Your rants here.

awavey

hot weather & bank holiday traffic dont mix, got Mgif'd by a Fiat 500x SUV, yes they are that kind of person theyve gone for a cheeky little Italian car with class and turned it into an SUV who then brake tested me once theyd got infront, which caused my adrenalin to pop and I just TT'd after them for the next mile, the poor moped behind me who was trying to overtake couldnt get enough momentum going to get by maybe I should have let them go and caught their wheel

rick_chasey

have been off the bike a bit dealing with new house. Old pain deep in my hip from when I strained it compensating for the broken other hip is back. Can’t put any real efforts in before it hurts too much.

wolfsbane2k

Apologies all, I swapped over to dry lube on the chain at the weekend.
And of course, that's brought out the downpours...

redvee

Email arrived in work today saying C2W scheme window is open but I don't want another bike, would love a groupset but don't think I can get away with it.

itboffin

5 days off work and not one of them without grey skies wind and rain FFS, should have gone to Spain

hopkinb

redvee wrote:

Email arrived in work today saying C2W scheme window is open but I don't want another bike, would love a groupset but don't think I can get away with it.

I think you can get away with it these days.

condorman

awavey wrote:

hot weather & bank holiday traffic dont mix, got Mgif'd by a Fiat 500x SUV, yes they are that kind of person theyve gone for a cheeky little Italian car with class and turned it into an SUV who then brake tested me once theyd got infront, which caused my adrenalin to pop and I just TT'd after them for the next mile, the poor moped behind me who was trying to overtake couldnt get enough momentum going to get by maybe I should have let them go and caught their wheel

?

cjcp

Sgt.Pepper wrote:

Milemuncher1 wrote:

Sgt.Pepper wrote:

Milemuncher1 wrote:

Getting driven into whilst waiting in the ASL at Parsons Green this morning. Massively irritating, and a Pringled rear wheel to boot. Fortunately there’s a brilliant little LBS right near there, ( Chelsea bikes, next to the Worlds End pub ) and the superstar in there had a 700c wheel, and sorted it out for me there and then. The guy that hit me was very apologetic, and his insurance should sort it.

Christ. How did he even manage that?

He came out of the side road just to the right, drove up
The bit of the bus lane until the bike lane to ASL section, the lights changed, I had a couple of riders in front of me taking off steadily, he put his foot down, and clattered into my rear wheel. Words were had, he’s only a young guy, and was shaking like a ******** dog, hopefully that’s a lesson learned. I did take pity on him though, and to avoid the multiple bollockings he was guaranteed to get from his boss / the five O, because it was all captured on CCTV, I did it through my insurance.

Sounds like you had a bit more patience than I would have. Glad you're alright.

More bl00dy roadworks on the NKR. Very congested. Do. Not. Like.

wolfsbane2k

condorman wrote:

awavey wrote:

hot weather & bank holiday traffic dont mix, got Mgif'd by a Fiat 500x SUV, yes they are that kind of person theyve gone for a cheeky little Italian car with class and turned it into an SUV who then brake tested me once theyd got infront, which caused my adrenalin to pop and I just TT'd after them for the next mile, the poor moped behind me who was trying to overtake couldnt get enough momentum going to get by maybe I should have let them go and caught their wheel

?

Must Get IN Front.

awavey

condorman wrote:

awavey wrote:

hot weather & bank holiday traffic dont mix, got Mgif'd by a Fiat 500x SUV, yes they are that kind of person theyve gone for a cheeky little Italian car with class and turned it into an SUV who then brake tested me once theyd got infront, which caused my adrenalin to pop and I just TT'd after them for the next mile, the poor moped behind me who was trying to overtake couldnt get enough momentum going to get by maybe I should have let them go and caught their wheel

?

I think I was suffering from heatstroke its quite simple really a stupid car overtook me, then brake tested me for no reason, which annoyed me and I just pedalled as hard as I could to catch them back up to give them a good talking to about it,

as Im in the process of doing this, I can hear this moped behind me, but who just cant seem to overtake even though the road is completely clear for them to try, until I start to run out of gas and had to ease back off pedalling so hard and then they got by easily

at which point most cyclist types you talk to about it, say well you mucked it up there, if youd let the moped through by easing up a bit, you could have then used them to draft along for a bit longer.

sgt.pepper

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local- ... de-schools

I know the UK is bad, but the car dependence here is another league.

pangolin

awavey wrote:

condorman wrote:

awavey wrote:

hot weather & bank holiday traffic dont mix, got Mgif'd by a Fiat 500x SUV, yes they are that kind of person theyve gone for a cheeky little Italian car with class and turned it into an SUV who then brake tested me once theyd got infront, which caused my adrenalin to pop and I just TT'd after them for the next mile, the poor moped behind me who was trying to overtake couldnt get enough momentum going to get by maybe I should have let them go and caught their wheel

?

I think I was suffering from heatstroke its quite simple really a stupid car overtook me, then brake tested me for no reason, which annoyed me and I just pedalled as hard as I could to catch them back up to give them a good talking to about it,

as Im in the process of doing this, I can hear this moped behind me, but who just cant seem to overtake even though the road is completely clear for them to try, until I start to run out of gas and had to ease back off pedalling so hard and then they got by easily

at which point most cyclist types you talk to about it, say well you mucked it up there, if youd let the moped through by easing up a bit, you could have then used them to draft along for a bit longer.

Think he was just asking what MGIF meant

awavey

pangolin wrote:

Think he was just asking what MGIF meant

oh I see sorry, MGIF = must get in front, an unnecessary and also usually unsafe overtake vehicles make on the basis of you being a cyclist and the driver is convinced you are slowing them up, even if generally speaking they actually gain very little by doing it.

condorman

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

condorman wrote:

awavey wrote:

hot weather & bank holiday traffic dont mix, got Mgif'd by a Fiat 500x SUV, yes they are that kind of person theyve gone for a cheeky little Italian car with class and turned it into an SUV who then brake tested me once theyd got infront, which caused my adrenalin to pop and I just TT'd after them for the next mile, the poor moped behind me who was trying to overtake couldnt get enough momentum going to get by maybe I should have let them go and caught their wheel

?

Must Get IN Front.

Of course! Obvious when you know what it is. And so many of them on the roads - cyclists included.

asprilla

Sold my old single speed last summer for £250. Just seen it's back on eBay for £700.

It's been neglected in the meantime too. Tempted to offer to buy it back for what they paid for it.

elbowloh

Asprilla wrote:

Sold my old single speed last summer for £250. Just seen it's back on eBay for £700.

It's been neglected in the meantime too. Tempted to offer to buy it back for what they paid for it.

Who the hell would pay £700 for a second-hand single speed?

asprilla

Its more than 2nd hand. Its a lovely frame and its got good kit on it (he hasn't mentioned the Royce bb in the ad) but its still 30 years old.

There is actually the same frame with the original campag gruppo going for the same price.

wolfsbane2k

Road rash for the second Time in a month. And I'd just had the bike serviced, dropping it meant both shifters got hoofed 20-30° and got a nice new scrape on the paintwork

sgt.pepper

Ridiculous bloody morning.

Was the wife's first time having to ride down the train station, and had a sodding tantrum because there was MILD drizzle. I end up having to drive her, and then drive back up the valley to get my own gear. Then it's gale-force headwinds coming in, and my head unit has come loose so I'm ridiculously unstable.

Ended up an hour late for work. Thankfully they're kiwis, so the office is so laid back they're horizontal.

tangled_metal

After this morning's anti rant and highly positive feeling I've got a rant on the way home.

Stupid, stupid, stupid BB7 brakes. I was speeding along, feeling great and doing another fast time when ping! Rattle! Then no rear brake.

Seems I must have missed noticing the brake pads needed changing. Put it this way I've have good braking and nothing looked wrong. Then ping, my brake has failed.

I can't see what's wrong by the side of the road but I guessing it's new pads and spring bits inside the brake. I hope there's nothing serious wrong with it other than replace a consumable item. Supposedly Bb7s are easy to maintain. I hope so.

I was practically half way in distance with the hardest part of the ride done so I'd have done a good time. Of course most of the best strava segments were ahead of me! Bl00dy typical!

condorman

Toddler drivers. The ones who shout abuse or gesticulate at you as they drive past, usually too close and too fast, and then forget about the queue of traffic or traffic lights ahead. When you catch up with them and want to politely discuss the error of their ways they go into toddler driver mode. The fixed stare dead straight ahead because toddler drivers believe that if they don't look at you, you don't exist and you can't see them. Just like a toddler.

tgotb

condorman wrote:

Toddler drivers. The ones who shout abuse or gesticulate at you as they drive past, usually too close and too fast, and then forget about the queue of traffic or traffic lights ahead. When you catch up with them and want to politely discuss the error of their ways they go into toddler driver mode. The fixed stare dead straight ahead because toddler drivers believe that if they don't look at you, you don't exist and you can't see them. Just like a toddler.

If, hypothetically speaking, you were to flip their windscreen wipers up, then they might notice you. Hypothetically...

wolfsbane2k

What on earth is it with some drivers on narrow single track lanes that expect you to drop off the road for them as they barrel towards you at 60mph without even consideration of slowing themselves? Had to physically dive out the way of one this morning as they tried to pass fully on the tarmac.

awavey

I thought yesterdays commute was bad as I got cut up badly by two cars taking the "racing line" ignore the cyclist approach through a roundabout,which I almost ranted about yesterday but had calmed down enough later on not to bother, but todays really took the <insert swear word> biscuit, I got close passed twice today and in both cases I instinctively steered left to avoid being hit,

and then had to have a sweary flailing arms go on the second close pass as another car was already trying to follow through, because theyve gone well if that other vehicle can get through etc, clearly the crazy ranty sweary lady on the bike approach worked as they backed right off in response.

but I made damn sure every pinch point from then on I rode not just prime, as I had been, but centre of the road, anyone trying to overtake me was going to have to drive over me to get through

elbowloh

First, rant at self. I was getting a clicking noise and thought it could be the cleat/pedals (i used SPDs), so applied some grease hoping it might help. Cue, my commute in this morning punctuated by comical foot slips off the pedals every time I tried to clip back in after a traffic light.

Second, stopped behind a lorry at a red in quite a narrow road. The next 5 cyclist all squeezed themselves down the side of the lorry, not to the front, but stuck down the side of the lorry. What's the point? Sometimes cyclists don't help themselves.

Next, a chap literally stood in the middle of the road I'm trying to turn left into, playing on his phone. Even when I call out (politely) "excuse me, but you're in the middle of a road" he doesn't even look up. I get to the bottom of said road, look round and he's still there. This is a road that constantly has dumper trucks and heavy plant going in and out of that junction.

xbnm

Durham Police holding the flag up for we don't care. Incident 15/12/17 reported under protest by email (previous history of having to chase for action and you cant report any other way) finally read 12/06/18 at 7.38am. Not accessed the video yet mind.

Only the 6 months then !!

elbowloh

Odd article in the Guardian about why women shun cycling.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ling-roads

The comments are as expected.

awavey

elbowloh wrote:

Odd article in the Guardian about why women shun cycling.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ling-roads

The comments are as expected.

whats odd about it ? and yes the comments do seem full of the usual expected mansplaining,

mattsaw

This



10 years of pretty trouble free commuting and now two trips to A&E in 5 months

hopkinb

Fugginell Mattsaw, I think you've bust your arm there. Heal up quickly. How did that happen?