Your rants here.

asprilla

WesternWay wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Before long Surrey NHS Trust is going to need a surgeon who specialises in removing mobile phones from body cavities.

That is all.

Well I am glad that that is all, but even for small items like a phone a small saddlebag is a much better choice.

If you seem me out of the saddle, I've got an urgent call........

I meant for drivers. Three times between home and Kingston dozy ejets in cars on the phone just failed to notice any other road users. Grrr.

rjsterry

It's the 'Oh a red light. Time to check my messages...


...the what? Oh a green light' ones that I love.

suzyb

It's another lovely cycling day. And I can't ride because of my shoulder

Nigel Bennett

suzyb wrote:

It's another lovely cycling day. And I can't ride because of my shoulder

There, there...it'll get better soon. Like my leg....

Lancslad

suzyb wrote:

It's another lovely cycling day. And I can't ride because of my shoulder

Calves here :x

itsbruce

To the guy who tried to cycle across Lansdowne Way this morning without stopping or looking to his left (or even ahead); the car driver crossing from the other side was more careful. You're lucky I didn't go over your front wheel, you tosser.

Woman in a massive SUV who pulled out into Parkgate road, saw the oncoming traffic (me at the head of a whole convoy of cars) and then just stopped dead, blocking the road; you didn't improve anybody's mood by just staring out the window with a bored expression. I could cycle round you - god knows what the drivers thought.

coopster_the_1st

England Football team :evil:

CiB

Coopster the 1st wrote:

England Football team :evil:

Works out nicely. They just have to beat Slovenia on Wednesday to face Germany in the first knockout match. Job's a good un.

Sailorchick

Almost taken out by a lawnmower this morning - one of those large drive on ones council workers use to mow the verges etc.

Roll up to traffic lights and first in the queue is said lawnmower. I move into the ASL and wait for the lights to change. Its a straight over only in the lane we're in. Lights change and off we go. Lawnmower over takes mid junction and then left hooks me as we reach the otherside where he turns left to mount the pavement!! Not sure how I'm supposed to predict that one. Unfortunately he was wearing ear defenders so didn't hear any of my shouting at him - absolute c@ck!

Fireblade96

Sailorchick wrote:

Almost taken out by a lawnmower this morning - one of those large drive on ones council workers use to mow the verges etc.

Roll up to traffic lights and first in the queue is said lawnmower. I move into the ASL and wait for the lights to change. Its a straight over only in the lane we're in. Lights change and off we go. Lawnmower over takes mid junction and then left hooks me as we reach the otherside where he turns left to mount the pavement!! Not sure how I'm supposed to predict that one. Unfortunately he was wearing ear defenders so didn't hear any of my shouting at him - absolute c@ck!

Lucky escape. Just think of the headlines:
"Cyclist mown down by council worker"

I'll get me coat...

SlowingDown

We've all been swerved into by oncoming traffic trying to straddle the middle of the group of three speed humps but I was royally p!ssed off this morning when the car in question contained two blokes and had a couple of decent road bikes on the roof rack. You'd
have thought they'd be a bit more considerate. Then again, maybe the bikes were embedded there from an earlier crash.

redvee

To the tw@t in the grey Golf tonight, I guess you realise the lights in Bristol Centre are sequenced in favour of cyclists, especially those lights with ASLs and trying to overtake between each of the five you lost out on was pointless. If I'm slow off the lights and you can see the next set have just done the sequence and now are on red there is no point in racing me to them.

itsbruce

Bah. Battersea Bridge Road is normally one of my favourite stretches on the way home, but today I had not one but two idiots jumping into the cycle lane. At least the first one apologised; the second, an elderly man holding a toddler, just hopped on the spot (after I'd shouted at him not to move) and yelled insults. He should be glad that all I shouted was "Do not do that!"; what I should have said was "You're old enough and stupid enough to be no loss, but the kid may have inherited some sense from somebody else and deserves a chance, you senile fool". And that would still have been more polite than he deserved.

But most annoying of all was waiting at the cyclists-only lights at the junction of Binfield Road, Clapham Road and Stockwell road, only to have my opportunity to cross completely blocked by a horde of over two dozen RLJers. (You know how it is; one goes and then all the sheep follow).

ndru

1) Why CS3 takes so long to be completed - it's been dug up for at least 6 weeks now, making my commute quite... interesting, actually sometimes, but also not very comfortable.
2)I almost run into a cyclist who decided to jump a red light on where cs3 crosses Westferry Road. It would've been hilarious if we crashed...
3) Why are Christiania Bikes so damn expensive. Can't they make a budget model? Same goes for bellabikes... generally all cargo bikes are out of my reach... and I want one so badly.

Thanks, I feel so much better now

MadammeMarie

Already saw two rants mentioning my neck of the woods...!

My rant today is: who's idea was to start work on the CSH 3 IN JUNE?????!!!!!!! Why didn't they work in April or May! It goes to show how much the powers that be know about cyclists: NOTHING! June is the month of the year when cyclyng volumes rise ten fold! Cable Street is a f***ing death trap now! Unbelievable bad planning! :x

rjsterry

itsbruce wrote:

But most annoying of all was waiting at the cyclists-only lights at the junction of Binfield Road, Clapham Road and Stockwell road, only to have my opportunity to cross completely blocked by a horde of over two dozen RLJers. (You know how it is; one goes and then all the sheep follow).

I having a slightly worrying bloody-minded streak that in situations like this, whispers in my ear, "just plough through the idiots and see how many you can take out". Thankfully, I keep it in check...



...most of the time.

Watch out RLJers

ride_whenever

rjsterry wrote:

itsbruce wrote:

But most annoying of all was waiting at the cyclists-only lights at the junction of Binfield Road, Clapham Road and Stockwell road, only to have my opportunity to cross completely blocked by a horde of over two dozen RLJers. (You know how it is; one goes and then all the sheep follow).

I having a slightly worrying bloody-minded streak that in situations like this, whispers in my ear, "just plough through the idiots and see how many you can take out". Thankfully, I keep it in check...



...most of the time.

Watch out RLJers

Not as worrying as when the same bloody minded streak rears its head when a car pulls out in front of you, you find yourself thinking i'll just keep going to prove a point.

rjsterry

ride_whenever wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

itsbruce wrote:

But most annoying of all was waiting at the cyclists-only lights at the junction of Binfield Road, Clapham Road and Stockwell road, only to have my opportunity to cross completely blocked by a horde of over two dozen RLJers. (You know how it is; one goes and then all the sheep follow).

I having a slightly worrying bloody-minded streak that in situations like this, whispers in my ear, "just plough through the idiots and see how many you can take out". Thankfully, I keep it in check...



...most of the time.

Watch out RLJers

Not as worrying as when the same bloody minded streak rears its head when a car pulls out in front of you, you find yourself thinking i'll just keep going to prove a point.

A frightening thing, the human mind.

northstar

Following a conversation with the owners wife Edward Thomas & Son (in Surrey) don't seem to care about the conduct of their drivers towards other road users so I guess they won't mind this "getting around".

hoolio

I'm cycling down the road at speed, approaching the back of stationary traffic which I'm going to filter down the outside of. Long white transit across the combined footpath/cyclepath (which is useless even when it isn't blocked) waiting to pull out into the road which I'm using. Make eye contact with van man. Van pulls out anyway forcing me right over the other side of the road. At this point the van man advises me "There's a cycle path over there mate".
Riiiiiight. The one you were just blocking. The one I'm not using anyway, unlike the road.

FFS I'm getting tired of the morons. I don't even have the passion to rant properly anymore.

Gneiss

In no particular order:
Wessex Connect bus that carved me up this morning on a r'about (e-mail just sent to his head office)
Rain - first in weeks, Bristol drivers even less aware than usual
When will they install a 'safe' route on my commute between Yate and the start of the cycle path

Chewy Cheeks

Left hooked this morning at Colliers Wood Bus station.

Not really a rant - the chap stopped, was sympathetic and seemed to be more shaken up than me.

Saw him, braked, he then stopped, I braken even harder started to go over the bars and hit his bumper with my wheel and his back windscreen with my face, going to have a black eye.

Its my first proper off in 5 years communting so even if it was a bit careless on his part I cant complain. I have to admit it did make me laugh when he said I was going really fast.

cjcp

To the HGV driver who continued to roll into the ASL box at Parlt Sq this morning when the light was red and there was a cyclist next to your cab i.e. me: stop when you see a red light and don't roll over that thick, white line on the road. You are an idiot.

And learn more words.

baloo_the_bear

To the muppet in the black honda who attempted an overtake manouevere while going round a blind corner, where there was no possible room for such an attempt:

"I hope you got the fright of your life. You could have killed me and the driver of the car coming the other way. Would it really have been worth the few seconds it would have taken to wait until we were round the bend."

Argh!

northstar

To NG54 UVU, you're pathetic attempt to accelerate away so I couldn't make out your number plate would have worked if you wern't in a shitheap of a transit. Foolish to do it in a company vehicle too.

dancook

northstar wrote:

Following a conversation with the owners wife Edward Thomas & Son (in Surrey) don't seem to care about the conduct of their drivers towards other road users so I guess they won't mind this "getting around".

I just thought I'd look at their website to see who they were, and I have to say it's hideous!

notsoblue

dancook wrote:

northstar wrote:

Following a conversation with the owners wife Edward Thomas & Son (in Surrey) don't seem to care about the conduct of their drivers towards other road users so I guess they won't mind this "getting around".

I just thought I'd look at their website to see who they were, and I have to say it's hideous!

Jesus christ! Thats the most egregious use of flash I've seen in a decade. Whats with the random bouncy ball?

rjsterry

notsoblue wrote:

dancook wrote:

northstar wrote:

Following a conversation with the owners wife Edward Thomas & Son (in Surrey) don't seem to care about the conduct of their drivers towards other road users so I guess they won't mind this "getting around".

I just thought I'd look at their website to see who they were, and I have to say it's hideous!

Jesus christ! Thats the most egregious use of flash I've seen in a decade. Whats with the random bouncy ball?

Good

Grief!

suzyb

Someone's used a flash template to build their site. Cheapskates :roll:

lost_in_thought

Moped riders:

You're in my way.