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Stopped at the red at Kennington tube in the accepted fashion on the way home on Friday. Nodder on a Boris Bike wobbles past on the outside then pulls across in front.....crosses the white line....thinks about it....then carries on through the junction. I'm feeling quite smug because I can see the police car at the lights coming the other way - the driver even looking right at us as the eejit runs the light. But look is all they did. Just watched him do it & just let him go. Wouldn't mind (well, no, actually I would) but the bloke in the van behind me saw it unfold too and was apoplectic about it - lots of arm waving, insulting cyclists (and plod) and nearly took me out in his rush to catch up with the perpetrator (who turned left and carried on his merry way oblivious).
Gaaaarrgh!CS7
Surrey Hills
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Changed over to the "winter bike" spent a little time changing lights & stuff over.
Set off, pulled over 'cos the seat was too low, set off again, pulled over 'cos the front brake release released! Set off, arrived at work, went to switch rear lights off & one was missing (yes I'd used a nyloc nut for the fastening) As I was putting bike into rack I noticed the recently purchased spyball mirror was missing. FFS! :evil:0 -
Housing development site at the of our road....
3rd Puncture in the last 2 months going past that site, flint shards every time...I thought they were supposed to sweep up!
I'm getting really pi$$ed off with this now! :evil:0 -
Wore my last set of Schwalbe Marathon Plus/Londons down till the blue was showing in patches - zero punctures. Tried out some Raddonneur Pros about two/three weeks ago and punctured already . Could just be bad luck; but if they puncture again with a small piece of glass (that would not have bothered the Marathon +) then I am going back to nice wooden dependability.0
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Just had a call from my 14 year old son:
Son: "Dad, I borrowed your bike to go to school today, hope that's OK?"
Dad: "Do you realise that's a £3000 MTB..!?"
Son: "yeah, but I left it in the bikeshed, so was OK"
Dad: <<weeps>> "Please don't do that again"
God knows how he coped with school shoes & SPD pedals on a wet day...Waterloo - White City
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Just had a call from my 14 year old son:
Son: "Dad, I borrowed your bike to go to school today, hope that's OK?"
Dad: "Do you realise that's a £3000 MTB..!?"
Son: "yeah, but I left it in the bikeshed, so was OK"
Dad: <<weeps>> "Please don't do that again"
God knows how he coped with school shoes & SPD pedals on a wet day...
:shock: I'd be "borrowing" my son's X-box/phone/lap top for a week to make him understand!0 -
Just had a call from my 14 year old son:
Son: "Dad, I borrowed your bike to go to school today, hope that's OK?"
Dad: "Do you realise that's a £3000 MTB..!?"
Son: "yeah, but I left it in the bikeshed, so was OK"
Dad: <<weeps>> "Please don't do that again"
God knows how he coped with school shoes & SPD pedals on a wet day...
:shock: I'd be "borrowing" my son's X-box/phone/lap top for a week to make him understand!0 -
Just had a call from my 14 year old son:
Son: "Dad, I borrowed your bike to go to school today, hope that's OK?"
Dad: "Do you realise that's a £3000 MTB..!?"
Son: "yeah, but I left it in the bikeshed, so was OK"
Dad: <<weeps>> "Please don't do that again"
God knows how he coped with school shoes & SPD pedals on a wet day...
:shock: I'd be "borrowing" my son's X-box/phone/lap top for a week to make him understand!
Good call - I'll use his xbox live account as well - his Fifa16 squad will be in tatters...Waterloo - White City
Cannondale Quick Carbon 1 2016
Cannondale Scalpel Carbon 3 26" (Lefty)0 -
I think I'm going to start a new policy of stopping to pick up any litter I see being thrown from cars and then chucking it back through their window.
I ended up doing this today after I saw a guy throw his parking ticket out of the window as I was leaving my house. He stopped at the end of the road and I stopped alongside him and pointed out that he'd dropped it out of the window. Obviously he said he hadn't, that it must have blown out of the window and thanked me for returning it. I guess that can happen if you have a habit of holding tickets out of your window when the wind is blowing...0 -
Bloody glass in the road outside every pub on my commute, don't bloody drink if you literally cannot hold your ale!
Another good reason not to ride in the gutter.0 -
Self rant:
When filling Camelbak with water, remember to screw the lid on tight. If you don't you'll have a litre of cold water down your back and into your shorts before you're 50 yards down the road. Not recommended at 5am before a 2hr train journey.
I think this is the sort of thing you only do once...Waterloo - White City
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People who claim that cyclists doing a thing is reflective of a collective group.My blog: http://www.roubaixcycling.cc (kit reviews and other musings)
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Self rant:
When filling Camelbak with water, remember to screw the lid on tight. If you don't you'll have a litre of cold water down your back and into your shorts before you're 50 yards down the road. Not recommended at 5am before a 2hr train journey.
I think this is the sort of thing you only do once...
A bit like going into the sea in a new drysuit and forgetting to ensure that the zip is closed properly...again you only do it once...so I've been told :oops:0 -
Self rant:
When filling Camelbak with water, remember to screw the lid on tight. If you don't you'll have a litre of cold water down your back and into your shorts before you're 50 yards down the road. Not recommended at 5am before a 2hr train journey.
I think this is the sort of thing you only do once...
On a similar vein, I washed my bottle with hot water and washing up liquid in the bottle, lid on and squirt through nozzle then clean bottle and leave to dry overnight. The next day I remembered I should have done the same with the nozzle, washing up liquid isn't what you want to taste when thirsty.I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0 -
Christmas traffic and shopping! Sadly for work so had to be done by car.0
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Cars seeing you but not long enough to bother judging your speed. Coming back into Tonbridge on my sunday ride having had much fun in wet and blustery conditions and feeling good, i approach the station doing about 20mph on a slight downhill, at which point the taxi waiting to turn into the station decides that he'll just turn across my path. Cue total panic, much yelling and a very impressive sideways tail out, balls of steel rainy swerve. Once i'd realised that i had missed his car and was in fact still alive I followed him to the taxi rank to have a word. His response was, "Yeah i saw you but you shouldn't have been going so fast, you should be more careful." I told him he'd kill someone one day with that attitude and pedalled off. :x
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Why do I have to get into the office on the 24th when I could perfectly well work from home too?
Now I need to get public transport to get to the office and to go up to Midland after finishing work :x:x:x
Hope I'll be able to catch the boys before they go to bed on Christmas eve!!!0 -
Cars seeing you but not long enough to bother judging your speed. Coming back into Tonbridge on my sunday ride having had much fun in wet and blustery conditions and feeling good, i approach the station doing about 20mph on a slight downhill, at which point the taxi waiting to turn into the station decides that he'll just turn across my path. Cue total panic, much yelling and a very impressive sideways tail out, balls of steel rainy swerve. Once i'd realised that i had missed his car and was in fact still alive I followed him to the taxi rank to have a word. His response was, "Yeah i saw you but you shouldn't have been going so fast, you should be more careful." I told him he'd kill someone one day with that attitude and pedalled off. :x
Ooooh that would have poked me up no end.0 -
Why do I have to get into the office on the 24th when I could perfectly well work from home too?
Now I need to get public transport to get to the office and to go up to Midland after finishing work :x:x:x
Hope I'll be able to catch the boys before they go to bed on Christmas eve!!!
you sure you aren't coming down with something?!
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Cars seeing you but not long enough to bother judging your speed. Coming back into Tonbridge on my sunday ride having had much fun in wet and blustery conditions and feeling good, i approach the station doing about 20mph on a slight downhill, at which point the taxi waiting to turn into the station decides that he'll just turn across my path. Cue total panic, much yelling and a very impressive sideways tail out, balls of steel rainy swerve. Once i'd realised that i had missed his car and was in fact still alive I followed him to the taxi rank to have a word. His response was, "Yeah i saw you but you shouldn't have been going so fast, you should be more careful." I told him he'd kill someone one day with that attitude and pedalled off. :x
I know its the season of good will, but you have him too much. That's what happened with my accident, was asked why I couldn't stop in time :rolleyes:
Personally. I'd have reported it to the taxi company &council there and then, especially as he probably had it on CCTV in the car as well!Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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To the operators of Mortlake level-crossing.
Five minutes is, I'd suggest, enough time between trains to raise the bloody barrier.
We are in the midst of a technological revolution - can one of these clever idiots who designs apps to rate eachother's moustaches please do something useful like make something that monitors train movements and help out the gobbins who pull the levers?0 -
Not so much a rant but it's funny how certain roads have far more issues
Yesterday, long straight, single-track road. Passing spots but also plenty of room for cars to pass bikes if the car is considerate. Van from Raddery Saw Mill flying down the road - I'd passed the passing spot well before he reached the one near him - but he continued at full speed and passed me (within inches) without slowing. Then sounded his horn with a long blast. I stopped and waved him back. He did an "angry" 3-point turn in the next passing spot and came back.
His first assault was that he'd passed his passing spot before me (wrong) - him doing "50" and me, on a bike, only doing "10mph" (his first miscalculation)
Then he started on the "I pay £163 road tax"
Then he said he was taking up his legal speed of 50mph (aye, right) so it was up to me to get out of the way. And, no, it wasn't reasonable that he slowed down so we could both pass safely.
Then he started to argue that I'd nearly forced him off the road on purpose (bike against speeding 2-tonne van - yes, I have a suicide wish).
I did explain to him that I had it all recorded on my Sat Nav regarding speeds and positions etc. I was very calm and, in fact, quite enjoyed it.
I'm sure we've all had our versions of this - just tedious.ROAD < Scott Foil HMX Di2, Volagi Liscio Di2, Jamis Renegade Elite Di2, Cube Reaction Race > ROUGH0 -
Yes I sympathize. I lived in Mortlake from 1994 to 2011 and can remember several occasions waiting more than 20 minutes for the barriers to come up![url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19769613#p19769613]KnightOfTheLongTights[/url] wrote:To the operators of Mortlake level-crossing.
Five minutes is, I'd suggest, enough time between trains to raise the bloody barrier.
We are in the midst of a technological revolution - can one of these clever idiots who designs apps to rate eachother's moustaches please do something useful like make something that monitors train movements and help out the gobbins who pull the levers?Dolan Titanium ADX 2016
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Yes I sympathize. I lived in Mortlake from 1994 to 2011 and can remember several occasions waiting more than 20 minutes for the barriers to come up![url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19769613#p19769613]KnightOfTheLongTights[/url] wrote:To the operators of Mortlake level-crossing.
Five minutes is, I'd suggest, enough time between trains to raise the bloody barrier.
We are in the midst of a technological revolution - can one of these clever idiots who designs apps to rate eachother's moustaches please do something useful like make something that monitors train movements and help out the gobbins who pull the levers?
The evening before Christmas when that house came down on Barnes Terrace, I found myself at the White Hart Lane one for about 15 mins along with 10 bikes, 20 scooters and all the cars in London.
Reminiscent of Calcutta it was.0 -
well that season of goodwill didnt last long, first ride of the year and nearly taken out by an impatient idiot at a roundabout. I was clearly ahead of the traffic in the going straight on lane at the roundabout and in prime and could see there was at least two cars coming round so Id have to stop, so I eased up and unclipped my right leg to set down till they cleared.
next thing I know a car pulls alongside me on the right side,who is so close his wingmirror is now fully hooked within my handle bar loop, which of course makes you panic even more as if he decides theres enough of a gap to go hes clearly no consideration to wait for my safety...and so I had several comedy wobble bunny hops as I was still clipped in left side and all my weight was on the right side where I didnt really want to be and I couldnt just turn my wheel to get out of it as it was that close not enough steering lock available
how I missed not just wiping out into their car I dont know, and yeah I know some people would have on principle or slammed their roof so hard just to stabilise yourself, but I dont know where youd stand with that legally,insurance etc no doubt theyd claim you road up the inside caused damage etc etc,
anyway managed to escape just in time before he floored it, and wheelspun away (duh its wet you muppet) and had to take a good 30 secs to recompose myself, on the plus side none of the other traffic behind tried to get past at that point, and then gave me tons of space overtaking, so they at least thought the other driver was a tool as well, or they just thought I was the Bambi on ice at bike handling.
but after all that the guy ended up turning right,so was in the wrong b****y lane anyway !!!! :evil:0 -
1st visit from she who shan't be mentioned today
I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0 -
Out for a ride with a mate over the holidays - we're making our way home through Box Hill village when a van crawls past (about 3 inches of clearance) whilst overtaking. There's traffic coming the other way so he's obviously not keen to cross into the other carriageway, but he's coming past anyway rather than slowing up for a second or four. Anyway, as he makes his way past and gets a mouthful from my mate, another cyclist comes through too.... then all becomes clear. Said cyclist is slipstreaming the van around the Box Hill circuit. Obviously a deliberate plan because the van sticks to the same speed all the way around past Headley Cricket Club holding up traffic and causing absolute chaos as he goes. No idea what the tool of a cyclist thought he'd achieve (other than an inflated strava time) but he wasn't going that much faster than us anyway. In the end all he managed was to put the rest of us road users in danger whilst he got called a cnut by all & sundry.CS7
Surrey Hills
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First commute of the year, first semi-accident of the year.
Idiot in a white van overtook and clipped my arm with his wing mirror. Managed to stay on, just :S
Unfortunately, I didn't get an action camera for xmas, so it's not recorded either, but reported to the coppers.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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Strava Flyby? Worth pointing out his c**********ness on there, also report the ride.Out for a ride with a mate over the holidays - we're making our way home through Box Hill village when a van crawls past (about 3 inches of clearance) whilst overtaking. There's traffic coming the other way so he's obviously not keen to cross into the other carriageway, but he's coming past anyway rather than slowing up for a second or four. Anyway, as he makes his way past and gets a mouthful from my mate, another cyclist comes through too.... then all becomes clear. Said cyclist is slipstreaming the van around the Box Hill circuit. Obviously a deliberate plan because the van sticks to the same speed all the way around past Headley Cricket Club holding up traffic and causing absolute chaos as he goes. No idea what the tool of a cyclist thought he'd achieve (other than an inflated strava time) but he wasn't going that much faster than us anyway. In the end all he managed was to put the rest of us road users in danger whilst he got called a cnut by all & sundry.0 -
All I wanted was for it to be dry enough for one day in order to clean my bike properly.
Still, at least I'm not flooded like those poor people in the North, so that puts it in to perspective a bit.0
