Your rants here.

dinyull

My dear wife is pregnant, which I'm definitely not ranting at, but:

Because she is so tired, we're going off to bed at 10pm and usually asleep by 10.30. You'd think 8-9 hours sleep would be good, but it's knocking me for six - I'm sat here and feel like I've had 5 hours max.

roger_merriman

Nice cycling cafe, has bike racks outside which are blocking access to the disabled loo, it's just been plonked there with no thought.

jds_1981

Dinyull wrote:

My dear wife is pregnant, which I'm definitely not ranting at, but:

Because she is so tired, we're going off to bed at 10pm and usually asleep by 10.30. You'd think 8-9 hours sleep would be good, but it's knocking me for six - I'm sat here and feel like I've had 5 hours max.

Hmm, that leaves thirty minutes unaccounted for.
Anyway, just get up at five and use the time to do all the house maintenance you've been putting off..

dinyull

Erm, are you my wife? :shock:

itboffin

Dinyull wrote:

My dear wife is pregnant, which I'm definitely not ranting at, but:

Because she is so tired, we're going off to bed at 10pm and usually asleep by 10.30. You'd think 8-9 hours sleep would be good, but it's knocking me for six - I'm sat here and feel like I've had 5 hours max.

thank god all that stuff is behind me/us now but my wife and I are quite often asleep by 10.30 ish, she loves 8-9 hrs me If i have more than 5-6 i'm dead on my feet, needless to say i get up very early

dinyull

The turbo is getting setup next week once some tech arrives to get me Trainerroading again. Had planned on turboing in the evenings after work but because the early nights are so common now I'm thinking the morning would be better suited.

rjsterry

Beautiful evening for a ride home; stuck on a train due to work commitments

cruff

imatfaal wrote:

This is the "rants" thread - not the "mention interesting gadgets that I just have to buy now" thread. Thanks - endoscope and cleaner puchased.

And whilst ranting - changing both your user name and user photo within weeks is just confusing. you know who you are - but no one else does!

Sorry - I got sick of looking at me own legs...

redvee

Coming home with a higher than usual average speed and a late night PF visit. Think it might be time to ditch the tyre but it still has plenty of life in it and only 1300 miles old.

MrSweary

Rant at the twunt who three-quarter wheeled me up onto Southwark Bridge - either pass or don't.

Rant at self for not just dropping said twunt and instead giving him the benefit of the doubt.

redvee

redvee wrote:

Coming home with a higher than usual average speed and a late night PF visit. Think it might be time to ditch the tyre but it still has plenty of life in it and only 1300 miles old.

Had a closer look at the tyre and although there is plenty of tread left there is one patch where there's less tread. It's coming off in the morning.

gbsahne001

Dinyull wrote:

My dear wife is pregnant, which I'm definitely not ranting at, but:

Because she is so tired, we're going off to bed at 10pm and usually asleep by 10.30. You'd think 8-9 hours sleep would be good, but it's knocking me for six - I'm sat here and feel like I've had 5 hours max.

Don't worry in a few months that will all change

slowbike

gbsahne wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

My dear wife is pregnant, which I'm definitely not ranting at, but:

Because she is so tired, we're going off to bed at 10pm and usually asleep by 10.30. You'd think 8-9 hours sleep would be good, but it's knocking me for six - I'm sat here and feel like I've had 5 hours max.

Don't worry in a few months that will all change

10pm early ... hah ... we're waiting for Little Slowbike to go to sleep then going up ourselves ... sometimes we don't wait and just go up anyway... usually in bed by 9 ...

8-9 hours sleep a night- that'd be nice!

MrSweary

Slowbike wrote:

gbsahne wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

My dear wife is pregnant, which I'm definitely not ranting at, but:

Because she is so tired, we're going off to bed at 10pm and usually asleep by 10.30. You'd think 8-9 hours sleep would be good, but it's knocking me for six - I'm sat here and feel like I've had 5 hours max.

Don't worry in a few months that will all change

10pm early ... hah ... we're waiting for Little Slowbike to go to sleep then going up ourselves ... sometimes we don't wait and just go up anyway... usually in bed by 9 ...

8-9 hours sleep a night- that'd be nice!

Oh so this. And ours is three. We're cooked by 9.30 at the outside. LittleMissSweary wide awake again at 5.30... So she gets 11 hours a night and I manage 7 if I'm really lucky - including getting up to check her when she cries even though she can do this without waking up...

Not complaining though - this is what we wanted and this is what we got!

In a short time you'll feel like you've only had 5 hours sleep because you've only had 5 hours sleep! Enjoy.

dinyull

Cycling reviews claiming decent price or well priced etc and then seeing it's attached to a £2.5k frameset, £200 cycling shoes etc.

I know cycling can be expensive and I know brands want their best products reviewed but no matter how good a frame is at £2.5k, it's not well priced.

Would be good if Road.cc, bikeradar etc could review kit not focused on the uber-salaried south.

Bike of the year, £2.5k. You won't catch me paying half of that on a bike so feck off. That's a 10th of the average yearly salary up in these parts.

Ben6899

Dinyull wrote:

Bike of the year, £2.5k. You won't catch me paying half of that on a bike so feck off. That's a 10th of the average yearly salary up in these parts.

Our mortgages are generally higher down here though.

dinyull

Yep, but the % of mortgage to salary will be the same as up here.

Not a rant at the south or the rich, but it wouldn't be hard for them to review keenly priced gear.

rick_chasey

Dinyull wrote:

Yep, but the % of mortgage to salary will be the same as up here.

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dinyull

Rick Chasey wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

Yep, but the % of mortgage to salary will be the same as up here.

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I could be wrong, but aren't mortgage lenders only allowed to borrow a max of 4 or 5 times your salary???

rick_chasey

Dinyull wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

Yep, but the % of mortgage to salary will be the same as up here.

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I could be wrong, but aren't mortgage lenders only allowed to borrow a max of 4 or 5 times your salary???

It's more you think you can buy!

I earn probably 40% more than friends up north and they have probably double the amount of disposable income, after rent and that's before you factor in a lower cost of living up there outside of rent.

dinyull

Rent? Who mentioned rent?

Anyway, am I wrong in thinking £2.5k bikes/£200 shoes are expensive and not particularly well priced? Perhaps it's just me.

mrfpb

When I moved down south, the london "outer fringe" weighting (for a nationally set wage scale) was around 10% of salary. House prices were 100% - 200% more. I doubled my mortgage for a smaller house. I was way better off (from a dispsable income p.o.v.) when I lived in the north east.

Lenders will/should carry out an affordability test - you get the money you need by extending the term of the mortage. Some of my friends down here have 35 year mortgages, wheras I've managed to stick to 20 year terms due to getting on the housing ladder 20 yrs ago in a more affordable part of the country.

kingpinsam

Dinyull wrote:

Rent? Who mentioned rent?

Anyway, am I wrong in thinking £2.5k bikes/£200 shoes are expensive and not particularly well priced? Perhaps it's just me.

Nothing is well priced if it's selling at RRP. Everything can be well priced with a decent discount. £2500 RRP is fairly midrange for a road bike.

Count yourself lucky if you can get a mortgage at all if you're under 30 and live in the South East. Went for a 39 year term (with unlimited overpayments) so that we've got plenty of breathing room when interest rates go up.

roger_merriman

Took the tow path down river, shortly before Putney there was a young man on a oldish road bike, who was riding too fast/close to all the walkers/runners/cyclists/dogs and such.

Fairly predictably he collected a small terrier and ended up on the deck, hopefully he might learn....

kingstonian

Friday evening commute home, I stop under Big Ben to adjust my cleat (been giving me some medial knee pain). Bike propped against a wall, shoe off, multi tool in hand, fiddling with the cleat and a bloody tourist barges into me and asks if I can take some photos of him and his family. He was a bit surprised when I told him to ask one of the hundreds of other tourists and leave me alone.

awavey

last nights commute home was like being on a Sky ride bit of warm weather and suddenly all the parents are out on the shared paths with their bikes and kids on bikes

which is great, except dont ride 4 abreast blocking the whole path, do try and ride in as much of a straight line as possible, not in an S shape weaving all over the path, understand that your little kid of no more than 5 is not going to sprint up that hill so dont try and make it a race, and its not a bell ringing contest, if Im ringing my bell its to highlight to your unattention paying a*** that Im there.

slowbike

awavey wrote:

and its not a bell ringing contest, if Im ringing my bell its to highlight to your unattention paying a*** that Im there.

Sorry - it is a bell ringing contest as that keeps my boy (not yet 2) entertained - along with loud singing of "The Wheels on the Bike go Round and Round " etc etc ...
He also says "Morning" to cyclists going the other way ... sometimes he waves too ...

I've yet to teach him to shout "Miserable bu66er" to those who fail to respond ....

rjsterry

Choppers! Fahsands of 'em. One of whom started giving out about "not having anywhere to go" after he rode into my back wheel on Kennington Road. :evil:

wolfsbane2k

Reflection incident this morning on a down hill section towards some lights. Saw peds pressing the button, started to slow knowing the light was about to go red, and slipped/skidded/wobbled for approx. 10 meters trying to stop without throwing myself over the handlebars, Managed to stop after breaking the line, after the peds had already started walking over.

Considering the road is a 40mph road, riding down it needs to be done at speed to minimise conflict and is normally ok.
Going to have to re-consider speed down that road now.

Peds at the crossing had a "should stop for reds" argument... :groan:

Nellyspania

Saw some nutter on a hybrid in front try to undertake a bus as it's actually started turning left this morning and nearly ended up crushed against the Ped railings. :shock: