Your rants here.

dhope

Bike has deep section rims. Remembered that I only have inner tubes with short valves after taking off wheel and tube :oops:

Harveytile

Just a quick thank you to the idiot in the Vectra who ran a red light, turned in front of me, and then almost running into the back of the stationary car he was following :roll: .

I just managed to avoid you performing a deft two wheel drift on my fixie :shock: . The large dose of adrenaline coursing through my body after the event allowed me to power all the way home.

Definitely one from the shallow end of the gene pool.

Gussio

Silver Audi TT driver: the King's Road during morning rush hour is not a race track. You tit.

Gussio

redvee wrote:

Rant at my absentmindedness when it comes to clothing and in particular one item that always seems to be forgotten by others as well as myself. Yup, I forgot my boxers and only remembered when I got to work and uttered the words 'I've done it again' to which a colleague asked if I'd forgotten my phone again, Ireplied with 'much worse than that' but didn't let on what the matter was. First thing I did when I got home was to chuck a pair in the bag for tomorrow.

Gah - forgot to pack a shirt today! Queue lengthy breakfast in cycling kit waiting for Lewins to open on Victoria St.

ride_whenever

redvee wrote:

Another one for me today, ths time the local Police in their cars at high speed with blues n twos. They came past us as we pulled over and 200 yds turned the lights and sirens off and turned left. Their destination? the cop shop because it was tea and cake time, why else would they need sirens and lights?

Take the car numbers and report them, they'll get a bollocking if they were coming in for tea and cake and nothing will happen if they had a legitimate reason.

Idiot car drivers who cannot seem to overtake properly, either do it or don't. When you do, put your foot down and get past don't dwadle past me and then pull into me because you've taken so long to get past that there is now oncoming traffic.

suzyb

I've been walking around all morning with my top on inside out :roll:

PBo

jds_1981 wrote:

Scene: this morning around dawn (07:35)
me: chap wearing a fluorescent yellow top, bright front light and fluorescent tape plastering the front of my bike.
you: lady following the other pedestrians across the road, listening to your mp3 player.
me: hurtling down the road on my bike, managing to gain eye contact with the other pedestrians idling across the road
you: get to the second lane on the road before deciding to check for traffic.
Our eyes meet.
you: look so surprised
me: raise my voice (you have got headphones in after all) and tell you to 'watch where you're going'.
Will our paths cross again mysterious girl?

Is this a rant, or an appeal???

redvee

suzyb wrote:

I've been walking around all morning with my top on inside out :roll:

None of you work colleagues told you, or did they notice and wanted to see how long it took you to notice?

suzyb

redvee wrote:

suzyb wrote:

I've been walking around all morning with my top on inside out :roll:

None of you work colleagues told you, or did they notice and wanted to see how long it took you to notice?

I don't think anyone noticed.

It's one of those tops that doesn't look that wrong inside out. The label isn't massive so It's just the seams that make it obvious it's wrong.

gbsahne001

rant at self ......for saying last night, "I haven't come off for a while!"

rant at council ......placing drain covers on the line that you want to take and thus making the statement above untrue.... ouch, ow, ouch; luckily not at any great speed; just enough for road rash

dhope

Stupid rain, stupid work.

Only been cycling recently, commute is quite short, 6 miles each way. My total so far this month is 229 miles, it'll be 241 by the time I'm home tomorrow.
I'd planned on taking a long way home from work and the long way in tomorrow, but was stuck there til just gone 8 rather than 5, and it was pissing down when I left. Tomorrow I'm off to the pub after work (not ranting about that). I'm gonna be short of the 250 miles in a month mini-landmark. I know it's not a big amount but when I noticed this morning that I was close it seemed a nice number to aim for.

jds_1981

Sodding traffic lights. Been trying to get under 20 mins on the way in for my commute so wore my watch today to get a more accurate time. Put some wellies down but due to the stupid lights in central London I got to the 'stop line' at 20 minutes and six seconds

Not really any competition either - only went past a couple of boardman (why do people on these bikes tend to only be one step up from nodders or do I have bad preconceptions?) (edit: - thinking about it, it may just be the boardman on my route. doesn't tend to be much SCR action at all along it)

jzed

Logic of highways agency - resurfacing lower thames street all the way up to the craters in the road and then deciding to stop - surely to go 10 metres further wouldn't have been too much extra trouble?

asprilla

Godammed ped at the crossing outside White City Tube; if the the red man is showing it's my fudging right of way. And when you do step out and then pretend not to see me even when I perform an excellent dismount that although leaves me standing allows my bike to scrape along the ground don't you daer tell me that it wasn't your fault and that it wasn't you I was braking for! How the fudge do you know what it was that caused me to slam the anchors on; if I say it was you then you can rest assured that it was you, you fudging wizard sleeve.


And breath.

Libraio

Dear municipality of The Hague,

You are all a bunch of stupid car driving desk jockeys! Who in their right mind puts 6 sets of sleeping policemen in a beautiful stretch of cycle path? And not just ordinary bumps, no, you put in double crappy things that make you get out of the sadle even if you're only doing 10 miles an hour! And why? Because of peds crossing the cycle path to get to the beach... IT'S SEPTEMBER YOU UTTER TW@TS!!!!! No more hoards of people going to the beach until may/ june.
Thanks for ruining the best stretch of cycling specific road in the whole of The Hague.

With kind regards (not really),

Libraio

ride_whenever

Punctures...

and crappy lbs that have a great rep but make you change the tube outside in the rain and try to say that you're unqualified to use a track pump... then know nothing about the tyres that i want...


Will not be going in there again, to$$ers

notsoblue

ride_whenever wrote:

Punctures...

and crappy lbs that have a great rep but make you change the tube outside in the rain and try to say that you're unqualified to use a track pump... then know nothing about the tyres that i want...


Will not be going in there again, to$$ers

Name and shame imo...

ride_whenever

they are the "best" bike shop in oxford... that's all i'm saying

Hot Orange

Farmers,

I would have thought it was bad enough that your tractors have gouged huge holes in the road between your farmhouse and your fields, requiring me to slow right down and pick my way through them.

But no, when the autumn comes you apparently also have to cover said road in enormous amounts of mud and god knows what else so that the bits of road that haven't been turned into bike-destroying pothole minefields have been turned into slidey mud rinks that are just begging to make me fall on my arse.

CiB

ride_whenever wrote:

...have a great rep but make you change the tube outside in the rain and try to say that you're unqualified to use a track pump...

Sounds like the sports shop that told me I wans't allowed to climb two steps up their step ladder to reach the squash bat that I was afer, due to - yep - Health & Safety. I'm >40, I know how to use a ladder FGS.

CiB

Vauxhall. How on earth can you make a 1.6 Astra that has less go in it than the 1100 Fiesta I was making a nuisance of myself in 30 years ago? The hire car I had to use yesterday to travel 300 miles & more in defines the term 'gutless wonder'. What's happened?

I wonder if it's posible to hire a Lotus Cortina, or an RS1800, under company rules? Keiran?

Kieran_Burns

CiB wrote:

Vauxhall. How on earth can you make a 1.6 Astra that has less go in it than the 1100 Fiesta I was making a nuisance of myself in 30 years ago? The hire car I had to use yesterday to travel 300 miles & more in defines the term 'gutless wonder'. What's happened?

I wonder if it's posible to hire a Lotus Cortina, or an RS1800, under company rules? Keiran?

You HAVE seen the list of cars you can get in the management giude, yes?

My farts have more power (and WAY more emissions) than the things they let you have.

This is why my 3.0TDi is so much fun - power, comfort, paid for by the fuel claim and 53mpg 8)

CiB

I know the list; it's what's available and what the hire people drop off at home at 7 on a Wednesday evening that matters. There was a suggestion that I go on my bike. Next time, I might well do that, like the guy who won the Cycle Challenge in the summer by cycling from Basingstoke to London for a meeting. Good effort there.

Anyway, back to rants, no time to chat.

Satu

Headwind going to work.
Headwind coming home.
WTF, weather gods?

Satu

Also -- and I don't know if this should be here or in Anti-Rants -- I must mention the dude I saw cycling along on the pavement with an umbrella in one hand, whistling to himself. At least he seemed to be having a good time!

CiB

Pitched up at Blenheim first thing this morning for the sportiv, and was just setting the bike up when an ominous click from the seat post clamp - BMC's own special design obviously - indicated not all was well. And it wasn't - when I sat on it, the seat sank all the way down. Not a hope of adjusting anything to make it stick, so I had to abandon before I'd even started. Gaa. My favourite sportiv and I have to scratch. Agony - 100 miles with knees up at eye level is a complete non-starter.

Also a bit more than miffed at being sensible last night re the wine intake [none] and being up at 6 to drive over to Blenheim in time for an 8:00 start, only for it to be a wasted effort. What's the word? Yeah - b0ll0x. Big time.

:twisted:

suzyb

Dear self

STOP going MTBing without taking food with you. You know you find it more tiring than road cycling, you know there is no where to stop to pick anything up yet you still don't take any food when trying a new route you are unsure of.

STOP IT!

And whilst we're at it, take a map as well. Even just a print out of a map is better than trying to guess where you are.

roger_merriman

suzyb wrote:

Dear self

STOP going MTBing without taking food with you. You know you find it more tiring than road cycling, you know there is no where to stop to pick anything up yet you still don't take any food when trying a new route you are unsure of.

STOP IT!

And whilst we're at it, take a map as well. Even just a print out of a map is better than trying to guess where you are.

How far and over what sort of land? if your running out of fuel and its proper hills then, something to watch.

maybe spend some time and learn the trails as it's always makes it much harder work, both mentally and physically, if your checking maps all the time.

suzyb

roger merriman wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Dear self

STOP going MTBing without taking food with you. You know you find it more tiring than road cycling, you know there is no where to stop to pick anything up yet you still don't take any food when trying a new route you are unsure of.

STOP IT!

And whilst we're at it, take a map as well. Even just a print out of a map is better than trying to guess where you are.

How far and over what sort of land? if your running out of fuel and its proper hills then, something to watch.

maybe spend some time and learn the trails as it's always makes it much harder work, both mentally and physically, if your checking maps all the time.

It was this route http://connect.garmin.com/activity/51526650 which is largely man made forest path (don't know the proper name for it) with the occasional bit of field. Was a bit muddy too which makes it a little harder. And by the end of it (especially as I was cycling back out of from the river) I was struggling up the hills.

I had intended the ride to be a kind of fact finding one. I'd made a route I intended to try out and thought I had downloaded it to my Garmin but evidentially I hadn't

EKE_38BPM

Suzy, I can't see the route.
I get this message: You do not have sufficient privileges to view the activity with id 51526650.