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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chrisonabike 11 minutes ago
@mdavidford while it can, I think of nonsense as more of a "pick your own" (hence bunch-servings) affair rather than BS, which is more like to arrive by itself in a steaming mess, or pile/heap.
mdavidford 42 minutes ago
I thought nonsense came in piles, rather than bunches.
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
@EastLondonCyclingNut I wouldn't be keen to find non-cyclists in my shoes - there wouldn't be room, even though they're fairly "walking-friendly" SPD ones. Not sure if public hire bikes change much. But I do think ultimately things only change when there's a significant fraction of the population with "skin in the game" - either because they cycle regularly themselves or more likely because they know their friends and *children* / other relatives do...
lesterama 2 hours ago
"Christie continued to follow the victim and drove the van into the back wheel of the bike."
stulemanski 2 hours ago
Generally, I get off my bike and walk in pedestrianised areas. Cyclists and pedestrians in close proximity do not mix well. I'd be pretty pissed off if cars decided it was okay to use a cycle lane because they didn't want to use an alternative, legal route.
wtjs 2 hours ago
@EastLondonCyclingNut I'm going for 'very suspicious' on this one- Trollfinder General Is this the increased sympathy where the driver attacks the cyclist causing serious injuries and is rewarded with the joke non-custodial sentence; or where the driver murders the cyclist in the most horrible manner and the Shyster Defence Barrister offers the mitigation that 'he didn't intend to do it and expresses remorse'?
yodhrin 3 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Unfortunately the idea that subjective "lived experience" trumps everything else in every situation is now quite popular and widespread. I once had an extremely depressing conversation with someone who insisted my opinion on a matter - a matter in a subject on which I'm well educated and have spent a great deal of time carefully considering my positions on - was worthless, incoherent, and irrelevant since I was straight. No attempt to engage with the substance - I was straight, so nothing I said could possibly be correct. It got more depressing still when I pointed out that actually I'm Bi I just don't go around draped in a Pride flag at all times, and the numpty came back in to work the next day and had completely changed his mind and decided actually I was stunningly insightful - I asked how he could rationalise thinking the same argument was wrong one day and right the next despite the argument, the evidence, and the person making it being completely unchanged expecting some kind of attempt to obfuscate or explain, but nope he just came out and said "but I didn't know you were Bi then, now I do, so it's valid now". They live among us.
qwerty360 3 hours ago
@mitsky afaik most 100 point cases are dodgy businesses where the keeper regularly gets 3-6 points for failure to identify because they make no effort to know who is driving pool cars. And either don't actually drive (hence not worrying) or are on company policy that covers anyone... I suspect the solution to this would involve seizing vehicles when they 'don't know who was driving'...
EastLondonCyclingNut 3 hours ago
I think one of the biggest factors in increased sympathy for cyclists is the fact that so many people increasingly Lime and other hire e-bikes. It’s an easy and attractive gateway into cycling that suddenly puts non-cyclists in the shoes of cyclists, and naturally makes them understand their perspective.
jaymack 3 hours ago
This awful case is the nastiest end of the wedge started in 'jest' by the likes of Matthew Parris. I wonder whether he's proud of the part he's played in normalising violence against the vulnerable?
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.