Your rants here.

HamishD

UndercoverElephant wrote:

I think you should know I'm feeling very depressed.

There you are, brain the size of a planet...

awavey

a nimby (singular)complaining about noise & lights from the Dunwich Dynamo at the weekend, literally a story sourced around one guy complaining :roll:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/dunwich-dyna ... -1-5634248

condorman

awavey wrote:

a nimby (singular)complaining about noise & lights from the Dunwich Dynamo at the weekend, literally a story sourced around one guy complaining :roll:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/dunwich-dyna ... -1-5634248

And the posted comments on the newspaper site are as expected. I've found that some of the locals standing outside their houses at unearthly o'clock cheering and clapping the riders make quite a noise ...

froze

I just wonder who has read ALL 811 pages and growing of these rants?

elbowloh

Motorway driving.

Why the hell is it that most people can't seem to grasp it, particularly what lane to be in?

Driving to Dorset and back over the weekend, in the inside lane of 4. There's no vehicle in front of me for half a mile. The next lane across is also almost empty. The outside two lanes are almost bumper to bumper full of cars, all too close to each other and going no faster than I am. Every time one of them taps the brakes, it cascades down the line of cars like a wave. This is what causes those "there was nothing there" jams.

I know it's a common rant, but ffs its so simple. If they just used the lanes properly, traffic would flow so much better.

slowbike

elbowloh wrote:

I know it's a common rant, but ffs its so simple. If they just used the lanes properly, traffic would flow so much better.

Unfortunately the lanes get labeled "slow lane" and "fast lane" - common parlance - but wrong - common sense doesn't seem to prevail and people just drive where they feel they should be - hence the queues in the outside lane.

I'm sure people don't look beyond their bonnet - or at most, the boot of the car in front - and usually close enough to read the number plate source - not just the number plate - which is why you end up with shunts.

vpnikolov

People that still have their sportive numbers on their bikes after the event has finished. Yes, RideLondon participants, I am talking about you.

Ben6899

vpnikolov wrote:

People that still have their sportive numbers on their bikes after the event has finished. Yes, RideLondon participants, I am talking about you.

What's worse is that this likely indicates they haven't cleaned and reapplied lube to their bike. So it's probably a squeaking, filthy sh1theap the likes of which I see far too often in this great city of ours.

wolfsbane2k

Went to jump on the bike this morning, running about 5 minutes late, and realised that the chain for said bike was still in the degreaser bottle where I had left it to soak on Friday.
Cue a very quick rinse, wipe, spin dry, liberal application of wet oil, and ride- and forgetting to wipe the excess off the chain before spinning the wheel means my lovely, clean bike is now covered in oil splatters everywhere...

slowbike

n+1 - just jump on the spare!

wolfsbane2k

Slowbike wrote:

n+1 - just jump on the spare!

Indeed. Stupid mistake to have when the space is currently in rusty pieces after someone forgot to wash it out properly after beast from the east, and all that salt... and i still haven't worked out the correct headset type required.

C2W scheme hopefully opens very shortly, so a new lightweight hybrid is currently being considered.

wolfsbane2k

Caught my foot on my mudguard as I got off my bike; rather than bending away, it decided to snap into 3 pieces instead. Balls.

elbowloh

Chap in front of me (can't remember bike) with Muddy fox padded shorts over normal shorts, aggressively shouted (some incoherent noise rather than a recognisable word) literally in the face of a woman as he passed her because she might have looked to cross on Charing Cross Road this morning. She was still well on the pavement and he scared the life out of her and she jumped back in fright.

Was completely unnecessary.

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Only been riding clipless for 20+ years, but numpty here unclipped my left shoe to slow for a hedge cutting tractor yesterday, only to then shift my weight like a plonker when practically stopped so I went down on my right side. :roll:

Minor scuffs but still fully functional STI, plus a small pound of my knee flesh... That will learn me!

elbowloh

Working from home today as i'm expecting a delivery.

Just got a message from DPD saying it's been delivered....to my work address.

Cnuts.

jgsi

Why does taking primary even for a few feckin yards have some drivers spitting their dummies out?
I mean I was making sure I got safely over to the lane that filtered right instead of the thru left lane. I know it dont look like a separate lane because of cars parked (parked cars, like measles rash) but it is, sorry for the 15 seconds delay for you to get to your next holdup.
You know, why do we bother ? Lets all get run over and have done with it.

elbowloh

elbowloh wrote:

Working from home today as i'm expecting a delivery.

Just got a message from DPD saying it's been delivered....to my work address.

Cnuts.

To follow on from this. I had another delivery with DPD, a free PS4 from EE when I upgraded my phone. Got a text from EE a week and a half ago saying it's been sent and DPD will get in contact with delivery details. Found out on Friday (after being on hold with EE for 30 mins) that DPD delivered it to the address I left 3 years ago without contacting me asking where I wanted it delivered, without sending an email giving me delivery options or telling me that it had been delivered.

Ben6899

DPD are a joke, I don't know how they're still in business.

roger_merriman

Dumped rubbish again in the underpasses to work, shocking amount of rubbish dumped from the lorries along the parkway including human waste! It really is such a disparite commute Royal Parks/leafy Subs/industrial estates/subways etc.

elbowloh

roger merriman wrote:

Dumped rubbish again in the underpasses to work, shocking amount of rubbish dumped from the lorries along the parkway including human waste! It really is such a disparite commute Royal Parks/leafy Subs/industrial estates/subways etc.

I live a in a quiet little estate in South London. There's one road in/out and as you first turn on to this road from the "main" road it's leaf covered, turns sharply to the right and quite dark so you can''t see it from said main road. At least once a week someone will come along and dump a truck load of crap in the road. One time it was a load of about 10 fridges, some of them the commercial ones you get in shops (e.g. coke / fanta branded). There's also been the usual matresses and garden waste etc. Some of the taxi firms seem to have decided it's a nice place for them to rest up also it seems.

I remember being on a bike ride on the Kent / Surrey Border and on one country lane someone had just dumped a load in the middle of the road, including a lavvy that was sitting the right way up in the middle of the lane. They didn't even try to put it to the side.

elbowloh

I noticed this the last time I tried to buy new brake blocks for my commuter.

I used to have Xenon blocks and they cost £30 for a set, but I saw on Wiggle that you could buy a whole set of calipers (Velove though) including blocks for £28.99.

Not quite so bad now, Veloce brake blocks are £21.29, but a whole new set of calipers are only £7.70 more. Why aren't the blocks cheaper?

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/campagnolo-velo ... 1245539342

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/campagnolo-velo ... 5360673621

Actually you can get them on Merlin, for only £2.21 more

https://www.merlincycles.com/campagnolo ... DEQAvD_BwE

Ben6899

elbowloh wrote:

I noticed this the last time I tried to buy new brake blocks for my commuter.

I used to have Xenon blocks and they cost £30 for a set, but I saw on Wiggle that you could buy a whole set of calipers (Velove though) including blocks for £28.99.

Not quite so bad now, Veloce brake blocks are £21.29, but a whole new set of calipers are only £7.70 more. Why aren't the blocks cheaper?

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/campagnolo-velo ... 1245539342

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/campagnolo-velo ... 5360673621

Actually you can get them on Merlin, for only £2.21 more

https://www.merlincycles.com/campagnolo ... DEQAvD_BwE

I use these in my Veloce brakes. They're cheaper and better: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-ultegra ... ke-blocks/

I take your point though.

cruff

elbowloh wrote:

roger merriman wrote:

Dumped rubbish again in the underpasses to work, shocking amount of rubbish dumped from the lorries along the parkway including human waste! It really is such a disparite commute Royal Parks/leafy Subs/industrial estates/subways etc.

I live a in a quiet little estate in South London. There's one road in/out and as you first turn on to this road from the "main" road it's leaf covered, turns sharply to the right and quite dark so you can''t see it from said main road. At least once a week someone will come along and dump a truck load of crap in the road. One time it was a load of about 10 fridges, some of them the commercial ones you get in shops (e.g. coke / fanta branded). There's also been the usual matresses and garden waste etc. Some of the taxi firms seem to have decided it's a nice place for them to rest up also it seems.

I remember being on a bike ride on the Kent / Surrey Border and on one country lane someone had just dumped a load in the middle of the road, including a lavvy that was sitting the right way up in the middle of the lane. They didn't even try to put it to the side.

'Travellers' doing cheap waste collections for people and flytipping. Been the same for donkeys' years - wouldn't happen if people who paid them to do it gave a sh1t about where it ended up. No amount of enforcement will work whilst there are still people willing to pay 30 quid to get 500 quids' worth of rubbish dumped without asking any questions

cruff

Sh1thouses in Chelsea tractors are not geographically confined to London & the home counties...

Last night I left work a bit early for a training ride. Living in Altrincham, most of my flat rides take place in Cheshire, round Knutsford, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Tatton etc. For the uninitiated, it's the NW Surrey of Manchester - full of pr1cks in sports cars, imbeciles in 4x4s and cockwombles in Audis. Usually when I'm out that way it's after 6, so I don't have to suffer the rush hour - but yesterday I was smack in the middle of it. Going South through Knutsford, I was close passed by a stupid cow in her enormous Porsche 4x4, buzzed by a bloke in a DB9, and left-hooked by a Beemer - within 500 yards of each other.

The crowning glory was a posh old bat coming past Tatton Park, who overtook me in her R8 with about 4 inches between me and her wing mirror despite nothing coming in the opposite direction for half a mile (dead straight road), then pulling in front of me without indicating and slowing down, to the point I overtook her. When we both got caught at the gates to Tatton Park, I stopped, and rolled back to her in the queue of traffic and engaged her in conversation. She was genuinely unaware she'd done anything wrong (not faking it) - at first genuinely shocked that I suggested pulling into the opposite carriageway when passing, then defensive, and finally aggressive about it. What really irked was the fact that she wasn't just being a tw@t - I can handle that (plenty of tw@ts in the world) but totally oblivious to what she was doing. What the actual f**k is going on out there???

cjcp

I think you've hit the nail on the head with "totally oblivious" - it sums up a lot of these incidents.

There are folks out there who haven't a Scooby effin' Do how to drive. They're the sort of folk who don't have the awareness to wave in thanks when you let them through in a narrow street, or don't indicate when turning in front of you - whether you're in a car or on a bike - or pull out of side streets and take their time doing so, regardless of oncoming traffic. And they're oblivious to the speed you're travelling at. Total lack of awareness.

veronese68

Cruff wrote:

Sh1thouses in Chelsea tractors...

Fat tw@ in an England shirt driving a ridiculous Merc 4x4, trying to look like a 4x4 and a coupe at the same time. Started to pull out from a side road to my right as I was overtaking a woman cyclist, had to abort or run me over so shouted abuse at me for existing. Then floored it to pass me before slamming on the brakes for the mini roundabout immediately in front of him, causing me to brake hard for the second time in a few hundred yards. Then turned right down the same road I was going down and hoofed it down the road before slamming on the brakes for a speed bump, so of course I caught him at every speed bump. Eventually swung into the station car park, resisted the temptation to pull in behind him and point out that a 4x4 should be able to cope with speed bumps and if he was going to overtake someone the least he could do is not hold them up afterwards.

poweredbyidris

cjcp wrote:

I think you've hit the nail on the head with "totally oblivious" - it sums up a lot of these incidents.

There are folks out there who haven't a Scooby effin' Do how to drive. They're the sort of folk who don't have the awareness to wave in thanks when you let them through in a narrow street, or don't indicate when turning in front of you - whether you're in a car or on a bike - or pull out of side streets and take their time doing so, regardless of oncoming traffic. And they're oblivious to the speed you're travelling at. Total lack of awareness.

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best - instead of all these 'consultations' and research into road safety coming up with evermore elaborate ways of making the highways safe, just make it harder to get, and keep, a driving licence.

veronese68

PoweredByIdris wrote:

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best - instead of all these 'consultations' and research into road safety coming up with evermore elaborate ways of making the highways safe, just make it harder to get, and keep, a driving licence.

Permanent removal of a driving licence for those that show they are not deserving should definitely be a thing.

straas

Cruff wrote:

Sh1thouses in Chelsea tractors are not geographically confined to London & the home counties...

Last night I left work a bit early for a training ride. Living in Altrincham, most of my flat rides take place in Cheshire, round Knutsford, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Tatton etc. For the uninitiated, it's the NW Surrey of Manchester - full of pr1cks in sports cars, imbeciles in 4x4s and cockwombles in Audis. Usually when I'm out that way it's after 6, so I don't have to suffer the rush hour - but yesterday I was smack in the middle of it. Going South through Knutsford, I was close passed by a stupid cow in her enormous Porsche 4x4, buzzed by a bloke in a DB9, and left-hooked by a Beemer - within 500 yards of each other.

The crowning glory was a posh old bat coming past Tatton Park, who overtook me in her R8 with about 4 inches between me and her wing mirror despite nothing coming in the opposite direction for half a mile (dead straight road), then pulling in front of me without indicating and slowing down, to the point I overtook her. When we both got caught at the gates to Tatton Park, I stopped, and rolled back to her in the queue of traffic and engaged her in conversation. She was genuinely unaware she'd done anything wrong (not faking it) - at first genuinely shocked that I suggested pulling into the opposite carriageway when passing, then defensive, and finally aggressive about it. What really irked was the fact that she wasn't just being a tw@t - I can handle that (plenty of tw@ts in the world) but totally oblivious to what she was doing. What the actual f**k is going on out there???

Some of my worst close passes are from hale through ashley before the tatton wall -mostly ok along the wall itself, though would be nicer if people didn't do 60+ along there.

Got overtaken by a 4x4 pulling a trailer on one of the bends the other week.

cruff

straas wrote:

Cruff wrote:

Sh1thouses in Chelsea tractors are not geographically confined to London & the home counties...

Last night I left work a bit early for a training ride. Living in Altrincham, most of my flat rides take place in Cheshire, round Knutsford, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Tatton etc. For the uninitiated, it's the NW Surrey of Manchester - full of pr1cks in sports cars, imbeciles in 4x4s and cockwombles in Audis. Usually when I'm out that way it's after 6, so I don't have to suffer the rush hour - but yesterday I was smack in the middle of it. Going South through Knutsford, I was close passed by a stupid cow in her enormous Porsche 4x4, buzzed by a bloke in a DB9, and left-hooked by a Beemer - within 500 yards of each other.

The crowning glory was a posh old bat coming past Tatton Park, who overtook me in her R8 with about 4 inches between me and her wing mirror despite nothing coming in the opposite direction for half a mile (dead straight road), then pulling in front of me without indicating and slowing down, to the point I overtook her. When we both got caught at the gates to Tatton Park, I stopped, and rolled back to her in the queue of traffic and engaged her in conversation. She was genuinely unaware she'd done anything wrong (not faking it) - at first genuinely shocked that I suggested pulling into the opposite carriageway when passing, then defensive, and finally aggressive about it. What really irked was the fact that she wasn't just being a tw@t - I can handle that (plenty of tw@ts in the world) but totally oblivious to what she was doing. What the actual f**k is going on out there???

Some of my worst close passes are from hale through ashley before the tatton wall -mostly ok along the wall itself, though would be nicer if people didn't do 60+ along there.

Got overtaken by a 4x4 pulling a trailer on one of the bends the other week.

Past the Greyhound and over the railway bridge, on the rapid bit where it's slightly downhill all the way round the bends? Cracking bit of road that - and I've been buzzed there a few times as well. Ashley seems to be populated by complete and utter ar5eholes in general - I went to the Greyhound for lunch a couple of weeks ago and it seemed the entire clientele had been lifted from the Harry Enfield 'Considerably richer than Yow' sketch