Your rants here.

elbowloh

What's the warranty on the frame?

redvee

elbowloh wrote:

What's the warranty on the frame?

2 years and I've ridden it since August 2015

drhaggis

Can you go down the "Sale of Goods" Act? I mean, 2.5 years and the frame cracks... It's true that at this point the onus is on you to prove that the frame was faulty, but it may be worth an email exchange with planet X.

BobMcbob

The 'L' plate moped plague just gets worse and worse...
Had some goon claim I had to give way to to him when he was overtaking me from behind.. How can someone with zero training legally drive around on a motorised bike. High time for reform.

gbsahne001

This pesky chest infection is really getting me down, cycling with even the merest hint of effort, has me hacking like a 70 a day smoker.

A partial traffic related note; had a woman try to run me off the road in her tin box, apparently on the basis that I was weaving in and out of traffic (filtering) and presumably peeved that I was making progress. Pulled along side to pass and she tells me to stop weaving in and out and that she was going to follow me and report me for "not cycling properly", the irony that her driving possibly constituted dangerous driving, certainly undue care and attention seeming to escape her.

I was chuckling to myself at the "not cycling properly" comment for the rest of the journey.

wolfsbane2k

Self rant.
Drink more water.. Seriously, drink more water. And get some more electroyltes... ( if only the SIS sale had not finished at 18:00,)
Light headiness and shuddering... had to stop for a liedown.

drhaggis

Stopped for a red light, in the ASL box, suddenly notice the BMW X3, previously stopped behind her line, creep forward inside the box, beyond my position. I shake my head in disapproval, so the lady then lowers the passenger window and tells me: I'm only trying to overtake you" That's the hole effing point! Avoiding cars racing cyclists in the lights!.

I tried to point politely that what she did broke the highway code, and that the offence was £100, had I been the police. Sadly, I don't think she believes she did anything wrong.

EDIT: Shale oil extraction as in foxtrot romeo alpha charlie key is a censored word? Really?

hopkinb

Top tip - if you're at work and you go and replace your rear brake pads and check your front ones for wear, and your bike is absolutely filthy, don't do it in a white shirt. :oops:

jgsi

I swear to God I'll lose it some day soon if yet another urban moton racing to the next queue, winds a window down to tell me to get off the road onto a ped infested shared pavement. Where I live we dont have cycle paths , just shared amenities that are at best intermittent and ignored by peds to stay out of the cycling bits.. hence I dont use them unless the roads are so stuffed and too narrow for safe cycling. My only joy is that a 2 mile crossing of town can cost a moton 90 minutes of their sad lives.
I am looking on Amazon for baseball bats however..

xbnm

Idiot cyclist coming towards a blind corner on the cycle path (tunnel under the A1M) merrily playing on their phone. Who didn't appreciate being shouted out (did make them jump anti rant).

Yes it has got something to do with me and ill keep shouting at you every time you do it in my presence especially in such a dangerous place.

milemuncher1

Choppers breaking their arses to pass you, only to blow up spectacularly about a hundred yards further on ( metaphorically speaking obvs.) and then riding at half the speed you were, whilst weaving all over the road, making it more risky than it should be to carry on with the ride you were doing. A spectacular example happened whilst I was leading a rider on a guided ride up Box Hill last week. Mr chopper cut us both up ( giving me about a millimetre clearance ) then put his front wheel in the verge on the left, and immediately shot across to the right, wiping some poor sod, minding his own business, out in the process and nearly getting all of us hit by the lady driving a w**k panzer just behind us.

xbnm

Saw two police on mountain bikes Saturday and was thinking wow great finally this is good thing

The standard of cycling however was absolutely appalling the lead one stopped to let a car overtake him and turn left at a junction the rear one didn't and went straight past the junction. The car driver obviously confused stopped at which point the now stationary cyclist turned left. Hopped over a path to rejoin their colleague. Then they both merrily zigzagged about the door zone of the parked cars whilst having a chat not signalling and having no clue as to what if anything was behind them.

If i see them again might have to offer some educational services.

elbowloh

XBNM wrote:

Saw two police on mountain bikes Saturday and was thinking wow great finally this is good thing

The standard of cycling however was absolutely appalling the lead one stopped to let a car overtake him and turn left at a junction the rear one didn't and went straight past the junction. The car driver obviously confused stopped at which point the now stationary cyclist turned left. Hopped over a path to rejoin their colleague. Then they both merrily zigzagged about the door zone of the parked cars whilst having a chat not signalling and having no clue as to what if anything was behind them.

If i see them again might have to offer some educational services.

Yeah, tell us how that goes after you're released/the bruises have gone.

slowbike

elbowloh wrote:

XBNM wrote:

Saw two police on mountain bikes Saturday and was thinking wow great finally this is good thing

The standard of cycling however was absolutely appalling the lead one stopped to let a car overtake him and turn left at a junction the rear one didn't and went straight past the junction. The car driver obviously confused stopped at which point the now stationary cyclist turned left. Hopped over a path to rejoin their colleague. Then they both merrily zigzagged about the door zone of the parked cars whilst having a chat not signalling and having no clue as to what if anything was behind them.

If i see them again might have to offer some educational services.

Yeah, tell us how that goes after you're released/the bruises have gone.

It's ok - they'll give chase - get up to about 7mph and even XBNM can outrun that

dinyull

F*ckwits at work.

Over the last 6 months we've started noticing how people just cannot use AutoCAD to save their lives. We've introduced a few new measures, including a handbook explaining everything.

The same f*ckers are getting the basics wrong time and time again.

It's like banging your head against a wall and I'm about to explode soon. One of them has moved into my office and sat next to me and the ignorance is mind blowing.

Fighting a losing battle.

wolfsbane2k

Dinyull wrote:

F*ckwits at work.

Over the last 6 months we've started noticing how people just cannot use AutoCAD to save their lives. We've introduced a few new measures, including a handbook explaining everything.

The same f*ckers are getting the basics wrong time and time again.

It's like banging your head against a wall and I'm about to explode soon. One of them has moved into my office and sat next to me and the ignorance is mind blowing.

Fighting a losing battle.

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

Ben6899

Milemuncher1 wrote:

Choppers breaking their arses to pass you, only to blow up spectacularly about a hundred yards further on ( metaphorically speaking obvs.) and then riding at half the speed you were, whilst weaving all over the road, making it more risky than it should be to carry on with the ride you were doing. A spectacular example happened whilst I was leading a rider on a guided ride up Box Hill last week. Mr chopper cut us both up ( giving me about a millimetre clearance ) then put his front wheel in the verge on the left, and immediately shot across to the right, wiping some poor sod, minding his own business, out in the process and nearly getting all of us hit by the lady driving a w**k panzer just behind us.

Sounds like he was tacking. Please tell me he wasn't tacking "up" Box Hill.

thistle_

Dinyull wrote:

Over the last 6 months we've started noticing how people just cannot use AutoCAD to save their lives. We've introduced a few new measures, including a handbook explaining everything.

We have people whose sole job it is to draw things in AutoCAD. I had to explain coordinates and scale factors to one of them the other day. I thought that was day 1 of CAD school?

awavey

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

F*ckwits at work.

Over the last 6 months we've started noticing how people just cannot use AutoCAD to save their lives. We've introduced a few new measures, including a handbook explaining everything.

The same f*ckers are getting the basics wrong time and time again.

It's like banging your head against a wall and I'm about to explode soon. One of them has moved into my office and sat next to me and the ignorance is mind blowing.

Fighting a losing battle.

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

I raise your AutoCAD...with Excel

Tashman

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Dinyull wrote:

F*ckwits at work.

Over the last 6 months we've started noticing how people just cannot use AutoCAD to save their lives. We've introduced a few new measures, including a handbook explaining everything.

The same f*ckers are getting the basics wrong time and time again.

It's like banging your head against a wall and I'm about to explode soon. One of them has moved into my office and sat next to me and the ignorance is mind blowing.

Fighting a losing battle.

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

I raise your AutoCAD...with Excel

Ah yes, the joy of being given simple data in a spreadsheet and because it's all been hard keyed, having no way of working out quite how they reached those answers!

kingstongraham

got a fcuking cold. I hate getting the bus.

wolfsbane2k

Tashman wrote:

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

I raise your AutoCAD...with Excel

Ah yes, the joy of being given simple data in a spreadsheet and because it's all been hard keyed, having no way of working out quite how they reached those answers!

bork.

Are not meant to write an entire back end organising toolset in VBA in excel that supports the running of a business for 14+ years?

Oh... (well, it was still going last time I heard)

elbowloh

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Tashman wrote:

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

I raise your AutoCAD...with Excel

Ah yes, the joy of being given simple data in a spreadsheet and because it's all been hard keyed, having no way of working out quite how they reached those answers!

bork.

Are not meant to write an entire back end organising toolset in VBA in excel that supports the running of a business for 14+ years?

Oh... (well, it was still going last time I heard)

I worked for Honda a number of years ago and everything, I mean everything, was done in Excel. Even things like memos and our documented written procedures had been typed out in Excel rather than Word.

Also for muppets who can't use AutoCAD, see similar usage of Microsoft Project.

Ben6899

I feel the AutoCAD / Microstation pain.

And the misuse of Excel... particularly it being used as a fuck1ng database. Get in the fuck1ng sea.

drhaggis

I don't do autocad, so I'll change the topic to anti-cyclist clicbait. Good. "Let's picture how cyclists do in a road where ongoing roadworks (> 6 months) have cut 2 out of three lanes, where the remaining lane is full of potholes so big you can see Auckland, and where heavy traffic behaves abusively even if it means pushing cyclists into the tram lines at narrow angles". My blood boils. Are we going to say anything about the lovely chaps that stop without using his indicators, on the bike lane, with double yellows on the edge? The fracking cars that do close passes way above the speed limit only to be stopped at traffic lights 20 meters ahead? Roads so atrocious I fear for snakebites even on 7 psi (edit: meant bar) tires?

I'll also rant about my idiocy. Why the heck did I start reading the comments?

awavey

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Tashman wrote:

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

I raise your AutoCAD...with Excel

Ah yes, the joy of being given simple data in a spreadsheet and because it's all been hard keyed, having no way of working out quite how they reached those answers!

bork.

Are not meant to write an entire back end organising toolset in VBA in excel that supports the running of a business for 14+ years?

Oh... (well, it was still going last time I heard)

thats probably just because the guy who wrote it has since retired and no-one dares touch it because they cant work out how the frigging hell it all works because its like reading assembler code

redvee

Got a nice purple bruise on my arm that I've no recollection of getting plus it's on the inside of my arm so wouldn't be from contact with something in work. I got nettle whipped as I rode into work, usually it stings for a short while then goes after couple of hours, not today I can still feel it 12 hours later.

slowbike

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Tashman wrote:

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

I raise your AutoCAD...with Excel

Ah yes, the joy of being given simple data in a spreadsheet and because it's all been hard keyed, having no way of working out quite how they reached those answers!

bork.

Are not meant to write an entire back end organising toolset in VBA in excel that supports the running of a business for 14+ years?

Oh... (well, it was still going last time I heard)

thats probably just because the guy who wrote it has since retired and no-one dares touch it because they cant work out how the frigging hell it all works because its like reading assembler code

Hmm - sounds a bit like all the stuff I've written! troubleshooting the work completed several years ago is interesting - wtf did I write it like that?!

weezyswiss

Slowbike wrote:

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Tashman wrote:

awavey wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Shudder. AutoCAD is such a powerful app, and misused SOOOO many ways.

I raise your AutoCAD...with Excel

Ah yes, the joy of being given simple data in a spreadsheet and because it's all been hard keyed, having no way of working out quite how they reached those answers!

bork.

Are not meant to write an entire back end organising toolset in VBA in excel that supports the running of a business for 14+ years?

Oh... (well, it was still going last time I heard)

thats probably just because the guy who wrote it has since retired and no-one dares touch it because they cant work out how the frigging hell it all works because its like reading assembler code

Hmm - sounds a bit like all the stuff I've written! troubleshooting the work completed several years ago is interesting - wtf did I write it like that?!

Been there done that. Changing some code I was swearing at the useless idiot who wrote it in such a daft convoluted manner. Jump into the repository to check the blame history. Ahh, bugger. The silence from me was obvious to the office who the useless idiot was :shock:

roubaixmb

People who cancel arrangements on five minutes notice meaning you have to re-arrange your evening and lose a new client as a result.

Closely followed by people who you have an arrangement with to do something who then decide to get someone else to do it for them, with no notice, so you only find out when you've turned up at their house, as agreed.