Your rants here.

redvee

amrushton wrote:

Apparently Channel 5 have a programme coming up soon

Cyclists: Scourge of the Streets!

i dont think it will be an interesting watch.

Dave the Bus was pushing this on his Twitter timeline so I'm guessing his ego is getting another massage by Channel5 again. If you're interested it airs 09/07 at 21:00.

rick_chasey

Who on earth is that?

thistle_

amrushton wrote:

Same for me on Sunday returning to my car. Apparently Channel 5 have a programme coming up soon
Cyclists: Scourge of the Streets!
i dont think it will be an interesting watch.

If you got rid of all of the cars/vans/lorries etc. then cyclists wouldn't be in their way :roll:

surfercyclist

Cruff wrote:

Approaching roundabout to take second exit (straight on), at some speed. Car approaches from first exit, driver looks RIGHT AT ME... and then proceeds onto roundabout, causing me to clamp on the anchors, skid, and pray that I scrubbed off enough speed not to end up a smear on her windscreen. She carries on as I remonstrate with her... Then drives all the way round the roundabout and pulls up alongside me swearing her f***ing head off (with her boyfriend/husband/trained ape alongside her providing the descant) telling me I was 'riding too fast' and that I 'should give way to traffic from the left' when entering a roundabout. What f***ing hope is there? Honestly? When people are that unaware of the basic rules of the road? How has she not annihilated a car before if she thinks that she has priority over traffic already on the roundabout approaching from her right? :shock:

I trust you gave her the same back plus a bit to go home with. I'm always polite and thank other road users if they are considerate to me. However if they act like dicks then look out.

cruff

SurferCyclist wrote:

Cruff wrote:

Approaching roundabout to take second exit (straight on), at some speed. Car approaches from first exit, driver looks RIGHT AT ME... and then proceeds onto roundabout, causing me to clamp on the anchors, skid, and pray that I scrubbed off enough speed not to end up a smear on her windscreen. She carries on as I remonstrate with her... Then drives all the way round the roundabout and pulls up alongside me swearing her f***ing head off (with her boyfriend/husband/trained ape alongside her providing the descant) telling me I was 'riding too fast' and that I 'should give way to traffic from the left' when entering a roundabout. What f***ing hope is there? Honestly? When people are that unaware of the basic rules of the road? How has she not annihilated a car before if she thinks that she has priority over traffic already on the roundabout approaching from her right? :shock:

I trust you gave her the same back plus a bit to go home with. I'm always polite and thank other road users if they are considerate to me. However if they act like dicks then look out.

A bit. Not too much, as I'd had a lovely evening ride in the sun up to that point. A bit of swearing and calling her a daft ****, but when someone is that shit of a driver, educating them isn't worth it. If they've got to that point in their lives without working out roundabouts, it's a waste of breath arguing.

smokey_bacon

Cruff wrote:

and that I 'should give way to traffic from the left' when entering a roundabout.

Lol, thats a new one what an utter prat.

DrLex

Was she French?
They used to have odd ideas about roundabout priority...

poweredbyidris

Cruff wrote:

Approaching roundabout to take second exit (straight on), at some speed. Car approaches from first exit, driver looks RIGHT AT ME... and then proceeds onto roundabout, causing me to clamp on the anchors, skid, and pray that I scrubbed off enough speed not to end up a smear on her windscreen. She carries on as I remonstrate with her... Then drives all the way round the roundabout and pulls up alongside me swearing her f***ing head off (with her boyfriend/husband/trained ape alongside her providing the descant) telling me I was 'riding too fast' and that I 'should give way to traffic from the left' when entering a roundabout. What f***ing hope is there? Honestly? When people are that unaware of the basic rules of the road? How has she not annihilated a car before if she thinks that she has priority over traffic already on the roundabout approaching from her right? :shock:

That's insane - like you say, it's pointless arguing with someone like that. I usually just tell them to hand in their licence.

Hope you managed to recover your zen afterwards

tootsie323

This rant is against a cyclist - somewhat ironically, after I'd been for a ride myself, and having returned to my workplace and put the bike back onto the car to head home. Had to do a U-turn in a road that was closed for the evening, along with the traffic following me.
I was edging out of a layby, whilst the traffic - with a van at the front of the queue - was waiting, when a cyclist came past from behind the van. I stopped and put up my hand to acknowledge the cyclist, who responded by shouting along the lines of me being blind before continuing on his less-then-merry way.
No - I'm not blind. Have perfectly good eyesight, thank you very much. I'm also not superhuman which means, amongst other superhuman feats, I cannot see directly through a solid van. Also, please note the earlier term 'edging' - I was being suitably cautious thank you very much once again. Perhaps you should give it a go, as opposed to simply zipping past stationary traffic.
Grr.

cruff

PoweredByIdris wrote:

Cruff wrote:

Approaching roundabout to take second exit (straight on), at some speed. Car approaches from first exit, driver looks RIGHT AT ME... and then proceeds onto roundabout, causing me to clamp on the anchors, skid, and pray that I scrubbed off enough speed not to end up a smear on her windscreen. She carries on as I remonstrate with her... Then drives all the way round the roundabout and pulls up alongside me swearing her f***ing head off (with her boyfriend/husband/trained ape alongside her providing the descant) telling me I was 'riding too fast' and that I 'should give way to traffic from the left' when entering a roundabout. What f***ing hope is there? Honestly? When people are that unaware of the basic rules of the road? How has she not annihilated a car before if she thinks that she has priority over traffic already on the roundabout approaching from her right? :shock:

That's insane - like you say, it's pointless arguing with someone like that. I usually just tell them to hand in their licence.

Hope you managed to recover your zen afterwards

I was on my way to the caf, so yeah

veronese68

amrushton wrote:

Apparently Channel 5 have a programme coming up soon

Cyclists: Scourge of the Streets!

i dont think it will be an interesting watch.

Journalists: Scourge of Society!


No, just some of the gutter ones.

Ben6899

Cruff wrote:

Approaching roundabout to take second exit (straight on), at some speed. Car approaches from first exit, driver looks RIGHT AT ME... and then proceeds onto roundabout, causing me to clamp on the anchors, skid, and pray that I scrubbed off enough speed not to end up a smear on her windscreen. She carries on as I remonstrate with her... Then drives all the way round the roundabout and pulls up alongside me swearing her f***ing head off (with her boyfriend/husband/trained ape alongside her providing the descant) telling me I was 'riding too fast' and that I 'should give way to traffic from the left' when entering a roundabout. What f***ing hope is there? Honestly? When people are that unaware of the basic rules of the road? How has she not annihilated a car before if she thinks that she has priority over traffic already on the roundabout approaching from her right? :shock:

Had similar in Richmond Park on Sunday. I say similar, this was incredibly low speed and she was embarrassed and apologetic rather than effing and jeffing at me.

Waiting at the roundabout at Sheen Gate, to head east on Sawyers (I'd come from past the Royal Ballet School), I gave way to my right - thems the rules - and made my way around the roundabout. As I was about to go by the second exit and proceed to leave the roundabout, this woman simply pulled out into the roundabout from the road coming from Sheen - not giving way to the right and traffic already on the roundabout. However, she didn't look right at me; she didn't look in my direction at all. She looked to her left and saw that the car there was waiting (obviously because she had priority over it) and presumably took that as sufficient encouragement to enter the roundabout.

Call me prejudiced, but I expected all this to happen for two reasons. So no harm came of it. I just gave her the Superman eye-lasers (which unfortunately were hidden behind my Oakleys) and made my way to the café.

Far too many motorised vehicles in that park. And some terrible road craft from fellow cyclists.

redvee

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who on earth is that?

Dave Sherry in real life, Sue Perbs on You Tube. Drives a bus in his spare time away from his main job of filming miscreants in their cars.

awavey

PoweredByIdris wrote:

That's insane - like you say, it's pointless arguing with someone like that. I usually just tell them to hand in their licence.

Hope you managed to recover your zen afterwards

I was arguing with someone who was driving on their right hand side of the road who ended up telling me everyone should only be on the left side of the road to let them get past...I recovered my zen by drinking alcohol after that :?

wolfsbane2k

redvee wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who on earth is that?

Dave Sherry in real life, Sue Perbs on You Tube. Drives a bus in his spare time away from his main job of filming miscreants in their cars.

Has also called for compulsory licences and helmets for cyclists in the past, and that' he'd be more than happy "shopping" cyclists and getting them prosecuted
https://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/ ... ave-sherry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTU7eiGPY-E

a bit odd...

Ben6899

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

redvee wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Who on earth is that?

Dave Sherry in real life, Sue Perbs on You Tube. Drives a bus in his spare time away from his main job of filming miscreants in their cars.

Has also called for compulsory licences and helmets for cyclists in the past, and that' he'd be more than happy "shopping" cyclists and getting them prosecuted
https://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/ ... ave-sherry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTU7eiGPY-E

a bit odd...

Christ. It's like the Daily Mail, but on telly.

wolfsbane2k

8 months old

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Nooooo!

wolfsbane2k

NitrousOxide wrote:

Nooooo!

Yeah, pretty much my words.
Lifetime warranty on the frame, supposedly. We'll see what that actually means, as you can't get the frame in this colour any more.

And it appears it's a 2 month lead on a frame in the new 2020 colours in this size, too.

thistle_

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

NitrousOxide wrote:

Nooooo!

Yeah, pretty much my words.
Lifetime warranty on the frame, supposedly. We'll see what that actually means, as you can't get the frame in this colour any more.

And it appears it's a 2 month lead on a frame in the new 2020 colours in this size, too.

How did it happen? Or did it just happen? (Like mine)

Someone I rode with cracked their mtb frame and they no longer had the same colour in stock so they were offered something different (and better) so it may work out ok in the end.

redvee

Doing a clerical role in work over the weekend and a decent mobile signal so I open up the Eurosport app and try and watch le tour but get another message saying I need to pay £7 month streaming subscription fee. Did le tour on my handset last year without paying a strea,img subscription, in fact I paid £2 for the year. It's only the main live feed I have to pay extra for, watching onboard footage is OK through the app.

elbowloh

Was out on a ride to Marlow yesterday, riding in secondary minding our own business. There's no traffic on our side of the road, but a line of cars (still moving) going in the other direction. A motorbike with pillion goes to overtake them, but just for a laugh, comes within a few inches of me and my friend at speed and does that thing that kind of pops the engine just as they pass.

I assume they got some sort of buzz out of it, but I just thought they were being a cnut.

slowbike

Quite simply - CLEAR UP AFTER YOUR DOG!

Ok - it's a country foot/cyclepath and you may think that there aren't many users and it doesn't really matter because it's all natural and the rain will soon clear it away ....

However, it's my sons route to pre-school - just next door to the footpath. We cycle it - but have to walk the last bit because it's steep steps down. Even if we did cycle it - I don't want dogs crap all over our wheels.
So thank you for leaving your dogs crap all over the path at the bottom of the steps which then spread up the steps - because both my son and I stood in it without realising which then meant I had to clean it all off before he went into the preschool classroom where he shares the space with children from 2years old. Yes - 2 year olds still pick up stuff and put it in their mouths - so I'm sure they want toys that have been zoomed through a trail of dogs mess in their mouths - tasty ...
All natural isn't it - well, if it's so f*c&ing natural - put it on your f*c&ing dinner plate and eat it you filthy lazy slobs.

Even if you haven't got a bag - at least have the decency to flick it off into the undergrowth so it isn't on the path where LOTS OF PEOPLE WALK

thistle_

Slowbike wrote:

All natural isn't it - well, if it's so f*c&ing natural - put it on your f*c&ing dinner plate and eat it you filthy lazy slobs.

Even more natural when it's put in a plastic bag and chucked on the path.

elbowloh

Selling a property post 3.

Argh, the wanker buyers have come back and are asking for a further price reduction. I've told them to bugger off as they've messed us around and already gave them a price reduction earlier in the process.

This is the 3rd buyer i've had after the previous 2 pulled out after 6 months each. This one is 4 months down the line, but I'd rather now sell for less to someone else than sell to them.

thistle_

Suffered 2 dangerously close passes while out riding on Sunday: probably about half a metre from me, and on both occasions the vehicles were overtaking while there was oncoming traffic.
Sent the video to plod and (again) the standard of driving isn't bad enough for them to do anything about it.

cjcp

elbowloh wrote:

Selling a property post 3.

Argh, the rubber buyers have come back and are asking for a further price reduction. I've told them to bugger off as they've messed us around and already gave them a price reduction earlier in the process.

This is the 3rd buyer i've had after the previous 2 pulled out after 6 months each. This one is 4 months down the line, but I'd rather now sell for less to someone else than sell to them.

Grrrr.

Tell them that it goes back on the market in time for the weekend if they don't accept the price?

Where are you looking to move to?

wolfsbane2k

That channel 5 hit piece.
Ah well, o complaint to ofcom completed

pangolin

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

That channel 5 hit piece.
Ah well, o complaint to ofcom completed

Was it bad? I don't really want to watch it but I'm morbidly curious

elbowloh

cjcp wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

Selling a property post 3.

Argh, the rubber buyers have come back and are asking for a further price reduction. I've told them to bugger off as they've messed us around and already gave them a price reduction earlier in the process.

This is the 3rd buyer i've had after the previous 2 pulled out after 6 months each. This one is 4 months down the line, but I'd rather now sell for less to someone else than sell to them.

Grrrr.

Tell them that it goes back on the market in time for the weekend if they don't accept the price?

Where are you looking to move to?

I've basically told the estate agents to tell them to bugger off and that i've had enough of them messing me around.

We did put an offer in on place in Walton on the Hill, which was accepted, but them my wife's sale fell through (we're selling 2 flats to buy 1 house together) and we had to pull out. We're now pretty much back to square 1.

We were also considering Kingston, but couldn't find what we wanted in our price range.