What Grinds Your Gears

mr_eddy

So it seemed like a perfect time to voice my some what irrational opinions on modern day cycling britain.

So here is what grinds my gears:

1. People cycling with flat tyres and low seats, look I know to you your bike is simply a better alternative to walking but please if only for my blood pressure please pump up your tyres and lift the seat post. You would not cycle around dragging a dead dog with you so why cycle with flat tyres. AAAAHHHHH

2. Don't bitch about the british weather, we live on a island in the middle of a formibable sea, we are gonna get wet from time to time. Last time i checked bikes are not made of cardboard (unless you are some weight weenie fascist sicko) so man up, put a jacket on and get on with it. Humans are water proof you know.

3. Learn to change gear! I see at least 5 people a day on my commute either spinning like giro in the granny ring or standing to salute trying to stamp on the pedals. If the mysteries of mechs and shifters ellude you then get a single speed or get the bus

4. Full suspension BMX's. Need I say more :roll:

5. Asda / Tesco bikes. You would not buy Tesco Value bog roll (maybe you do) so if you value your back side and indeed your life dont buy a tesco value bike. I know the old addage of if its heavy then its expensive, well not when you are talking about poorly welded pig iron. As a general rule spend £300 for a new bike, if you can't afford a new one get one off ebay. Supermarket 'bikes' are like the handburgers your mum made, technically they are the same as McDonald's but you not what I mean.

Well in the words of Arnold Rimmer, Thank you for attending this weeks Morale Meeting, I look forward to hearing your thoughs. Marvelous.

derbygrimpeur

handburgers? :shock:

mr_eddy

*Hamburgers
lol

Simontheintrepid

Mostly my rubbish fettling

izza

40th Birthday parties/Weddings held at the same time as big sporting events.

Simontheintrepid

mr_eddy wrote:

Last time i checked bikes are not made of cardboard
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Also:

http://www.firebox.com/product/3512/Re- ... board-Bike

Cressers

Supermarket BSOs with unoiled and rusted chains squealing like panzers

fish156

People who decide they're not going to come through on the chain but don't let you know. You then get the pleasure of working twice as hard to get back onto the accelerating line now they've created a gap. (I'm fine with people choosing to sit on, just so long as they communicate.)

upperoilcan

Football.....I ****ing hate football in it's entirety.

That is all

Tom Butcher

Trying to fit a new Michelin Krylion Carbon to a Campag Scirrocco wheel - never had a problem fitting any tyre but 2 hours, one broken tyre lever and 2 destroyed tubes yesterday and still no nearer getting the thing on the rim with the tube intact.

Football is a good one- well not football itself, I quite like the game - more the assumption the media have that football is the only sport that exists.

People that park right outside my kids school on the no parking bit and then do a 3 point turn into the gates while kids are still coming out.

daviesee

Tom Butcher wrote:

Trying to fit a new Michelin Krylion Carbon to a Campag Scirrocco wheel - never had a problem fitting any tyre but 2 hours, one broken tyre lever and 2 destroyed tubes yesterday and still no nearer getting the thing on the rim with the tube intact.

I have had trouble with most tyres on my Scirroccos, must be the rims.
You need these levers:-

http://www.alpinebikes.com/shop/pedros/ ... um=organic

One Man And His Bike

upperoilcan wrote:

Football.....I ****ing hate football in it's entirety.

That is all

I support this post.

shm_uk

People who park on the yellow road markings outside my sons school because they are too f'ing lazy to park legally and walk for 2 minutes.

You loathsome, selfish, inconsiderate, up-yourselves, lazy scum oafs.

I hope something really painful happens to you.

And, relax...

jrduquemin

mr_eddy wrote:

So it seemed like a perfect time to voice my some what irrational opinions on modern day cycling britain.

So here is what grinds my gears:

1. People cycling with flat tyres and low seats, look I know to you your bike is simply a better alternative to walking but please if only for my blood pressure please pump up your tyres and lift the seat post. You would not cycle around dragging a dead dog with you so why cycle with flat tyres. AAAAHHHHH

2. Don't ***** about the british weather, we live on a island in the middle of a formibable sea, we are gonna get wet from time to time. Last time i checked bikes are not made of cardboard (unless you are some weight weenie fascist sicko) so man up, put a jacket on and get on with it. Humans are water proof you know.

3. Learn to change gear! I see at least 5 people a day on my commute either spinning like giro in the granny ring or standing to salute trying to stamp on the pedals. If the mysteries of mechs and shifters ellude you then get a single speed or get the bus

4. Full suspension BMX's. Need I say more :roll:

5. Asda / Tesco bikes. You would not buy Tesco Value bog roll (maybe you do) so if you value your back side and indeed your life dont buy a tesco value bike. I know the old addage of if its heavy then its expensive, well not when you are talking about poorly welded pig iron. As a general rule spend £300 for a new bike, if you can't afford a new one get one off ebay. Supermarket 'bikes' are like the handburgers your mum made, technically they are the same as McDonald's but you not what I mean.

Well in the words of Arnold Rimmer, Thank you for attending this weeks Morale Meeting, I look forward to hearing your thoughs. Marvelous.

Don't forget people who ride around on bikes with squeaky chains. That really winds me up :-)

Eyon

I agree on the saddle height one. And the BSO one. And the football one. And the fitting of Michelin Krylions onto rims one.

I also hate black bar tape, why you might ask? Well its the one thing on a bike you can make unique, its cheap to do and easy to do, dont be so boring by having black!

People cycing with their heels on flats, that annoys me too.

Actually most things annoy me in one form or another, but over the years i've slowly learned to deal with it and contain my rage a little better.

Yossie

People who overtake you and then stop to turn left or right 30 yards in front of you causing you to lose the precious speed that you've spent the last 32 miles building up.

People who pull out in front of you and cause you to lose the precious speed that you've spent the last 32 miles building up and when you look over your shoulder as you pull away again you see that there were actually no cars behind you as far as the eye could see and why couldn't the inconsiderate git have waited 30 seconds for you to pass.

Aggieboy

Eyon wrote:

I agree on the saddle height one. And the BSO one. And the football one. And the fitting of Michelin Krylions onto rims one.

I also hate black bar tape, why you might ask? Well its the one thing on a bike you can make unique, its cheap to do and easy to do, dont be so boring by having black!

People cycing with their heels on flats, that annoys me too.

Actually most things annoy me in one form or another, but over the years i've slowly learned to deal with it and contain my rage a little better.


Falling off my mountain bike and looking like Mr. Potatohead........

FTFY

Smokin Joe

I like seeing people on BSOs with squeaky chains and no idea how to dress for cycling or how to ride properly.

It makes me feel better about myself, after all we don't want every fool being a cyclist, do we?

TuckerUK

Aggieboy wrote:

Falling off my mountain bike and looking like Mr. Potatohead........

Fook me, looks nasty.

Eyon

ahhh why's my face in here

Actually that was falling off a road bike!

B3rnieMac

1. People with drops upside down on their road bikes. i've never understood this, and the only person who ive asked why replied "why not?" GRRR

2. The whole vegan-cool lifestyle thing that comes with riding a fixie. I used to like fixies until they became a fashion statement.

3. HEADWINDS. This past month any time i've went out, its been constant. It's not normal for a person to get angry at the weather.........maybe I need some green tea.

One Man And His Bike

Omnipresent winds...

Like God, only real.

That annoying phenomenon where there is always a wind, it's everywhere and won't leave you alone. So no matter which direction you ride in, you're riding into the fracking wind constantly.

greasedscotsman

Yossie wrote:

People who overtake you and then stop to turn left or right 30 yards in front of you causing you to lose the precious speed that you've spent the last 32 miles building up.

Blimey, 32 miles! How fast are you going?

Stewie Griffin

The SS or fixie rider I had to drive behind yesterday while he rode along a Main Road with his hands in his jacket pockets while in the door zone. How I prayed for a door to open.

The SS or fixie rider that I had to drive behind this morning with his huge headphones on, I do wonder that had a non cyclist been driving behind him that he might well be dead or quite seriously injured now due to the no look swing out into the middle of the road he made. The bike had a fake petrol tank on it too, what a Queen.

One Man And His Bike

Fake petrol tank, whut in the flying frack?

rick_chasey

One Man And His Bike wrote:

Omnipresent winds...

Like God, only real.

That annoying phenomenon where there is always a wind, it's everywhere and won't leave you alone. So no matter which direction you ride in, you're riding into the fracking wind constantly.

It's God's way of telling you you shouldn't be living in East Anglia.

One Man And His Bike

Moving is being considered very strongly at the moment.

Yossie

greasedscotsman wrote:

Yossie wrote:

People who overtake you and then stop to turn left or right 30 yards in front of you causing you to lose the precious speed that you've spent the last 32 miles building up.

Blimey, 32 miles! How fast are you going?

I'd like to think about a squillion miles an hour. Like Cancellara on speed, or having a flux capacitor a with an optional supercharger bolted on.

But probably about 21.7865 and looking nothing like Cancellara.

Stewie Griffin

One Man And His Bike wrote:

Fake petrol tank, whut in the flying frack?

I should also then mention the low rider thats ridden on the pavement (also been seen blocking train doors when riding on the pavement is too much effort), it has an old chrome motorbike headlamp on it which has no bulb or any wiring.

One Man And His Bike

Stewie Griffin wrote:

One Man And His Bike wrote:

Fake petrol tank, whut in the flying frack?

I should also then mention the low rider thats ridden on the pavement (also been seen blocking train doors when riding on the pavement is too much effort), it has an old chrome motorbike headlamp on it which has no bulb or any wiring.

These are the people Claymore mines were invented and intended for.

BelgianBeerGeek

I have found that everything is irritating, it's only the degree, from "mildly annoying" to "it makes my blood boil". I never got Victor Meldrew when a freewheeling youngster, now I think he has a point...plastic bags full of dog sh*t people have picked up then hung on a branch or whatever is my new pet hate, but yeah, people pedalling with heels. Morons.