Needlessly slaloming without looking + riding at some speed through a coned-off section which frequently sprouts large holes across its whole width = numpty.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 11 years ago #
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The numpty scooting his bike along West Granton Access Road like a childs balance bike. His chain had broken for days ago and it was "quicker than getting the bus"
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Says something about Edinburgh that it's faster to do that than get the bus!
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Me...
Filtered down Dalkeith Road to Cameron Toll between the vehicles heading for the ASL, and spotted that the first driver in the right hand lane was indicating left - I saw the lights turning green and floored it to finish the manoeuvre to avoid getting squished.
What was rubbish? I'd read the lights on the roundabout, beyond those I was approaching, so jumped the first set.
I'll go back to not filtering...
Robert
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The teenagers on BMXs weaving down Morrison Street doing wheelies in the dark, with no lights and at rush hour. Think I muttered "b****y stupid" as I passed and they went down Dalry Road.
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Man on bicycle going west along Porty High Street this morning whilst texting.
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The teenagers on BMXs
The best thing about teenagers on bicycles misbehaving is that their bikes are so impractical that you can call them anything you want and they haven't a hope of keeping up to remonstrate :)
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As someone who intermittently still rides BMX and who is not a teenager I'd like to invite you down to Saughton Skatepark and we'll see how 'practical' a road bike or commuter is at, say, airing 2 or 3 meters out of a half pipe ;)
Of course, if they're just dossing about on BMXes, then you can indeed say what you want without fear of them catching up. However, you may encounter riders who spend hours every day carving up a skatepark, and who consequently have arms and legs like tree trunks, the sort of person that can put down stupendous amounts of power to catch you up, at which point the sight of those aforementioned bulging muscles might dissuade you from any further verbal provocation....
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@allebong
[+] Embed the video | Video Download Get the Flash Video Of course my own skills are strictly limited to trying not falling off over tram tracks. But I would wager I've got plenty safety in gear ratios to outrun your typical Edinburgh pavement cruiser with an overly noisy freewheel.
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I'm afraid the joke is on you; BMXes nowadays use neither freewheels nor freehubs, instead opting for a 9 tooth driver thingymabob that usually ends up spilling several hundred ball bearings everywhere if you try to service it.
There do exist quiet hubs, I used to pride myself on my silent ratchet as it was nice to hear the bike while
crashingjumping all over the place. Alas that wheel broke and the only replacement I could scrounge up sounds like there's a few dozen cards stuck in my frame and spokes, the piercing clicking following me everywhere.Still it's not so bad when it's confined to something like BMX or a mtb. I maintain there is a special place in hell reserved for anyone who puts a Hope Pro 2 hub (the benchmark for obnoxiously loud ratchets) onto any sort of touring/commuter bike. I'm recalling some distant group ride, being stuck behind that, going from serene silence to CLICKICIKCICKI every few seconds as the guy alternately coasted, for hours and hours.
....Sorry, what was this thread about again?
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Martyn Ashton, total, amateur - did you see the oil marks on his legs? ;-)
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"I maintain there is a special place in hell reserved for anyone who puts a Hope Pro 2 hub (the benchmark for obnoxiously loud ratchets) onto any sort of touring/commuter bike"
My commuter is a Hope Pro 3, and I have to say that on a shared use path it's as good as a bell for letting people know you're there - I'd maintain that on a commuter a loud freewheel is of definite benefit. Conversely for rides out in the countryside and the like I prefer the silence, so deliberately didn't put a Hope on the bike that was to fulfil that role.
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How that pinarello didn't pop a spoke I don't know.
I particularly liked the somersault he did out of the bunker on the golf course.
At the end gets a bit dodgy with the podium girls (rock and roll style) saved a little by the humour of the only bit of the bike cleaned being the pinarello decal. Tho then spoiled by all that WD 40 sprayed on the chainring. Minor quibble.
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To the 'old school' cyclist with home-made mudguard who was in front of me for some distance on the Roseburn path, then when I passed as he slowed down, greeted me with something along the lines of "Couldn't get past? Look at you with the fancy gear - you're not as fit as you think you are".
(a) You have no idea how fit I think I am.
(b) You have no idea if I was even *trying* to pass you.
(c) You have no idea how far I'd already cycled this morning.
(d) I was trying to work out how your homebrew mudguard held together.
(e) You're not as funny as you think you are.I wish I'd thought of (a) - (e) at the time. </catharsis>
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@panyagua
As the "old school" cyclist in question, wasn't trying to be funny, If you want to ask about a component fine, my objection was to your piggy backing.
Next time its my turn :)Apologies if I decried your fitness, frustration on my part.
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@panyagua @559
CCE makes friends for life (?)
Wonder if there are any red fiesta drivers on here...
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@chdot :)
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@559 - I wondered if you might be on the forum! <embarrassment>
Wasn't deliberately trying to piggy-back - I was too far behind you to get any drafting benefit - you just happened to be going at a comfortable speed, and there were a number of other cyclists, walkers etc around which limited the overtaking opportunities, had I even wanted to.
Apologies if that annoyed you, but your mudguard was strangely mesmerising... :)
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It can be pretty hard to pass anyone, safely and without annoying on-coming walkers and cyclists, on that stretch of path.
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@Panyagua,
Iam intrigued as to what categorises me as a "old school" cyclist?Re my Mudguard, my bike is a Montague folder, I got fed up with mudguards disintegrating due to damage caused by parking, folding etc. So made my own, the sheet is corrugated plastic, the arch is sprung with carbon fibre rods, and as you saw the stays are thin bamboo canes fixed with stainless steel p clips.
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@559 re 'old school' - I suppose it was your *lack* of specialist gear more than anything else - not suggesting there's anything wrong with that, in fact it's admirable!
Clearly you're very practical and resourceful, which a lot of cyclists (and I include myself) are not, so I hope you'll take it as a compliment!
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Drafting rules:
http://www.triduo.com/articlesPage/draftingrules/drafting.htmAnd definitely don't sling a line around someones seatpost/rack - that's definitely antisocial!
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"How that pinarello didn't pop a spoke I don't know"
Pretty sure he did actualyl pop quite a few.
There's a good out-takes video with various stunts that didn't quite work.
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@amir - interesting, thanks for that! In which case I probably *was* in the drafting zone - not because I wanted a free ride, but more because it's not practical to stay to the side on the NEPN with so many walkers and other cyclists around.
Maybe unwilling draftees should have some kind of warning sticker on their mudguards (e.g. 'if you can read this, you're too close') :)
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Put a long bamboo cane or similar on your rack, with "if you can read this you're too far back to get any aerodynamic benefit"
Posted 11 years ago # -
All this awkwardness could be avoided if one or other or both riders pretended to be Italian:
Outta my way!
Lasciami passare!You're not as fast as you look
Non sei veloce come sembraiFeel free to take a pull
Ha la cortesia di lavorare un po'I think my brakes are dragging
Credo che mi stanno rallentando I freniHave you ridden at all this year?
Ha practicato per lo meno una volta questo anno?Am I riding too fast for you?
Vado troppo veloce per te?I'm conserving energy for the mountains
Io conservo energia per le montagne(More here).
Posted 11 years ago # -
Why would anyone object to drafting?? Its not as if they're stealing your fresh air!! I draft regularly on my commute and am also drafted by others. Surely we're all helping each other out. Everyone hug now!
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Indeed. Drafting actually benefits the rider in front as well.
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@deckard112 My thought exactly. I draft (and am drafted) regularly on my commute as there are often times when the rider in front is going at a pace close to what I'm happy with. If I was to pass I'd just end up taking a turn on the front myself and since it's not a club run I'd rather not bother for what in effect is going to be a couple of minutes. I'm not sure why anyone would get annoyed by this unless it was howling a gale and you had been drafting for a sustained period of time.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I have to draft.
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