Your rants here.

imatfaal

Adam - sounds awful but glad you are walking wounded rather than worse. Make sure you get the bike checked by the LBS rather than assume the frame / forks is ok

adambruntlett

imatfaal wrote:

Adam - sounds awful but glad you are walking wounded rather than worse. Make sure you get the bike checked by the LBS rather than assume the frame / forks is ok

Yeah, it's going to the LBS tomorrow for a checkover.

wolfsbane2k

itboffin wrote:

new tubes and tyres i'd say and dont use levers to put tyres on if that's what you've been doing.

Yeah, i've been using the levers to put the tyres (Wired Vittoria Randonneur) on. I'm failing miserably to put the tyres on without them Never had a problem using levers before, but that's been massive MTB tyres.
Punctures are distinctive 1mm apart tramlines, approx. 1cm long.
New tyres? Why?

wolfsbane2k

Ignore the above. New tyre now needed as suffering an explosive bang at 30mph I'm bloody lucky.
Huge bulge in tyre wall.
Now suffering a 5 mike walk. Must be a pub in the way.

Question is now is riding on a slowly deflating tyre caused the bulge, or had a slowly giving tyre caused the inner tube problems.

condorman

Numpty cyclist on a Colagno wearing crappy brown coloured cycling shorts and top. You're not in the TdF making your way through the cars to rejoin the peleton, you're in Elephant & Castle and cycling at that speed in traffic without regard to other road users (including cyclists) will only lead to one outcome. And your arrogance is misplaced as you cut me up when you thought that no one else would be as fast or faster than you away from the lights at Elephant and Castle roundabout - let alone someone on a fixed wheel.

joenobody

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Yeah, i've been using the levers to put the tyres (Wired Vittoria Randonneur) on. I'm failing miserably to put the tyres on without them

I have one of these after having problems with getting a trainer tyre on. Fits easily in a jersey pocket so I carry it on all rides now, just in case.

wolfsbane2k

Inspection of tyre shows bulge is nowhere near where the tubes have been going. Hmm.
It's done 3000 miles, probably out to order a few spares!

redvee

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Inspection of tyre shows bulge is nowhere near where the tubes have been going. Hmm.
It's done 3000 miles, probably out to order a few spares!

I aim for 3000 miles out of my GP4Seasons, making them cost just over 1p/mile.

itboffin

Learn to fit tyres without levers it is possible, not always easy but possible and you'll avoid those future flats and potentially a very nasty blow out crash

MrSweary

itboffin wrote:

Learn to fit tyres without levers it is possible, not always easy but possible and you'll avoid those future flats and potentially a very nasty blow out crash

I find the key is to use less force and use your palms to roll them on. It seems a bit counter-intuitive but it works... mostly..

gbsahne001

MrSweary wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Learn to fit tyres without levers it is possible, not always easy but possible and you'll avoid those future flats and potentially a very nasty blow out crash

I find the key is to use less force and use your palms to roll them on. It seems a bit counter-intuitive but it works... mostly..

and to make sure that when you're rolling the last bit on, that the tyre is in the well of the wheel and not on the rim.

itboffin

that's the key, get the lip of the tyre right into the well of the rim, makes a MASSHOOF difference

adambruntlett

adambruntlett wrote:

imatfaal wrote:

Adam - sounds awful but glad you are walking wounded rather than worse. Make sure you get the bike checked by the LBS rather than assume the frame / forks is ok

Yeah, it's going to the LBS tomorrow for a checkover.

Didn't manage to get it to the LBS yesterday s I was waiting in for deliveries all day, but it's going on Friday. Noticed there's some damage to the carbon on the rim of my RS80 C50...serves me right for commuting on deep sections I guess. :roll:

gbsahne001

Coming along a straight country road tonight I look behind and see a tractor approaching, I slow down to let it past and it seems to take forever to get past...transpires it was a tractor and very long trailer. Eventually it gets by and I pull in behind it, oh what bliss, headwind gone and it's travelling at a very respectable 28mph...so too am I now.

For the best part of a mile I'm following the tractor and all the while there is this constant "beep beep" from a car behind. Cannot work out what the problem is, so ignore it and concentrate on the tractor's progress. Eventually all good things come to an end and the tractor slows and takes a side road, allowing traffic to flow again.

This woman pulls alongside and starts effing and blinding, giving me the finger and all sorts. What is her problem, I didn't slow her down, as she couldn't have overtaken the tractor, even if I was tucked behind. If it was a reaction to safety, then it's not her issue....people...drivers; indicated that I couldn't hear her, blew her a kiss, shook my head and let her get on with it.

dhope

Walking out from behind a bus while looking the wrong way down the road. Then freezing when I shout to be careful.
Plenty of time to avoid her but still. Moron.

condorman

dhope wrote:

Walking out from behind a bus while looking the wrong way down the road. Then freezing when I shout to be careful.
Plenty of time to avoid her but still. Moron.

It's worse when they do the funky chicken and you don't know which way they're going to go!

redvee

Crossing a one way road and looking in the direction where the traffic is coming from and nothing is coming so I start crossing the road. I've taken one step into the road when a salmon cyclist, two-up with his girlfriend on the saddle, shouts at me telling to look where I'm going. I tell him I looked where the traffic is coming from and not where idiots are coming from.

adambruntlett

Nearly obliterated a large crowd of jaywalking peds at the Farringdon crossing last night. Having a bit of SCR with a guy on a fixie up Farringdon Road, lights green for us, peds crossing and not looking, all following each other like lemmings. Kept expecting them to look at some point and stop crossing. They didn't, so I had to shout at them and hammer the brakes. Fixie guy somehow uses ninja skills to weave through them. I narrowly miss a woman who had frozen and was bizarrely looking the other way. Bloody city types, so impatient and thinking the rules don't apply to them.

dhope

If you're SCRing through Farringdon then you're a bit of a prat anyway. Far too many instances of lemming peds to consider that part of the racetrack, it's definitely neutralised zone.

adambruntlett

Perhaps true but this was the clearest I have ever seen that stretch - no vehicles on either side of the road. Just a swarm of idiot pedestrians who felt they were too important to wait for the green man. Not full-on SCR in any case, just taking advantage of a clear road. I'll check my Garmin when I upload the route to Strava and I'd be surprised if I was doing more than 25mph.

davis

Having to explain to our 9 year old why cycling is actually mostly still pretty safe, and congratulate him on his bike handling after a 50-seat bus tried to run 3 of us off the road last night.

iPete

Re-arranging the garage and realising that the immovable ground anchor is now in a really bad position.

Snakebite the 2nd

iPete wrote:

My rant now pales into insignificance on reading the above but;

People who roll really slowly up to traffic lights, especially when they aren't going to change for ages.

Coming up to red lights on Saturday, lady cyclist in front so I just coasted slowly behind her as there was no point overtaking only to stop at the lights.

Came to the RED light where upon she just went straight through weaving through the traffic.

And we wonder why cars hate us :roll:

slowbike

davis wrote:

Having to explain to our 9 year old why cycling is actually mostly still pretty safe, and congratulate him on his bike handling after a 50-seat bus tried to run 3 of us off the road last night.

It's times like those that you need a remote immoboliser button - wtf is wrong with drivers that they think it perfectly sensible to attack kids on bikes or in trailers ... ??

I had a bloke drive at me whilst riding up a very back country lane - no need for the driver to be driving through there and I had indicated that I'd go into a layby so we could pass ... no chance - drove at me and my trailer with my 14 month son inside ... what the hell is wrong with these people?!

wolfsbane2k

OK, had enough of tyre issues now.
Gp4000s havent turned up in time for today's commute, so stuck on the 23 Hutchinson equinox that came with the original bike a year ago, and a brand new tube.
Rode in today no problems, hit a pothole on the way home today and a gunshot later, tyre has gone at the sidewall. It had 9 miles on it, and had been hung up on the wall since the day I bought the bike.
No, I didn't have a tyre boot. Yes the tube has a giant hole missing. Yes I had to pick up the kids from nursery.
And today was a bit to hot to 'run' 2 miles with a bike and loaded pannier across your shoulders.

itboffin

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

OK, had enough of tyre issues now.
Gp4000s havent turned up in time for today's commute, so stuck on the 23 Hutchinson equinox that came with the original bike a year ago, and a brand new tube.
Rode in today no problems, hit a pothole on the way home today and a gunshot later, tyre has gone at the sidewall. It had 9 miles on it, and had been hung up on the wall since the day I bought the bike.
No, I didn't have a tyre boot. Yes the tube has a giant hole missing. Yes I had to pick up the kids from nursery.
And today was a bit to hot to 'run' 2 miles with a bike and loaded pannier across your shoulders.

fella either you are the most unlucky person in the world or your riding too far into the gutter and hitting all the crap.

which is it?

wolfsbane2k

itboffin wrote:

fella either you are the most unlucky person in the world or your riding too far into the gutter and hitting all the crap.

which is it?

I think it's the later, as in effect I've got a piece of what should be tarmaced road, but is in fact 1cm of gravel on top of tarmac that I hit twice a day, every day. I was going to rant about trying to find the correct council to clear the road earlier as it's a tripartite junction in the middle of the country, so nobody wants to accept responsibility.

That and running at the pressure limits of the tyres due to being overweight by 20kg and carrying panniers....

jds_1981

Guy on a fatbike with electric conversion. One of these
http://www.ecosmobike.com/products/ecos ... p-130.html
My commute is along a canal path, in the afternoon it gets very busy. He was doing about 25mph along it in areas though and obviously didn't have the skills/sense for that.
On one short section next to a dodgy pub one of the clientèle shouted to him "if you hit a car with that you'd put a serious dent in it" to which the guy replied "I already have". Didn't surprise me one bit.

xbnm

..... ..... wasp decided to lodge itself between my glasses and helmet and despite desperate attempts to remove it managed to sting my nose repeatedly until a emergency wasp removal stop was undertaken. :evil: :evil:

bunter

BMW started to overtake me on a narrow bendy section of country road yesterday and headed straight into the path of an oncoming car, which had to drive into the hedge to avoid him. Both cars came to a stop pretty rapidly behind me. When I asked him why he tried to overtake when he couldn't see around the corner, BMW man said "I waited as long as I could". Twunt.