This morning on a 12 mile commute into a strong head wind another rider sat on my back wheel for 9 miles, don’t you just hate that; no offer of taking a turn! For the last 3 miles I really dug in, pushed as big a gear as I could in order to break him, but alas, all of the work I had put it had paid a toll and he sprinted past me just as we reached our destinations. I thought this was commuting, not the last 12 miles of a race or 12 mile TT. Bring it on again tomorrow!
I thought this was commuting?
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Backladder 9 minutes ago
@mctrials23 People have been suffering for years because they have been unlucky enough to have been hired by bad people, or had the bad luck to become ill. This is just bringing the system more into balance. I don't have a problem with encouraging people to start businesses but I don't agree with doing it by letting them exploit the poor and the desperate, if they need encouragement then offer state benefits for small businesses and use the claims process to make sure that they are doing everything they should to run the business properly including paying and training their employees. If they just want to get rich quick by exploiting others then they should be in the USA.
mdavidford 16 minutes ago
One may wonder why you've brought up DEI when it has nothing at all to do with anything in what Lappartient said. Or why you care about the state of the women's sport if you're so down on diversity, equity and inclusion. 🤷♂️
Rendel Harris 30 minutes ago
Not quite the first time, I rode over it back in the late twentyteens, just happened to see it was jammed nose-to-tail so thought it would be fun to filter along...turned out there was an overturned lorry at the eastern end blocking all carriageways. I honestly didn't know cycling was banned (the signs aren't very prominent), just assumed nobody rode on it because it would be suicidal in normal circumstances. Fortunately the weary copper at the other end who saw me just cut off my apologies and said, "Fuck off over there [a gap in the barrier to a slip road] and don't do it again."
Backladder 46 minutes ago
They're not slalom barriers, they're Sheffield stands for parking your bike.
mctrials23 58 minutes ago
@momove I would think that spending time training someone up, putting the time and effort into that only to have most people move on relatively quickly isn't a great business model. I know there is the argument that "if your business has to take advantage of people to run then its not a viable business" but thats the reality of some of these shops. Up to a point, thats exactly what apprenticeships have always been. A business get cheap labour that might help them a bit and the apprentice learns something.
MaxiMinimalist 1 hour ago
One may wonder why bureaucrat Lappartient wants to reinvent the wheel with a massive injection of DEI and drastic reduction of money. Let the best cyclists win, period. Meanwhile, women's pro peloton needs means and support to attract new sponsors, increase TV coverage, improve salaries and prize money.
momove 1 hour ago
So they want to pay people a pittance "for the experience", not record their leave accrued, have them ineligible for sickness pay, then complain about them not being experts on e-bikes, bikefitting and more?
mitsky 2 hours ago
No right-wing media frothing about this?
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Made worse by the fact the road has recently been closed for services works for a few weeks, and that was brilliant while it lasted.
mctrials23 2 hours ago
Whilst all the changes made are broadly good, there are a host of businesses that can and will suffer for them if they are unlucky enough to hire bad people or simply have bad luck. Small businesses are already really hard pushed to turn a profit with all the pressures of NI, wages, rent, energy costs etc so at some point we do need to find a way to support small businesses and encourage their growth rather than encouraging their demise at every opportunity by treating them in exactly the same way as big, wealthy businesses. A country is built on the businesses people start. When all people see is risk with little chance of reward, why would they even try. Its already an issue for plenty of people who start up a one man band and grow to the size where they could and should start thinking of turning things into a proper company with employees. Do you take this risk or do you just in a comfortable place and take more holiday to avoid the pitfalls of VAT and all the issues with hiring people etc?
12 thoughts on “I thought this was commuting?”
Flick the elbow
Flick the elbow
9 miles?! I’d have lost
9 miles?! I’d have lost patience long before that….
Stop for 30 seconds if it
Stop for 30 seconds if it bothers you so much
Thanks for making my commute
Thanks for making my commute a walk in the park … see you next time 🙂
And you allowed it for 9
And you allowed it for 9 miles???!! Stop…and allow the wheelsucker to go past…simple.
Lol,i get this occassionally.
Lol,i get this occassionally. Trick is stay at 60% then when he/she trys to blow you away you have plenty left in the tank 😉 GL for next time ;x
I have got the perfect
I have got the perfect solution; a motor that you put in the seat tube that ‘kicks in’ when you press a button on your gear lever! Bought it from some Swiss guy called Fabien. He said he has used it once to blow people off his back wheel and it worked really well!
SideBurn wrote:I have got the
The 2011 model doesn’t seem quite as good as the 2010 version, mind 😉
Fabien said the 2011 model is
Fabien said the 2011 model is x-ray friendly; whatever that means!
Fabien said the 2011 model is
Fabien said the 2011 model is x-ray friendly; whatever that means!
Doesn’t bother me at all when
Doesn’t bother me at all when someone does that to me. Happens all the time when lapping Regents Park. You have a few options, some which won’t help you at all, some which will annoy the other guy, and some which will help you.
1. Get upset, start flicking the elbow, huff and puff. (hint: this ain’t gonna help you much 😉 )
2. Start doing intervals.
3. Ignore him entirely.
4. Go into TT mode, and bottle up the thought of him sitting on your wheel. When you’re in your next TT, play it back in your head. It’s a great way to stay mentally tough when you’re going flat out in the last few miles.
What really rubs it in is
What really rubs it in is when the guy sails past on a 3-speed riding upright and whistling.