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Thought I would get away with it this morning, after freezing weather last night and some rain today, given temperature was saying 3°C, and coming along cycle path, in the pitch black, there were a couple of wobbles, but made it through.
Got too cocky though and then hit sheet ice (with a fresh sprinkling of rain on top) across full width of cycle path for a good 30 yards - immediate off, sail along for another ten yards, bike carried on a further ten yards on it's side, then me attempting to stand again was like Bambi. Had to walk several stretches after that as there were a few "glass" ice sections.
Fortunately the good thing was the ice was completely smooth so no damage done to me or bike it appears - need to get the spiked tyres out. :roll:Cannondale CAADX Tiagra 2017
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Someone tried something similar with me a while back.tootsie323 wrote:Range Rover (sound as if I'm already stereotyping!) all over my rear end whilst I'm waiting for a gap in oncoming traffic to pass a cyclist (yes, I'm driving in this instance). Finally have room to pass cyclist with space to spare, only for said stereotyped numpty to pass the cyclist with next to no space.
A little further on, we're having to stop for a parked lorry, so the cyclist eventually passes us again. Once we're clear of the parked lorry, we pretty much repeat exactly the same scenario. What a twunt.
It was in a 20 mph zone doing 20 mph, the cyclist was doing about 20.1 mph. I was waiting behind because I couldn't safely get past without going way over the speed limit and there were cars/buses/lorries coming the other way and parked cars on the left.
The woman in the SUV behind me was constantly pulling out to try and overtake me, flashing her lights, shouting abuse out of the window.
The local police say they can't enforce the 20 mph limit at the moment because the council have messed up the signage which is probably another rant about wasting taxpayers money :roll:0 -
thistle (MBNW) wrote:
Someone tried something similar with me a while back.tootsie323 wrote:Range Rover (sound as if I'm already stereotyping!) all over my rear end whilst I'm waiting for a gap in oncoming traffic to pass a cyclist (yes, I'm driving in this instance). Finally have room to pass cyclist with space to spare, only for said stereotyped numpty to pass the cyclist with next to no space.
A little further on, we're having to stop for a parked lorry, so the cyclist eventually passes us again. Once we're clear of the parked lorry, we pretty much repeat exactly the same scenario. What a twunt.
It was in a 20 mph zone doing 20 mph, the cyclist was doing about 20.1 mph. I was waiting behind because I couldn't safely get past without going way over the speed limit and there were cars/buses/lorries coming the other way and parked cars on the left.
The woman in the SUV behind me was constantly pulling out to try and overtake me, flashing her lights, shouting abuse out of the window.
The local police say they can't enforce the 20 mph limit at the moment because the council have messed up the signage which is probably another rant about wasting taxpayers money :roll:
Yeah, the 20 mph limit adherence is a joke, even on people that would otherwise dislike speeding. Funnily enough, I was driving with the kids back home on sunday while an idiot RLJ'ed from a side road into my lane. It was a silver Merc, not an orange Spesh, BTW. Being touchy, I honked at him for a second or two, which offended him. As a retaliation, this driver thought he'd annoy me by... by... sticking to the speed limit for the next quarter mile! He then sped off into the distance. Idiot.0 -
Lovely punishment pass this morning, from an idiot coach driver with company details plastered all over it.
I had the audacity to hold him up for 10 seconds as he waited to pull onto the road, 30 seconds later he pulled a tw@ move made worse by the fact there were 2 lanes free to my right so blatantly deliberate.
Stupid f*ck will hopefully receive a rap on the knuckles after I've spoken to the firm later. I made eye contact with him as he was waiting to pull out - so can describe him well - and he was pulling out of one of their designated drop off's so fingers crossed they know who it is.
Daft c*nt.0 -
Approching the Haymarket tramline, along the "safe" bike lane, two peds start to cross ahead. Fine, I thought, as they'll have crossed by the time I get there, and I'll take it easy over the tramlines anyway. However, by the time I'm next to them, and commiting over the tramlines, one of these peds decides to make gestures, and fake kicking me & my bike! WTF!
It's bad on a normal road, but before the tramline, and where the road goes to a single line, this is downright assinine, and borderline assault. FFS. F's and C's went flying both ways. No, not any of "fancy a chocolate, daahlin?" from SW3.0 -
Nearly wiped out this morning, by a bloke in a powder blue coloured wind jacket (Mavic or Castelli perhaps). Him cycling - as you might have guessed - and me walking.
A National Express coach turning right from Buckingham Palace Road in Eccleston Street was blocked by a dustbin lorry and so sat across the pedestrian crossing and blocking traffic. Everything at a standstill.
So, with trepidation, me and two others walked between the coach and the dustbin lorry - caught the drivers' eyes etc and proceeded.
That's when matey boy comes out of nowhere and flies between me and the coach - doing 15-20mph easily. I give him two options:
1. He was riding way too fast for the situation and was as startled by our eventual close proximity as I was.
2. He saw us crossing and thought he'd make a point.
Either way, riding like an absolute weapon.
If the bloke in question posts here, then give your head a wobble mate.Ben
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I've just come back from a meeting and the police were out on another road with a 20mph limit (different county, different police force to the one I was ranting about). I'm not sure if they were issuing tickets or just doing speed surveys.DrHaggis wrote:Yeah, the 20 mph limit adherence is a joke, even on people that would otherwise dislike speeding
Why they were doing this at 9:45 am on an almost deserted road and not in the morning rush hour, or when the kids were walking to school I don't know.0 -
I went to a council meeting when they were trying to put speed bumps and traffic calming measures on our road. There had been a survey done and the vast majority didn't want traffic calming. The council still tried to push the measures through regardless and one of their arguments was that a 20mph limit has no legal status so police wouldn't enforce it unless there were traffic calming measures in place. This was a few years ago so things might have changed or my memory might be a little hazy. But it did strike me as odd that if it had no legal standing how could they enforce it regardless of other measures. Thankfully it was voted down by 8 votes to 7.thistle (MBNW) wrote:
I've just come back from a meeting and the police were out on another road with a 20mph limit (different county, different police force to the one I was ranting about). I'm not sure if they were issuing tickets or just doing speed surveys.DrHaggis wrote:Yeah, the 20 mph limit adherence is a joke, even on people that would otherwise dislike speeding
Why they were doing this at 9:45 am on an almost deserted road and not in the morning rush hour, or when the kids were walking to school I don't know.0 -
thistle (MBNW) wrote:
I've just come back from a meeting and the police were out on another road with a 20mph limit (different county, different police force to the one I was ranting about). I'm not sure if they were issuing tickets or just doing speed surveys.DrHaggis wrote:Yeah, the 20 mph limit adherence is a joke, even on people that would otherwise dislike speeding
Why they were doing this at 9:45 am on an almost deserted road and not in the morning rush hour, or when the kids were walking to school I don't know.
This. So, f&*king much this.
From our local force i've been told it's because there are too many accidents during rush hour to be able to plan something like enforcing a speed limit..
Yes - "Plan" a speed limit thing.. how much planning is needed?
Perhaps if the limits were enforced, they'd be less accidents? :roll:Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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Wolfsbane2k wrote:thistle (MBNW) wrote:
I've just come back from a meeting and the police were out on another road with a 20mph limit (different county, different police force to the one I was ranting about). I'm not sure if they were issuing tickets or just doing speed surveys.DrHaggis wrote:Yeah, the 20 mph limit adherence is a joke, even on people that would otherwise dislike speeding
Why they were doing this at 9:45 am on an almost deserted road and not in the morning rush hour, or when the kids were walking to school I don't know.
This. So, f&*king much this.
From our local force i've been told it's because there are too many accidents during rush hour to be able to plan something like enforcing a speed limit..
Yes - "Plan" a speed limit thing.. how much planning is needed?
Perhaps if the limits were enforced, they'd be less accidents? :roll:
Accidents take priority in terms of required attendance - which is understandable - multi-vehicle pileup with corresponding risk to life - needs police presence to er ... attribute blame ... and direct traffic around. So the police are probably saying they don't have the resource to be in a place to enforce speed limits whilst being ready to attend all the accidents - which, if you look at the M27 at rush hour - isn't surprising ...
But it would be helpful if they'd stop driving about in their cars and just stand at the side of the road where there's a greater chance of encouraging drivers to slow down a bit - eg outside schools ... you know, just in case they're not called to an accident ...0 -
Didn't stop the rozzers putting a guy on each set of lights to have a go at people for stopping a foot over the line and not wearing helmets during rush hour last year, mind.
(At least, round my neck of the woods).0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:Didn't stop the rozzers putting a guy on each set of lights to have a go at people for stopping a foot over the line and not wearing helmets during rush hour last year, mind.
(At least, round my neck of the woods).
They do this quite often. I had a go at one for ignoring 2 vans in the ASZ and a bus going through a red light. I got threatened with a "ticket" for "abuse of a police officer". :roll:0 -
Recently my pet peeve is the car approaching a stop. You're riding your bike within 5mph of the speed limit but they race to get in front of you before the stop. Then, they sit at the stop on their damned cellular pecking something out for 15 to 20 odd seconds. Then get all indignant when you pass by them through the stop and glare at them.
GTFO with yourself and off the damned cellular.
I've also no joke had a car try to race me down a street. It's a street at maybe minus 1% or so with speed humps to slow the cars every maybe 1/8 mile. Speed limit of 25mph. I speed past the humps around the limit, the car slows over the bump, then races at 35mph or more to try to catch up or race ahead before the next bump. They never make it.
I swear I thought one car was going to jump the bumps and wreck they were so desperate to not be slower than a bicycle.0 -
They could make an absolute mint if they put up speed cameras on Priory Lane.0
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KingstonGraham wrote:They could make an absolute mint if they put up speed cameras on Priory Lane.
Plus £60 a time for motorists going into the advanced stop box would pay for itself. Can they do that with enforcement cameras? Just have someone watching the cctv every time the lights change on (almost) every set of traffic lights in London in rush hour.0 -
A couple of years ago I bought a lovely merino wool skull cap that was perfect for wearing under my lid & really took the edge off a 05:30 winter start.
This year I've been searching for it since firework night but, try as I might I couldn't find the bloody thing and this morning was particularly cold so I bit the billet & popped to the shop to buy a replacement, I even joked to the guy that as soon as I cut the tags off I'd probably find the old one.
So I got back to the office, cut the tags off & immediately found the old one.0 -
Veronese68 wrote:
I went to a council meeting when they were trying to put speed bumps and traffic calming measures on our road. There had been a survey done and the vast majority didn't want traffic calming. The council still tried to push the measures through regardless and one of their arguments was that a 20mph limit has no legal status so police wouldn't enforce it unless there were traffic calming measures in place. This was a few years ago so things might have changed or my memory might be a little hazy. But it did strike me as odd that if it had no legal standing how could they enforce it regardless of other measures. Thankfully it was voted down by 8 votes to 7.thistle (MBNW) wrote:
I've just come back from a meeting and the police were out on another road with a 20mph limit (different county, different police force to the one I was ranting about). I'm not sure if they were issuing tickets or just doing speed surveys.DrHaggis wrote:Yeah, the 20 mph limit adherence is a joke, even on people that would otherwise dislike speeding
Why they were doing this at 9:45 am on an almost deserted road and not in the morning rush hour, or when the kids were walking to school I don't know.
my understanding was if its signed properly, its enforceable, DfT guidance is supposedly if you had traffic calming as well, they become self enforcing, yeah right if anything they encourage more speeding between, but whether or not plod chooses to do anything about it is another matter, its all priorities isn it, where I live has been a 20mph zone with traffic calming for near on 20 years now I reckon, no one has ever seen any attempt at enforcement.
I had to smile the other day, as I was riding out,I was calmly hitting 15mph, and I got passed by a motorbike rider, who was either on a test or being taught, the reason I smiled was well they werent bothering to keep to 20mph, and the damn trainer/examiner with his go-pro glued to his crash hat (yeah buddy thats really clever thing to do) then close passed me to boot. I caught them up at the end of the road
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Close passes on sheet ice, FFS
also people who, upon discovering that I ride a bike, feel compelled to explain to me, in great detail, why they don't ride a bike... I. don't. care.0 -
Frigging companies search/stock when , filtering for prices ranges and sizes.
Looking for clown sized shoes/islands, default to size : clown, price, <£60.
Click through, select clown sized, and instantly it's not that price, but something different, typically 3-4 times the advertised price, even If it doesn't say "From £xxxx"
Or, if they do clown sized at that price, it's not available, despite filtering for "in stock" options.
Prime example - Evans - Filter for Clown sized, 1 pair @14.99, but not in stock. Other sizes in stock start at £75.
FFS, time wasting b@st@rds.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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Talking about evans, on a Mac, their website only works with Chrome. Namely, their filtering boxes on the left are completely nonfunctional. Safari? Bugger off. Firefox? Bugger off. I've reported it already, but they ignore me. Given the amount of Evans ads served by Google I get, maybe it's intentional...0
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I explain to them how riding a bike keeps me fit, slim, healthy or whatever will irk them the most. If they are on the tubby side I explain how riding my bike means I can eat as much as I like. They generally f@ck off and leave me alone after that.bunter wrote:also people who, upon discovering that I ride a bike, feel compelled to explain to me, in great detail, why they don't ride a bike... I. don't. care.0 -
Veronese68 wrote:
I explain to them how riding a bike keeps me fit, slim, healthy or whatever will irk them the most. If they are on the tubby side I explain how riding my bike means I can eat as much as I like. They generally f@ck off and leave me alone after that.bunter wrote:also people who, upon discovering that I ride a bike, feel compelled to explain to me, in great detail, why they don't ride a bike... I. don't. care.
My fave when fat people in the office offer other fat people to lose weight.
When I suggest exercising more and eating less, they come out with "you can't talk, you cycle in every day, that's different".
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Rick Chasey wrote:My fave when fat people in the office offer other fat people to lose weight.
When I suggest exercising more and eating less, they come out with "you can't talk, you cycle in every day, that's different".
O....K...
Have you ever pointed out that there is a connection? I wouldn't be able to resist. How to win friends and influence people by V68. 0 -
I'm full of advice on this, but firmly sit in the "large boned" category. Just because you don't heed the advice doesn't mean you don't know what you're on aboutRick Chasey wrote:My fave when fat people in the office offer other fat people to lose weight.0 -
Tashman wrote:
I'm full of advice on this, but firmly sit in the "large boned" category. Just because you don't heed the advice doesn't mean you don't know what you're on aboutRick Chasey wrote:My fave when fat people in the office offer other fat people to lose weight.
Was just about to post:
I love it how most overweight folk know just how to loose the weight, they "just don't want to".
Usually said when they're tucking into a low calorie or fad drink/ready meal.0 -
I want to, I just have no will power. I also have a degree in nutrtion & exercise science. I know what I do is bad for me but forgive me for I have sinned (again)Dinyull wrote:Tashman wrote:
I'm full of advice on this, but firmly sit in the "large boned" category. Just because you don't heed the advice doesn't mean you don't know what you're on aboutRick Chasey wrote:My fave when fat people in the office offer other fat people to lose weight.
Was just about to post:
I love it how most overweight folk know just how to loose the weight, they "just don't want to".
Usually said when they're tucking into a low calorie or fad drink/ready meal. 0 -
I'd love to know what happens to you in that instance. Surely you just eat less? I mean, I know being hungry is distracting, but that distraction soon goes away.
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The fatties here always comment on my food, I've noticed.
Usually it's twice the size of theirs ('cos, y'know, I obviously burn it off, else I'd be fat), but when, say, I have taken the tube I'll have a very small lunch and they get so shocked.
"no big lunch today Rick???"
Well no, I didn't cycle. So far, all the exercise I've done is walking between different chairs and seats.0 -
I'm going to hypothesise that losing a substantial amount of weight (say 10kg/20lbs or more) is more difficult thant quitting smoking. I'll base that first on anecdotal evidence: several friends/family members quit smoking, can only recall 2 losing the above amount of weight. Second, quitting requires you to stop something, for which you get quick feedback & money, while losing weight will require a long term effort, eating a bit less, maybe modifying your eating habits (tough) and exercising a bit (requiring time and dedication). Plus any benefits will only be felt after a while.
So yeah, I'm willing to cut them some slack, while gently nudging them in the right direction. Because being a nation of diabetic amputees is no fun.0 -
that said though, first they ruined Sugar Puffs, and now theyve done Ricicles in as well. now I dont for a minute think either are part of a healthy breakfast that you should eat every day, but in moderation and certainly before a long ride they were ace food fuel, I bet low sugar rice krispies will taste rubbish too, at least Frosties are an adult cereal, though theyll probably be forced to sell them from behind the counter in unmarked boxes next.
so Ill just have make to do with a full english breakfast instead
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