Your rants here.

tgotb

Slowbike wrote:

I believe the correct response to this is to stop your car ...

... and make thorough use of your windscreen washers ...

wolfsbane2k

Yet another broken spoke.
Bastard potholes.

wolfsbane2k

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Yet another broken spoke.
Bastard potholes.

Make that 3.
Think that I need to bite the bullet and go handbuilt now.

Kieran_Burns

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Yet another broken spoke.
Bastard potholes.

Make that 3.
Think that I need to bite the bullet and go handbuilt now.

I did after losing multiple spokes from a wheel built at JE James (never again) - got a local guy to rebuild them... that was 2 years ago and I've not lost one spoke and both wheels are still almost entirely perfect.

j_mcd

Rant at myself.

Got up at 5am to put a dummy into Little Miss McD to try and persuade her to go back to sleep and could have easily just got dressed, got on the bike and added 25 miles to the commute (as it's great weather for it). But I didn't, for some reason I crawled back into bed for an hour.

thistle_

Riding in this morning, I had to stop to put my seatpost back up which delayed me by a minute or two.

Couple of minutes later a lorry coming the other way "spilt" about 2 dozen empty cardboard boxes across the road. Road blocked, driver didn't stop, I didn't get his details.

I'm glad I stopped to sort my seatpost out :shock:

grant2307

My downshifting and the clicking noise I'm getting.

davis

Apparently I'm old enough to get 2-day hangovers...

I took it very gently on the way in because if I pressed on my head started thumping painfully in time with my heartbeat. Absolute bag of...

shycho

Finally got rid of the annoying clicking noise which occurred when mashing the pedals, by switching over to a different set of pedals (anti-rant).

I don't like this 2nd set of pedals (rant).

asprilla

Stupid cyclists and their stupid correct usage of roundabouts.

Riding through Molesey this morning and making good time, generally keeping up with traffic, so good that I reckon I'm on for a PB on a segment down there (bearing in mind this is a segment I ride on the TT bike in competition) when a cyclist with priority joins a roundabout from the right and I have to brake for 45kph to 19kph (to avoid hitting the car in front).

Missed the PB by 6s, which sounds a lot but I would have trounced it were it not for the bloody bloke on a bike.

reformedfatty

Rain + driver pulled out without looking + another driver trying to overtake me in nose to tail traffic = sad commute.

dinyull

Dunno if this counts as a rant or not, but it's not until I've logged into here that I remember all of the sh*tty driving, close passes etc I've endured on the way to/from work. Within 30 seconds of it taking place I've forgotten all about it, until I read someone else ranting on here.

Most tell me I'm a pretty laid back bloke, but not sure it's that or just sh*t driving/attitude is so common I've come to accept it.

tangled_metal

Took the car today, just as they're in the middle of digging a big hole in the middle of Lancaster one way loop. I didn't know so was in the wrong lane and had to sit in traffic while people who knew cruised up the inside lane to filter in at the actual roadworks a long way up from the first sign. If I'd gone by bike I'd have missed it all completely. Which was why I didn't know about it.

I'm not bothered by sitting in traffic but it's the way you move over like the signs say to only to watch 30+ cars ignore it to skip in front of you undertaking 10 cars and causing your lane to not move.

Add in the cyclists you saw 10 minutes back on a cycle path cruising up to the hospital by a quicker way. It's annoying. I'm a motorist don't they know my right to passage is greater than anyone else's!!!!?!!!!

vpnikolov

Wiggle still processing my order for two days straight... not happy. :evil:

And how come they don't even have a call center facility? Bol*ocks.

redvee

Warm ride into work with the breeze from riding along at 15mph keeping me cool but the sweat started when I got into the bikeshed as the roof and walls are perspex so it gets a little warm in the summer. Must remember to strip the bike outside the bikeshed and then only go in to lock it up.

tangled_metal

Drones without guarded blades. Why risk injuring anyone?

This was in response to the BR article on drone cameras. Some photographs show guarded blades others don't. They should not be allowed to be sold without guards IMHO.

asprilla

Tangled Metal wrote:

Drones without guarded blades. Why risk injuring anyone?

This was in response to the BR article on drone cameras. Some photographs show guarded blades others don't. They should not be allowed to be sold without guards IMHO.

Drones.

If you are going to sell them then also change the law that air rifle pellets I fire are allowed to leave my property.

DrLex

^
Catapult with small pellet and 6' streamer/cord tail. Jobsa guden.

davis

davis wrote:

Apparently I'm old enough to get 2-day hangovers...

I took it very gently on the way in because if I pressed on my head started thumping painfully in time with my heartbeat. Absolute bag of...

No booze now since about 5am Sunday....

Taffbean

MTB leaders who halt their groups in the middle of the trail or at choke points, then ignore the fact you're trying to get past half a dozen people who can barely stand over their bikes, let alone get out of the way……

perfectmark

Had 2 people cycling the wrong way up CS2 on the way home yesterday. Can be quite scary when you pull out to overtake a group of cyclists, only to be greeted by someone on a Boris Bike coming at you the wrong way down the road. Fairly obvious at least 1 of them knew what they were doing and just couldn't be bothered to cross onto the correct side of the road.

awavey

perfectmark wrote:

Had 2 people cycling the wrong way up CS2 on the way home yesterday. Can be quite scary when you pull out to overtake a group of cyclists, only to be greeted by someone on a Boris Bike coming at you the wrong way down the road. Fairly obvious at least 1 of them knew what they were doing and just couldn't be bothered to cross onto the correct side of the road.

yeah had that the other day on a cycle lane :roll: nodder in full luminous vest mode too, they just couldnt be bothered to cross the road. at least it was better than the one I saw doing it whilst staring/texting on their phone.

reformedfatty

Yesterday I went out on the bike for a pootle with the wife. Picked a 35 route of off road and quiet roads virtually all of it national cycle network routes, as she has an awful tendency to get distracted by things like pretty flowers and not pay attention to what's going on around her.

Anyway, so with this in mind I've picked the most cycle friendly route you could hope for, and yet we still managed to have numerous close passes by drivers not paying attention, 2 deliberate close passes by road ragers, one going past with hand out of the window pointing to a shared use path (half full of nettles, the other half with families walking to a nearby funfair, plus we were doing ~20mph at this point), the other one being a driver who went to overtake when I was indicating right.. when he realised that wasn't going to fly he then swerved left, nearly collecting the wife, and attempted to undertake except the parked cars left him nowhere to go so emergency stop for him..

Anyway, it's a sad day when the friendliest route possible has people trying to kill you just for being on a bike.

DrLex

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inbike

DrLex wrote:

^

We got closed passed on a national byway on Monday. It was so bad the driver actually stopped to apologise and check we hadn't been clipped.

I was towing the baby trailler at the time :-(

(Thankfully without the baby in it. But, still.)

tangled_metal

Strange behaviour! Close pass indicates lack of care, attention and/or consideration of other vulnerable road users. Then to carry out such an act to show regret by stopping to see the cyclist is ok. Sorry that person is a bit messed. Not usual behaviour. I mean of you care about cyclists you don't close pass. If you don't care you don't stop.

Did it feel like he/she was genuine and it was a positive act to stop like that?

tangled_metal

BTW I always found a child trailer had an invisible forcefield around it because almost all motorists gave it plenty of space. I rarely used it empty and only when the child occupant had switched to my partner's bike on a child seat. So I don't really know if motorists detect a child presence and drive accordingly.

slowbike

Last year I had one motorist drive AT me when I had LSB in the trailer behind me... it was a country lane that goes from nowhere to nowhere (which was why I was using it because you don't see cars down there) - it was an old bloke, lady with at least one child in the back ...

It's just as well he didn't stop as I would've had to wait in line for my wife to finish battering him before I got a look in.

LSB now sits in a seat on the back of my bike - but I'm still careful where I take him.

wolfsbane2k

Doing DIY over the weekend slipped and caught my knee bloody hard. I now a bruise/bursitis on my kneecap that's almost as large as the kneecap underneath it.

Ride in this morning was sore, to say the least.

grant2307

I got stuck at pretty much every traffic light set I passed on the way in this morning bar one or two. PITA