Your rants here.

chunkytfg

To the Motorcyclist who felt the need to try and overtake me on a small roundabout whilst in the same lane as me can I just point out that shouting at me to learn the highway code is a little bit of a stupid thing to say when I was the one in the right. Overtaking another vehicle whilst staying in the same lane as that vehicle on a roundabout is pretty stupid and i'm pretty sure the HC is pretty clear about performing stupid overtakes!!!

suzyb

argh my new jacket comes on the one day of the week when no one is in so I have to wait until tomorrow to go pick it up from the post office :evil:

jonny_trousers

BR 1979 wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

To the lesbian gentleman who took exception to me riding behind you this evening: if it made you feel uncomfortable then you should have slowed up to encourage me to pass - and no, you wouldn't have had to hit your brakes, as you maintained, just stop pedalling! If you cruise along at 15mph+ then people will follow behind without passing! If you do slow up and they don't pass then you will know they are a psycho with really poor taste in victims.

Definitely a lesbian gentleman in that story.

I suggest you do your own work next time, fatty.

What on earth were you drafting the poor fella for at 15mph?

Do you have a pair of legs, rather than just one single leg?

Fair enough, but I was actually hanging back until we reached the next set of lights as I was sure I'd caught up with the exact same bloke I'd passed three miles earlier on Waterloo Bridge Road and I wanted to ask him what his route was as it was clearly way quicker than mine. It wasn't him.

PS. Yes, I only have one leg. I had to cut the other one off with my penknife when my jeans got caught in my BMX chain when I was a kid and I was in grave danger of being home late for my tea. I was thinking of writing a book and a movie script about it, but some f*cker got there before me.

redvee

I was a victim of theft today. Somebdy stole my legs and left some much weaker ones in their place

SimonAH

Shot down into Newport for something this evening and given Friday legs took the train back to Cwmbran (anyone aware of the Malpas hill will not condemn me - especially given SS gearing). Carriage also occupied by a Cat 2 guy from Qoroz team with beawwwwtiful Ti rig. I want his bike, a very lot. Bastard. (Race Won SRAM)

Really nice chap BTW, good natter on the trip.

Want want want want want.

[Mrs AH? You know that Bermuda thing in the summer? I hear that the food is terrible out there.......]

mudcow007

Dogs owners, who let their dogs poop all over the bike track by me, and then dont clean up after them.

i swear i could smell one this morning about 300 yards down the track dirty swines

i saw one guy this morning with a staffordshire bull terrier thing, have a crap the owner then looks around an carrys on grrr


im taking a peg for my nose tommorow

hatbeard

Told someone off for riding on the pavement outside surrey quays police station just after the one way system. The truck that held us up after the lights did so for roughly 3 seconds, as you didn't manage to pass me once after I enquired 'are you f**king 12 years old or something?' despite the fact I had an extra wheelset strapped to my bike and a fully laden backpack I can assume you weren't in fact in that much of a rush to get to work.

next time try displaying a modicum of patience for once as tossers like you are wearing mine thin.

nich

1) Go into kitchen

2) Make tea

3) Turn around and walk into door

I totally thought I'd broken my hand for a few seconds GRRR

Mr Sworld

nich wrote:

1) Go into kitchen

2) Make tea

3) Turn around and walk into door

I totally thought I'd broken my hand for a few seconds GRRR

When did this thread become pussy rants? :roll:

Gussio

Complete f*ckwittery exhibited by other cyclists this morning - twice I had to swerve to avoid bikes joining the main road from sideroads without looking to their right, got to shout at an idiot who took to the pavement rather than waiting in traffic stopped for a red light only for the lights to turn green and him to hop back onto the road infront of me, and other assorted crap riding.

Cafewanda

Dear cyclists of the CS7 route (Balham to London Bridge chapter). PLEASE refrain from cycling so close to me. It really isn't necessary, unless you want to say 'hi' or to confirm the colour of my eyes. Further, is it really of vital import that many of you do whatever it takes to get to the front at the lights? It's getting to be a real scrum these days.

kurako

Cafewanda wrote:

Dear cyclists of the CS7 route (Balham to London Bridge chapter). PLEASE refrain from cycling so close to me. It really isn't necessary, unless you want to say 'hi' or to confirm the colour of my eyes. Further, is it really of vital import that many of you do whatever it takes to get to the front at the lights? It's getting to be a real scrum these days.

I think this is down to the old adage that it's safer to be at the front as you can be seen better. Especially while wearing hi-viz and being lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree. Pushing your way to the very front can only maximise your safety :roll:

Then again the whole 'be seen be safe thing' does kind of rest on the assumption that drivers:
a) are paying attention
b) aren't complete knobs
c) give a toss

Cafewanda

Kurako, the behaviour I describe is in the mornings :shock: In the evenings it's the TT'ers who rule the roads, or those trying to get home asap cos they have a desperate need to use the toilet :roll:

Mr Sharky

Oi, silly bint in your crappy little silver Micra... when I'm moving from one mini-roundabout to the next which is about 25m away, and taking a strong position to stop unnecessary overtakes... don't try to f*ckin' overtake only to slam the anchors on and try to left hook me.

Muppet. :roll:

georgee

Dear Foxtons mini driver 184, apologies for chasing you down and shouting at you last night. The bit where you emerge from the car park on Park Lane, look straight at me twice then drive out into my path must have rubbed me up the wrong way a touch. The fact you apologised so profusely is making me reconsider how best to seek vengeance for your f*ckwittery.

Gussio

To those commuters coming out of hibernation, get some lights and stay off the f*cking pavement :roll:

gbsahne001

To the git in the car who decided to pull in front of me on a dual carriageway at 35mph, no amount of staring in front of you will make this go away. If I hadn't gone round you, then I'd have been squished like a bug on the windshield.

sketchley

@This morning in general. Worse ever ride in, cold, no legs just grrrrrrrrrrr

@Blue Estate Driver last night, if you are going to change lane pull in on me and force me to take evasive action, probabally not a good idea to be texting on your phone when I pull along side you later. I will knock on your windows and tell you what you have done wrong. Don't look suprised, don't do it again.

@HGV driver north side of southwark bridge ths morning. You drove in to the ASL on red, not me, as I explained carmly to you the ASL is there so that HGV drivers stopper correctly at first line can see a bike stop at 2nd line. How much you paid for you revoling saftey camera, how much you paid for your lorry and how much I paid for my bike, have absolutley fuck all to do with it.

Blandiblub

Not about biking but me while running - am training for the London Marathon (8.5 weeks to go!).

Woman comes down road, gets to the end just as I do, indicates right and does a U-turn at the junction. I turn into same road (so she's going same way as me after manuveur), she keeps her right indicator on to pull right into her driveway/garage but I'm right alongside her (running on pavement).

No attention paid to me at all. Whatsoever. Turns across the pavement right in front of me. Had to run around the back but made sure I gave a good thump on her bootlid.

Tosser.

dhope

Person that opened van door, in traffic, without looking. Sheer luck that I didn't go into it.
C.nt

jds_1981

Sketchley wrote:

@HGV driver north side of southwark bridge ths morning. You drove in to the ASL on red, not me, as I explained carmly to you the ASL is there so that HGV drivers stopper correctly at first line can see a bike stop at 2nd line. How much you paid for you revoling saftey camera, how much you paid for your lorry and how much I paid for my bike, have absolutley fark all to do with it.

I've some headcam footage of an HGV going right to the front of the ASL from last week. Just waiting for a free moment to edit and send to the relevant company...

sketchley

jds_1981 wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

@HGV driver north side of southwark bridge ths morning. You drove in to the ASL on red, not me, as I explained carmly to you the ASL is there so that HGV drivers stopper correctly at first line can see a bike stop at 2nd line. How much you paid for you revoling saftey camera, how much you paid for your lorry and how much I paid for my bike, have absolutley fark all to do with it.

I've some headcam footage of an HGV going right to the front of the ASL from last week. Just waiting for a free moment to edit and send to the relevant company...

Ran out of battery this morning so no footage of it. Guy was a complete twat. "See that revoling saftey camera, that cost £6000, so I can see all around vechical, how much did you bike cost £100". WTF has that got to do with anything.

p.s. what software do you edit videos with?

jedster

Waited patiently at a red light yesterday, it gives a short green phase in my direction. Finally turns green and I set off only to have to swerve past two cyclists riding through the red in the other direction. One of them is a rather rotund middle-aged bloke with a stupid grin on his face. He doesn't take kindly to my shout of "think about it!!!!".

Anyway, I make my turn onto the road and immediately take the next right which is a one-way street. And have to swerve round another cyclist riding the wrong way up the one-way street in the middle of the lane. Gaahhhh!!!!

The numpties are out in force for some reason.

J

Gussio

jedster wrote:

The numpties are out in force for some reason.J

+1

jds_1981

Sketchley wrote:

p.s. what software do you edit videos with?

kdenlive (Linux.) Seems a bit clunky but maybe that is the way with all video software?

Allows me to cut out sections, brighten, increase contrast and save at different resolutions/formats/bit rates which is good enough for me..

jds_1981

Apologies to the lady cyclist I collided with on the way - possibly suspect cycling on my part. Suffered a bent spoke as an outcome

redvee

Sketchley wrote:

p.s. what software do you edit videos with?

I use VirtualDub, a freebie from Sourceforge. A basic but quite impressive bit of sofware. I've now got it set up for the .mov files from my ContourHD after some guidance from a fellow BR member.

15 minutes isn't enough time to do the duvet to door run. I just about managed it yesterday, mouth of cereal then put an item of clothing on whilst the toast was in the toaster. I blame the snooze function on the alarm clock :oops:

nich

1. Reflector fail. In fact, it snapped in half and was flapping about on the wheel. I thought it was a spoke gone, but thankfully not

2. Cars drivers being divs. Myself and about 5 other cyclists slow behind a bus to let it pull out from a bus-stop. Did any of the drivers follow our lead, did they heck! None of them did. Instead they eventually formed a nice queue of traffic, so when they eventually stopped moving we could actually filter without getting run down

3. Spent ages looking for my favourite multi tool last night and this morning. Didn't find it. Found it straight away this evening :x

Mr Plum

I feel like absolute sh*t - dribbly nose and I keep sneezing. I can't believe this much snot can come out of one person in such a short space of time! I've had something mild for about a week but I went out yesterday on a training ride for 3 hours in the pissing rain and it's totally killed my immune system. Working a 12 hour day today (still got another half hour to go!) that I might not get through... I'm sure I had a can of MTFU lying around but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere. This may be my last post as the commute home may finish me off...

Drysuitdiver

its gone too far for MTFU . thats a definite HTFU