My Pet Hate

alfalad

Ok this exactly what it says on the tin, something that annoys me senseless. And it's something that see and whats worse hear on a very regular basis; Rusty Chains! I have considered stopping people and saying to them please clean and oil your chain. I mean any oil would be better than no oil! When people are cycling how do they not hear the chain squeaking away and how do they not fix it! It soo annoying!!!

Anyone else feel the same?

Caroline_ie

POBs ... meh

Chips Lovell

They probably think that only a qualified mechanic could lube their chain and they are too tight to pay for it.

Vélo

My pet hate in cycling ninjas....muppets.

rottenhat

alfalad wrote: »

Anyone else feel the same?

Oh God, yes.

beans

My pet hate is 'pet hate' threads :pac:

and grown adults cycling on the path...

Raam

Red light jumpers.

AstraMonti

Raam wrote: »

Red light jumpers.

so you hate 98% of dublin cyclists?

Caroline_ie

Raam wrote: »

Red light jumpers.

what about tshirts ...?



Very lame ... Sorry ...

Raam

red light t-shirts are OK in my book.

mikemac

Raam wrote: »

Red light jumpers.

When you strain and sweat to pass a cyclist out and then when you reach a red light they stop in front of you.

So you cycle hard and overtake them again but they stop in front of you at the next lights

Why? :mad:

Vélo

Caroline_ie wrote: »

what about tshirts ...?



Very lame ... Sorry ...

I was going to do that but it was too bad...even by my standards:D

DirkVoodoo

Yeah ninjas for me too. It's really dangerous (had a lad sneak up behind me yesterday, no lights or anything, had to double-check over my shoulder because I thought I was seeiing things) and a set of basic lights are pretty cheap and make a big difference.

Oh and cars that treat red light filters for turning right like yield signs.

Raam

mikemac wrote: »

When you strain and sweat to pass a cyclist out and then when you reach a red light they stop in front of you.

First rule of the Euro Cyclist: never show outward signs of effort. Image is paramount.

kenmc

mikemac wrote: »

When you strain and sweat to pass a cyclist out and then when you reach a red light they stop in front of you.

So you cycle hard and overtake them again but they stop in front of you at the next lights

Why? :mad:

You should always have a couple of snot rockets ready to randomly set loose when you're waiting at lights, it's not your fault if someone overtaking you gets hit

mikemac

mikemac wrote: »

When you strain and sweat to pass a cyclist out and then when you reach a red light they stop in front of you.

So you cycle hard and overtake them again but they stop in front of you at the next lights

Why? :mad:

Oh, when they go ahead of you at the lights (if they stop)? Yeah that gets me.

Had a nice commuter race with a RLJ yesterday from around Rathmines on the canal to Merrion Road, guy flew up the footpath to avoid the lights at one point.

crazydingo

@mikemac
If you have to "sweat and strain" then it seems luke you have to put far too much work into passing them. Why not stick behind them then because by the sounds of things you would be too tired to keep up such a pace to justify passing them.

Hungrycol

Vehicles that overtake you only to turn immediatly left.

Vehicles pulling out from the left blocking the cycle track.

Vehicles that are licking your back tyre on roundabouts.

Hungrycol

Dónal wrote: »

Oh, when they go ahead of you at the lights (if they stop)? Yeah that gets me.

Had a nice commuter race with a RLJ yesterday from around Rathmines on the canal to Merrion Road, guy flew up the footpath to avoid the lights at one point.

I'm a RLJ, but a safe one if they exist, and although it wasn't me yesterday it soulds like the kind of thing I'd do .

mikemac

Raam wrote: »

First rule of the Euro Cyclist: never show outward signs of effort. Image is paramount.

I forgot, forgive me

crazydingo wrote: »

@mikemac
If you have to "sweat and strain" then it seems luke you have to put far too much work into passing them. Why not stick behind them then because by the sounds of things you would be too tired to keep up such a pace to justify passing them.

Ah sweat and strain was just a figure of speech, an exaggeration I suppose.
Just getting the frustration out, this being a my pet hate thread. And it is frustrating!

Besides, it's others that strain and sweat to keep up with me :cool:

Hungrycol

Hungrycol wrote: »

I'm a RLJ, but a safe one if they exist, and although it wasn't me yesterday it soulds like the kind of thing I'd do .

Fair enough, but the guy was on the footpath going quickly enough across some driveways which is a bit crazy I think.

crazydingo

Hungrycol wrote: »

Vehicles that overtake you only to turn immediatly left.

Vehicles pulling out from the left blocking the cycle track.

I completely agree with the first thing because they do that alot.
As for pulling out, I had an incident where I was going down the bus lane one morning and a car pulled out in front of me without looking and only saw me too late as I shouted but even though I whipped on the brakes I was still going too fast and hit the front wing and completely cleared the bonnet to land on the road. Luckily I only had a few bumps and scratches!

mikemac wrote: »

Ah sweat and strain was just a figure of speech, an exaggeration I suppose.
Just getting the frustration out, this being a my pet hate thread. And it is frustrating!

Besides, it's others that strain and sweat to keep up with me :cool:

Ah I see, I kmow exactly what you mean then. I'm finding that it doesn't happen as much these days because I generally do a trackstand and they keep back :cool:

Caroline_ie

Cyclists ... no wait: POBs, who think because i am a girl, they MUST be faster ...

(the 'cyclists' are generally faster than me )

crazydingo

That's an interesting point because I've only ever been overtaken once by a woman so perhaps it was you

Caroline_ie

crazydingo wrote: »

That's an interesting point because I've only ever been overtaken once by a woman so perhaps it was you

I doubt it are you 3 and cycle a tricycle?

crazydingo

Caroline_ie wrote: »

I doubt it are you 3 and cycle a tricycle?

Well you never know! I'm not a hardcore cyclist like alot of others here sound like. I don't compete and whatnot

rottenhat

Caroline_ie wrote: »

I doubt it are you 3 and cycle a tricycle?

Hmmm...you are the same woman who led off the St Patrick's day spin at close to 40km/h, right? I confess I was somewhat relieved when emty went up the front to restore a little discipline.

Caroline_ie

rottenhat wrote: »

Hmmm...you are the same woman who led off the St Patrick's day spin at close to 40km/h, right? I confess I was somewhat relieved when emty went up the front to restore a little discipline.

... you seen me on hills tho ...

Chips Lovell

rottenhat wrote: »

...led off the St Patrick's day spin at close to 40km/h...

And you say you don't have your racing legs back yet? I detect a bit of sandbagging.

Caroline_ie

el tonto wrote: »

And you say you don't have your racing legs back yet? I detect a bit of sandbagging.

was that directing to me or rottenhat ...?

rottenhat

Caroline_ie wrote: »

was that directing to me or rottenhat ...?

I've never had racing legs but I am a notorious sand-badger.

Chips Lovell

Caroline_ie wrote: »

was that directing to me or rottenhat ...?

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MrJones

Cars who pull across the cycle lane in order to get out from their house -like along the N11..really annoys me. Literally they are parked on the cycle lane. Theres no option generally but to completely stop!

As for cyclists pulling up in front of yoy at traffic lights - they are just throwing down the gauntlet for another duel :pac:

dave.obrien

the road from ballsbridge into town. horrible!

the wind from a bus when they hurtle past you, especially when they're quite close. i'd like to make it clear, i've never had a problem with buses, i think they know how to drive with a cyclist on the inside and not cause problems, it's the indirect and unavoidable blast of wind that's a pet hate.

the timing of the lights on the blackrock bypass; either you get all of them, and have no problem, or you get none of them and spend most of your time trying to make sure the cyclist who is WAY slower than you doesn't f**king overtake you at the light again!

my pet hates tend to be directed at things i can't blame anybody in particular on... shame that!

jimm

kenmc wrote: »

You should always have a couple of snot rockets ready to randomly set loose when you're waiting at lights

snot rocket science Ken!!:D

abcdggs

Dónal wrote: »

Oh, when they go ahead of you at the lights (if they stop)? Yeah that gets me.

Had a nice commuter race with a RLJ yesterday from around Rathmines on the canal to Merrion Road, guy flew up the footpath to avoid the lights at one point.

What's am RLJ?

Red Light Jumper.

abcdggs

Of course, thanks

DirkVoodoo

Doonybrook road and Morehampton road, they have dug up the road recently and its really, really uncomfortable heading into town now.

abcdggs

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Doonybrook road and Morehampton road, they have dug up the road recently and its really, really uncomfortable heading into town now.

+1
that's a terrible road, my saddle is much too hard for it

Jawgap

Taxi drivers!!

Bus drivers in my experience are quite forgiving of cyclists and drive with a maturity that suggests you can trust them (except for some 16A and 27B drivers), but taxi drivers seem to like using cyclists for target practice!!

RLJs - for whom I have a particular contempt for and for whom I reserve a special over-taking manoeuvre for. The "special" involves:-

1. Catching up to them
2. Drafting behind them for a few hundred metres
3. Accelerating hard to get out and around them
4. Freewheeling once you come into their peripheral vision
5. Examining the nails on one hand as you slip effortlessly by and in front of them without pedaling
6. Dropping a gear and cycling inexorably away from them (until the next red light!!)

BeerNut

I got my first ever "worrayafookinwaitinfer" from an RLJ struggling past me to J an RL the other day. That was nice.

But my current pet hate is one I've only just noticed happening: one handers.

I've no problem waiting to overtake someone who's going slower than me, but someone who is going slow only because they're cycling with one hand is downright anti-social.

Dropping the hand: it's a filthy habit.