Annoying what some other riders do...(Slight Return)

[Markymark]

Bananananana wrappers, on the other hand, seem to get ditched with monotonous regularity.

Which one did the rapping?

 

[Mugshot]

Reflectors on the bike, a bell, an sort of chainguard or protection disk on the freewheel,, valve caps, tyres whose logo are not centred of said valves, bar tap which is any colour other than black, mudguards

I'm not going to get het up about any of these but I can sorta see if I squint really hard why they may frustrate others, except valve caps, and I've seen them get bad press before, what the hell is wrong with the humble little valve cap? They're so inoffensive and I'd have thought rather useful too.

 

[Lonestar]

All those carelessly discarded CO2 cartridges all over the place. Especially on suburban streets.

I even see loads of them in alleyways, where cycling is expressly prohibited. What on earth are cyclists going down them for, is it specifically to flytip a load of CO2 cartridges, as there always seems to be a heap of them?

(I'm presuming they are CO2 cartridges, as there aren't an awful lot of pastry chefs near me..?)

Must admit at first I thought it was cyclists doing this...then there were getting to be too many of them and I realised it wasn't.

 

[Dec66]

Must admit at first I thought it was cyclists doing this...then there were getting to be too many of them and I realised it wasn't.

I was being a bit facetious in my OP

In fact, I was the other way round, I'd occasionally see a discarded CO2 canister out in the lanes and think "who the fark has been doing laughing gas in the middle of nowhere?"

 

[mjr]

I'm not going to get het up about any of these but I can sorta see if I squint really hard why they may frustrate others, except valve caps, and I've seen them get bad press before, what the hell is wrong with the humble little valve cap? They're so inoffensive and I'd have thought rather useful too.

I don't agree with it (I think it keeps the shoot spread across our roads out of the valve) but I know the rules-fans dislike them: "The plastic cap is only there for shipping and storage. Open up a new tube. See how the tube wraps around the stem? Well that little threaded part you loosen to add air to the tire will wear a hole in the tube over time if it isn’t capped. Once the tire is installed, the cap is utterly useless and will serve no purpose. Take it off. Seriously. The fact that you think it’s of use and therefore should be on the stem, just because it was in the box, says a lot about you to every new person you’ll meet." - Ten Sure-fire Tells that You’re a Road Cycling Noob… « Fit Recovery

Must admit at first I thought it was cyclists doing this...then there were getting to be too many of them and I realised it wasn't.

Around here there's not enough of them for it to be cyclists

 

[Mugshot]

"The plastic cap is only there for shipping and storage. Open up a new tube. See how the tube wraps around the stem? Well that little threaded part you loosen to add air to the tire will wear a hole in the tube over time if it isn’t capped. Once the tire is installed, the cap is utterly useless and will serve no purpose. Take it off. Seriously. The fact that you think it’s of use and therefore should be on the stem, just because it was in the box, says a lot about you to every new person you’ll meet."

Is that what it is, well what a steaming pile of bollocks that is. As you quite rightly say, they keep the shoot out of your valve, nobody wants that!!

 

[mjr]

I'd love to join the pro-valve-cap tribe but I always lose the little beggars

Me too. When opening my tool roll last weekend, I was embarrassingly happy to find that I'd actually put a presumed-lost valve cap in there during a quick puncture repair.

 

[Shaun]

Ah ha, yes, that's another thing ... valve caps that crack and become useless when you overtighten them just a smidge.

Blimey, I'm turning into a right old grump!!

 

[jefmcg]

The OP's complaint was about the consumption of gels, nothing to do with the disposal of wrappers, which would apply as much to pork pies as to gels.

Still, not many riders are keeping pork pies in their top tube bag or jersey pockets, unwrapping and consuming them on the move. Generally pork pies require a sit and some contemplation, and that often occurs on a bench that will have a bin near it.

Anecdotally, I've seen discarded gel wrappers as I carry the laterne rouge on an audax, but never pork pie wrappers.

 

[mjr]

Slight Return? Is it time to go home yet? Just for a short while?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeyP2N6glW0

 

[jefmcg]

The OP wasn't complaint about people throwing away gel wrappers, so that's all by the by. The complaint was about people consuming gels.

And finished with

Over to you...

which means we can all talk about whatever annoys us.

So someone bringing up gel wrappers falls into the constraints as laid out by the OP. And my saying that gel wrappers are more of a problem than pork pie wrappers is also allowable, M'lud.

 

[Mugshot]

The OP's complaint wasn't about people throwing away gel wrappers, so that's all by the by. The complaint was about people consuming gels.

Quite right too, chap I know was invited on a ride but was stalling as he didnt have any gels so was asking if he could borrow some off other riders, the ride he had been invited on (which he was well aware of) was a gentle spin down the cycle path totalling approx 8 miles.

 

[Mugshot]

Generally pork pies require a sit and some contemplation, and that often occurs on a bench that will have a bin near it.

They also need a jar of Branston pickle.

 

[raleighnut]

They also need a jar of Branston pickle.

I prefer black pepper on mine (freshly ground of course)

 

[Markymark]

I prefer black pepper on mine (freshly ground of course)

On a pork pie? Are you quite mad?