He touched my car

[Boris Bajic]

Many years ago we bought and (had) renovated a gorgeous old house. We'd never started with bare walls before and went a bit silly on the design.

Too many loos, too many showers. Too many tiles, too much antique terracotta and way too many wooden floors.

On his first visit my darling, beloved and slightly-too-Alpha Male brother wandered into our personal en-suite (hard to find on the best day) and dropped a hugely smelly log.

I ground almost 3mm of enamel off my teeth about that duroing the weekend visit. It was tomcat behaviour of the lowest order. He had (figuratively) peed on my favourite tree. He might as well have tried to snog my wife. There were plenty of other loos and he knew it.

That was 20 years ago and it still burns in my soul. Imagine how I'd be if he'd touched my car....

Or touched my 3d mouse. Whatever one of those is....

 

[Longshot]

You guys just keep on trying to find excuses to cover up your lack of respect and basic manners. I don't blame you, I'd be ashamed too.

 

[400bhp]

And in return you keep up your unreasonable expectation of the ammount of space you can occupy.

In your opinion. And does your opinion need to be enforced on others?

Should we all live in tiny houses too?

 

[Boris Bajic]

I find clips shoes dangerous due to being stuck to the bike if you're gonna crash or something... you can't jump off; not that I would abandon my bike lol

This is a popular and inaccurate belief.

I've ridden for decades on flats, in rat cages and with various clipless systems (Look, SPD and Crank bros). I am a poor-to-average rider, so I've had many unplanned dismounts at speed. Some funny, some painful, some both.

Not once have I hit the floor with feet still engaged in the pedals. The ankle (it seems) twists to disengage faster than the sphincter can cotract.

It remains a thing of wonder to me that as I fly through the air like Buzz Lightyear (and it is flying, whatever you think) I am unburdoned of my bicycle and all that painful mass as if by magic.

Lots of the advances of recent years are nothing but hokum and snale oil, beyond the realm of the pro, the serious racer or the fantasist: carbon bottle cages, energy gels, Garmin sweat-drop-diameter gauges, electronic shifters et al... but the clipless pedal system is neither snake oil nor hokum.

Whichever you go for (we have several loyalties in my family) they are a marvel - in The Smoke, on a rural A-Road or blatting across the Beacons.

Mr (or Miss) London Cyclist, you are doing yourself a great injustice unless and until you go the clipless route.

And remember, I am never wrong. Never. Despite the vitriolic gainsayers who disagree with me on these forums just because they had an unhappy childhood or didn't get that promotion they wanted.

 

[dellzeqq]

You guys just keep on trying to find excuses to cover up your lack of respect and basic manners. I don't blame you, I'd be ashamed too.

sorry - the threats of violence came from who......?

 

[dellzeqq]

On this thread and others like it, I think you're quite right and few would question it.

But this is the Internet, where slim Joe from accounts can become a marauding avenger of the streets and fantasize about bashing bad, naughty bicyclists.

true enough. Real violence against cyclists, as opposed to mouthing off, is a rare thing indeed. (Says the man who was kicked unconscious by prospective bike thieves, but that's another story entirely).

 

[400bhp]

sorry - the threats of violence came from who......?

Is this a tennis match? Keep batting things back and forth. I can't be arsed to look but I suspect threats of violence came from a small minority. Please don't treat us all with the same brush.

 

[Crackle]

Is this a tennis match? Keep batting things back and forth. I can't be arsed to look but I suspect threats of violence came from a small minority. Please don't treat us all with the same brush.

Unless it's a nice soft chamois one.

 

[green1]

It remains a thing of wonder to me that as I fly through the air like Buzz Lightyear (and it is flying, whatever you think)

To quote Tom McRae:

Falling feels like flying
Until you hit the ground

 

[middleagecyclist]

Lots of the advances of recent years are nothing but hokum and snale oil, beyond the realm of the pro, the serious racer or the fantasist: carbon bottle cages, energy gels, Garmin sweat-drop-diameter gauges, electronic shifters et al...

Speak for yourself. I have noted an amazing increase in average and top end speed since making the investment and trading up from a plastic bottle cage to a gorgeous carbon creation (in black).

 

[400bhp]

Unless it's a nice soft chamois one.

Actually, it's microfibre towels and lambswool mitts these days.

 

[dellzeqq]

Is this a tennis match? Keep batting things back and forth. I can't be arsed to look but I suspect threats of violence came from a small minority. Please don't treat us all with the same brush.

I'm not. The threats of violence came from Longshot and Green1. Lukesdad should know that.

 

[Longshot]

sorry - the threats of violence came from who......?

Leaning on someone isn't "violence". I chose my words very carefully.

Still, there you go again, obfuscating and deflecting.

 

[400bhp]

Is this relevant?

We can play the question game all day long.

 

[400bhp]

Where is ny opinion being enforced here? I have merely expressed it because it is quite clear to me that car drivers do not even begin to see quite how selfish and unreasonable their behavior is.

You believe that car drivers take up too much space, or that car drivers shouldn't believe that their space extends around their car.

Many (in a roundabout way) would and have disagreed with this.

By you placing your hands on their cars you are enforcing your opinion on them.

I actually don't believe you do it [hands on cars] anyway and are simply playing devil's advocate (putting it mildly).