Satu wrote:

Lack of sleep makes Satu something something.

Go a little crazy?

holybinch

kill baby seals?

cjcp

To the various riders I saw cross the zebra on the NKR when kids were about to cross - not cool.

ride_whenever

To the old git who praised me for not jumping a red light. Perhaps in future you should assume that people will stop at the light then you will not almost cycle into the back of me when i do stop.

Sanctimonious preachy lessons about not jumping red lights fall on deaf ears, especially those of people who stop anyway, I assume you haven't killed anyone yet today, perhaps you should have a medal for achieving that?

Satu

Asprilla wrote:

Go a little crazy?

It's either that or "fall asleep on her desk and not get any work done". Whichever comes first!

attica

If you are cycling down a long descent during rush hour, one that has a particularly bad surface, and the car behind gives you loads and loads of space so that you can feel safe weaving through the potholes. It would be nice if you either waved your thanks or indicated properly at the bottom.

Waving your right arm above your head was - I thought - a way of saying thank you. It turns out that you wanted to turn right as the car behind found out when you drifted out towards the centre of the road.

I imagine you were cursing me for overtaking too. Flail FAIL

tea boy

If you are in the left-hand lane at a set of traffic lights, that is clearly signed for vehicles turning left (http://bit.ly/bWVPEE) and aren't using your indicators, don't be surprised that when you speed up and sweep round to take a right turn when the lights change that the bike going straight on in front of you, that has been patiently waiting behind the the ASL in the right hand lane, is a bit alarmed when you nearly turn into him. I don't care if you are driving a Mini-cab that does not give you the right look annoyed that i am in your way.

Specialized Needs

tea boy wrote:

If you are in the left-hand lane at a set of traffic lights, that is clearly signed for vehicles turning left (http://bit.ly/bWVPEE) and aren't using your indicators, don't be surprised that when you speed up and sweep round to take a right turn when the lights change that the bike going straight on in front of you, that has been patiently waiting behind the the ASL in the right hand lane, is a bit alarmed when you nearly turn into him. I don't care if you are driving a Mini-cab that does not give you the right look annoyed that i am in your way.

Hello route-twin

No excuse for the 'not indicating' by the taxi.

I occasionally find taxis and buses in that lane that want to turn right. Understandable to some extent as it has just stopped being a bus lane and, in the morning, the right hand lane is too clogged to merge. Usually they have the grace to indicate right (to carry round into the bus lane on Walworth Rd), so it is easier to manage them as I cross to Steedman St. My usual bugbear on that junction (other than the cyclists trying to T-bone me as they jump the lights :roll: ) is the cars on the way home that turn left or right out of Steedman Street without indicating. I assume they bought the cheaper models of the cars without working indicators :evil:

always_tyred

To the very very irate person taking his kid to school, who tried to run me into a parked car this morning, I can confirm that I DO know the rules of the roads, and WAITING FOR YOU TO OVERTAKE ME IS NOT ONE OF THEM, no matter how loud you shout it at me.

Oh, and you should probably not stop and drop such a fantastic number of F-bombs at innocent road users in front of your 8 year old son, particularly having just scared the sh** out of him by nearly having an accident.

Oh, and your numberplate starts SJ10, you have a pale gold coloured people carrier and I have a long memory.

I'm going to enjoy encountering your vehicle in a month or two on a morning when you haven't just had an argument with your wife, or forgot to re-set your alarm. I only hope its not parked and unattended.

attica

@AT I'm always amazed by the displays of bad behaviour and bad language that people are prepared to put on in front of their children.

I had a guy repeatedly try to run me off the road with his children in the back of his car during the HOTA. Professional 4rsewit!

suzyb

Always Tyred wrote:

I'm going to enjoy encountering your vehicle in a month or two on a morning when you haven't just had an argument with your wife, or forgot to re-set your alarm. I only hope its not parked and unattended.

I hope it is he he

W1

Now listen, you skinny jeans wearing Shoreditch boy-tart. Undertaking me to try to push to the front of the queue when I'm trying to avoid being hit by motorbikes and lorries is YOUR BAD (to use language you might understand). Telling you that that was a stupid place to undertake does not mean you can tell me to Shut the F up. Sorry that you couldn't keep up.