Your cycling room 101. Bin your dislikes, however irrational, in here.

[dellzeqq]

Suspension forks without a handlebar lock-off.

or without any kind of lock-off! Stymied of Streatham does a Dr. Bike session and realising that the person sold a bike with squidgy forks is doomed to boinging up and down despite never straying off tarmac!

 

[swee'pea99]

Chains coming off and hands getting oily and the ludicrous price of bike stuff means that cycling has become a persuit of the well healed middle classes wheras at one time cycling was seen as a very working class meaqns of getting to the factories etc.

What a load of bollocks! Cycling can still be amazingly cheap, and it's certainly not expense that keeps anyone from cycling. The working class doesn't seem to have any great problems buying cars.

 

[Cubist]

Ilkeston

 

[2PedalsTez]

The fact that EVERY manufacturer insists on stating that their mini-pump will inflate to 140psi, when in reality you will spend 30 minutes at the road-side (invariably pissing down) having completed so many pump strokes that your eyes are popping out of your head, enough heat has been generated to heat a small village and you have hit the dizzy heights of 30psi

 

[Glow worm]

Retractable dog leads that seem designed just for tipping you off.
Volvo drivers. I saw one indicate this morning - nearly fell off in shock.
The guys who whizz past you and then pootle along at an even slower speed than you, so you're left with the dilemma of re-overtake and look like a twat, or hang back and wait til they bugger off.
Cyclist dismount signs.
Highways engineers who design cycle farcilities and have clearly not been near a bike since they were about 5.
But most of all me. As after 20 years of cycling, I remain utterly hopeless at all but the most simple of repairs and rubbish at remembering the names of various parts.

 

[Browser]

Car park designers who still seem to be using the footprint of a Morris Minor to sizr car park spaces.
Governments who are too busy trying to stop the press being nasty to them to actually formulate long-term policies which will actually do the company good.
The amount of time, effort and energy the police have to devote to stopping football fans beating the crap out of each other.
Smooth peanut butter (it's just WRONG!!!!).

 

[Vapin' Joe]

The fact that EVERY manufacturer insists on stating that their mini-pump will inflate to 140psi, when in reality you will spend 30 minutes at the road-side (invariably pissing down) having completed so many pump strokes that your eyes are popping out of your head, enough heat has been generated to heat a small village and you have hit the dizzy heights of 30psi

A common misconception caused by clever marketing speak (designed to make you think the pump will inflate to 140psi without actually claiming it will).

What the manufacturers do is RATE their pumps to xxxpsi. All that means is that the pump can hold that pressure without exploding in your hand, not that you will be able to pump a tyre that hard.

 

[User482]

People who are so insecure about their saddle choice that they'll pretend that Brooks saddles aren't good value, comfortable for many and waterproof.
People who are prejudiced against any particular choice of equipment.
Jump bike riders - they're just *wrong*

People who are so fixated with a brand, that they're blind to its many failings.

 

[User482]

Car park designers who still seem to be using the footprint of a Morris Minor to sizr car park spaces.

People who think that public money should be used to accommodate their over-sized car.

 

[swee'pea99]

Cold-callers who address me by my first name and ask me 'how you doing today?'

 

[Simba]

Red light jumping
Careless/dangerous road users
Rain
Headwinds
Traffic lights
P*nc*ur*s
Dirt on bike

 

[shoelaces]

People who pedal with their heels, really fast in an inappropriately low gear

 

[MontyVeda]

Chains coming off and hands getting oily and the ludicrous price of bike stuff means that cycling has become a persuit of the well healed middle classes wheras at one time cycling was seen as a very working class meaqns of getting to the factories etc.

bollocks! Unless I'm middle class all of a sudden.

 

[Cubist]

Peasants.

 

[gb155]

Dirty bikes

Squeaky bikes

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