Rant: Who ARE those people who....

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...filter to the front of the queue at the lights and then wait until the lights go green to casually put the bike in gear and move off?! You fking clueless pieces of st. If you're pushing your way to the front, be in a state of readiness when the lights go green or get run over by a XR who gives 0 fks and is willing to use them.





Feel free to add your own gripes.

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....smugly counsel newbies that spending long periods sat like sitting ducks at 65 in the middle lane of the motorway, sauntering through the blind spots of two lanes of traffic like an made-to-order ambulance sandwich, in some self-righteous convoy of bearded-Road-Captain-endorsed fking stupidity, is a safe way to ride?! Who are the people doing this?! Its plainly a st idea, especially for a newbie. Don't worry, your new hi-vis will save you from the person who didn't even look in your direction in the first place. tts.

This gin is a great loosener

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evil len said:

Strikes me you whinge a lot 308mate, don't you ?

You don’t have to be old to be grumpy.

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Prof Prolapse said:

Yeah cyclists are a nightmare by me.

A group decide to have an unofficial road race last year on an arterial road. Imagine,70+ of he s. One single, 1/4 mile streak of flourescent gobste. The traffic on the A701 (one of only two roads South) backed up about ten miles.

Thankfully I was on my GSXR. I filtered, ripped past, but not before slowing to gesticulate to the officials on their "support" vehicles that they were a shower of dicks, I have never seen such a sense of entitlement and inconsideration on such a scale.

I even had to keep my horn on the whole time passing the cyclists as, despite obviously hearing me, the cyclists kept pulling out to overtake each other (two/three abreast so well into opposite lane) without shoulder checks. Full tour de fking knobhead mode.

It's all the fking finance s from Edinburgh. Spending all week hedge funding via land mines and shafting poor people, then they come here in their Spandex on their ill-gotten ten grand plastic push bike, and obligatory VW Meincampfervans with full dhead chrome accessories, just to ps off another demographic before retiring back to their luxury homes for a finance sector BDSM and puppy drowning party.

One of the few positives of Brexit, I hope, is a long overdue hardship for these s. Perhaps they can wear their fking spandex onesy's when they're forced to apply their transferable skills to things like "cat strangling ", or taking their fragile, pretentious, carbon bicycles to ride between houses when they're trying to fleece old people.

I started a bigotry thread so that’s exactly what I should have expected. I shall acknowledge your out biggoting even me with a celebratory picture of me on a plastic bike riding two abreast




Doing my bit for saving valuable road space in Tenerife by not even bothering to use my front wheel.

I shall further acknowledge the irony of one marginalised minority group of vulnerable road users lambasting another one, with a picture of my campferwagen and another expensive plastic bike.



Though I should point out that any chrome is factory fitted and neither was ill gotten. They were all very expensive though, for plastic.

As this isn’t the “Cyclists are s” thread (though you’re welcome to start one), can we return to generic rants. If the situation were reversed this thread would have been dumped straight into the Pedal Powered forum by now.

And my intention was keep the infighting strictly to our own code.

Afterall, whilst people on two wheels dressed in silly clothing going too slow should punishable by death, people on two wheels in silly clothes going too fast is just fine.

PH: Double standards matter

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Biker's Nemesis said:

A Yellow bike doing a wheelie.. One one hand thats cool. On the other hand..

I know! And in no leathers either! Think of the children!

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creampuff said:

Biker 1 said:

NITO said:

......cylists are among the most hated user group and for good reason. ....... is it little wonder that tolerance to cyclists has worn so incredibly thin by those who encounter them on a daily basis.

Precisely - well said that man!
Edited to say that it is interesting that this thread has now turned into full blown anti-cycling...

Yes, it's amazing! Motorists don't like cyclists, people being delayed while riding the bus which has to slow down because of cyclists in front of it don't like cyclists and pedestrians don't like cyclists either!

We mock that which we do not understand.

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moanthebairns said:

I thankfully don't ride it on the roads it goes in the back of a skoda to muddy hills and st where I spend a lot of time pushing it up them.

On the odd time I do, I ride on the bding pavement where they belong, as its not made of glass I can bunny hop it freely up and down without it smashing into a million pieces not annoying motorists nor pedestrians.

I have to agree I was in a bike shop at the weekend and mountain bikers are wky as fk. Road cyclists, that's a whole different breed.
Theyre very posh too.

Ohhhhh. You’re one of those good cyclists. I didn’t know there were any.

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moanthebairns said:

Literally no one is impressed xxx I'm pretty sure the front has just lifted on your ridiculously bespoke light bike after running over a rizzla. That's pre crash.

Haters will say it’s shopped.

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Two of my posts got deleted by the mods! Probably the two least offensive on the whole thread and one of very few without a personal attack in it.
Of course no actual reason was given, as standard.

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Harji said:

, x3 verbal abuse from me

Harji said:

I kicked his bike told him to fk off or pull over.

Harji said:

I really do see more aggressive and dangerous nonsense from motorcyclists

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NITO said:

Good old Ron Liddle, never far off the mark...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/11/off-your-bike/

The trouble is, his point about victim mentality is equally applicable to the motorcycling fraternity (and probably to the same number of its members, proportionally). "I am more vulnerable therefore I am already a victim and my conduct is beyond reproach". Its simply not true. If you ride like a victim, you will become one. I see holier than thou loud-pipes-save-lives knobbers every morning doing rev-limiter posturing and sanctimonious head shakes at cars who have done nothing really, whilst a good proportion of the conflict can be blamed on the motorcyclist who was doing something unexpected or not strictly within the law. But they are so clouded by the victim-fog, they don't see anything other.
Its galling, I hate those tts. Be fking accountable and get your head around the fact that you are not every other road user's highest priority.

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yonex said:

308mate said:

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Feel free to add your own gripes.

People who moan about others. You generally find they;

Have fk all else to do
Are old
Are slow
Are slow and old
Drive really st cars
Ride st bikes
Have boring jobs
Have ugly wives
Once got fondled by an uncle
Think they are not old, slow, generally st and are going places

Guess that covers it

Rant of the thread so far, bravo.

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Dakkon said:

Rawwr said:

What about every hulking bell-end on here with a Rossi replica lid? They need to go thrown into the same see as the Team Sky cyclists.

I have a Haga rep and a Rossi rep lids and I don't give a fk what you think

Its a step up from the days when I'd go to Poole Quay and see every hulking bell-end in Crescent Rizla rep gear from head to toe. What the actual fk? On the bright side, I did find myself riding home alongside Chris Walker one evening, which was nice.