Your rants here.

dhope

geckersa wrote:

You think I should apologise to him, I assume you're taking the p**s. He turned across my path turning right against traffic, I hit the side of his car and flew over the back end. Sympathy for a motorist without insurance,licence,MOT. I take it your a weekend cyclist then. No chops for real cycling!!!

Adrenaline still pumping? Don't think Feltup was responding to you
Someone went into his car...

fossyant

To the twunt a couple of days ago......just because I am sat in a traffic queue, in the middle of a lane, cars in front and to the side of me, no-one going anywhere, does not give you the right to tell me to get out of your 'f;ing way and to the side so you can occupy that 5 foot of space I am stood in (on the bike). Nore should you frantically rev your engine with your car inches off my back wheel, and start edging forward.

The biscuit was certainly taken 100 yards later when you deliberately tried to run me off the road. Me shouting "come any closer and I'll 'f'ing remove your wing mirror' should have been a warning. Then chasing me round a roundabout screaming at me again was too far. Funny how you scarpered when I said "Mate, I've got your reg" - I didn't, but once you pulled in front of me I did.............. expect a visit from the Police as you've been reported for using a vehicle as a weapon..........you *$$££$$£$$££$%£$%

jds_1981

geckersa wrote:

Motorist decided to turn right thinking gap in traffic was sufficient for him to make it. it wasn't (rant) :x . Trying frantically to brake, I knew impact was going to be painful, my immediate thought (oh! s**t). As me & my bike flew through the air over the back end of the car, again my thoughts (you stupid t*ss*r, the driver that is),ouch!! Witnesses, fantastic, helped until ambulance arrived. Result broken collar bone & acromion, but worse, Police interviewed driver who has, no licence (rant), no insurance (rant) & no MOT for his car (rant) :x . Now awaiting trip to fracture clinic. Anybody any advice on what I should do :?: Or anybody got similar experience :?: Might take tiddly-winks...[/img]

I'm surprised the driver stopped in that case? Or was he stuck?

petemadoc

Originally posted in the road section but then I found this rant thread to air my grievances.

Cycling along 2 a brest on wide country lane today with hardly any traffic. A landrover comes up behind us beeping aggressively. I held my road position on the outside as I didn't want him overtaking me with traffic coming in the other direction. He then came longside hitting me with his wing mirror, then sped up and hit my hip with his trailer. I managed to stay on the bike but I've got a massive bruise on my hip and will probably be off the bike for a week.

Only caught the first part of his reg cos I didn't have my glasses on. Reported it to the police but I doubt they give a toss and nothing will come of it. :evil:

FrankM

Rant at myself for not checking my bike after falling off, thus not realising I had a bent rear mech hanger and/or broken rear mech and only discovering said problem 8 miles into my 12 mile journey home when the rear mech exploded.

Feltup

Asprilla wrote:

UPS, if you offer me the opportunity to pay tax and import duty in advance why the fudge does your driver then ask my wife for £350 on delivery? I'm not too bothered about the mix up of the fact that I need to make several calls to sort it out, but it's the fact that Mrs Asprilla now knows it cost a lot more than I told her.

Bastards.

UPS has a package of mine which has sat in Cologne for 3 days now. They have officially overtaken DHL (Don't Hurry Lads) as the worst worldwide couriers.

OldSkoolKona

Oi, you on the Specialized Mountain Bike, cycling to Leatherhead this morning from Hook. Yes, you over there. :x

If you really want to get flattened under a bus by jumping onto the pavement to undertake him just before it pulls into a bus stop , don't do it on my watch, I can do without the nightmares.

And while I'm at it, its not smart and its not cricket to to jump onto the pavement to avoid the red temporary roadworks traffic lights at speed - the pedestrian who had the propensity to be walking on the pvament (tsk, peds, always getting in the way of pavement cyclists) you nearly took out didn't appreciate his close shave and decided to direct his bile at me. :roll:

Go, read the rules of SCR and actually accept that you were handed down a scalp.. :twisted:

/Rant

Chewy Cheeks

Red Light jumping lady this morning went into an old lady crossing the road.

Dont intend to be too harsh but you were really rubbish.

God knows how the lady got away as lightly as she did, same goes for you.

"I did not see the red light", "i never normally go through red lights", utter tosh.

You should offer up a prayer this evening or something like that, cause things could have been so much worse.

essexian

Tractor drivers of the Staffordshire/Shropshire boarder could you please explain something to me….

How comes when I am out in my car driving somewhere I have to be at a set time, do I come up behind you only to find that you aren’t in a rush: indeed, why not make sure you are driving along a road where its almost impossible to over take at 15mph making sure you ignore all the possible pull in places there are so quickly a long snake of cars build up behind you. Hey, I bet you really look forward to Friday evenings so you can delay peoples trips home for the weekend. Oh how you laugh.

And why you are explaining, can you tell me why, when I am on my bike like I was this morning, you think its fun to drive like a moron, all of you, as there were about 8 of you on the roads around Gnosall, right up my back wheel or directly towards me on single track roads. Look, slow down and I will unclip and get off the bike to let you pass. Please don’t try to drive over me.

I know you are no doubt in a hurry: there is a harvest to bring in and all that, but scaring the silage out of me is a little un-necessary.

redvee

My Fenix L2D for not telling me the batteries needed changing, every bump I went over made you switch from mid setting to low setting. Was it too cold for you today?, if so MTFU, my cateye didn't moan about the cold like this.
Mr WVM, reversing up a main road on the brow of a hill because you missed your turning, if you had travelled another 500 yds you could have picked up the road you missed.

suzyb

Mr blue estate, wait until AFTER you have past the previous exit before indicating you intend to leave the roundabout, esecially when you are so far out from the roundabout itself. I nearly crapped myself when I pulled out, looked to the right and saw you were still coming towards me.

cjcp

To the scooter I had an argument with tonight on Thames St.: I called you a c0ck because you swerved into the bike lane from between queuing traffic right in front of me without looking. Raising your hand will not appease me when you don't actually mean it.

I then told you "get a move on" and "chop, chop" because you remained in the bike lane and were blocking my way.

Oh, and you need to stop at red lights in this country. The lights at the junction with Tower Bridge aren't just for cars, you know.

Fireblade96

DPD couriers, for mistreating my shiny new bike before it even got to me :-(

The box had been stood on so hard the brake calipers wore holes through two layers of heavy cardboard, damaging the caliper finish. Possibly bent bars too, I need time to check that one properly.

Me, for blearily signing for the early morning delivery before spotting the damage to the box.

The delivery driver in particular for your stellar customer service ethic when I called you back as you ran out the gate : "it's too late, you signed for it, I'm off!"

:evil:

deptfordmarmoset

suzyb wrote:

Mr blue estate, wait until AFTER you have past the previous exit before indicating you intend to leave the roundabout, esecially when you are so far out from the roundabout itself. I nearly crapped myself when I pulled out, looked to the right and saw you were still coming towards me.

Come on now, be reasonable! Are you seriously expecting drivers to exhaust their little finger by tapping the indicator stem twice within 20 yards? Until you're certain it's not coming at you, it's coming at you.

Flyingbogey

Chewy Cheeks wrote:

Flyingbogey wrote:

Four teenage lady chavs playing chicken with a 16 stone man doing 30mph is not my idea of a fun ride home. The leader of the pack, not content with running out in front of me actually stopped in the middle of my lane, I seriously brushed her grey hoodie as i flew past. Guess who would be the villain if i had caught the little scratter in the hood or 10" earring and smashed her onto the tarmac?

Where was this?
its just that I take the same route and forewarned and all that.

Just past the TA centre near St Anthonys, watch out for the girl power!!

cyclopsbiker

what is with cyclists who insist on passing by so close??? I may be pootling but that's only cos my knee aint great (torn meniscus) plus I'm in super tired/no energy mode. that doesn't mean I'm there to be scared whitless by other cyclists whizzing past me with only inches to spare. this week has been particularly bad for this behaviour. give a girl some room. please. :roll:

dhope

Car whose bonnet I went over this morning

Cafewanda

dhope wrote:

Car whose bonnet I went over this morning

I would, possibly, blame Hat+Beard for that one. If he'd agreed for you to be his cycling buddy this morning, you'd have been ok

You ARE ok?

Lancslad

Black dude with his hoodie up riding on the hard shoulder of the M6 yesterday onyour BSO, your hoodie didnt make you invisible and where the heck were you going it was in the middle of no where!

asprilla

Miserable bugger in RP this morning. Yes you had to brake on Broomhill but it's not your private race track, it's a public road. Eejet.

MonkeyMonster

fecking tw@ish bike ninja last night who then badly red jumped across my junction and the balls to give me an injured look as if to say I should have waited. If I'd been a car that eager you might be awake this morning.

asprilla

Goddammeedmotherfuckingsharepointadmin. What's the point in your pieceofshit repository if you don't turn on the built in versioning functionality and let some retard delete a weeks worth of my work? Fucksock.

Cafewanda

@ Asprilla ................. Step away from the scene and hit the pub for a swift 'medicinal' shot or two :shock:

suzyb

So the guy that sits across from me isn't the only one who cant' get on with Sharepoint then.

asprilla

suzyb wrote:

So the guy that sits across from me isn't the only one who cant' get on with Sharepoint then.

I like SharePoint, just not this particular implementation of it........

dhope

Asprilla wrote:

suzyb wrote:

So the guy that sits across from me isn't the only one who cant' get on with Sharepoint then.

I like SharePoint, just not this particular implementation of it........

I work with it (as dev & admin), not entirely sure how much I like it yet.

hatbeard

dhope wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

suzyb wrote:

So the guy that sits across from me isn't the only one who cant' get on with Sharepoint then.

I like SharePoint, just not this particular implementation of it........

I work with it (as dev & admin), not entirely sure how much I like it yet.

I saw an aborted implementation of it about 5 years ago and didn't like what I see.

but I work with ColdFusion so I'm not one to berate other peoples IT decisions.

asprilla

dhope wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

suzyb wrote:

So the guy that sits across from me isn't the only one who cant' get on with Sharepoint then.

I like SharePoint, just not this particular implementation of it........

I work with it (as dev & admin), not entirely sure how much I like it yet.

Not sure on the current but I was building team sites with 2007 as a side project; if you wanted to change the page layout and choose a different template you had to tear the whole thing down and start again. Essentially, the templates and functionality available to you was dictated by your inital choice.

That sucked, especially for someone learning by trial and error.

In most cases though it's only used as a dumping ground for documents same as a shared file system which kinda makes it pointless.

rjsterry

Slightly dubious choice of name there. No doubt intended to convey just how cutting edge and revolutionary it is, but also associated with one of the more famous scientific false alarms of the end of the 20th century.

FrankM

To the lorry with the skip driving down Junction Road in Tufnell Park this morning: surprised you feigned surprise (and annoyance) when I shouted "Hey" at you for trying to push me off the road and on to the kerb but you really didn't need to try and overtake me as we were hurtling towards a traffic island in the middle of the road because (a) it's ****ing dangerous and dare I say it, probably contrary to the Highway Code, and (b) you had to stop about 100m further down the road for traffic anyway whilst I went down the empty bus lane.