Cycling things that annoy you beyond reason.

[47p2]

outnumbered said:

People with squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, squeaky, chains on group rides. Especially if they still squeak the following week

^^^ This, or squeaky clip on mudguards

[gazza285]

After today? Carbon steerers.

[Barchettaman]

Vocal Minority said:

Ouch - hope all heals up soon.

Kudos on the typing, are you using your nose?

All now healed, thanks. My performance on the night of the 'accident' (I'm an opera singer) was......interesting, in a painful sort of way.

[IroningMan]

The show must go on. Chapeau.

[mybrainhurts]

MikeOxlong said:

Cycling things that annoy you beyond reason.

People riding bicycles.

[yellowjack]

Thinking you've fixed your bike, and tweaked everything 'just so', then compressing the forks to find that water is spurting out around the stanchion from inside the right fork leg. Grrrr!

Today being Remembrance Day meant I wasn't about to go crashing about in the garage this morning stripping them down either. So I lost out on a ride in today's frankly lovely weather. Then, by the time I'd finished 'domestic duties' this afternoon, the natural light was fading, and the electric light in the garage isn't working. Tomorrow it is, then. They're only basic Suntour coil sprung forks, so letting out the water and cleaning them up internally won't be an issue, but I've got to work out how the water got in there in the first place, and see if I need any replacement seals, etc, to stop it happening again. I'll need to buy some grease too, for reassembly.

The worst part will be stripping out the hose and cable for the front caliper and the bike computer. I'd not long sorted the brakes to get them adjusted to run without pad rub, and now I'll have to do it all over again.

[mybrainhurts]

yellowjack said:

to find that water is spurting out around the stanchion from inside the right fork leg. Grrrr!

There's a clinic for that...

[loudlashadjuster]

That one thing you've forgotten which you remember just far enough away from the house to make it a pita to go back.

For me it's always something like forgetting to clean/oil my chain. Again.

[Janosh]

Fellow cyclists gatecrash sportives or start threads about gate crashing sportives

[sherbertdip]

yellowjack said:

Today being Remembrance Day (posted on monday 10th Nov at 0:21)

Cyclists who don't know when Remembrance Day is!

Edited by sherbertdip on Monday 10th November 15:16

[Usget]

Herman Toothrot said:

People you pass who then when you stop at red traffic lights ride on through without slow or hesitation in any way.

This. bds. If their journey was so important as to make the jumping of red lights necessary, why are they riding so bloody slowly? And why do they always have such a vacant-but-self-satisfied look? Morons.

[yellowjack]

sherbertdip said:

yellowjack said:

Today being Remembrance Day (posted on monday 10th Nov at 0:21)

Cyclists who don't know when Remembrance Day is!

Edited by sherbertdip on Monday 10th November 15:16

Well pardon me if I failed to notice it was just after midnight! The bit of Monday that came between Sunday and me going to bed just got tacked on to Sunday. So sue me.

And if you are referring to it having been "Remembrance Sunday" instead of "Remembrance Day" then I'm entirely aware of when both occur. Having stood to attention at the corner of Ripon's war memorial performing the 'Reverse Arms' drill movement in front of the entire city's parade, and having participated in a number of 'Drumhead' services of remembrance in hot sandy places, I'll thank you to hold your tongue when it comes to lecturing me on the act of remembrance. Kindly save your pedantry for less sombre occasions, if you don't mind.

[TheLemming]

Groundless brand snobbery really annoys me.

Your bottom of the line Bianchi isn't better than a high end Planet X, or Raleigh, or a top end Boardman FFS.

[sherbertdip]

yellowjack said:

sherbertdip said:

yellowjack said:

Today being Remembrance Day (posted on monday 10th Nov at 0:21)

Cyclists who don't know when Remembrance Day is!

Edited by sherbertdip on Monday 10th November 15:16

Well pardon me if I failed to notice it was just after midnight! The bit of Monday that came between Sunday and me going to bed just got tacked on to Sunday. So sue me.

And if you are referring to it having been "Remembrance Sunday" instead of "Remembrance Day" then I'm entirely aware of when both occur. Having stood to attention at the corner of Ripon's war memorial performing the 'Reverse Arms' drill movement in front of the entire city's parade, and having participated in a number of 'Drumhead' services of remembrance in hot sandy places, I'll thank you to hold your tongue when it comes to lecturing me on the act of remembrance. Kindly save your pedantry for less sombre occasions, if you don't mind.

Ouch, did i hit a nerve?

Now calm down, I wasn't being nasty, I was just poking a bit of fun - honest, and it certainly wasn't a lecture!!!!

But even if you had posted before Midnight as you know you would have been 2 days out from Remembrance Day, even worse

By the way I'm a Red Tab on my way out, what were/are you?

Edited by sherbertdip on Monday 10th November 20:50

[yellowjack]

sherbertdip said:

Ouch, did i hit a nerve?

Now calm down, I wasn't being nasty, I was just poking a bit of fun - honest, and it certainly wasn't a lecture!!!!

But even if you had posted before Midnight as you know you would have been 2 days out from Remembrance Day, even worse

By the way I'm a Red Tab on my way out, what were/are you?

Edited by sherbertdip on Monday 10th November 20:50

To be fair, yes, it's a bit of a 'raw nerve' time of the year for me. Furthermore, the Sunday closest to November 11 has become known, colloquially at least, as Remembrance Day. I just feel that pedantry is best kept for another time.

Red Tab? Reference to collar adornment? Not a circle I moved in, even at the end of my career. I served 25 years in the Royal Engineers, non commissioned rank, and left (was retired) in November 2012. My last 7 years were with Bomb Disposal, so quite a number of colleagues were killed or very seriously injured in action out in Afghanistan. My specialist qualifications kept me back home, under the 'UK Ops' banner, so not serving a tour in Afghanistan was frustrating and to some extent disappointing, but ultimately kept me out of harm's way and was a blessing for my family.

[wotnot]

Car drivers who overtake on clear roads but still refuse to cross the white line. Trs!

[anonymous-user]

wotnot said:

Car drivers who overtake on clear roads but still refuse to cross the white line. Trs!

I'm 100% sure they think that they are a better driver for having done this though "look, I managed to overtake a cyclist and not putymself in any danger whatsoever, hurrah for me"

[wotnot]

pablo said:

wotnot said:

Car drivers who overtake on clear roads but still refuse to cross the white line. Trs!

I'm 100% sure they think that they are a better driver for having done this though "look, I managed to overtake a cyclist and not putymself in any danger whatsoever, hurrah for me"

Depressingly, I think you're absolutely right.

[idiotgap]

I have two cycling pet hates.
1. Losing the front wheel traction on gravelly/slippery corners. Twice this has happened in the last few months since I started cycling again. Bang, I'm on the floor in an instant no opportunity to apply corrective skills. Pain, suffering, torn lycra, road-rash and stitches (ok glue and steristrips).


2. Drivers coming up behind who feel they have a divine right to pass me wherever they happen to encounter me on the road, blind corner, cars coming the other way, not wide enough, just-do-it.

[Vocal Minority]

My favourites are the ones who pull into the junction/petrol station maybe 50 yards from where they passed you.

They just cannot POSSIBLY bear to not pass a cyclist. It is like admitting you are weak...