Couple of months ago approaching Deansgate (Castlefield direction) a JCB driver decided to use his bucket to ‘guide me’ closer to the kerb as he thought I was taking up too much of the lane so he could then squeeze past. Triggered the survival mode in me and I blocked his way at the lights and asked him to get down and make a man of himself. He stood in his cab and said ‘you were riding like you were pissed mate’ but he wouldnt get down. TBH in a normal situation he would have belted me up and down in a bar brawl but at that moment I was willing to gouge into his eye sockets, punch him in the throat and bite his face/ears off. Took me a while to calm down and afterwards I thought its either time I stop commuting by bike or I grow up/take stock. That was the closet I got to full red mist on a ride.

Could also blow a whistle and deliver the yellow a la gay referee?

Why are they so much again?

Pitch – definitely

Every Parrot has its nemesis. Hopefully me and Eric will never comes across this dog.

Definitely or take a breath and put it down to experience.

At School I thought I’d pick on a lad who was vastly more developed than the rest of us. He was muscular and growing facial/body hair young. So I couldnt help myself and kicked off with him in the playing fields. He chucked me over his shoulder and I broke my wrist. I think its safe to say he won by a country-mile!

But you would attack someones property rather than them. Why not pull up alongside them and ask them to get out of the car? No, a kick or pull the mirror off then cycle on your way through traffic hey? Next cyclist who comes past the same driver some other time gets a share of the agro back.

I’d better be careful if I visit a trail or trail centre. I might be attacked for getting in someones way huh?

ChristoGinger = Genius.

I did martial arts for 9yrs. Doesnt mean squat. A hard kid could drop a blackbelt very quickly and exact a savage-beating. Why do you think the undercover SAS disengaged themselves from potential hand-to-hand confrontation with locals in Northern Ireland? I’ve known a couple of lads in Hudds who were ‘friends’ from my youth who have done time for going crackers in fights.
Factor in knives and a incident becomes something else. Escalation.

Rudeboy, as your ninja Ferret is busy I would be swooping in with my cat o’ nine tails.

Yes I would. Same with Janet Street Porter. something soo wrong about her (but sexy)

Err Rudeboy no. My Parrot is trained to kill.

Are the people who kick/hit cars also the same ones who will throw stones at house windows at night then run off?

TBH if any bad cyclist cuts me and challenges me, I’d be climbing out of my car armed with my cat o nine tails and trusty attack-Parrot. Seriously, come and get-some. My Parrot has a sharpened razor-beak and mini laser-cannons mounted on its wings.

No offence Brant (surely thats retro-offence?) but I much prefer my Summer Lightning or a 456 to the ti456. I can say it now but its **** noodly. Reminded me of the steel Raleigh roadbike frame I had. The most flexible BB known to man! Awful.

BTW, I don’t think us ‘angry young men’ are condoning violence in any way; merely trying to explain why we are compelled to act in a violent manner, when we feel our safety is being threatened.

Man or woman accidently swerves into your car causing an accident. So you would get out, pull them out of the car and thoroughly kick them senseless I bet? That will teach ya for causing an accident yer slaaarg. See that word ‘accident’? What does it mean? Without malice? If its without malice how can you prejudge? Would you first check the lighting conditions, are you visible enough? roadlit properly? Bad conditions? Adverse lighting etc?

Or should you grow up?

Most importantly though. Would you? I would. Just to tick that box.

binners, I’d easily dodge your Czech tractor. Its like a sodding Ocean-liner interms of turning circle… :lol:

I made a gesture etc at a BMW 750. Lad stopped in the middle of the road, jumped out and was pumping my hand and apologising profusely for cutting me up. A shaved-head very large Scouse lad. I had an open-mouth, it was that quick. He could easily have belted me off the bike but he didnt. When he drove off I was still in the same spot with my mouth still wide open.

Imagine I had hit his car? I’d have gone down like a sack of shit.

slightly OT but just love how everyone including the Unions feasted off of the Government Miners compensation payments. Even Scargills Union took a cut. FFS. A final payoff.

If Thatch’ had said that Tsonga looks like a right f*ckin ‘spearchucker’[/b] then I could see it as offensive. Context. Lets not forget she is from an older/more inbred generation..

I’ve said this countless times. You will have to be pretty hard to go toe to toe with a motorist that you dont see until they climb out. Rip someones wing mirror off or damage a car and you’ve suddenly changed the dynamics of the whole situation. If I didnt see a cyclist and had a near miss and he didnt give me a chance to apologise – well. I wouldnt stand by and see my property vandalised. Some drivers would go much much further, scarily-so.

Do you think roadcyclists get into angry confrontations everytime they go out on a 40mile ride? Learn to anticipate, treat everyone as a noddy ffs. Calm down and live longer. Is it a commuter-rage thing? Are you the same if you drive a car? Impatient?

grumm, slightly different on BBC’s ownsite. Doesnt read as lynch-mobbie to me:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7868401.stm

binners. This may help. Let me ride behind you in traffic to see how you filter etc? It would be helpful for tips from another rider? I stopped ALL undertaking for a start- never squeeze between a car and kerb and I ‘command’ the road, no hand signals- I point to the spot where I want to go etc.

Dont take the p1ss- seriously. I’ll show you. since I changed noone rides close to me and no near misses or me asking people to get out of their cars for a slap.

I have a set of 10th anniversary z1 RC2 ETA Mazzorchi’s if anyones interested? Less than a months use.

She was given the chance to unreservedly apologise

ON AIR.
In the public stocks FFS. Why couldnt her co-presenter be a man?
Beleive me, I dont like the woman but I’m sick of our media. Scraping up anything and flooding their front pages with as much doom as possible. How much mileage can they ring out of this one?

Caledonian80 can be bought and delivered online :)

grumm ‘sounds like’? How do we know. Would be nice to have known the context etc. Why wasnt this dealt with internally? Doesnt the BBC have any real man-managers?

Someone said **** once in the office. Context was about race and someone got alittle excited. I objected and the person apologised. Case closed.

I think we can be too liberal and need to be alittle more robust in other areas than Policing thought too much.

I had an ex-team medium 5th air shock. Rode alot better than the large Fox air I had after. Just felt right and soo confidence inspiring. Con? Both pedalled badly for me mid-trail.

I’m against people who say ‘dont rat on someone’ or ‘we hate grass’s’ however her co-presenter is an idiot of the highest order. Does he have any tact himself? Couldnt he have said to her ‘look I object to that comment’ and have asked her to apologise for it? It was said off camera and in private to him. Crass idiot. So he lets it rip into the public domain, puts in a complaint without giving the person the opportunity. Sorry, Ive had people say ill-thought remarks to me and Ive sorted it quietly and they realised etc.

A bribe would only work if say you had products that were more or less equal and it was a hard choice between 5 equal products. Then you could get away with it. However Manitou would have to provide a minibus full of Czech ladies of the night, a mountain of Coke, many bottles of Jack Daniels and $10,000 in cash. Even then Manitou would finish 4th? :roll:

I once new a stunning natural blonde (intelligent, quirky and ecentric). One morning she let rip a real rolling long one. I automatically stiffened in shock, turned my head wildly and said ‘what the **** was that’?…she replied ‘you’ve been farting literally all night in your sleep so why cant I’? For once, I was speechless.

WHY DO ALL THE MAGS RATE FOX FORKS?
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TBH? If I could afford 2009 Fox forks I’d rate them to the max. As it is I can’t afford them so I’m limited to pressing my nose against the shop window glass and staring in..Value for money – go for Pikes/Mazz pre-2007. Otherwise the future is ££$$££..

Iain/elma, are you Asian or Orthodox Jew? Their huge!!!!

Worse, when the dog jumps out from behind a tree and shouts BOOOOO!!!. Fecker, scares me.

Trolling? 2/10

Rudeboy, don’t take this the wrong way but you know prescription drugs and Vodka don’t really mix.

mostlyharmless, spot on. You adapt your driving style. Learn when to down/upshift. At first its tiring but then you ..’click’. I bought a non-turbo petrol car as I have had ‘moments’ before in fast petrol cars that I wont post on a public forum.

The 105bhp will be fine, its ‘surge’ of torque will ensure you will be happy. I drove a 1.9TDI 105bhp Altea from Germany, holland, Belgium then onto Calais on a Sunday morning and didnt drop below 100mph. I got back into Manchester at 6pm and still felt fresh.