Your rants here.

elbowloh

J_MCD wrote:

Massive fk off rant.

Some guy went into the back of me at the zebra crossing at the end of Lower Richmond road. Absolutely clattered me. I had a quick look at the back mech and it 'seemed' fine. Pedaled a bit, still seemed fine, rode over Putney bridge, still seemed fine. Changed down at the traffic lights and the whole rear mech sheared off and went straight through my back wheel.

Luckily it only looks like the hanger is snapped and the frame is OK. Three spokes gone on my new Zondas as well though.

And I had to carry my bike to Putney station and get a train into Waterloo.

The LBS won't be able to fix it today as they haven't got a hanger in stock (or the right spokes for that matter).

Reasonably annoyed right now.

Shit, sorry dude.
When you say "some guy" do you mean a cyclist or a car?

I learned after the hanger on my Felt snapped and it took 2 weeks to get a new one, to buy a couple of spares.

Hope you an get it fixed soon.

j_mcd

Another cyclist, if had been a car I'd have been in a lot more trouble!

dinyull

Did you get the guys details?

j_mcd

No, unfortunately not. To be honest, I thought that I'd got away with no damage and a quick check suggested I was right. Schoolboy error on my behalf.

dinyull

Balls!

j_mcd

But, as I keep telling myself...it's only a hanger and a few spokes. It could have been worse.

And if it is worse then it means new bike or finally getting around to getting that Di2 upgrade!

timothyw

Will be interested to hear how the Zonda repair goes, Evans gave up on a friend's rear Zonda recently, although that was a spontaneous spoke/hub failure rather than crash damage.

j_mcd

The wheels are almost the most annoying part. I only got them at the start of June, they've only done 1000 miles!

bunter

Wiped out big time on a wet cattle grid in the middle of nowhere today. Went down very quickly on my right side and slid down the road, I think. rear tyre was partially flat and the tyre was off the rim afterwards, so I'm not sure if a puncture was the cause. Road rash down most of my right side and a tarmac patterned bruise on my shoulder which is now stiff as büggery. Hit my head pretty hard but the helmet did it's job brilliantly. Road home about 20 miles after. I wrote off my shorts, my rain jacket, my helmet (a nice Lazer Helium XL that fits my huge bonce really well) and holed my saddle. An expensive fall, now sitting at home feeling sorry for myself.

DrLex

That sucks, chap! How's the bike?

bunter

bike seems ok, thanks. Not checked it throughly but it got me home ok. I think I instinctively protected it with my bodily tissues...

Quins

Ouch, that's gonna sting, wallet an' all. I was gutted when I put a small hole in the knee of brand new Castelli sorpassos early this year , slow, turning right and hitting diesel. I'm feeling sorry for you reading it. Hope you recover quickly.

j_mcd

TimothyW wrote:

Will be interested to hear how the Zonda repair goes, Evans gave up on a friend's rear Zonda recently, although that was a spontaneous spoke/hub failure rather than crash damage.

Zonda repair has gone...ok.Ish. Guys at the LBS have managed to get it to within a 2mm of being perfectly straight but said that the nature of the accident hasn't really helped matters (twisting due to everything getting snarled up). I'm going to see how it goes before replacing the wheel as I don't know if that will be noticeable when riding or not.

kiwimatt

Earbud wearers.

I know you are very proud of your new Bluetooth wireless ones and must wear them at all times but FFS if you really can't cycle to work without your choonz blasting in your ears then at least pair your idiocy with some basic spatial awareness.

bdave262000

Started back on the bike after a year out and was surprised at the amount of knobs racing along Chelsea embankment with so many cyclists around. Too many twits racing their mates trying to overtake and not being able to judge the gap between other cyclists, then pulling in front of others when they finally realise the lane is narrowing causing others to swerve out of their way. It's not as if we have enough to deal with with traffic, pedestrians etc without these morons. Funny how they weren't around last Wednesday when it was raining cat and dogs.

wolfsbane2k

Dropped the camera & Scratched the lens cover.
New lens cover costs a third of the price of the camera when I bought it

Ben6899

Protected the lens though! A heart in mouth moment, I'm sure.

wolfsbane2k

Ben6899 wrote:

Protected the lens though! A heart in mouth moment, I'm sure.

Yep.
Anti-rant : I've remembered I've got the flat underwater lens protector as well. .. time to swap.

mtb-idle

Three riding buddies are heading off on a Cheam (SW London) to Milan 1,000 mile trip by bike today and they asked me to accompany them on their first leg to Folkestone.

Well, I had actually been asked to join them on the whole trip but I have had three weeks away already this year and have another two week holiday in Italy in September so couldn't really afford the time off hence just doing the first leg, but that's cool, that's not the rant.

They wanted to leave at 6 am so I woke up at 4-45 and left at 5-40 to get there with another riding buddy Greg. Greg and I planned to ride to Folkestone with them, wave goodbye and then head on to Whitstable for a nice 200 km with a prevailing tailwind before getting the train back to London.

So far, still all good.

We head off as planned at 6 am and see the dawn breaking, lovely. Got as far as Godstone and I get a puncture which is annoying. Go on I say, you have the chunnel to catch. No, they wait and i do a seven minute tyre change including finding the piece of glass in the tyre.

Head off again and three km down the road another flat. This time they leave me and Greg and we change the tyre again. Nothing in the tube or tyre and a new one goes in, five minute stop this time.

5 km on the tyre goes again. By now I know we aren't going to get to Whitstable or catch up with my mates as we spend an age trying to find where the issue is. Probably 20 minute stop.

We can't find anything so a third new tube goes in and we set off again.

Less than a kilometre down the road and Greg is leading and hits the side of a massive pothole, crosses up his bars and slams into the tarmac all within a split second. I'm right on his six and am just trying to decide if i will be hitting the deck myself or riding over him Peter Sagan/Cancellara stylie when his momentum takes him slightly to the left and I manage to veer around him.

He's lying on the road moaning and I'm trying to check there are no cars coming. Shee-hit.

He eventually gets up and nothing is broken but he has cuts, scrapes and bruises all over him. Loads of kit ruined including a three week old Kask Mojito lid altho' obviously it has done it's job.

It's still not even 8 am and I'm on the phone to the wife to come and pick us up. Sit there waiting for an hour and then when wifey turns up get a lift home.

Drop Greg off at his house and he gets out and manages to take my lid but leave his own in the car. Of course we don't realise this until I am back at my place and find his phone inside his lid with torn gloves and nanoflex arm warmers.

I've had better rides.

timothyw

Eurosport player update with a mere 5 minutes of 'rewind' on the web player.

You used to be able to go back three hours or so. Not happy...

redvee

Messed up my meds on Saturday night and spent the night waking every 2-3 hours doing tests and spent the day recovering though still not quite right now. Luckily I had the weekend off work otherwise I would have phoned in sick.

wolfsbane2k

Re-fitting stem bolts.
Using a brand new torque wrench that I'd checked "clicked" at 1nm. Set wrench to 6nm.
Did up stem bolts but the wrench never clicked - next thing the bolt sheared, wrench flew out of my hand and cracked the glass in the nearest window. Caught the wrench before it hit the ground & tested it again. Nope, now it didn't click at 1nm.

Stripped 2 of the plastic hollowtech 2 BBr60 adaptor things while trying to remove the BB.
Unable to remove BB, and it's "gritty".

Son-Of-A-Beach.

veronese68

MTB-Idle wrote:

I've had better rides.

That's rubbish, good job you weren't going to Milan with that kind of luck.

reformedfatty

I hate rain.

Not because of getting wet / slippery roads or anything like that, but just for the fact is that it turns drivers into absolute cockwombles for no reason whatsoever. Sat in their tin boxes it makes absolutely no difference to them whether it's raining, snowing, hailing or if the apocalypse has arrived, and yet a bit of rain and it's as if they were outside during a tsunami - head's down, zero observation and it's all me me me as if their car were going to melt when exposed to water.

Started off my commute and I'm on a mountain bike today with my cross bike left in the stand with works ongoing.. first up I'm approaching a t junction and I hear a car approach behind.. I'm pretty close to the junction but it sounds like they are planning to overtake still.. I move a bit closer to primary as I'm turning right, and they try and overtake. I end up stopped at the junction in the centre of the left lane, they end up stopped on the wrong side of the road alongside me with a 'I dont understand how this could possibly have happened' look on their face. Passed them less than a minute later as they went into the local shop for probably a dozen pasties to expedite their impending heart attack.

Nearer work and approaching a blind corner with a junction on the right as well and I hear a car behind. There's a car about to turn left out of the junction, plus that blind corner's there so they definitely won't try and pass.. oh wait. yes they will. Car pulling out of the junction does an emergency stop, then a car predictably comes round the blind corner so idiot overtaker pulls back in whilst alongside me, resulting in me having to bunnyhop on to the pavement to avoid getting taken out.. horns are honked, extensive hand gestures made.

And I've forgotten my lunch. damn you monday.

mtb-idle

Veronese68 wrote:

MTB-Idle wrote:

I've had better rides.

That's rubbish, good job you weren't going to Milan with that kind of luck.

Yeah exactly.

Didn't upload the ride to Strava until Sunday evening as i was so disappointed. Relived it all over again when i saw that the ride started at 05-35.

To cap it all the wife took advantage of me being home all weekend to rope me into painting the recently finished extension: all four walls and the ceiling. I was painting from roughly 11 am Saturday to 4 pm Sunday. But at least she's happy...

elbowloh

MTB-Idle wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

MTB-Idle wrote:

I've had better rides.

That's rubbish, good job you weren't going to Milan with that kind of luck.

Yeah exactly.

Didn't upload the ride to Strava until Sunday evening as i was so disappointed. Relived it all over again when i saw that the ride started at 05-35.

To cap it all the wife took advantage of me being home all weekend to rope me into painting the recently finished extension: all four walls and the ceiling. I was painting from roughly 11 am Saturday to 4 pm Sunday. But at least she's happy...

How big is this bloody thing?

mtb-idle

. I was painting from roughly 11 am Saturday to 4 pm Sunday. But at least she's happy...

How big is this bloody thing?

Ha! Pretty big, its a ground floor extension which goes across the whole width of the back of my house. I think the dimensions are 3.75 metres x 10 metres.

That was the third coat so hopefully finished now.

EDIT: there you go, picture of outside https://www.instagram.com/p/BYDyCy6BNgU/

SECOND EDIT: inside https://www.instagram.com/p/BYDzSZUhyOV/

These were all a few months ago and pre-painting. Haven't taken a shot recently. anyway, this should go into the 'plans for 2017' thread rather than the rants.

cyclingprop

NODDERS EVERYWHERE

Argh. If you're going to cross a busy CS(3) on a boris bike, do yourself a bloody favour and check that the path is empty before you pull some dickish move. Bloody lucky I managed to scrub speed off.

anonymousblackfg

Have made an offer to my nightmare neighbour to settle a non existing dispute which they've pulled on us as it scuppers our house sale as a cash grab. Cash could have bought a new Parlee fully loaded.

bunter

My new bike was subject to a safety recall (forks). I took it in to the lbs in early August. The ETA for the replacement forks has now been pushed back to mid september. lbs are doing what they can to chase but does anyone know what my rights are here in terms of being without my bike for such a long time? At this rate, by the time I get it back it'll be time to get the winter bike out anyway...