Your rants here.

rick_chasey

Some drafter down passed dolphin square. I'm cruising, nice and relaxed. Can't be bothered to put in much effort.

I wave him on.

I pass him a bit later heading towards lotus road.

I stop for the zebra crossing a bit later on and bam - he rides into the back of me.

He gets very shouty. Says something about his camera (classic!) and that the pedestrian had 'only just arrived'.

Some rozzers show up who happen to be passing. Show little interest. Noones hurt. I tell him to not ride so close.

:roll:

itboffin

not a rant really just utter amazement at the sheer stupidity of drivers tonight, i witnessed a truck come past me then realise there were two traffic island so he passes on the wrong side of the road just making it between the two sets before the oncoming traffic meets him.

this is in a 20 mph zone i was doing 20 duh!

MiniMalts

Alpine Bikes, Aberdeen. Issue has been rectified for over a week now but a month to replace a wheel!?

rick_chasey

Rick Chasey wrote:

Some drafter down passed dolphin square. I'm cruising, nice and relaxed. Can't be bothered to put in much effort.

I wave him on.

I pass him a bit later heading towards lotus road.

I stop for the zebra crossing a bit later on and bam - he rides into the back of me.

He gets very shouty. Says something about his camera (classic!) and that the pedestrian had 'only just arrived'.

Some rozzers show up who happen to be passing. Show little interest. Noones hurt. I tell him to not ride so close.

:roll:

Just found a hole in my bib tights.

Now I'm f&cked off.

Snakebite the 2nd

Colds.

I'm sick and tired of catching every bloody thing that is going round.
It is never enough to knock me out completely (luckily), but just simmers away under the surface, just enough to make it uncomfortable and stop me from riding.

vimfuego

On the CS7 E&C avoid route this morning & crossing to Princess St using the bike lane. I move out a bit to the right to make the tightish left (carrying a bit of speed) - no bother, nothing in the way, just another bike approaching from the other direction (from E&C) but easily far enough away that my manoeuvre will not affect him in any way.

Cue "ding ding ding" and some shouty grumbling from the militant bell user(/end).

Yes, well done. You've got a bell. (yet still appeared to have failed to alert the hi-viz clothing factory he'd apparently collided with, to his presence). Doesn't mean you need to find ANY reason to use it.

Pity you didn't have any lights you chump.....

wolfsbane2k

To the cyclist that overtook me this morning going uphill - if you have a rear light , it really helps to put it "over" the mudguard, not underneath it.
Especially if it's a fly6.
Muppet.

corriebee1

I'm driving in during half-term as the massively reduced traffic means i can see the little guy in the morning and the evening if i do so.

Another (probably massively brainy) idiot nearly cycled their bike shaped object under my car this morning pulling onto a roundabout directly in front of me.

Another case of what i'm terming "studicide", where Cambridge undergrads seek to level the playing field and destroy their super-brainy genes in acts of mass self-risk.

bendertherobot

Dogs on flexi leads. If I take the left hand side of the shared path and cycle at 5 mph noting that you are on the right hand side, 20 feet away, with a dog on a flexi lead can you a) ensure that your yappy little yorkie that doesn't like bikes is taken somewhere else or b) keep his flexi lead on short, preferably so he can't reach my side.

Sleeper Service

Veronese68 wrote:

Sleeper Service wrote:

Unfortunately, there are some people - in my experience about one in every ten - who behave like overly entitled, spoilt children. Some of them ride bikes.

FTFY

Pretty much. The proportions are about the same in any general population. Or in other words:

dhope wrote:

Sleeper Service wrote:

Unfortunately, people.

FTFY

This.

tgotb

Last week I bought 8 hoover bags from eBay. They have now arrived, fit the vacuum cleaner, and all is well.

Why oh why oh why does eBay keep spamming me to ask me whether I'm interested in buying more? I have several years' supply of the things; there's every chance the vacuum cleaner will die before I run out of bags. Why on earth would I want more?????

dhope

TGOTB wrote:

Last week I bought 8 hoover bags from eBay. They have now arrived, fit the vacuum cleaner, and all is well.

Why oh why oh why does eBay keep spamming me to ask me whether I'm interested in buying more? I have several years' supply of the things; there's every chance the vacuum cleaner will die before I run out of bags. Why on earth would I want more?????

Amazon are just as useless.

You just bought a saddle. Would you like to buy a saddle?

Who do they think I am, Daniel B?!? :roll:

Snakebite the 2nd

When my rides don't go into Garmin Connect when I sync the computer.

Two consecutive rides are missing, but not the last one. How does that work eh?

chris_bass

Snakebite the 2nd wrote:

When my rides don't go into Garmin Connect when I sync the computer.

Two consecutive rides are missing, but not the last one. How does that work eh?

they didn't happen!

dyrlac

Why can't I shift this cold? Going on 2 and a half weeks and I've lost, conservatively, 40 watts. (Skiing through it probably didn't help, mind).

rower63

Dyrlac wrote:

Why can't I shift this cold? Going on 2 and a half weeks and I've lost, conservatively, 40 watts. (Skiing through it probably didn't help, mind).

Took me precisely 5 weeks to finally shift the cold I had which started 25th Jan. Normally it's a week, this was a bad one, actually started deep in my chest and worked up and out.

wolfsbane2k

After picking up a rattling on application of power this morning that I couldn't bottom out, my pannier disconnected itself at a pothole on the way home through the rear derailleur. Thankfully I wasn't motoring at the time, but gentle cruising towards a junction, so it just stopped the chain & got caught in the Rd.
Turned out one bolt has sheared after the other had worked it's way loose ( it's something I'd forgotten to check since fitting the rack 4 months ago :oops:

pastryboy

Dyrlac wrote:

Why can't I shift this cold? Going on 2 and a half weeks and I've lost, conservatively, 40 watts. (Skiing through it probably didn't help, mind).

I know the feeling, picked up a cold which, based on what I've read online, seems to have turned into a sinus infection. Three days of constant green snot out of one nostril. :?

MrSweary

Dyrlac wrote:

Why can't I shift this cold? Going on 2 and a half weeks and I've lost, conservatively, 40 watts. (Skiing through it probably didn't help, mind).

I have had it now for 5 weeks. One day of actually feeling ill and the rest of the time coughing incessantly. It started to subside last week only for me to get another cold on top. Cue more coughing. Doc told me you can expect it to hang around for at least 6 weeks... :x

Not an ideal start to the year.

elbowloh

MrSweary wrote:

Dyrlac wrote:

Why can't I shift this cold? Going on 2 and a half weeks and I've lost, conservatively, 40 watts. (Skiing through it probably didn't help, mind).

I have had it now for 5 weeks. One day of actually feeling ill and the rest of the time coughing incessantly. It started to subside last week only for me to get another cold on top. Cue more coughing. Doc told me you can expect it to hang around for at least 6 weeks... :x

Not an ideal start to the year.

I've had something similar for the last 5 weeks, thought it was just a cold/flu that was dragging on. Got the results of a blood test and a chest xray yesterday, apparently I have pneumonia!

wolfsbane2k

Awful buttock clenching moment today on the way home, as scooting along at 30mph into a smidy.
I have never endoed a race bike before, didn't know it was possible with rim brakes.
Felt like I was going to go all the way over, didnt have time to compute if it was best to let the wheel move again and roll into the dozy bint, but just kept my balance.
The kids in the car were screaming like mad, probably because they had a gurning, almost upside down cyclist staring at them!

keyser__soze

Off-topic but loft converters have made me angrier than just about any bad driving I've experienced in the last three years. Still need to get the sodding thing finished so am not going name the company but if anyone in SE London is thinking of getting their loft done PM me and I'll share details of who I most definitely don't recommend.

itboffin

Lead rider in our club ride today should go and buy a lottery ticket because the utter puss bucket in a 4x4 driving seriously fast on a blind single track lane came close enough to take a DNA sample.

Seriously something has to be done about the way people drive its out of control

keyser__soze

Garage burgled last night, SE London. Initial check seems to show they only took skis and bikes so looks targeted. If anyone sees any of the following offered on eBay, Gumtree etc please let me know - it's nearly all non run-of-the-mill stuff so should stick out like a sore thumb.

Scott Addict R15 black/blue road bike frame/forks in 52cm
Green Volkl Katana 191cm skis
Red Salomon 916 Lab ski bindings (were mounted to Katanas
Red Salomon 2V Lab GS skis (181cm) with black riser plates.
Brown/black/grey Dynastar Legend Sultan 94 skis, 174cm (I think)
Grey Look P12 ski bindings
Silver Volkl Aura skis 165cm (or thereabouts)
Black/orange/red Storm Inferno skis (155cm)
Black Vist 412 ski bindings.
Black Bartletts-branded 180cm double roller ski bag.

Probably more to add after police have been and inspected the scene.

dhope

Keyser__Soze wrote:

Garage burgled last night

Shit

itboffin

sorry to hear that Keyser

tgotb

Sorry to hear that!

191cm Katanas :shock:
Please tell me they don't belong to the same person as the 52cm Addict...

veronese68

Also sorry to hear that Keyser. I was expecting more bikes to be on that list though.
My rant. Some twunt in a large BMW turned left across the front of me from the right turn lane, then hooted at me as I carried on not leaving him enough room. A little further along at the first available opportunity he overtakes on a narrow stretch of road cutting sharply across the front of me and jams on his brakes. Then drives along the road jamming his brakes on every time I got close. Utter cockwomble of the highest order. I don't know how he knew I was a cyclist because I was in a car at the time.

imatfaal

Keyser__Soze wrote:

Garage burgled last night, ...

Crappy news. Trovit and GeoShip are good for searching multiple resale sites and ebays around the world. with the standard proviso that if you do see something familiar you act super cautiously and do not try to meet up

tgotb

Veronese68 wrote:

I don't know how he knew I was a cyclist because I was in a car at the time.