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How was your cycle commute?

iamwithnail said:
Orang Utan you weren't altercating woth a norn Irish guy driving an Audi on commercial street earlier were you?
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Not me! I work and live south of the river. There must be another angry ginger cyclist out there!

I've started screaming on my bike on the way to work actually, not at anyone, just in a primal way. it feels good. i only do it on a street that is full of rich people. don't want to disturb anyone and they have big driveways and can probably handle the screams of humans anyway, as they tend to lack humanity.
 
The guy was giant and ginger, so obviously I thought it was you. :D I do that as well, the screaming thing! Glad there's another weirdo out there. See also: honking my horn obnoxiously on deserted motorways when I'm driving.
 
By my last count I've used 7 of my nine lives in the last week. Tonight was when I went througha junction when I was on green, the road coming from my right had an amber (changing from red) as I was entering the right hand lane and a car going in the left hand lane in that direction carried on through without slowing. I got a beep of the horn and an angry gesticulation from the woman in the passenger seat.

Driver seemed reluctant to engage in conversation when i caught him 25 metres later and tried to explain that I had a green when i crossed the stop line at the junction.
 
I fucking love half term. 30km/h average hit, even with an empty pedestrian crossing holding me back on the climb up York Rd (one of only two red lights on the whole ride!) and a bit of a traffic jam coming into the office car park. I'm getting used to drops and downtube shifters now, so much that when I was on the shitty mountain bike in London at the weekend I kept reaching down to change.

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(and I'm pissed off that I'm going to be working on site on Thursday when it promises a clear morning and a 20mph tail wind, today was only about 8mph)
 
Came down with a cold Thursday, worked from home Friday due to the "shivers" setting in. Rode 610km on Saturday and Sunday which I don't think helped the cold which has now turned into the Black Death or something so I've been off work yesterday and today.

Hopefully will be back at work tomorrow but I just found that I've broken the Pashley :( :( :( So it'll be on the 17 year-old commuter for a change.
 
I overtightened the axle nut on the hub gear side of the rear wheel (I kept pulling the real wheel out of alignment going up hills) and the nut's split!

I rang Pashley and they're sending me a replacement nut free of charge. Now that's customer service :D:thumbs::cool:
 
Back in the leggings and proper gloves again this morning, clear night meaning a cold start. Legs a bit aching from the 70 miles I put in yesterday, rucksack full of food and clothes for the week. Still managed a respectable time under 30 mins, mainly because I had an almost clear run through town and the boost from my morning coco pops kicked in for the last hilly third of the ride.

I have yet another 20mph headwind to look forward to for the return leg this evening. *shakes fist at the Atlantic*
 
Strange how the little man with the very big car finds every excuse not to actually follow through with his threat.
 
Update 1: the replacement wheel nut arrived Friday, was applied lovingly to the Roadster. And, after a suitably thorough shampoo and polish, the Roadster and I (and the wife and lovely Pashley Princess I hired for her for the day) took part in the annual Pashley Picnic in Stratford Upon Avon. Bliss and deep joy.

Update 2: catastrophically bad thing happened to the Roadster this morning. It's now in Intensive Care at the local bike hospital and I've been on the phone again to Pashley. Major surgery is required but there's a chance the bike won't be ready for this weekend, which is a bit of a bugger as it's a 600km qualifier for Paris Brest Paris.

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Lots of 'he should have been in the bike lane' comments under the article, which is depressing. They're busy spending thirty million quid on a bike lane that will cover about 70% of my commute route here, complete with loss of priority at junctions, posts in the path, sharp chicanes around bus stops etc. Based on what they've completed so far I can't see any advantage to me using it, but am I going to get this kind of abusive crap from fuckwits that think using cycle lanes should be mandatory? I've been shouted at several times in the past for not bothering with them where they're full of glass, on the wrong side of the road, poorly surfaced or require you to stop and push buttons. Build good infrastructure and I'll give it a thought.
 
Dogsauce said:
Lots of 'he should have been in the bike lane' comments under the article, which is depressing. They're busy spending thirty million quid on a bike lane that will cover about 70% of my commute route here, complete with loss of priority at junctions, posts in the path, sharp chicanes around bus stops etc. Based on what they've completed so far I can't see any advantage to me using it, but am I going to get this kind of abusive crap from fuckwits that think using cycle lanes should be mandatory? I've been shouted at several times in the past for not bothering with them where they're full of glass, on the wrong side of the road, poorly surfaced or require you to stop and push buttons. Build good infrastructure and I'll give it a thought.
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Yep as soon as you lose priority at side streets the lane won't be used and actually makes things worse than before.

Obviously the driver in that clip is a twat and totally in the wrong but the cyclist doesn't make himself look that great either
 
The cyclist does say near the beginning that he's been hit three times before and is not having it any more, so I can get where his rage is coming from. The guy has basically just deliberately run him into the kerb, which could have been a serious assault. I'm pretty laid back but I'd probably have given the cunt some lip too, totally out of order behaviour.
 
Dogsauce said:
The cyclist does say near the beginning that he's been hit three times before and is not having it any more, so I can get where his rage is coming from. The guy has basically just deliberately run him into the kerb, which could have been a serious assault. I'm pretty laid back but I'd probably have given the cunt some lip too, totally out of order behaviour.
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missed that I would (and have in similar situations) screamed at him too
 
Their Facebook page is seeing a lot of traffic:

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Twitter also being impressively trolled. Oh dear.
 
I feel sorry for the people working at the Brew cafés, their jobs are at risk due to Jason Wells being an utter twat.

Priory Lane, isn't there a rehabilitation centre there? Or at least one with a very similar name. I hope no-one's going to suggest Jason (The twat) Wells was in any way using substances such as cocaine. That would be bang out of order.

Any similarities between his behaviour and the proximity of an addiction treatment centre are purely co-incidental and anyone suggesting otherwise deserves to have their "teeth kicked in" (thanks Jason). Threats of violence, of course, are ever a good idea. Especially on camera. Near an addiction centre. For cocaine.
 
a_chap said:
I feel sorry for the people working at the Brew cafés, their jobs are at risk due to Jason Wells being an utter twat.

Priory Lane, isn't there a rehabilitation centre there? Or at least one with a very similar name. I hope no-one's going to suggest Jason (The twat) Wells was in any way using substances such as cocaine. That would be bang out of order.

Any similarities between his behaviour and the proximity of an addiction treatment centre are purely co-incidental and anyone suggesting otherwise deserves to have their "teeth kicked in" (thanks Jason). Threats of violence, of course, are ever a good idea. Especially on camera. Near an addiction centre. For cocaine.
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The Priory is a brand of rehab centres, where the celebs often go.
 
It's a rat run for impatient drivers that want to avoid traffic lights apparently, so I suppose that tends to select less patient drivers.

Having watched it again I'm not sure why the cyclist has come in for so much criticism, his initial response was only 'oh come on!', after which the driver lurches towards him and starts shouting and swearing, I reckon most people would lose their rag a bit faced with such aggression for merely existing. If you ride daily you can get ground down a bit by people thinking they have more entitlement to the road than you do and threaten your safety because of this, it's bullshit.
 
What a class A prick. Amusing that this video has gone viral on Facebook, Twitter, etc. My friends in Australia are retweeting it!
 
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