How was your cycle commute?

[gentlegreen]

Pump? Puncture repair kit? Spare inner tube?
-sigh-

I resisted saying that.

 

[Orang Utan]

I like riding bikes but I hate repairing them!

 

[gentlegreen]

That;s another thing I never have to do.
8 speed chains, kevlar-lined tyres.
Just as well as my portable pump is crap.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm still reeling from a chap's recumbent revelation

 

[joustmaster]

I often wonder whose cycling bags weigh more GG or achap.

 

[gentlegreen]

There was a guy I used to find myself on rides with who had actual spanners clinking away in one pannier.

Perhaps I should put everything in its own ziplock and set some deadline for using it or leaving it at home.

 

[joustmaster]

Weigh it all first!

 

[Orang Utan]

I thought joustmaster was just talking figuratively

 

[DownwardDog]

very nice, whats the frame?

It's a Boulder Bicycle All Road 650B. About 2k for frame + forks.

 

[DownwardDog]

Never found a non-track pump that gets enough air in the tyres

These are good:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lezyne-carbon-road-drive-abs-pump/

I've done roadside inflations to > 7.0 bar with one of these.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ouch

 

[girasol]

mmm, I might have to revert to basket, my neck/back been hurting this week (rucksack has been heavier than usual). Or I could stick with it and see if I get used to it... Dunno.

I cleaned my chain at the weekend, and since then it's been sometimes clicking (but not quite jumping to another gear) when I cycle standing up. Now worried it might snap after golightly's incident!

 

[joustmaster]

mmm, I might have to revert to basket, my neck/back been hurting this week (rucksack has been heavier than usual). Or I could stick with it and see if I get used to it... Dunno.

I cleaned my chain at the weekend, and since then it's been sometimes clicking (but not quite jumping to another gear) when I cycle standing up. Now worried it might snap after golightly's incident!

Turn that gear cable adjustment thing half a turn.

 

[Onket]

I like riding bikes but I hate repairing them!

When you get paid, get a spare inner tube & a small pump- that's all you need really.

 

[gentlegreen]

Someone in wearing blue asked me if I "wasn't shouting today" - I rather hoped it was the same c*nt who'd fired a hideous light in my face the day before, but on checking I thought it unlikely - different outfit, different bike. It would have made an interesting video.
The answer is that I am unlikely to stop shouting at clueless idiots who spoil my daily cycle ride.
Roll on the spring when I can add some genuinely pleasurable miles and forget about the idiots on my commutes.
Some nasty little ninja thug actually started to have a go at me the other day, but thought better of it before any actual violence occurred - I'm pretty sure I could have arranged to use him for a safe landing for my 18 stone at 18MPH.

 

[Wolveryeti]

When you get paid, get a spare inner tube & a small pump- that's all you need really.

You need an adjustable spanner or round-headed multi-nut-wrenches to get the wheel off too. Also depending on how much of a bastard your tyres are to get off/on, tyre levers or toe straps can come in very handy as well.

 

[gentlegreen]

You need an adjustable spanner or round-headed multi-nut-wrenches to get the wheel off too.

Modern bikes are usually QR

 

[joustmaster]

And teaspoons make a fine tyre levers.

 

[Ted Striker]

very nice, whats the frame? I've got a velo orange polyvalent which looks like a budget version of this

I recently treated myself to a Bob Jackson frame and currently in the process of putting it together - it's got hub gears setup and s&s couplings (which means it can separate in 2 and fit in a suitcase).

It currently looks like this though...

I'm channelling gentlegreen on the lights and every 24 hours I have a new genius idea to incorporate the rechargeable ones I have into the frame (whilst still look all retro-y)

 

[Onket]

And teaspoons make a fine tyre levers.

Some were in the puncture repair kit I got from the pound shop.

 

[Onket]

The answer is that I am unlikely to stop shouting at clueless idiots who spoil my daily cycle ride.
Roll on the spring when I can add some genuinely pleasurable miles and forget about the idiots on my commutes.

They only spoil it cos you allow them to. But really I think you enjoy it anyway.

 

[gentlegreen]

And teaspoons make a fine tyre levers.

Unless you have alloy rims.

 

[gentlegreen]

They only spoil it cos you allow them to. But really I think you enjoy it anyway.

No, I hate it, I really do. It's so depressing that I have so much trouble from other cyclists.

 

[Onket]

No, I hate it, I really do. It's so depressing that I have so much trouble from other cyclists.

I wonder why you get so much of it?

 

[gentlegreen]

I wonder why you get so much of it?

I think the truth is that cycling has "arrived" as a form of transport with a similar proportion of idiots, but with no MOT or any legal ramifications for non-compliance.
I have the good fortune to live in town and work outside, so my side of the path is almost empty, but that also means that cyclists coming the other way choose not to consider the implications for others.
A lot of them also probably have shitty jobs.
I have yet to encounter anyone else in Bristol with DIY lights. and I know of only one path user with a properly configured German standard dipped beam.

 

[Onket]

Just get one with it like the rest of us do. You are making your own problem. Either that or you do actually enjoy it.

 

[Orang Utan]

You need an adjustable spanner or round-headed multi-nut-wrenches to get the wheel off too. Also depending on how much of a bastard your tyres are to get off/on, tyre levers or toe straps can come in very handy as well.

you don't need a spanner. You just flick a lever and unscrew it.
Tyre levers or butter knives are essential though

 

[gentlegreen]

Just get one with it like the rest of us do. You are making your own problem. Either that or you do actually enjoy it.

As I'm getting tired of pointing out, I was cycling to work on that path before most of them were born.
Unlike others around here, I don't ignore bad behaviour - littering, graffiti, vandalism generally.
This is Suburbia, not central London.
I tackle cars head-on. I formally reported a bus driver yesterday.
If no one does anything it gets worse.
If that someone is me, so be it.

 

[weepiper]

As I'm getting tired of pointing out, I was cycling to work on that path before most of them were born.

That doesn't make it yours.

 

[gentlegreen]

That doesn't make it yours.

It probably makes me care a lot more though - and I have 25 years of context.
It probably makes a difference that I passed my first driving test long before I rode a pushbike.