And today's commuting highlight is...
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Went out to the bike this morning to find that somebody's had a go at it since it was parked on Wednesday (Thur & Fri off).
The steering lock looks to have been snapped (again...) and now the key won't go in the ignition as the slot seems right at the top of the gap for it (not centred).
Guess this means another set of locks and recovery to the garage, the third set of locks in a year! - roll on a month until I can move and get it garaged!
At least the Almax did its job though - the other bike normally parked with me seems to have disappeared...
To the Chav's that have tried to steal it (again - the number pate was ripped off 10 weeks ago, again foiled by the almax) I hope your cock's drop off
The steering lock looks to have been snapped (again...) and now the key won't go in the ignition as the slot seems right at the top of the gap for it (not centred).
Guess this means another set of locks and recovery to the garage, the third set of locks in a year! - roll on a month until I can move and get it garaged!
At least the Almax did its job though - the other bike normally parked with me seems to have disappeared...
To the Chav's that have tried to steal it (again - the number pate was ripped off 10 weeks ago, again foiled by the almax) I hope your cock's drop off
Dr Jekyll said:
Got through Beaconsfield town centre, all the way down the M40 western avenue and Westway to Marylebone road before I had to put a foot down. Oddly satisfying.
crumbs i did that route but to the holland park area twice last week, feet were up and down like a tart's knickers - my defence i am on a zzr and i had ridden from north of Birmingham setting off at "ohh my god its dark at this time" on both days so was fairly tired by the time it got thereterry tibbs said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Got through Beaconsfield town centre, all the way down the M40 western avenue and Westway to Marylebone road before I had to put a foot down. Oddly satisfying.
crumbs i did that route but to the holland park area twice last week, feet were up and down like a tart's knickers - my defence i am on a zzr and i had ridden from north of Birmingham setting off at "ohh my god its dark at this time" on both days so was fairly tired by the time it got there
Unfortunately today's commute came back to earth with a bump. A texting driver veered towards me whilst I was filtering, threatening to squash me if I hadn't alerted him with a toot. Whilst his first reaction was to drop the phone like it was a red-hot poker, his second reaction was to jump out and want to fight me for having the temerity to ask him not to crash in to me.
Tw@t.
Tw@t.
CAPP0 said:
Unfortunately today's commute came back to earth with a bump. A texting driver veered towards me whilst I was filtering, threatening to squash me if I hadn't alerted him with a toot. Whilst his first reaction was to drop the phone like it was a red-hot poker, his second reaction was to jump out and want to fight me for having the temerity to ask him not to crash in to me.
Tw@t.
Just remember the aggressive actions/reactions of someone being caught in the wrong are 'shame projection'. If you shout enough then you can project your shame/guilt of being in the wrong and attempt to blame someone else to save face for your actions. This is a modern solution when you've f**ked up basically esp in conjunction with road/vehicles and where mobile phones are concerned.Tw@t.
Like the idiot huge headphone wearing drone pedestrian crossing the road in front of me with his back to me without so much of a look the other week.. he couldn't be bothered to walk the extra 10 metres to the green pedestrian crossing at the traffic lights, simply assumed as the cars had stopped he could just step out in front of me without looking.
His reaction to me pointing out my presence via horn and shouting WTF are you doing was to stand at the side of the road having crossed looking smug nodding taking a photo of me of the front of my bike with me in a full face helmet and at no time my number plate. Tw*t!
Tribal Chestnut said:
I've never sounded my horn at a pedestrian, & rarely do so for other vehicles.
Pedestrians are the road users I'm most likely to use my horn for. Absolute menace. Today's highlight was trying to switch to a clear spot approaching Wandsworth roundabout. Needed to act fast but was going out left from behind a van so checked the blind spot and moved across more slowly than I would have. Which was lucky because on the other side of a van was a stopped bus.
it was fookin close. I blame my cold. I bip pedestrians all the time. And cyclists. Apart from both just making me f
king angry, the horn is there to let people know you are present. Since pedestrians are mostly zombies blissfully unaware of their environment; and cyclists just choose to dismiss their environment because they can do whatever the fk they want and everyone else is accountable for their safety - I use the horn to tell them that actually I want them to pay a little attention to me and not do stupid ass things for just a few moments, if it's not too much trouble, thankyou very much.
king angry, the horn is there to let people know you are present. Since pedestrians are mostly zombies blissfully unaware of their environment; and cyclists just choose to dismiss their environment because they can do whatever the fk they want and everyone else is accountable for their safety - I use the horn to tell them that actually I want them to pay a little attention to me and not do stupid ass things for just a few moments, if it's not too much trouble, thankyou very much.Edited by Angrybiker on Wednesday 26th October 09:48
308mate said:
The highlight today was getting dressed for the ride home, packing my goretex textile trousers into the top box and setting off home in just my jeans and textile jacket, only for it to start properly pissing down before I even got through the limehouse link. All that weather protection on the RT only works when you're moving, so at no point the between Canary Wharf and Putney then. The very cold water running off the jacket into the jeans and seeping through to my bks was an especially exhilarating moment. Mercifully, the heated seat solved that problem so it only felt like I'd pissed my pants all the way home.
This has just made my morning. I think I came out at very nearly the same time and man that was a downpour, for a few seconds it came down so much I couldn't even see through my visor - that someone got caught in that with no Gore-Tex is the funniest thing I've heard in weeks! (it's happened to me before). ks was an especially exhilarating moment. Mercifully, the heated seat solved that problem so it only felt like I'd pissed my pants all the way home. Angrybiker said:
I bip pedestrians all the time. And cyclists. Apart from both just making me fking angry, the horn is there to let people know you are present. Since pedestrians are mostly zombies blissfully unaware of their environment; and cyclists just choose to dismiss their environment because they can do whatever the fk they want and everyone else is accountable for their safety - I use the horn to tell them that actually I want them to pay a little attention to me and not do stupid ass things for just a few moments, if it's not too much trouble, thankyou very much.
Nail head hit perfectly! I try to retain composure but the assumed transfer of accountability to everyone but themselves for the peds/cyclists own safety is particularly irritating. Rather than blipping I just use the horn though - not that it generally makes any difference if they're headdown on a mobile or with headphones in.king angry, the horn is there to let people know you are present. Since pedestrians are mostly zombies blissfully unaware of their environment; and cyclists just choose to dismiss their environment because they can do whatever the fk they want and everyone else is accountable for their safety - I use the horn to tell them that actually I want them to pay a little attention to me and not do stupid ass things for just a few moments, if it's not too much trouble, thankyou very much.Edited by Angrybiker on Wednesday 26th October 09:48
You lot who don't toot/blip peds? you obviously don't ever have them wandering across the road like lemmings then
Mario149 said:
Commuting highlight: getting out of bed at the same time as I do for the bike, but taking the car, and the commute only taking 5 mins longer (1hr15 vs 1hr10) on 4 wheels than it normally does on 2. I like half term 
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