Your rants here.

Flasheart

What's Petrol? :?




I have 3 bikes and no car

roger_merriman

suzyb wrote:

Just had a look at my bank statement and decided to calculate how much I'd spent on petrol the 2 months I've been working on site 30 miles away.

And it comes to £395 :shock:

I've only got a little 1.2 and have done at most 100 non commuting miles in those 2 months

ow! mind you thats fairly good. 2500 miles at about 40 MPG.

redvee

HVRNR wrote:

but ran over a Macdonalds BBQ sauce resulting in said sauce splatting up my leg and all over my drivetrain yuk!

Once ran over a brand new bottle of tomato sauce in the works 7.5t lorry. A jet across the road and 2 foot up the garden wall opposite.

georgee

London Dynamo chap, i've seen you RLJ before (weapon) but today you looked proper slick riding along the pavement, I would have thought by late 20's you might have the balls to tackle the road but obviously mummy mustn't like you doing it.

Finlab6

redvee wrote:

HVRNR wrote:

but ran over a Macdonalds BBQ sauce resulting in said sauce splatting up my leg and all over my drivetrain yuk!

Once ran over a brand new bottle of tomato sauce in the works 7.5t lorry. A jet across the road and 2 foot up the garden wall opposite.

Sure it wasnt a hedgehog?

redvee

Finlab6 wrote:

redvee wrote:

HVRNR wrote:

but ran over a Macdonalds BBQ sauce resulting in said sauce splatting up my leg and all over my drivetrain yuk!

Once ran over a brand new bottle of tomato sauce in the works 7.5t lorry. A jet across the road and 2 foot up the garden wall opposite.

Sure it wasnt a hedgehog?

Deffo a bottle of tommy sauce as I put it under the wheel, with the driver's knowledge, before we drove off :oops:

ride_whenever

Dear captain fuckwit,

Just because you're driving a big jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag, and like to jump red lights when you have plenty of time to stop does not give you the right to try to push through me at a narrow constriction for temporary roadworks.

Attempting to scare me by then passing with 2" to spare in your rush to get to the traffic queue 2 car lengths away isn't really cricket either. You've now been hit once by a cyclist, because we're not all guttercrawling pussies and if you try that crap with me again then i will be coming off my bike and I will take you for everything you have.

Consider yourself thoroughly warned.

Ride.

Hot Orange

Farmers,

Come on, I've told you before. Please make some attempt to avoid turning public roads into your private mud-disposal area. I had some nice shiny new tyres on this morning and now they're brown.

MonkeyMonster

can the bout of bronchitis feck off please as its not really helping with me wanting to cycle and not being able to breathe very well or have the energy to ride...

Go away!

asprilla

A pox on chickenpox. Mini Asprilla suffering is bad enough, but I'm having to take two days off this week to look after her so that means no pay and no cycling.

Actually, she's not really suffering, she's happy as larry and I'm really looking forward to having an extra two days with her, but I'd rather it was under different conditions.

will3

Flasheart wrote:

What's Petrol? :?

:

It's brilliant for removing the sticky residue left behind by old bar tape.

dhope

Taxi leaving not much space on my first pootle to the doctors since crash the week before last.
Glowered at him, he then beeped at me when passing later so when I caught back up at the lights asked him to be a bit more considerate when the road is narrowing. He apologised at least.

redvee

Those people that leave the rainbow patterns on wet roads. It might look nice but can be feckin' dangerous to the two-wheeled road users.

pianoleo

Decathlon,

Whilst your city bikes do all they are designed to do, the accessories that come attached are less than useless. To lose both the back of the chainguard AND the dynamo-driven halogen front lamp in a day is a little ridiculous, especially given they're only three months old.

Pianoleo,

Why on earth did you impulse buy a stupidly heavy hybrid in order to do ~100 miles a week WITHOUT first consulting online forums? Money-burning fool...

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Lancslad

I didnt get up early enough and so had to drive to work. Luckily I woke on the second alarm.

Lazy git me.

dhope

pianoleo wrote:

Decathlon,

Whilst your city bikes do all they are designed to do, the accessories that come attached are less than useless. To lose both the back of the chainguard AND the dynamo-driven halogen front lamp in a day is a little ridiculous, especially given they're only three months old.

Pianoleo,

Why on earth did you impulse buy a stupidly heavy hybrid in order to do ~100 miles a week WITHOUT first consulting online forums? Money-burning fool...

</rant>

You'll appreciate the road bike all the more when the time comes.

Massimo

7.30am, October 27th, and still there are cyclists without lights pootling along one of the the main dual carriagways into Birmingham. You are stupid irrespoinsible idiots :evil:

hatbeard

to the unending stream of cyclists who mash their way down st johns street knowing there's a zebra crossing at the bottom 10 yards from a set of traffics lights that don't get the priority on the junction ultimately making it likely you'll need to stop... why?

there's ALWAYS pedestrians on that crossing and the speed you filter down the gutter alongside the multitude of white vans that frequent that road gives you zero visibility of anyone who may already be in the act of crossing so why not slow down rather than speed up.

next one to buzz me when I'm almost done crossing the road making me need to stop in front of the waiting vehicle thats already started lifting off the clutch in anticipation of my passing gets pushed off. :evil:

cyclopsbiker

@Hatbeard.....did you not cycle today??? The cycle police will come visiting...we know where you live

(though I really cannot speak about not cycling as I'm on PT today due to an evening of curry and beer. can't wait til I can run 10km then I can cycle in on day's I'm going out, PT home then run in the next morning thereby cutting out one PT journey)

georgee

Amazed with the quality of cyclists out there, I am starting to feel it's all a lost cause!

Man on a white bike with google on the 'frame'

You pulled across the road in front of a motorbike causing him to have to slow and avoid you when there was plenty of space behind him.

You then proceeded to push around me at every set of lights even though i'd be required to overtake you (appart from the ones you RLJ'd) before then taking to the pavement before joining the Brompton Rd. I am very dissapointed I didn't say anything to you once I passed you again in Hyde Park.

Maybe if I see you again my anger will have been bottled up enough to shove you off and stamp on you jaw?

hatbeard

cyclopsbiker wrote:

@Hatbeard.....did you not cycle today??? The cycle police will come visiting...we know where you live

after yesterdays exertions with the tritons today is my 'recovery/rest' day no running, cycling, clog dancing, sperlunking, tiddlywinks, hopscotch or anything.

will be cycling in tomorrow then day off on friday in prep for my 5k time trial friday eve.

If you want a 'running buddy' to do the 6.5 odd miles to work with let me know. wouldn't mind giving it a go myself. don't think that one calls for it's own spreadsheet though.

cyclopsbiker

good luck with the 5k time trial. might have to give one of those a go in a few months...maybe!!! as for the 10k to work....it'll be a few months til I'm at that distance but will keep your offer in mind, thanks I will be slower than your 48mins though, I'm aiming for 60 mins

Sailorchick

Grey Fiat W477 TCP. Can I suggest waiting till after the bend to overtake. Stupid girl driving decides to overtake as we get to a sharp right hand bend. She is fully on the right hand lane, so plenty of room for me but not a chance in hell of seeing round the bend and I know exactly where you'll swerve if a car does appear coming the other way!

Yes I shouted/gestured at you and called you a stupid mare as that is just idiotic, compounded by you trying to park on the left just after the bend and before you have cleared me.

Your passenger hanging out the window laughing at every subsequent overtake further along my route did nothing to convince me that you actually know the rules of the road. Just how many coco pops tokens did you have to collect to get your licence!

hatbeard

oh and a special shout out to the anonymous scum who fired a rocket firework ALONG a side street towards the traffic of the A2 at the bottom of blackheath hill last night just as myself and cyclopsbikers' fella were running across the road so it exploded not 2 yards away from from us. *fume*

flicksta

georgee wrote:

Amazed with the quality of cyclists out there, I am starting to feel it's all a lost cause!

Man on a white bike with google on the 'frame'

You pulled across the road in front of a motorbike causing him to have to slow and avoid you when there was plenty of space behind him.

You then proceeded to push around me at every set of lights even though i'd be required to overtake you (appart from the ones you RLJ'd) before then taking to the pavement before joining the Brompton Rd. I am very dissapointed I didn't say anything to you once I passed you again in Hyde Park.

Maybe if I see you again my anger will have been bottled up enough to shove you off and stamp on you jaw?

Google bike bloke with stupid beard and glasses?

dhope

cyclopsbiker wrote:

good luck with the 5k time trial. might have to give one of those a go in a few months...maybe!!! as for the 10k to work....it'll be a few months til I'm at that distance but will keep your offer in mind, thanks I will be slower than your 48mins though, I'm aiming for 60 mins

I'm tempted to join in this new Greenwich running malarkey, living, as I do, in Greenwich.
My last 5k was 24mins, the one before that 25mins. But there was a year gap

jds_1981

sodding buses with their accelerate hard to overtake then pull in to park. wtf?

jzed

To the evening cyclists in Richmond park with search lights strapped to the front of their bikes. Please point them at the road and not straight into my eyes - I like to be able to see where I'm trying to go, and not be blinded...

notsoblue

JZed wrote:

To the evening cyclists in Richmond park with search lights strapped to the front of their bikes. Please point them at the road and not straight into my eyes - I like to be able to see where I'm trying to go, and not be blinded...

+100! Its dangerous, was coming down from Richmond Hill Gate to Sheen Gate last night when a guy with front lights powerful enough to dazzle god himself was coming towards me through the slightly wooded area. I couldn't see anything, and almost hit a crossing deer.

The most annoying thing about this is that I'm probably going to have to get some deity blinders myself just to be able to see the road when another cyclist passes. *grumble*

jzed

notsoblue wrote:

JZed wrote:

To the evening cyclists in Richmond park with search lights strapped to the front of their bikes. Please point them at the road and not straight into my eyes - I like to be able to see where I'm trying to go, and not be blinded...

+100! Its dangerous, was coming down from Richmond Hill Gate to Sheen Gate last night when a guy with front lights powerful enough to dazzle god himself was coming towards me through the slightly wooded area. I couldn't see anything, and almost hit a crossing deer.

The most annoying thing about this is that I'm probably going to have to get some deity blinders myself just to be able to see the road when another cyclist passes. *grumble*

I think its "My light is brighter than yours competition". Haven't come close to deer yet but did come close this evening to three women in the road doing some sort of cross-country skiing. They were completely in black with one faint red blinker - spotted very late due to said temporary blindness.