Your rants here.

Animal100

why is it that I get called to f*** off you prat when all I am doing is cycling along the road minding my own business, when some low life scum on his little 50cc dirt bike comes from an alley way accross the path and into the road coming towards me forcing me to pass on the wrong side. All I did was shake my head at him? AND why do you always think of things to say long after the event?

will3

Rain, puncture, non-functional pump = 7 mile walk.

On the plus side: all the kind folks who stopped to offer help, or a lift (I'm particularly thinking of the car with the empty bike rack on it's roof) -you're all invitied to a sumptuous 7 course banquet at my place. There'll be dancing girls, live music, free flowing drink...

Shame no-one'll be there, eh?

gbsahne001

you know it's going to be one of those days when you're;-

• smacked in the face at 30mph by a plum falling from a tree
• stung by a wasp (repeatedly) in the chest as you're cycling along minding your own business

.....and all this before 9am, the day can only get better, on the plus side I've discovered that I'm not allergic to wasp stings

-

Kieran_Burns

bloodyfarkingsoddinggitofamate :evil:

I'm doing the domestique duties this morning and leading the whole way into work, pedalling nigh on the whole way and all I can hear is his damn' bearing sets clicking away as he's stopped and just taking it nice and easy behind me.

I don't care that I agreed to lead in.
I don't care that he's done twice the distance
I really don't care that's he's got a real stinker of a chest cold.
It's my rant and I'm going to enjoy it. :twisted:

Worst bit was when I was out the saddle powering up this little incline in my top cruising gear and he's NOT PEDALLING!! <clickclickclickclick>

muttermuttermutter

rjsterry

W1 wrote:

Right, I'm done with it now.

ALL coach drivers are cretins. A National company that provides Express services employs only the most toe-chewing, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, gormless morons that they scrape out of the village idiots reject pile.

FFS, you're supposed to be a professional driver. That's your job, that's what you do. Take some pride, do it properly.

You were so busy blasting your horn at me (I still don't know why) that you nearly rear ended the car in front that stopped for the ped crossing.

Spotted on the back of a Nat Express coach this lunchtime: Good driving? 0800 22 50 33 (I think , probably best to double check) or alternatively

http://www.nationalexpress.com/coach/ContactUs/index.aspx

will3

W1 wrote:

ALL coach drivers are cretins. A National company that provides Express services employs only the most toe-chewing, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, gormless morons that they scrape out of the village idiots reject pile..

I used to commute by National Express.
When you get to know the drivers you realise that you're perfectly correct.

MadammeMarie

To the stupid pr1ck outside Southwark tube station, who had a right go at me when iI stopped INSIDE the ASL at the red light and said "there's a red light there, you know"! : AND THAT'S WHY I STOPPED, YOU WORTHLESS IGNORANT PIECE OF SH!T!!!!! :x

Kieran_Burns

MadammeMarie wrote:

To the stupid pr1ck outside Southwark tube station, who had a right go at me when iI stopped INSIDE the ASL at the red light and said "there's a red light there, you know"! : AND THAT'S WHY I STOPPED, YOU WORTHLESS IGNORANT PIECE OF SH!T!!!!! :x

Did you explain the ASL to them? Or just turn an amazing shade of purple.

MadammeMarie

Kieran_Burns wrote:

MadammeMarie wrote:

To the stupid pr1ck outside Southwark tube station, who had a right go at me when iI stopped INSIDE the ASL at the red light and said "there's a red light there, you know"! : AND THAT'S WHY I STOPPED, YOU WORTHLESS IGNORANT PIECE OF SH!T!!!!! :x

Did you explain the ASL to them? Or just turn an amazing shade of purple.

Yup, I said "this is where I'm supposed to stop". He was crossing the road away from the traffic lights.

Later on I had another ped giving me grief when crossing that small bridge off Narrow Street that takes you to the river side in Canary Wharf. There was a group of men and a woman crossing it and I rang my bell once and the men let me through, but the woman wouldn't. When I said "excuse me, please", she said "footpath". I did manage to get through - and resisting the temptation to throw the stupid cow in the river! - , and told her it was a shared path and that I wasn't going fast anyway. She said something about "new rules" and that got me thinking.: with all the publicity surrounding the cycling ban along the South Bank, could she be talking about that or is there a new ban I don't know about?

They were all out in force today. :x

W1

rjsterry wrote:

W1 wrote:

Right, I'm done with it now.

ALL coach drivers are cretins. A National company that provides Express services employs only the most toe-chewing, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, gormless morons that they scrape out of the village idiots reject pile.

FFS, you're supposed to be a professional driver. That's your job, that's what you do. Take some pride, do it properly.

You were so busy blasting your horn at me (I still don't know why) that you nearly rear ended the car in front that stopped for the ped crossing.

Spotted on the back of a Nat Express coach this lunchtime: Good driving? 0800 22 50 33 (I think , probably best to double check) or alternatively

http://www.nationalexpress.com/coach/ContactUs/index.aspx

I would, if I'd got the reg number. I thought he would probably do something stupid (like the last coach "driver" I encountered) so I escaped through the traffic.

If you make a big deal you risk making these cretins a part of the rest of your life, which really isn't worth it to me. However were I to find that he'd died in a pool of his own uncontained bodily functions I wouldn't be particularly upset.

suzyb

To the physco dog who ran...sorry, who charged into my back wheel knocking the bike out from under me and causing me to hit the path and take a chunk out my skin, watch where your going!

asprilla

Club cyclist whose club shall not be named; cars are not convenient objects on which to support yourself whilst you wait at the lights. How about if I just casually rest my foot on your chainstay at the next set of lights?

Big Wib

33 miles of headwind this morning & every other traffic light on red.

& I'm doing another 30 miles in the same direction later on so more headwind

mutter mutter mutter

Kieran_Burns

Kind of spitting blood at the moment.

Guy at work is taken out by a bus - left hook at a set of lights, bus cut the corner and pushed him onto the kerb - wrecked his left side crank arm and pedal and messed up his ankle.

Cycling is his only way to get into work so he's actually come in today (accident on Tuesday, he was off yesterday) with a strapped up ankle and bits borrowed from another bike.

No witnesses, bus didn't stop but the police are involved.

What really, really boils my p*ss is that when I expressed sympathy and concern that the guy could've been killed, I got a bunch of p*ss taking comments about bloody cyclists and how they had near death experiences with cars coming the other way from the people I work with. "if he'd swerved at me, I could be dead!"

Suffice to say, I'm not in a good mood right at the moment.

rjsterry

I've thought of somewhere he could put that busted crank, if that helps.

Clarion

Asprilla wrote:

Club cyclist whose club shall not be named; cars are not convenient objects on which to support yourself whilst you wait at the lights. How about if I just casually rest my foot on your chainstay at the next set of lights?

I'm less concerned about causing offence to those who are offensive and dangerous on the road. The club you mention may be a different one, but I must address a plea to a certain London club.

Dear Dynamos.

Ooooh you are fast! Gosh, we're really impressed, I can tell you! </Python>

But it strikes me that anyone can be fast if they ride like a boorish arse and ignore other road users, signals or the law.

Running through red lights, carving through a group of commuters approaching a constriction and swinging across a lane into the path of motor traffic without indicating are not signs of any skill, but of incompetence. Yes, incompetence. It may work in a road race, but this is commuting, and there are other people to think about. Every time you charge through a red light (and your member even did it after I spoke to him, proving conclusively what a dickbrain he is) you confirm motorists' prejudices about us, and why we shouldn't be on the road, and should be barged off it.

If your club had a reputation to defend (rather than your kit being universally regarded as a warning sign that there is a complete cock on a bike), it would have been badly damaged this morning.

Sad to say that every Dynamo rider I have ever seen (and, to be fair, it is likely that I see this particular pillock most often) has been an arrogant waste of lycra.

So, Dynamo, either get your riders to clean up their act, be more careful about who you allow to wear your kit, or resign yourselves to being held in contempt.

Yours truly

A. Cyclist

suzyb

I have a deadline in 7 days, an immovable deadline according to my client (start of term).

Yet have I been able to get any work done the past two mornings..no. Yesterday I ended up babysitting when Father's cousin, who had came to put flooring down in the loft brought his grandson. (if he ends up a gun wielding physco I take no responsibility, there are no kids in the house therefore no kid friendly PS3 games)

Now today father is installing shelves in said same loft. So I have to try and concentrate whilst there is a little sawing, banging and a lot of swearing going on.

And to top it all off my internet is failing intermittently (after going down completely last night).

The only saving grace is that my client hasn't send quite all the information I need. So I can blame them if I miss the deadline.

dhope

It didn't rain this morning as the weatherman promised. I'm on a course this week so don't have normal showers at work so got PT. Now it's lovely outside. I can't believe I'm complaining about the sun.

balfie

To the exceptional "stagecoach" bus driver who cut me up in one of these traffic island narrowings. He was close enough for me to smack the side of said bus (between braking/ incontinence) but still never noticed me. He did, though, when I caught up with him at the next bus stop. Looking like a bespectacled Jabba the Hutt, he refused to have any kind of eye contact (WTF is that by the way?) by looking at the roof of his bus and telling me that he "never apologised to anyone" Cretin. Reported.

georgee

Expect someone to roll out the argument that Dynamo's are a big club, they can't controll every member they have, but generally if it being cut up, one mate had one spit in his face or just generally being weapons on the road or in the park.

Best write to Prologue, their sponsor cc'ing in their general e-mail address off their website.

pinkbikini

[quote="Clarion"

Dear Dynamos.

etc, etc...

A. Cyclist[/quote]

Clarion, believe it or not the majority of the club don't like inconsiderate riding either. Seeing as you spoke to the rider I assume you could describe him/her, the location/time, the bike, etc. Why not send this through to the email on the front of the Dynamo website with a letter/message?

If you do this, the message might appear on our forum. Someone might know the rider and have a quiet word. The rider him/herself might read it. Their behaviour might change.

Admittedly it's a lot of 'mights', but has more chance of changing things than a posting in the 'Rants' section. Unless you don't want anything to change and were actually just having a proper rant, in which case ignore everything I've just written!

Clarion

I might just do that. It was a middle-aged cyclist about the same age as me, with, as far as i could see, short, reddish hair under his helmet. Unusually, I didn't clock what his bike was. It was about 0745-0755 this morning at Oval heading North. I first spotted him at Stockwell, scattering riders aside as he carved through to get into the smurfway gap first - A Winner! Great, so you beat a woman on a comfort hybrid wearing office clothes. Go you! :roll:

Maybe there are some Dynamo riders who are excellent on hte road, and maybe I've met this idiot more often than any other, but I've seen a number of people in Dynamos kit, and they have almost invariably been riding like pillocks. I'm far from the only person who has noticed this, and I would be very wary of joining a club so soiled by bad riders.

I may put the details on the website. But maybe you can pass the message on that you are held in low regard by a lot of commuters because of stupid behaviour? I'd be surprised if members didn't already know - maybe wear it as a badge of pride (This rider had a go at me at the Oval this morning, but I totally burned him off from the lights) - but the more they know the more likely they are (I would hope) to ostracise the offenders.

jds_1981

Was waiting here http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51 ... 3,,0,20.36 last night in my car at the ASL when a bus driver decided to edge forwards into the ASL box and cut me up. Numpty.

asprilla

Oddly enough it was a Dynamo member.

suzyb

Why must I always forget/loose something whilst out MTBing. This time my backpack containing a pump, multi-tool and the glasses case and lenses.

I can but hope I left it in the van I was travelling in and not the car park I picked my own car up.

deptfordmarmoset

MadammeMarie wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

MadammeMarie wrote:

To the stupid pr1ck outside Southwark tube station, who had a right go at me when iI stopped INSIDE the ASL at the red light and said "there's a red light there, you know"! : AND THAT'S WHY I STOPPED, YOU WORTHLESS IGNORANT PIECE OF SH!T!!!!! :x

Did you explain the ASL to them? Or just turn an amazing shade of purple.

Yup, I said "this is where I'm supposed to stop". He was crossing the road away from the traffic lights.

Later on I had another ped giving me grief when crossing that small bridge off Narrow Street that takes you to the river side in Canary Wharf. There was a group of men and a woman crossing it and I rang my bell once and the men let me through, but the woman wouldn't. When I said "excuse me, please", she said "footpath". I did manage to get through - and resisting the temptation to throw the stupid cow in the river! - , and told her it was a shared path and that I wasn't going fast anyway. She said something about "new rules" and that got me thinking.: with all the publicity surrounding the cycling ban along the South Bank, could she be talking about that or is there a new ban I don't know about?

They were all out in force today. :x

That footbridge is shared use. The problem is that if a pedestrian doesn't give way there's not much you can do apart from despairing at the stupidity of sections of so-called humanity - because peds have right of way. Mostly when I go up there it's around midday and after finding that it's a very popular lunchtime jogging course and that joggers never give way or acknowledge cyclists (they seem to be in some impenetrable zone), I've found it's easier to use Three Colt Street to get to Narrow Street, which is the next road on the right if you're heading towards Canary Wharf- it's quieter, it's a road and it's also part of the NCR1 cycle route.

EDIT: changed the name to Three Colt Street.

Cafewanda

DM runners/joggers really are in their own world and tend to see/realise stuff only when it slaps them in the face or they run into it or step into the road without looking properly.


Not that I do any of those, you understand...........................:oops:

redvee

1. At myself for not starting the Garmin when I left home this morning then spending a few minutes at the roadside trying to get the sensor close enough to the magnet then realising my error which was down to no.2

2. The guy on the who took several miles off his back tyre when he RLJ'd. I looked at the lights as I clipped in and saw they were red so rode onto the road, obviously forgetting the HWC rule that you can RLJ when on a bike.

Norky

Cafewanda wrote:

DM runners/joggers really are in their own world and tend to see/realise stuff only when it slaps them in the face or they run into it or step into the road without looking properly.

My brother-in-law did this, and lost the ensuing argument with the bus, earning himself a nasty compound break. He's fine now and running again, though a little more cautious when it comes to crossing roads...

Gussio

Pedestrians who walk up to the zebra crossing, wait for me to stop, then decide not to cross the road after all :roll: