Oh Wiggle!

thegreatdivide

Took delivery of a new track pump this morning from Wiggle via a courier company called DX. Nice enough chap handed it over. Went out for a ride half an hour later and while cycling down a mile long dead straight bit of road (Tay Bridge to Tayport Fife fans) a white van belted past me at what must have been at least 60mph, it's wing mirror missing me by inches. It was so close I was stunned - but not stunned enough to realise that it was the fuxking tw4t who had just delivered my pump! He'd made hardly any attempt to overtake at all and wasn't even over the white line. Caught up with him in the next town and he got a barrel of abuse.

Total fanny.

drlodge

Should have had your track pump with you so you could ram it down his throat!

cougie

You know who's fault this is don't you ?

drlodge

I blame wiggle

chris_bass

I see lots of DX vans around here, makes me think of DX.com, they have quite similar logos too!

maybe the van driver was encouraging you to draft him?

charlie_potatoes

drlodge wrote:

I blame wiggle

+1

Colinthecop

You caught up with a van doing 60...?


Chapeau. 8)

thegreatdivide

Colinthecop wrote:

You caught up with a van doing 60...?


Chapeau. 8)

Thanks. I'm quite good at cycling.

sloppyschleckonds

Starva logs or it never happened

itboffin

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

Starva logs or it never happened

+1

oh and pics or it never happened

danlikesbikes

At least you didn't have to chase him down the road for your haribo

Serious Cat

drlodge wrote:

Should have had your track pump with you so you could ram it down his throat!

Down his throat :shock: , personally id have shoved the pump so far up his ar$e he could have tasted it.

qube

What's the beef with Wiggle anyway?

:?

Cyclum

They sent me an empty envelope once (it contained a small 'with compliments' slip). I wouldn't mind but it was a replacement cleat bolt after the previous delivery only contained 1 and the attempt before that didn't have any in a box of other items.
They quoted the packaging/delivery firms comment about it being packaged up and being sent first class etc before it was sent out. So I sent them a photo of the brown envelope with a 2nd class stamp on.
They didn't seem to have a clue. I think they need to find a new courier company before it really starts to affect their reputation.

keef66

Well I've never had a problem with them and I've bought a lot. Latest purchase was a Felt F95 for my son. Ordered online on Monday, queried why the price was now £20 higher, they came back and said the price had been increased but the website hadn't refreshed, so they offered to honour the original price. Text the following day to say it had been despatched & when it would be delivered, and on the day a phone call from the driver to say he was 10 mins away. Met him in the car park at work and he dropped it off next to the car.

(I'll gloss over the discovery that you can't fit a Wiggle bike box in an A3... :oops: )

Haribo too!

jordan_217

Maybe he was in a rush to deliver Ezy Riders decals?

jimmythecuckoo

Did he pass you any Haribo from the cab window? ?

dee4life2005

@OP, I've had a couple of very closes passes on that stretch of road. Did the driver say whether he'd seen you or not?

The last close pass I had down there was by a stagecoach bus heading towards the Tay bridge. About 1foot space during overtake and he did it with traffic coming the other way. After managing to wrestle control of the bike after the draft hit me I went into full on rage adrenalin fuller sprint mode and caught up with it long enough to shake the can of Pringles at him and make a note of his registration plate and bus route number. Reported to his employer and he was removed from duty until he'd gone through there in house disciplinary / training doodah - or so they said anyway.

The other was a car that overtook me at over 60mph and it felt like its wing mirror brushed my jacket ! That scared me enough to have to stop for a minute or two. I was properly shaking. I went through a spell of going along "washer willy's" to miss out that road and tayport all together ( look for the segment on strava if u don't know it ). Although I got fed up after getting stuck behind a tractor going along it three times in one week.

Secteur

thegreatdivide wrote:

Caught up with him in the next town and he got a barrel of abuse.

Really?

Do you find this approach works best and better endears drivers to us cyclists?

Colinthecop

Secteur wrote:

Do you find this approach works best and better endears drivers to us cyclists?

He's -
a) A van driver
b) A delivery driver

So you're right, abuse wouldn't work. He needs to be punched. In the face.

8)

ugo.santalucia

I blame the Italians... last two deliveries I ended up having a chat in Italian with the courier... one of them was DX...

pinno

ugo.santalucia wrote:

I blame the Italians... last two deliveries I ended up having a chat in Italian with the courier... one of them was DX...

You'd get away with having an argument with a driver: "I'm from Napoli. My family is in the Waste Management bizness" - very coolly and calmly.

That's what I say.

On a less serious note. Parcel delivery is a highly competitive business. I did it as a student for a driving agency. You have no idea the number of drops you have to do in one day. So maybe the expectation of the punter to get free delivery or cheap delivery at least is the driver of the problem. No pun intended.

sloppyschleckonds

Colinthecop wrote:

Secteur wrote:

Do you find this approach works best and better endears drivers to us cyclists?

He's -
a) A van driver
b) A delivery driver

So you're right, abuse wouldn't work. He needs to be punched. In the face.

8)

How about a frontal lobotomy?

nickellis

jordan_217 wrote:

Maybe he was in a rush to deliver Ezy Riders decals?

:? I've just had an asthma attack laughing at this, comment/post of the year so far.

Long live The Ezy Rider Decal thread!!!