Your rants here.

rubbercolin

To the Acton mini cab driver , who thought he had enough room to pass me at the width restrictions -- stupid ...

I was ahead of you....

Passing me later on and beeping at me ? retarded....

Driving off in a hurry when I caught up with you ? Priceless...

Have a nice day

:twisted:

cjcp

Attica wrote:

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!

There was a very unpleasant incident during the Surrey Rumble earlier this month. It culminated with a cyclist going through the rear window of a car. I think it's the subject of a Police investigation, so won't say anymore.

pst88

I was casually waiting in a queue of traffic yesterday when someone undertook me then tried to untertake the car in front but just as he tried to the car turned left without indicating. The guy on the bike started shouting and waving his arms and chased off after the car to no doubt berate the driver. I have no sympathy for the rider really. Sure the car should've indicated but you grow to expect these things and it's a prime example of why I was waiting in the queue rather than squeezing through every tiny gap I see. It's not as if he was an inexperienced cyclist either, he was a mature gentleman on a vintage ribble road bike so i'd expect he'd been riding for a long time. Don't try to squeeze up the left and these things will never be a problem.

roger_merriman

pst88 wrote:

I was casually waiting in a queue of traffic yesterday when someone undertook me then tried to untertake the car in front but just as he tried to the car turned left without indicating. The guy on the bike started shouting and waving his arms and chased off after the car to no doubt berate the driver. I have no sympathy for the rider really. Sure the car should've indicated but you grow to expect these things and it's a prime example of why I was waiting in the queue rather than squeezing through every tiny gap I see. It's not as if he was an inexperienced cyclist either, he was a mature gentleman on a vintage ribble road bike so i'd expect he'd been riding for a long time. Don't try to squeeze up the left and these things will never be a problem.

so he rode down the left side of a car just before a turn, though the blind spot, and was supprised when the car turned suddenly?

yup thats wise....

kurako

To the driver of the G1 bus who just beeped at me for not moving even though the light was still on amber.

Go f*ck yourself!

il_principe

To the utter c*unt in the white van this morning - damn right I followed you into the petrol station and called you a 'dopey C*unt.' Pulling into a garage without indicating, directly across a bus lane and my path when I'm doing 20mph + is not funny. Check your mirrors and use your f*cking indicators next time, you dopey rasta hat wearing tw@t.

*I say 'called', more like 'screamed'.

marchant

rant at self here; I obviously didn't quite tighten up the bolts on my rear wheel enough. Unfortunately, it took me standing on the pedals to find out and ended up with me laying on my side in the road, the wheel having pulled out of the dropouts and jammed in the frame. I landed on my right elbow and am now slowly stiffening up. On a more positive note, I bought a Thomas Pink shirt for £3

lucullus

Approaching a junction with a dedicated left turn lane, and I'm probably too close to the kerb. Madame in her Volvo XC90 gives me no space at all as she squeezes by.

When I then catch her up to tell her, as politely as I can reasonably muster, that she left me insufficient space, her excuse was: "I didn't have any space on the other side." When I then pointed out to her that that meant she needed to wait for me yo go, she just wound up her window.

Bah.

Gussio

To the fat bloke in the white Volvo who came within a cat's whisker of cliping my handlebars at Parson's Green this morning (to gain 2secs in the traffic queue), I am surprised that you had the front to look offended when I called you a f**ing p***k through your window. You are an idiot.

carrock

Pross wrote:

Splottboy wrote:

Kelly Holmes, or Dame Kelly as she like to be known, apparently.

EVERY BLOODY TIME there's a "Sports" thing on TV, UP POPS HER HEAD!

Tell you what, give me a cushy job in the Army, paid for by Us, the Tax Payer,
and give me access to the best facilities money - Mine! - can buy,
and I'll get a bloody Olympic medal.

Ok, I'd probably never have a chance in Hell, but God, I fed up of seeing her EVERYWHERE!

I really think she's a great athlete, and did a great job representing her country, but, please...
Enoughs too bloody much!!!

Now, don't get me started on Matthew Pinsett either...

Agree 100% - when she was on Strictly Come Dancing (I think) her response to any criticism was "have you ever won an Olympic medal?". As you say, great athlete but she is full of her own self importance.

She's a right chippy cow- and she didn't think Rebecca Adlington was worthy of a damehood when winning 2 events at a single olympics

Bloody miserable carpet muncher she is

Gussio

carrock wrote:

Pross wrote:

Splottboy wrote:

Kelly Holmes, or Dame Kelly as she like to be known, apparently.

EVERY BLOODY TIME there's a "Sports" thing on TV, UP POPS HER HEAD!

Tell you what, give me a cushy job in the Army, paid for by Us, the Tax Payer,
and give me access to the best facilities money - Mine! - can buy,
and I'll get a bloody Olympic medal.

Ok, I'd probably never have a chance in Hell, but God, I fed up of seeing her EVERYWHERE!

I really think she's a great athlete, and did a great job representing her country, but, please...
Enoughs too bloody much!!!

Now, don't get me started on Matthew Pinsett either...

Agree 100% - when she was on Strictly Come Dancing (I think) her response to any criticism was "have you ever won an Olympic medal?". As you say, great athlete but she is full of her own self importance.

She's a right chippy cow- and she didn't think Rebecca Adlington was worthy of a damehood when winning 2 events at a single olympics

Bloody miserable carpet muncher she is

I sat opposite to her on train once and found her to be charming and quite self-effacing.

MonkeyMonster

Okay so what the fuck are the craters from a meteorite and an every expanding grand canyon doing on embankment...

I knew it might be bad having not been cycling last month but fuck me - that big circular depression just past blackfriars going west AND then the deeper and wider canyon after it...

Still... back on the bike so I can't rant too much bar the lack of scr at 12.30 am this morning going home

Allez Mark

To the passenger of a white van that passed me going up Watergate Bank to Sunniside. You scream like a girl you arsehole.

Oh what a laugh you must have had telling your mates you gave a cyclist the shock of his life.

northstar

To the guy in a blue mini, yes I am cycling on the road and no matter how many times you use your pathetic horn it won't budge me.

waving_sausages

Who the hell let the flipping teenagers out to play??!! In my normally nice and peaceful ride through the local park at the end of my commute, I've been sworn at twice, had to "nice bike mate" with added sarcasm, a group of lads blocking the path by lying across it and a boy racer chav mobile doing doughnuts!

But don't worry I've got the solution, vote for me and I'll make sure all the little lovelies are taken a birth and segregated from society. Once they can make a useful contribution to society and have well and truly grown out of the complete idiot stage we'll let them back in.

A vote for me is a vote for common sense!

Vote for waving sausages :twisted:
Come on it can't be any worse than what we've got now!

Sailorchick

Yesterday and this morning had stupid overtakes going down Athelstan Road. Why the drivers can't stay behind me I really don't get.

I checked my speedo as I was overtaken this morning and I was doing 27mph in a 30 (its downhill). The overtake was in exactly the same position as yesterday - approaching a traffic island before some traffic lights. I'm out in Primary to discourage overtakes but does it work, hell no.
Will drivers please stop scaring the hell out of me here, its only time till someone gets the distance just wrong and instead of swerving in in front of me, hits me! Your not gaining anything, so just stop it!

Kieran_Burns

djbarren wrote:

To the driver who pulled out in front of me in his BMW (sissy z4) and had the cheek to wind his window down at the lights and Say "did you not see me you c**t"? I hope the mix of grape juice and apple juice does not wash of your suit and your car interior you wa*k.

"I know this … a man got to do what he got to do,"

The Grapes of Wrath

fizz

To the little sh*tes who were hiding in the bushes as I cycled along the cycle path tonight on my way home

Your aim is rubbish and you wasted the beer inside it as the bottle exploded on the cycle path right by my front wheel.

I did consider stopping and discussing the finer art of ordinace, target distance and speed, but I didnt think that yuo'd find a 6ft overweight bloke dressed in lycra particularly intimidating...

merkin

I did consider stopping and discussing the finer art of ordinace, target distance and speed, but I didnt think that yuo'd find a 6ft overweight bloke dressed in lycra particularly intimidating...

It would have made a great youtube link though... :P

northstar

Possibly falling on death ears but when RP is closed can the minority stop cutting back in quick after passing, you might be ruining your pb too.

knappers

After having a few months off cycling with a groin injury I started again this week and was rudely initiated back on the road by a stupid retarded white transit van driver, Christ it's only my second day for Gods sake!!!

Travelling along the cycle lane past Cottingley in Leeds this F*cking Arsh*le pulled along side me, put his left indicator on and then proceeded to left hook me as he turned left into the Cottingley estate, I very nearly lost it with the back end skidding from side to side, If I had come off I would have been at the mercy of the other F*cking retards who treat this short stretch of dual carrageway as a 60 mph race track (40 mph speed limit) and there are usually remains of flowers atached to the barriers (well the bits of barriers that are still in one piece) as witness to their ineptness at driving any kind of motorised vehicle safely.

Just where do these F*cking idiots get their driving licenses from? the bottom of an Aldi's corn flake packet!!! or are they just so f*cking ignorant and arrogant that they think they can do just what the hell they like.

Better get my will in order.

essex-commuter

knappers wrote:

Astupid retarded ....this F*cking Arsh*le .....other F*cking retards who ... F*cking idiots ...so f*cking ignorant .

So did this incident annoy you?

asprilla

How come all my rants are at myself? I should have a thread for 'Dumb Things I've Done Today'. Anyway:

When you decide to plan ahead and take 5 days worth of clothes to the office on Monday, thus allowing you to ride your shiney new S1 Tues-Thurs with little or no luggage please make sure you know which bad is which, otherwise you may find yourself contemplating how five pairs of socks can be fashiouned into a rudementary pair of tyre leves and whether a boxer shorts can take 120psi.

Aidy

Public transport. It's just so slow. And uncomfortable.

2 hours to get home last night, 1.5 hours to get in this morning. Argh.

Kieran_Burns

ARGH!!!!!!




WIND!!!!!!!


:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:



that is all....

nobunaga

Dear 6'+ drafting fairies.

I believe the gentlemanly thing to do is to let me ride in your slip stream when the it's as windy as yesterday!!!!
Or was that your idea of flirting??
In any case, shame on you, shame on you, SHAME ON YOU!!!!!

il_principe

To the bloke on the Cervelo that scalped me on Dark Hill this morning - Damn your eyes man! Next time please have the decency to not be wearing a rucksack...

...still managed an 18:36 lap tho.

asprilla

Il Principe wrote:

To the bloke on the Cervelo that scalped me on Dark Hill this morning - Damn your eyes man! Next time please have the decency to not be wearing a rucksack...

...still managed an 18:36 lap tho.

What time was that and what was he wearing?

il_principe

Hmmm looking at the Garmin I'd say it was at about 7:20 - dude was in Rapha I think (it was hard to see through the tears of shame).

asprilla

Il Principe wrote:

Hmmm looking at the Garmin I'd say it was at about 7:20 - dude was in Rapha I think (it was hard to see through the tears of shame).

I thought it wouldn't be me, but there was a slim chance. I went though about an hour later.