Tales from today's commute....
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Simontm
Veteran
Using my dad's Norco as my wheel is with Evans Cycles (long, long story elsewhere). Hefty bugger but the gearing's nice up hills.
Numpty count:1 - some spotty youth so obsessed with checking oncoming traffic on the opposite side as he was crossing my road that he didn't check his right. His window was open as he crawled into the middle so I shouted: "Try checking this way next time". Surprised him a wee bit.
Numpty count:1 - some spotty youth so obsessed with checking oncoming traffic on the opposite side as he was crossing my road that he didn't check his right. His window was open as he crawled into the middle so I shouted: "Try checking this way next time". Surprised him a wee bit.
Upside: A wonderfully calm and unseasonally warm ride into work over a carpet of dry leaves for most of the journey. Plenty of wildlife as usual and I even had the owls serenading me for some of the journey.
Downside: The proportion of the early morning Bristol cyclists who are either not using any lights and think that is just fine and dandy. And then the idiot with the 4 x Cree LED light who thinks it’s OK to ride up a cycle path that has street lighting with his massive light trying to burn holes in the retinas of anyone he passes. I have been coming across this chap for a few weeks now and I got no response from him twice last week when I cupped my lights indicating he should do the same and then told him so when we passed. Today he was still just being a nobber so I turned my Cree x 2 LED light up to full beam, ensured the beam was pointing directly forward and not down towards the road as usual and told him to Foxtrot Oscar and stop being a nobber. I am thinking of leaving ten minutes earlier tomorrow just to avoid the fool. Oh how I can't wait for a a few weeks when it will be pitch black on the way home also and it will be nobbers blinding me all the way home... Rant over and to be honest the two other roadies I pass with bright lights cup their lights as I do and we normally say cheers etc. so its defiantly a small minority at the moment.
Downside: The proportion of the early morning Bristol cyclists who are either not using any lights and think that is just fine and dandy. And then the idiot with the 4 x Cree LED light who thinks it’s OK to ride up a cycle path that has street lighting with his massive light trying to burn holes in the retinas of anyone he passes. I have been coming across this chap for a few weeks now and I got no response from him twice last week when I cupped my lights indicating he should do the same and then told him so when we passed. Today he was still just being a nobber so I turned my Cree x 2 LED light up to full beam, ensured the beam was pointing directly forward and not down towards the road as usual and told him to Foxtrot Oscar and stop being a nobber. I am thinking of leaving ten minutes earlier tomorrow just to avoid the fool. Oh how I can't wait for a a few weeks when it will be pitch black on the way home also and it will be nobbers blinding me all the way home... Rant over and to be honest the two other roadies I pass with bright lights cup their lights as I do and we normally say cheers etc. so its defiantly a small minority at the moment.
Sheffield_Tiger
Legendary Member
Tell me why, I don't like Mondays...
confusedcyclist
Veteran
Could do with a clean mate.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
How bad was it when it snapped?
MickeyBlueEyes
Eat, Sleep, Ride, Repeat.
- Location
- Derbyshire
Nice to get back on it after 9 days holiday. Put on 10lb whilst being away so even with my new wheels it seemed pretty had going at times. It'll take a few days to get back into it I think, legs aching a little after the 30 miles.
Sheffield_Tiger
Legendary Member
Yep, whole thing could do with a clean but been working 6 and 7 day weeks and some nights till 10:45...
Probably why it gave way actually, lack of TLC. Not sure what happened, just set off, with a beautiful tailwind and the next thing my chest is on the bars, delicate bits on the top tube and a pedal raking up my leg.
Hmm..headwind, steep uphill and one not very reliable mid-range gear, That'll be a fun trip home - I might just NOT take the long way round.
confusedcyclist
Veteran
@Sheffield_Tiger Presumably that's the hanger that snapped? Apparently they will break if they have been bent as they become extremely brittle, a sudden change in windspeed coupled with a high power section would be enough to snap it... After a fair bit of use of course. Glad you avoided a serious accident as it could have been much worse had this happen at a junction/roundabout etc!
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Deleted member 1258
Guest
Headset bearings on my fixed were sorted at the weekend, today for the first time for a long time I had a bike that went where I pointed it and didn't need wrestling round corners.
confusedcyclist
Veteran
I lost my balance while travelling slowly between two lanes of stationary traffic tonight as a car ahead unexpectedly cut across my path just yards ahead. I had to prop myself up with my lower arm against a stationary van. It happened in front of loads of people waiting at a bus stop who immediately started shouting "He's crashed!!!111!11!1". Not sure how they managed that from leaning on a van with only my arm in contact. I swiftly regained my balance just as it started to move off. No harm done to the van at all as it was only my lower arm in contact with the panels... but embarrassing non-the-less to be caught off guard! Next time I'm waiting patiently at the back of the queue at that section of road. 
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
From that photo, my guess is you were screwed.
