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JZed wrote:Last night on Embankment there was a car stopped with the driver with his head down and 200 metres of clear road in front, holding everything up. First thought was the guy must have been taken ill. I pulled up and another motorist knocked on his window. He was fast asleep. He was oblivious to the horns and the blue flashing lights of the police motorcade behind. :shock:
Last time I found someone "asleep" in their car they were so p!ssed they couldn't even talk. Luckily the old bill turned up. Found out later that the driver was old bill too....0 -
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He didn't really have a lot of choice in the matter; well short of running over the top of me, but even then, there was a tractor in front, which is why I was braking as I was coming off / out off the mini roundabout.0 -
I wish people would use indicators properly. On my last two journeys I've had both constant indicating without acting on it, and turning without indicating or warning. Keeps me on the edge, keeps me alert, y'know?FCN - 10
Cannondale Bad Boy Solo with baggies.0 -
Some angry little dwarf (well 5'5ish really) tried to push me off my bike on the split shared path in Coombe Lane (Raynes Park) with a pathetic elbow jab which I saw coming from a mile off, been reported but be wary - happened about 8am asmorning.
When i stopped he walked back towards me like he wanted to do it again, peculiar.
As much a PSA as a rant.Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.0 -
To the knob jockey driving (and I use the term loosely) the Richmond Coach along Trumpington Rd leaving Cambridge at 6.20 tonight - I fail to see how your arguement "I was right on the line on the drivers side" is a valid reason for barging me into the lane of traffic for turning left, especially as we both only had 10yards to travel before we stopped at the lights and 'discussed' the situation. I still think you're a retard, and fail to understand why your 10tonnes plus of vehicle couldn't have waited an extra two yards behind my bike. Though chapeau for taking far more offence at being called a retard than when I referred to you as a c**t :oops:Has the head wind picked up or the tail wind dropped off???0
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Working in technical sales, being recognised as an expert in your field, writing papers, giving lectures at prestigious industry events and then made to look like a fucktard because a Harris of a colleague fails to do the simplest of clearly defined tasks and totally screws one of your key customers. Thanks Karen you waste of oxygen.FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
Litespeed L3 for Strava bits
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.0 -
The zip on my Gore Phantom jacket decided to give up the ghost tonight as I was getting ready to come home, luckily it failed high enough for me not to freeze my tits off on the way home. Luckily I pass by Evans so popped in and they have to send it back to Gore for repair/replacement which can upto 28 days which isn't helped by christmas and the new year.I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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Did I manage to overlook the announcement that the highway code is no longer valid between 8am and 9am. shockingly bad behaviour from pretty much everyone at every single junction along my route.Hat + Beard0
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Didn't realise I wasn't allowed to overtake another cyclist on a Monday morning if I haven't been out for a ride at the weekend. At least I think that's what the guy said - had to ask him to repeat it and even then I didn't fully understand the moaning.0
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I can't really be arsed with the work do tomorrow. Black tie in Chelsea. Sure it'll be fun but I'd rather sleep.
So the rant is, damn, I'm getting old :oops:0 -
To all muppets on roundabouts everywhere - traffic coming from the right has priority, you feckwits.
Especially if said traffic is of the two-wheeled variety, lit up like a Christmas tree, screaming in fear at the sudden prospect of being reduced to a red/grey/lycra slime in the treads of your stupid bendy bus, and trailing a stream of brown liquid from rear of said lycra.
I think I need to lie down now :oops:"Get a bicycle. You won't regret it if you live"
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not so much a rant as a moan.
ordered a new smart lunar r1 to replace one i lost (i run two, one of either side of pannier rack) for a bargain price.
it's just been delivered and they sent the wrong fricking light. which is clearly the wrong light as it's got the wrong name on the box but the stock label they attached underneath the name says it's the light i ordered. gah!
now technically you could say this one is better (it's the smart lunar R2) as it's a couple quid more expensive but it means I'd be running two different style lights which in the configuration I have them would just look weird and I wanted a second R1 for that specific reason.
as I bought it online there's fat chance of seeing a replacement before new years and I'd have to package and post it back which i don't have time for so this just got promoted to another present for the missus for xmas and I have the pleasure of buying myself another R1 from somewhere asap.Hat + Beard0 -
Your OCD is showing :Phatbeard wrote:not so much a rant as a moan.
ordered a new smart lunar r1 to replace one i lost (i run two, one of either side of pannier rack) for a bargain price.
it's just been delivered and they sent the wrong fricking light. which is clearly the wrong light as it's got the wrong name on the box but the stock label they attached underneath the name says it's the light i ordered. gah!
now technically you could say this one is better (it's the smart lunar R2) as it's a couple quid more expensive but it means I'd be running two different style lights which in the configuration I have them would just look weird and I wanted a second R1 for that specific reason.
as I bought it online there's fat chance of seeing a replacement before new years and I'd have to package and post it back which i don't have time for so this just got promoted to another present for the missus for xmas and I have the pleasure of buying myself another R1 from somewhere asap.
Also, everything is asymmetric this year don'cha'kno o_O0 -
anybody would think I was riding ninja fashion on the way home tonight. I've got a fluorescent jacket on, reflective stuff on my bike, good lights, spokey dokeys....no quite a flashing christmas tree but pretty damn obvious when i'm in the middle of a lane to stop a tin box from squashing me. so why the heck did a car undertake me way too close on the rotherhithe roundabout, and 2 other cars some within inches of me between there and home!???0
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Posters who don’t know what pedantic means, yet quote it to hide their ignorance.
Being accurate to the nth degree is not pedantic if that nth degree of accuracy is absolutely essential and relevant to the subject.
As an example, complaining that crank sets reviewed here are described as being made of alloy is clearly justified, as knowing which alloy is absolutely essential and relevant. Conversely, complaining that aluminium alloy vehicle wheels are called alloy wheels (when of course even steel wheels are ‘alloy wheels’) is of course pedantic because the vast majority of car buyers couldn’t care less what the wheels are actually made of, they have no conception of unsprung weight, inertia, etc."Coming through..."0 -
The building I work in has 2 large revolving doors leading into the main foyer, one of which they've shut down for winter under the guise of being environmentally friendly and keeping as much warm air in as possible. The fact they've closed one doesn't really bother me, but for the reasons they've done it it's a complete farce and some quite dumb logic because unless they can get more people through the single revolving door simultaneously (which is rare/unlikely), they're not actually keeping any more warm air in the building. Idiots...FCN 2 to 80
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The purple shirted idiots at PC World in Cribbs Causeway. Reserved a Sony iPod dock online last night and sent Redvee Snr to collect it this morning only to be told when he got there that the only one left was the display model without the remote but with £10 off. Where could you get a Sony remote for £10? In the end I got a deal from the Apple shop when they price matched the other retailers price
I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0 -
not one not two not three not four but five FIVE cars cut me up by pulling into the bus lane less than two feet from my front wheel along deptford church street in excess of 20mph when I was riding primary.
they then stacked up halfway down as there was a guy in the bus lane changing a flat tyre which I filtered around.
three of them then repeated their neat little trick again.
I was f**king livid, expletives were shouted at great volume and funnily none of them wanted to make eye contact with me at the lights at the end of the road.
one I can write off as a random w****r but five people one after the other.
can someone tell these james blunts that they can't make up for the time they spent driving slowly in the snow the past few days by driving like even bigger arseholes nowHat + Beard0 -
Not the best ride today.
The hill back into town seemed a real struggle even though I wasn't pushing it. Ended up having to stop as I felt (and was tbh) a little sick. 5 minutes later I'd recovered and managed to continue on. But that was not enjoyable
Hopefully it's down to it being -5 and not that I've lost all the fitness I've gained this year :?0 -
I've had a pretty good 2010 in terms of reliability; nothing I can moan about at all, no punctures or anything. Then last night at 23:45 I had a gear cable snap as I was cycling down to the beach to let off some lanterns with the missus! I almost made it through 2010 with a 100% reliability record!FCN 2 to 80
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Snow is back. Nearly put car in a field. Really should have bought knobblies for tricross. Hopefully my over trousers will be at the post office when I get there.Novice runner & novice cyclist
Specialized Tricross
Orbea (Enol I think)0 -
Welcome to 2011, the world is still full of muppets on my first commute, including fckwit in an onl c class, idiot on a Spesh tarmac, nobber on the pavement and tw*t on a giant mtb with pannier.
on a good note the one hyde park roadworks have finally finished (3 years?)0 -
To the moped rider who undertook me this morning before pulling right into my path: thanks for slowing down to listen to what I was shouting at you. it is important that you heard it. Tw*t.0
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To the miserable old bastard I have to share oxygen with at work, chill out....its only a few weeks to Easter when he can have another miserable time with his equally obnoxiuos wife.Giant XTC Pro-Carbon
Cove Hustler
Planet X Pro-Carbon0
