Your rants here.

prawny

Rhodrich wrote:

Are there any rim brake pads that don't disintegrate in the rain, leaving black run lines all over your forks and chainstays?

swisstops are the best IME, it's a light grey film rather than black. But i think discs are the only real answer

phills

Psychotic Royal Mail lorry driver revving up my a*rse this morning in Feltham. When he passed he was waving a high viz jacket out the window at me and yelling something. Caught him 2 mins later and grab a photo of his number plate discretely from behind, only for him to jump out of his cab and start yelling at me about the illegalities of not wearing a high viz jacket... I was wearing a Gabba with reflective parts, DHB tights with reflective parts, MTB shoes in high viz, I had a pulsing exposure light on the back with a Ortlieb pannier with reflective patch and an Exposure up front on pulsing. If he couldn't see me he should really go to Specsavers and get off the road!!!!

veronese68

phills wrote:

Psychotic Royal Mail lorry driver revving up my a*rse this morning in Feltham.

Definitely worth reporting him and asking they educate their idiots. Do get some choice driving from some Felthamites at times.

phills

Veronese68 wrote:

phills wrote:

Psychotic Royal Mail lorry driver revving up my a*rse this morning in Feltham.

Definitely worth reporting him and asking they educate their idiots. Do get some choice driving from some Felthamites at times.

Have reported it but don't hold out much hope. The traffic system in Feltham doesn't help the anger levels of drivers, it's quite bizarre in places and seems designed to hold up traffic rather than help.

dyrlac

Garmin firmware update 5.20 totally bricked my edge 520, had to factory reset it once I got home. Real rant is that as a result, I took the short way home because if I wasn't getting credit, I surely CBA. :P

First.Aspect

Dyrlac wrote:

Garmin firmware update 5.20 totally bricked my edge 520, had to factory reset it once I got home. Real rant is that as a result, I took the short way home because if I wasn't getting credit, I surely CBA. :P

Garmin seem to have a software update every week or two.

I have yet to notice any functional difference whatsoever. The only thing I notice is a 5 min delay while the damn thing installs.

I simply don't know why software companies do this.

Same as the apps on my phone. I reckon I get about 5 update installs a week. Most of them from the BBC radio player. The only difference I notice is that its initially harder to figure out how to make it do what it used to.

And websites. BBC; if the stories are just simple 100 affairs based on the same AP story everyone else has, 50 of which are copied and pasted from the previous story about the same subject, dressing it up differently and asking for feedback on what you've already decided to do, really that's just irritating. Given that we are all paying for your web designers to play in the sandpit, and all that.

I feel a bit better now.

prhymeate

Thank you to the oncoming idiot in Richmond Park who was driving whilst looking at his phone and drifted right over to my side of the road. I think if me just missing him hadn't caught his eye, he would have gone right across and onto the grass.

tootsie323

Visit from the puncture fairy. Not such a biggie in itself but what preceded it was a cold and wet ride followed by standing around in gloves that do the exact opposite of keeping your fingers warm, before the return leg (and insertion of rusty staple-like object into rear tyre and tube).
I tend to be ten-thumbed when it comes to anything mechanical, so add in a complete loss of feeling in said digits and let's just say that any passing motorist had a golden opportunity to extend his / her profanasauras.

rick_chasey

Ah, a modern moan; strava failed to record a c.120km run.

awavey

ok hands up who else saw the sun in the sky today and thought great spring is here, it will probably be a bit warmer on the bike so I dont need my full on winter thermal style cold gear....d'oh stupid mistake....2 and bit hours later and I couldnt feel my feet, my hands even though in gloves, and when I finally got home spent the next half hour covered up in a duvet just to try and warm up abit.

menthel

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ah, a modern moan; strava failed to record a c.120km run.

You went running???

rhodrich

awavey wrote:

ok hands up who else saw the sun in the sky today and thought great spring is here, it will probably be a bit warmer on the bike so I dont need my full on winter thermal style cold gear....d'oh stupid mistake....2 and bit hours later and I couldnt feel my feet, my hands even though in gloves, and when I finally got home spent the next half hour covered up in a duvet just to try and warm up abit.

I hear you! Bib shorts and short fingered gloves were definitely a bit optimistic this morning.....

Snakebite the 2nd

awavey wrote:

ok hands up who else saw the sun in the sky today and thought great spring is here, it will probably be a bit warmer on the bike so I dont need my full on winter thermal style cold gear....d'oh stupid mistake....2 and bit hours later and I couldnt feel my feet, my hands even though in gloves, and when I finally got home spent the next half hour covered up in a duvet just to try and warm up abit.

I thought I could get away without my fleece top as it was so warm last night. I had the windows open and was still roasting to the point I kept waking up.
Although that might have been because the bloody dog was on the bed, a sodding great Labrador shaped hot water bottle.

Anyway fleece went on and I'm glad it did!

rick_chasey

Don't you just check the hourly forecast on your phone for the time you set off and the time you head home?

rhodrich

Rick Chasey wrote:

Don't you just check the hourly forecast on your phone for the time you set off and the time you head home?

I did. For some reason though, I considered 4 degrees to be 'mild', and worthy of shorts and short fingered gloves, perhaps owing to the fact that I've lived in Newcastle in the past. Have spent far to much time down south since then though.

Snakebite the 2nd

Rick Chasey wrote:

Don't you just check the hourly forecast on your phone for the time you set off and the time you head home?

No.
I just stick my head out the door and take an educated guess!

itboffin

weather forecast is really easy here in Windshire

windy
wet
cold
foggy
icy
all of the above

awavey

Rick Chasey wrote:

Don't you just check the hourly forecast on your phone for the time you set off and the time you head home?

yeah but my weather app doesnt show the effect of windchill there was a fairly constant chilly easterly wind, so whilst the app said to expect 7C-8C, my garmin recorded it was more like 2C-3C instead

rick_chasey

Ah, that's why you need the rapha pro jacket...

Shrugs off wind if it's there, doesn't boil you if it isn't .

dhope

Rick Chasey wrote:

Ah, that's why you need the rapha pro jacket...

Shrugs off wind if it's there, doesn't boil you if it isn't .

Gabba thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>

MrSweary

At self. Fitted a new freehub last week before my hols. Riding in on Monday I'm suddenly getting a lot of drag on the cassette when freewheeling - nearly lost the chain into my spokes a few times. Pulled said freehub off last night and did a quick search on't tinterwebs and realised I had failed to insert the 8mm to 9mm shim. Ahem.

After much digging around in various boxes of bike bits said shim was located and now everything is peachy again. Stupid man. :roll:

First.Aspect

Rhodrich wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Don't you just check the hourly forecast on your phone for the time you set off and the time you head home?

I did. For some reason though, I considered 4 degrees to be 'mild', and worthy of shorts and short fingered gloves, perhaps owing to the fact that I've lived in Newcastle in the past. Have spent far to much time down south since then though.

Newcastle IS down south.

veronese68

First Aspect wrote:

Newcastle IS down south.

:shock:

menthel

First Aspect wrote:

Rhodrich wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Don't you just check the hourly forecast on your phone for the time you set off and the time you head home?

I did. For some reason though, I considered 4 degrees to be 'mild', and worthy of shorts and short fingered gloves, perhaps owing to the fact that I've lived in Newcastle in the past. Have spent far to much time down south since then though.

Newcastle IS down south.

No, anything north of the Thames up Oop Narth.

ugo.santalucia

I like Newcastle, I think it's the best city in the UK... and I mean it!

itboffin

First Aspect wrote:

Rhodrich wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Don't you just check the hourly forecast on your phone for the time you set off and the time you head home?

I did. For some reason though, I considered 4 degrees to be 'mild', and worthy of shorts and short fingered gloves, perhaps owing to the fact that I've lived in Newcastle in the past. Have spent far to much time down south since then though.

Newcastle IS down south.

London is up tut north, Newcastle might as well be the moon

rick_chasey

2 rants.

Whilst burning my stirfry last night I pulled the cutlery draw out too hard. It flew out and landed on the knuckle of my big toe. It's very swollen and turning a shade of purple as I write this.

Also, what the hell is going on with Chelsea embankment traffic on the way home? The road works have been there for a month but this week it's been totally jammed up the whole way down. Have to spend 10 mins telling over-adventurous moped drivers to get out of my way to let me through the gaps.

imatfaal

Silly woman pulling out on to Embankment/BlackFriar's Underpass from behind a van right into my path - it was only because I had just shoulder checked that I was able to flick out and around her; not sure what would have happened if I had known there was a car/motorcycle/bike on my shoulder. There does seem to be a common delusion that if you are riding a big old clunky bike slowly then you are safe come what may

redvee

Interupted a couple having a romantic moment in their van on the dark lane I ride along on the way home, if I didn't have my lights on I might have saw something.

rower63

I've just retired (for now) my Hoy frame, as Dolan have given me a replacement for my failed-BB-within-warranty frame (actually that bit should go into anti-rants).
I am in the process of transferring all the Hoy's bits onto the new Dolan.
I went to the Strava "My Gear" page to edit the details on my Hoy bike. I "retired" the old parts and noticed, too late, that the previously-retired chain in my list of retired parts had now been deleted, together with its data, and replaced by the "new" retired chain. I'm sure this is new, I am sure on my previous Dolan, for example, I had several old chains in my retired list together with data such as miles done using it, dates added, dates removed etc. Now I've lost that data, VERY ANNOYING. What's the point of keeping just the last one instance of, say, retired chain? Why not all of them?
The misleading thing is that there is a "Delete" option which suggests that simply retiring something should not delete anything.
That "My Gear" feature is poorly designed, in any event. It doesn't allow for Parts to have their own existence, and be easily transferred between Frames. You should be able to take or create a Frame and add and remove Parts from your virtual Parts Bin, and each Part should have its own record of miles done, date acquired, date added/removed to/from another Part or Frame,etc etc. With a knowledge of database design it would be straightforward to do. I might do it.