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cjcp
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Posts: 5366
Location: Where kids get up far too early
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itboffin
Joined: 05 Jun 2008
Posts: 4882
Location: Marlborough, Windshire
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cjcp
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Posts: 5366
Location: Where kids get up far too early
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 Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 10:30 pm |
| itboffin wrote: | [just try the run down from KX to Blackfriars - [boring mode]which I might add follows one of the many ancient rivers[/boring mode]
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+1. Farringdon Road is appalling.
"I got nothing!"
FCN 2-4.
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Greg66
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
Posts: 2235
Location: The Embankment
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cjcp
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Posts: 5366
Location: Where kids get up far too early
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Mr Sworld
Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 167
Location: Brighton
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 1:03 am |
London.
Suckers.
Meh!
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MonkeyMonster
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
Posts: 882
Location: Olympia--> SCR Racetrack <-- Angel
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:17 am |
Sorry CJ but I was already at home by then, otherwise I'd have chipped in. Not so nice to see you got the pavement cycle w4nkers too...
I'd like to see all delivery van drivers have to cycle in london for an hour between 10pm and 3 pm and then see how like where the cun7s park and their crazy driving habits. FFS.
But that said at least I was on my bike - I pity the crazy fools who use public transport - roll on the mighty morpeth later!
Modified Cannondale M500 [98]
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MonkeyMonster
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
Posts: 882
Location: Olympia--> SCR Racetrack <-- Angel
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:42 am |
Oh and fecking flip flop wearer's in london on the race track. Don't do it please. One of them almost caused a crash last week due to it sliding off pedal, then his wince when foot met pedal and subsequent wobble that took him in front of a car. BERK!
Modified Cannondale M500 [98]
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El Capitano
Joined: 29 Aug 2004
Posts: 8356
Location: Mrs Miggins Home for the Criminally Insane
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:47 am |
1. Cars/vans driving in the cycle lanes.
2. BMW drivers
3. Other cyclists without lights.
4. BMW drivers
5. SMIDSY
6. BMW drivers
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will3
Joined: 16 Jun 2008
Posts: 1125
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:50 am |
To the lycra clad MTB rider heading east out of cambridge last night.
1) Blue lights are not the correct colour for the rear of a bike
2) having a green light on the back of your helmet light doesn't make up for 1)
3) you now know what 'fast' is, keep working at it. 
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Chunkers1980
Joined: 10 Feb 2009
Posts: 42
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:00 pm |
People who have the QR with the levers facing downwards.... No need and dangerous...
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evil_breakfast
Joined: 29 Apr 2009
Posts: 57
Location: Londoner in Somerset
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:54 pm |
one thing i've noticed recently is the amount of pubescents riding their BMX's on the road in darkness with no lights.
Are these numptys deliberately trying to remove themselves from the gene pool?
This was topped by what i observed on this mornings commute.
A kid on his way to school turning left on a busy multi laneTraffic Light T-Junction speaking into a mobile phone with one hand with the other steadying the bike.
pure madness!
*face palm*
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
FCN 3
Defy 3+ (09)
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DonDaddyD
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
Posts: 4139
Location: The middle distance
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Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:36 pm |
Drafting
Why when you slow right down do some drafters insist on dropping speed and with you instead of overtaking. I'm not talking 1-2mph I'm talking a drop from 21mph to 16mph. That in and of itself is arguably more annoying than the drafting itself.
Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights as you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game |
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FeynmanC
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Posts: 403
Location: Near Bristol
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Wallace1492
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
Posts: 1145
Location: North Glasgow
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Mr Sworld
Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 167
Location: Brighton
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:04 am |
| FeynmanC wrote: |
HATE busting sunglasses, which is why i've never spent the cash on Oakleys. I know they'd break and then i'd be REALLY peed off! |
However Oakley will repair them as long as you have done the warranty thing! Anyway get a pair of Half Jackets. virtually indestructible unless you lose them!
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Kurako
Joined: 10 Sep 2009
Posts: 163
Location: Tooting
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:30 am |
I seem to have perfected some sort of cloaking device. Last night I had:
1. Minicab pull out from give way into my path as I negotiated a sharp right hand bend. At the next set of lights he insisted there was plenty of space. That's ok then!
2. Taxi pull out from line of parked cars straight into my path. Got a nice test of my emergency stop.
3. Old lady started to walk out straight in front of me despite the fact I'm on a green and have a line of traffic to my right.
4. Attempted left hook coming past a side street to see a car appear in my periferal vision and then cut straight across in front of me. Car was indicating so I guess that's ok too.
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Rich158
Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 1632
Location: Kent
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shouldbeinbed
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
Posts: 283
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:09 pm |
To the no lights completely blacked out ninja on a black bike with no reflectors who shouted 'christ we can see you coming' just before nearly getting totalled by a car in the pitch dark rain at 6am this morning.
do the maths son, thats why drivers don't skid and swerve just around me with their horn on full blast making me wobble and bounce off the parked cars.
assuming you're not too dead to read this.
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Asprilla
Joined: 27 Feb 2009
Posts: 104
Location: RP & The Big E
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:09 pm |
1. The otherwise well prepared and suitably visable MTBer who decided to skip off the pavement and onto the road just before Albert Bridge. I'm fairly sure he was relying car headlight throw (or lack of) instead to looking becuase he didn't see me and looked pretty surprised when I shot past him and told him to look where he was going.
2. The idiot in the 911 who did a u-turn on NKR which involved reversing into the cycle lane. He lives in ignorance of how close my bike and teeth came to scratching his lovely car.
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I could see the passenger was still trying to pay as you executed this manouver, hence the reason I pulled out to overtake you, it was very funny when you then had to stop 20 yards down the road, to let the passengers that had just got on pick themselves up off the floor and pay for their journey.
