Considering jacking in cycling

[User10119]

Oh yes i do! How much are your bikes worth? Mine are worth about £2,300. Not a fantastic amount but a lot to me. I don't want some anti cyclist f..kwit threatening to bin them,like they're a bit of scrap metal!

My bold. Irrelevant.

I ended up with 3 bikes in a small room in the sheltered accommodation building. One of the HA's employees said that the room was ok for me to keep,just as long as they didn't want it back for something. Well now they do!

So you need to move them.

Someone did you a favour and let you use a space for secure storage for free. You had and have no entitlement to said storage space. They want the storage space back. So you need to move your stuff out of it or they will dispose of your stuff so that they can use their storgae space. They have, perfectly reasonably, written to you to tell you this. Grow up.

Ride them if you want to, get rid of them if you don't.

 

[MarkF]

Oh yes i do! How much are your bikes worth? Mine are worth about £2,300. Not a fantastic amount but a lot to me. I don't want some anti cyclist f..kwit threatening to bin them,like they're a bit of scrap metal!

Buy a mint hybrid for £300, do canal riding from now on and spend £2k on a l.o.n.g relaxing & calming holiday.

 

[Accy cyclist]

[QUOTE 5178886, member: 10119"]Someone did you a favour and let you use a space for secure storage for free.[/QUOTE]

But i didn't want the room in the first place! I was happy with the bikes in my bedsit/flat. Then the HA panicked,thinking i'd fall over them or similar and put a claim in against them. They gave me summat i wasn't after,then when i liked it they decided they wanted it back.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Buy a mint hybrid for £300, do canal riding from now on

One of my bikes is a bit of a hybrid,which is suitable for canal riding Mark. The thing is canals are flat. I need hills to satisfy me!!! I must have hills i tell you!!!!!

 

[Maenchi]

+1 for red mist. you rent it and pay for it, I personally can't stand the way housing associations and landlords rent flats and houses and then dictate terms.
To who, ? is keeping your bikes in your flat a danger to ? that's got to be you, and even if it's small I guess you can move around adequately.
My previous HA had a tenants vote about animals, keeping them lost by one vote, I kept a dog and two cats, (never was very good at blindly following rules),( I blame it on my 70s education to question the validity of everything) eventually I left, after two years of keeping them.(yes I got grassed up.....more than once)
Any chance of hiding the bikes ?....man ! you got a problem...... hope you can find a solution....any chance of a move ?

 

[User10119]

+1 for red mist. you rent it and pay for it,

No, as I understand it, he doesn't. He was offered it (free) as a favour that he didn't want and complained about to allow him to comply with the H&S requirements in a previous tenanacy of different accommodation.

 

[Maenchi]

[QUOTE 5178911, member: 10119"]No, as I understand it, he doesn't. He was offered it (free) as a favour that he didn't want and complained about to allow him to comply with the H&S requirements in a previous tenanacy of different accommodation.[/QUOTE]
ok...obviously more to this than I know....

 

[Accy cyclist]

(never was very good at blindly following rules),( I blame it on my 70s education to question the validity of everything)

Same here. I seem to have a problem with authority.

Any chance of hiding the bikes ?....man ! you got a problem...... hope you can find a solution....any chance of a move ?

I did hide my dog when in the sheltered accommodation.That's why i was moved when they found i'd been hiding him. BUT. As i've always maintained. I didn't ask to be evicted from my private rent,on the grounds of it being a potential fire risk. I didn't ask to be moved here. I was forced into it.

 

[User10119]

ok...obviously more to this than I know....

I was quite happy in the HA's bedsit type flat,with my then 2 bikes. [...] I now have 28 days to find a home for my 3 bikes. I just don't have the room in here for them.

In a bigger flat, that also allows dogs.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes, you most certainly can, exactly as I said in the last sentence in fact.

The issue is that most people - not you clearly - don't 'maximise their checks and indicate'. Building in a thing you actually have to do before signalling - that being to check who's there to indicate to - reduces the chances of the short-cut thinking where you just indicate without thinking. Again, you may not do that, but an awful lot of people do.

Even with all the checks in the world, the car is full of blind spots you cannot overcome. After all the checks, signal. If you have missed someone in your blind spots it does at least give the third party a chance to take avoiding action if necessary.

 

[Accy cyclist]

[QUOTE 5178917, member: 10119"]In a bigger flat, that also allows dogs.[/QUOTE]
Yes,i'm thinking about moving back to the "fire condemned" place. Three times the size of this place! Plenty of room for my bikes and my washing machine. Though i would like to make a last stand before i leave! How about organising a vigil outside the room they gave me for my bikes? We could have a candle lit vigil,with other CC members turning up and singing

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I was amazed to hear my son's FIL say that he failed his driving instructor's test for using his indicator too often . Who does it hurt ? It's not going to wear the battery out. I look at it as the motorcyclist's life saver, look over your shoulder before making the manoeuvre. It at least let's a person know of your intension if you haven't noticed them !

Because a driving instructor is required to know exactly when an indicator is needed and when it is not, and not just use it in robotic fashion without any thought. The same standard would apply on an advanced test but NOT to a learner taking an L test unless the signal was misleading.

So the examiner was correct in failing him.

 

[potsy]

[QUOTE 5178926, member: 45"]Accy, you're attention seeking now[/QUOTE]
You've only just worked this out?

 

[Bazzer]

Slightly off the wall solution, but to give yourself time to take stock of your current situation, where you want to be in the future, both in terms of accommodation and bikes and any notice periods you might have to give, have you considered renting a small local self storage unit?. Put the bikes in there along with any other cluttering possessions and give yourself physical and mental space.

 

[cyberknight]

I hit the half century three weeks ago. I can assure you life is much the same on this side of 50. 50 makes you relatively young in CC land.

I was looking forward to moving up an age bracket in the triathlons I do. Thinking I might move up the rankings a bit. But it dawned on me - those that used to beat me in the 45-49 group have also gotten older and are going to beat me in the 50-54 group. B@stards. Life isn't fair.

By the way, anyone want to offload a racer size 56/57?

Nice 57 miler today