Your Anti-Rants here

redvee

Got to the canteen and selected the fine cuisine on offer, moved along to the till to pay for it and handed over a £5 note and got £6 change, he even paused as he handed me my £5 note back.

rubertoe

I love full length Guards...

I have used crud -racers, and race blade XL on previous bikes, but OMG what a difference having rigid, full length mudguards make.

Thanks redvee as well for the suggestion on the tortecs.

Kieran_Burns

Found out that the coffee from downstairs can be extra strong if you ask.

3 sizes of drinks: small, medium, large (in Italian)
3 amounts of espresso going in: 2,3, or 4 shots depending on drink size

The coffee machine thingy pours even amounts of shots, so if you have a medium 1 shot gets thrown away... unless you ask.

Much nicer drink.... 8)

ToeKnee

Found £20 at the self-service till in ASDA ... a good end to the week.


Sorry msmancunia, I coundn't resist.

veronese68

ToeKnee wrote:

Found £20 at the self-service till in ASDA ... a good end to the week.


Sorry msmancunia, I coundn't resist.

That made me chuckle. Did you spend it on Tennents Super?

msmancunia

Veronese68 wrote:

ToeKnee wrote:

Found £20 at the self-service till in ASDA ... a good end to the week.


Sorry msmancunia, I coundn't resist.

That made me chuckle. Did you spend it on Tennents Super?

Made me laugh too. I hope you didn't go back and shoplift that mascara I'd already told you to take out of your pocket....

cyclingprop

Chili Chutney Biltong. OMG.

redvee

The gloves I lost in work on Thursday were found and a notice stuck up in the bike sheds which I took down and reclaimed my gloves this afternoon.

msmancunia

redvee wrote:

The gloves I lost in work on Thursday were found and a notice stuck up in the bike sheds which I took down and reclaimed my gloves this afternoon.

That's made me very happy for some reason. It's restored my faith in people generally being nice to each other.

Kieran_Burns

msmancunia wrote:

redvee wrote:

The gloves I lost in work on Thursday were found and a notice stuck up in the bike sheds which I took down and reclaimed my gloves this afternoon.

That's made me very happy for some reason. It's restored my faith in people generally being nice to each other.

Well, you got to hand it to some people....

rjsterry

cyclingprop wrote:

Chili Chutney Biltong. OMG.

Did it come with a flying car and a Dick Van Dyke dance routine?

Forgot to mention my own anti-rant from last week: back light decided to make a leap for freedom on the Farringdon Road contraflow. Thankfully the chap behind alerted me, but I didn't Havel time to stop as I had to get to a meeting. Luckily I needed to walk back down FR to get to the station, and there was the light, still in one piece by the gutter. \o/

veronese68

Just read an article about someone cycling on the M1. When this comment made me chuckle:

“with traffic passing at speed just yards away”

so a lot safer than most roads then

bdave262000

A nice chap in a car driving down Priory Lane this morning pulled along side me and wound down the passenger window, I was waiting for the shout to tell me to get on the cycle path but instead he told me my rucksack rain cover was hanging off.

stu-bim

[quote="stu-bim"Hopefully get my hands and feet on it early next week[/quote]

Bike cleared from GPO and in back of a car getting dropped to work later and US$ 1 in duties in stead of US$ 600....fantastic

Actually works out cheaper than if purchased in UK, GBP 850

asprilla

On holiday in South Dorset; they don't skimp on cake or bacon down here.

I may need new winter kit upon my return.

stu-bim

PX Pro Carbon arrived

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Veronese68 wrote:

Just read an article about someone cycling on the M1. When this comment made me chuckle:

“with traffic passing at speed just yards away”

so a lot safer than most roads then

Cycleways are signed in blue, so are Motorway signs, the hard shoulder is marked like a cycle lane and I bet there isn't a more direct alternative Cycleway.

redvee

The wet commute lasted all of 2 miles. Had to stop and swap the waterproof jacket for a windproof jacket.

asprilla

http://www.kickoff.com/news/38236/aspri ... ob-in-porn

My contract is up at the end if the month so I am considering it.....

DrLex

*looks up "contract" in urban dictionary*

Ian.B

Back on the bike today aafter 4 weeks off

redvee

I want to know what fertiliser these people are using, five have sprouted around work this month.

stu-bim

Envinmental bullshit will cause those things to shoot up...plus a huge amount of cement for the base

rolf_f

Interestingly, the first turbines I remember seeing (at Chelker near Skipton - appeared when I was occasionally heading that way for pot holing trips in the Dales in the early 90s) have become the first to be dismantled. The turbines were worn out and an application for replacements (predictably almost twice the height - 80m rather than 45m) are are being taken down permanently.

The turbines were apparently obsolete with parts hard to obtain - it's a long time since all of them were working. They had barely lasted 20 years. An 'environmental' product with short term planned obsolescence. Food for thought.

redvee

Noticed the huge amount of cement stopping the windmill blowing away when I took the first pic. At least I get an idea of wether I've got an head or tailwind on the ride home.

rjsterry

Rolf F wrote:

Interestingly, the first turbines I remember seeing (at Chelker near Skipton - appeared when I was occasionally heading that way for pot holing trips in the Dales in the early 90s) have become the first to be dismantled. The turbines were worn out and an application for replacements (predictably almost twice the height - 80m rather than 45m) are are being taken down permanently.

The turbines were apparently obsolete with parts hard to obtain - it's a long time since all of them were working. They had barely lasted 20 years. An 'environmental' product with short term planned obsolescence. Food for thought.

Not sure it would be 'planned' obsolescence; early models of most things become superseded fairly quickly as designs are refined and improved, but someone still needs to start the whole thing off or there wouldn't be any improvement. As for 20 years, a coal fired power station would typically have a 30 year life expectancy when built, and would be a much bigger operation to clean up/replace. Most of a wind turbine can just be melted down as scrap.

Also, funny how everyone loves this



But gets all het up about wind farms.

asprilla

I love wind farms, I think they look great.

veronese68

Asprilla wrote:

I love wind farms, I think they look great.

I was hoping you were telling us how good the new job mentioned above was.
I like wind farms too.

rolf_f

rjsterry wrote:

Also, funny how everyone loves this



But gets all het up about wind farms.

I've been to Kinderdjik - you can hardly see those Windmills until you are within half a mile of them. And, unless you are living in one of them, nobody else gets to have to listen to them 24//7.

Incidentally, those mills are there to pump excess water out of the polders and they are still operational; they can be used in an emergency. Not much obsolescence in bits of timber! Of course, you may be correct about the premature obsolescence of early models as opposed to late ones but it could work both ways. And there is a huge environmental hit in just putting these things up so I reckon Chelkers short lifespan needs to be taken into account.

As for coal fired power stations - those near me all seem to be over 40 years old with no signs of stopping yet. They are doing better than planned rather than worse than planned with the turbines. And remediating the same number of turbines that are needed to match the output of, say, Eggborough would by no means be a simple operation. Of course, it is more complicated than that; probably it is best to stick to either sweeping generalisation or precise facts and figures! It's always messy in the middle.....

rjsterry

Well, the power station itself might still be there, but I bet the turbines and other bits of kit inside have been replaced more than once in 40 years; ditto the wooden workings of the Dutch wind pumps - the same as any machine.

I quite like the look of wind farms, but then I grew up very close to one of the main overhead power line routes - even more utilitarian in design - so maybe it's just what you are used to. I certainly don't think wind turbines are a panacea - the small domestic ones really are pointless unless you have no other option, but

BTW, If the new Hinckley Point nuclear power station contract is anything to go by, the current hoohaa over price rises and where to get power from is going to become a *much* bigger issue.