Your rants here.

suzyb

Today instead of IE deciding it wont work Opera has decided to be the browser that will mess up the site.

Why oh why did I pick "works with computers" as my career :evil:

notsoblue

suzyb wrote:

Today instead of IE deciding it wont work Opera has decided to be the browser that will mess up the site.

Why oh why did I pick "works with computers" as my career :evil:

Just design for Chrome, thats what everyone should be using anyway

suzyb

notsoblue wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Today instead of IE deciding it wont work Opera has decided to be the browser that will mess up the site.

Why oh why did I pick "works with computers" as my career :evil:

Just design for Chrome, thats what everyone should be using anyway

If only it were up to me what we designed for

gbsahne001

had to explain to an idiot this evening that he disnt pay road tax. This was after i'd told him to swap f'ing and blinding in front of his kids.

All started because he overtook me to get to the stationary queue, due to the speed I was going he then missed the queue and ended up across 2 lanes; idiot.

dhope

Lost half the front mudguard today. Crud Roadracer, few days old. It was screwed in properly, honest. I'm certain of it. Then again, it did come free. But it was screwed in right. Bah. :oops:

nich

I've lost my pollution mask thing bleh.

jzed

To my crank - do not lossen yourself - an SCR race was just on and you coming loose meant I was unable to compete. Chapeau to the Fixed gear rider at the bottom of Victoria embankment going down towards the Blackfriars ramp - that was some speed. Maybe next time.

cyclopsbiker

Rules for pedestrians (1-35)General guidance
1
Pavements (including any path along the side of a road) should be used if provided. Where possible, avoid being next to the kerb with your back to the traffic. If you have to step into the road, look both ways first. Always show due care and consideration for others.

Crossing the road
7
The Green Cross Code.

Go away and read the darrrrrnnnn thing. please.

dhope

cyclopsbiker wrote:

Rules for pedestrians (1-35)General guidance
1
Pavements (including any path along the side of a road) should be used if provided. Where possible, avoid being next to the kerb with your back to the traffic. If you have to step into the road, look both ways first. Always show due care and consideration for others.

Crossing the road
7
The Green Cross Code.

Go away and read the darrrrrnnnn thing. please.

+1
Was at the end of London Bridge, stopped (pause between light changes, red for cars, red for peds), behind a lady on a folder and bloke in suit makes a show of walking around her and looking first at her and then at the lights.

"No, there's no green man" I <ahem> helpfully interject.
"There's a line there" he replies and carries on walking
"Yes, and we're all behind it"

Turns back with a "What did you say?" look, thinks better of it, and carries on his merry way.

hatbeard

cyclopsbiker wrote:

Rules for pedestrians (1-35)General guidance
1
Pavements (including any path along the side of a road) should be used if provided. Where possible, avoid being next to the kerb with your back to the traffic. If you have to step into the road, look both ways first. Always show due care and consideration for others.

Crossing the road
7
The Green Cross Code.

Go away and read the darrrrrnnnn thing. please.

let me guess... cannon street? I turned off king william street this morning and there was a wall of pedestrians crossing the road on the red man. and then there were two separate runners running the wrong way along the street in the cycle lane further along. neither of which went up on the pavement when I approached until the absolute last minute.

jzed

hatbeard wrote:

cyclopsbiker wrote:

Rules for pedestrians (1-35)General guidance
1
Pavements (including any path along the side of a road) should be used if provided. Where possible, avoid being next to the kerb with your back to the traffic. If you have to step into the road, look both ways first. Always show due care and consideration for others.

Crossing the road
7
The Green Cross Code.

Go away and read the darrrrrnnnn thing. please.

let me guess... cannon street? I turned off king william street this morning and there was a wall of pedestrians crossing the road on the red man. and then there were two separate runners running the wrong way along the street in the cycle lane further along. neither of which went up on the pavement when I approached until the absolute last minute.

Ummmmm - arm out to signal (even if not required) at head hight - clothesline........

el_presidente

Total chaos out there this morning presumably due to the tube strike - saw 3 VERY near misses

cyclopsbiker

well, today doesn't count for pedestrian stupidness. with the tube strike we must allow those who normally sit on a tube instead of using their legs some leeway....iti is afterall difficult to walk, talk on your phone, have your ipod in the other ear, be reading the newspaper and drink coffee. the fact that they just like to step into the road must mean the car/bus/lorry/cyclist etc is going to stop. isn't that how it works? my rant isn't just about today, I expect more idiot peds and tend to not let it bother me. but recently I've had people just step out, blatently look at me and see me and just step out thinking I'll stop. 3 girls on Tooley St the other night, 2 guys by Monument tube last week, a blinkin cyclist this morning after he'd chained his bike to a lamppost just turned, back to me and stepped out infront of me....now he should know better, though to be fair being a tube strike I will put him in the category of "I only cycle when it's a tube strike".
there you go. rant over. glad I'm leaving early today, just after lunch. will be nice to miss the rush hour chaos tonight. good luck folks!!!

georgee

Not that many muppets on bikes about but plenty in cars. Yes you dippy sh*t in the BMW of course i'll have issue with you if you look at me and then pull out infront of me.

el_presidente

Oh and Rant No 2 for today - 6ft guy on the grey Condor Pista at Trafalgar Sq - you look a bit pathetic having a go at the 5ft female on her 50cc scooter for being in the ASL when you pointedly ignore the 3 leather-clad hairy-arsed superbike riders sitting immediately in front of her. I'm sure walking your bike to the front of the queue saved 2 seconds - grow up.

cyclopsbiker

JZed wrote:

hatbeard wrote:

cyclopsbiker wrote:

Rules for pedestrians (1-35)General guidance
1
Pavements (including any path along the side of a road) should be used if provided. Where possible, avoid being next to the kerb with your back to the traffic. If you have to step into the road, look both ways first. Always show due care and consideration for others.

Crossing the road
7
The Green Cross Code.

Go away and read the darrrrrnnnn thing. please.

let me guess... cannon street? I turned off king william street this morning and there was a wall of pedestrians crossing the road on the red man. and then there were two separate runners running the wrong way along the street in the cycle lane further along. neither of which went up on the pavement when I approached until the absolute last minute.

Ummmmm - arm out to signal (even if not required) at head hight - clothesline........

I do that sometimes. did it to a guy the other day on Tooley St
oh, and there was a guy walking towards me in the cycle lane further down there. I don't think he was amused when I pointed out that the pavement not 6 inches from where he was walking would be a more appropriate place to be. he had absolutely no inclination to get off the road.

rrice

One nostril blocked - incredibly frustrating.

notsoblue

hatbeard wrote:

cyclopsbiker wrote:

Rules for pedestrians (1-35)General guidance
1
Pavements (including any path along the side of a road) should be used if provided. Where possible, avoid being next to the kerb with your back to the traffic. If you have to step into the road, look both ways first. Always show due care and consideration for others.

Crossing the road
7
The Green Cross Code.

Go away and read the darrrrrnnnn thing. please.

let me guess... cannon street? I turned off king william street this morning and there was a wall of pedestrians crossing the road on the red man. and then there were two separate runners running the wrong way along the street in the cycle lane further along. neither of which went up on the pavement when I approached until the absolute last minute.

Cannon Street is a nightmare, had a terrible off there before after hitting a pedestrian who just walked out into the road without looking.

lastant

To the guy on the burgundy Mongoose MTB heading west to east along the Embankment and up Whitehall this morning...

Jumping up on the pavement from the road for some inexplicable reason for fifty yards near to the Morpeth is what causes issues with pedestrains and cyclists, cutting up the inside and undertaking other cyclists on the road is stupid and will cause an accident at some point and overtaking erratically, across the lane and on a whim will probably see you hit by a car in the near future.

I would have had a word, but the ear muffs and headphones suggested to me you wouldn't have heard anyway...

lardboy

Pedestrians around CS7 bypassing E+C: Try using more than one of your senses to check if bikes are around. I ring my bell (when necessary) so that you can hear me. I wear bright clothes so that you can see me. As it happens, I probably smell a bit as well and I'd rather you didn't rely on taste; sorry. If you don't look, or listen out, then I may end up touching you with great force.

I'd have hoped that the constant stream of bikes using the road might have warned you, so not even bothering to take a quick look around when you're wearing headphones is just bloody stupid. I will apologise for swearing at you, but to be honest, I'd lay the blame for the (thankfully non-contact) incident squarely at your feet.

redvee

Me for deleting my youtube library last night I only wanted to delete one video. And the sparky that my landlady called 5 days ago to fix the bathroom light, whay has it taken you 5 days and 3 phonecalls to get your arse in gear and call me to arrange the visit. Don't you know how difficult it is doing things in the dark such as shaving?

lardboy

redvee wrote:

And the sparky that my landlady called 5 days ago to fix the bathroom light, whay has it taken you 5 days and 3 phonecalls to get your ars* in gear and call me to arrange the visit. Don't you know how difficult it is doing things in the dark such as shaving?

Might I direct you to the "Movember" thread? Turn a bad thing into good!

Mr Sworld

lardboy wrote:

redvee wrote:

And the sparky that my landlady called 5 days ago to fix the bathroom light, whay has it taken you 5 days and 3 phonecalls to get your ars* in gear and call me to arrange the visit. Don't you know how difficult it is doing things in the dark such as shaving?

Might I direct you to the "Movember" thread? Turn a bad thing into good!

Plus 1!

Cafewanda

To the schoolgirl at the crossing this morning. It is usual to look before stepping out into the road. Thankfully your ample padding and my brakes saved me from serious damage. Hopefully there won't be a next time.

cyclopsbiker

to the fecking idiot cyclist turning left onto Oxford St from Regent St as I was behind you....why the feck did you go at minus 10 mph? then stop? right on the fecking corner???? do you not have any sense that the big red thing speeding up behind us was a bus that doesn't bend round the corner and was going to squash us? thanks then for stopping as I called out begging you to pull forward a little bit quicker. why stop you numbnuts? clearly the bus was going to squash me first so you didn't have too much to worry about. and its not good asking me to pull around you...there was only 2" between you and the bus which was no right along side us!!!!!!!! moron.
peeerrrr-leeesss get a grip with road safety and awareness before your actions kill someone.

georgee

Why bother, you'r on a hybrid, wearing baggy shorts and plastered in high viz stickers. You think someone on the appropriate kit is just going to let you drift on by, taking his scalp?

Meanwhile cracking chat with a chap on the blue and green fixie in the similarly Flemmish themed kit.

cyclopsbiker

could the cyclist who was riding down the Embankment about 11.15am today...please wash your shorts....the thick ring of salt in the shape of your seat is disgusting.

Cafewanda

:shock: :shock:

goycoolea

this morning in Camden a lady appeared from behind standing traffic on the middle island of a zebra crossing - I am aware these crossings give pedestrians right of way, but pushing a buggy out into the road when there are cyclists approaching who are too close to stop is unsafe, you are not meant to do this...

"Always check that the traffic has stopped before you start to cross or push a pram onto a crossing" - Highway Code rules for pedestrians 18.

By a miracle I managed to stop by heaving on the front brake, rear brake, and instinctively skid-stopping my rear wheel at once (fixed gear, but I never normally skid). Front wheel was onto the zebra crossing by the time I stopped, narrowly avoiding a "Fixie skidder murders child, pays no Road Tax" Daily Mail headline.

Felt quite shaken up by this, mainly because of the blasé attitude displayed - I just can't imagine the same lady would push her kid in front of a car she could see coming, forcing the driver to make an emergency stop.

rjsterry

goycoolea wrote:

this morning in Camden a lady appeared from behind standing traffic on the middle island of a zebra crossing - I am aware these crossings give pedestrians right of way, but pushing a buggy out into the road when there are cyclists approaching who are too close to stop is unsafe, you are not meant to do this...

"Always check that the traffic has stopped before you start to cross or push a pram onto a crossing" - Highway Code rules for pedestrians 18.

By a miracle I managed to stop by heaving on the front brake, rear brake, and instinctively skid-stopping my rear wheel at once (fixed gear, but I never normally skid). Front wheel was onto the zebra crossing by the time I stopped, narrowly avoiding a "Fixie skidder murders child, pays no Road Tax" Daily Mail headline.

Felt quite shaken up by this, mainly because of the blasé attitude displayed - I just can't imagine the same lady would push her kid in front of a car she could see coming, forcing the driver to make an emergency stop.

Don't kid yourself.