Red light jumpers on Princes street. Just because the pedestrians have crossed, doesn't mean you can jump the red light..!!
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I hate....
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Posted 13 years ago #
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... it when you can't find the p*** hole so have to resort to water. Then its so small that you lose it, and again and again ad infinitum
Posted 12 years ago # -
Amir, that's what white chinagraph pencils are for! In a pinch, a thin marker pen or even a ballpoint pen can be used instead.
I hate being just well enough to ride my bike across town (albeit slower than usual) but just unwell enough to feel nauseous and with no appetite all through the day at work.
I also hate Morningside Road's tarmac.
Posted 12 years ago # -
The way my chain is exactly the wrong length.
[interchangeable with: (dropout is too short) and (wrong chainring/cog combination)]
Posted 12 years ago # -
...not being able to get to Edinburgh, the city I love more than any in the world.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Punctures caused by actual real-life tyre sidewall blowouts, which I'm sure has happened once before long ago but too long ago to actually remember.
Fortunately, it was a couple of seconds after I'd jumped off to foot-scuttle across the road after a light went red, not that it stopped the numptie behind me who trundled through. Might have been nasty if it had been when I was turning right across the West Approach Road into Canning St just before traffic going straight through got green. Unfortunately, it's on a day when I have to be home promptly to collect the child and when I already have a nice fresh replacement tyre already bought sitting at home, preventing me buying one at lunchtime. Booting it with the materials available in my bag and desk to stop the spare tube popping whilst I roll it gingerly home will be this lunchtime's fun activity.
Posted 12 years ago # -
cyclists who use the green man to carry on their journey making everyone at the junction (vans and taxis) who want to turn right suddenly feel like they are justified to try to do so before I get to the middle of the junction heading straight on
thanks dumb@$$ - you made the drivers hate mePosted 12 years ago # -
Cyclists who attempt to trackstand at a red light, but can't trackstand, and just roll slowly and wobbily through the lights. Then once they're through, act as if it's all a big surprise "how did I get here? I was waiting, trackstanding at the red!" and then sort of shrug their shoulders and carry on.
If you go through the red very slowly, you still went through the red!
Posted 12 years ago # -
I hate the way I plainly can't trackstand on the black fix, but keep trying anyway, and I confess I've had to do the sheepish reverse red scuttle if I've lost the horizontal too close to the line.
Posted 12 years ago # -
...nothing coming out when you squeeze your tube of puncture-repair glue, only to be momentarily relieved when it turns out to be because the foil at the top has never been pierced due to never being needed, only to subsequently discover that the glue inside has still turned into a single snotty blob due to the tube's extreme age.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Cars not moving off fast enough to allow me to keep up the 'slow glide to avoid stopping', resulting in a last minute foot down, stop, reset pedals. Life is indeed full of sorrow.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Finding out the brakes you bought dont drop enough.......
Posted 12 years ago # -
Deciding which Brompton is best for Number 1 son to go cycling with his burd tomorrow.
M6R - no punctures on Marathon/Plus but the seat pin is a bit sticky. It makes a screech when you pull it up and you sometimes have to hold the frame down with your boot.
S6L - All works OK but it has a Brooks B17 N which he doesn't like the look of, prefers the B17 S on the M6R and he can't mend a puncture which might happen on Kojaks.
S2L-X - Nahhh, he isn't getting that one.
Posted 12 years ago # -
You mean he doesn't have his own?
Tandem?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Feeling the obligation to do this
Posted 12 years ago # -
That is very restrained of you. I always want to drag them out into the road.
Posted 12 years ago # -
He doesn't have one yet but he is due to leave for London, England, in a few months and he might get one then.
I need one with a tow bar tomorrow afternoon but both of the 6 speeds have one so that's not going to be a decider.
He says he will take them for a spin round the block later and see which he likes.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Kaputnik, I wonder if you passed them after I did? I pondered moving them to the pavement but was more keen to retain my inertia than be a good cyclizen.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Arrelcat - I went home but my lack of Big Society to this particular problem weighed heavily on my conscience so after I had changed into more shop-suitable shorts I went back to remedy the situation.
Posted 12 years ago #
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