mine were simpler, like “why don’t you get fucked”, “mind your own fucking business”, “i’d rather ride it than clean it”, “eat a veiny dick” etc etc.
instead i just shrugged and ignored him.
a stitch in time saves nine, roland. he was just trying to help you avoid prematurely needing to purchase a new cassette.
Today i observed a commuter fall off his bike for no apparent reason. i was up a few floors in a CBD building and it was amusing
quiet you. i understand a clean bike is better, but it’s my choice when i clean it, and i’ll wear the cost of a prematurely worn cassette. stupid, old, nosey twat
so back to observations
High st Northcote is a bit of a laugh at the moment, roadworks mean there’s about 2 metres of road in 3 or 4 spots for trams, cars and bikes to fight over. “improvements” in Westgarth also mean that in the too soon future there will potentially be like 4 sets of traffic lights between the top of the hill and the bottom of Westgarth. can’t wait…
I rode through all this the other day, just claim the lane. It’s so congested that you’re hardly slower than cars anyway.
I will bet my arse that both of these projects run over time, over budget, and are generally shitful:
Libs ramp up priority for freeway
Flinders Street Station gets facelift
no argument there
seriously, WTF is going on with the street up the hill???!!! the road is so narrow now the only place to ride is in the car door zone. i can only imagine the carnage that’s gonna ensue from now on.
Nah what Aeons said, take the lane. Traffic is so bad there you’d have to be going pretty slow to hold anyone up. I have been sitting on the tram tracks the whole time when using high st lately.
So the tram stop/bike path on Swanston is finished… felt like years…probably worse than ever.
Who the fuck designs these things?
fucking road works there tore a whole right through a 2 week old tire… thanks dudes, but yeah just claim the lane and you’ll be fine
thanking the lord its finished, but i agree on the design, from how its designed it looks as if we are ment to ride through the spot where everyone waiting for a tram will be standing???
Fucking seriously… Someone is going to get hurt there.
what is it with every BMW driver being a massive fucking arsehole these days?
it was bad enough when people started bevving them up a few years ago to make them look like chapel street commodores but now it seems they’re just every pretentious douche’s car of choice. fucking terrible drivers every one of them.
which is a shame really cos if i ever had enough money to own a nice car i’d like a BMW
BMW X5… personal transport for tossers.
Southland… fucking DIE.
Cycle wars!
On yer bike: minister suggests drivers get a taste of life in the cycle lane
Interested to see that the cycle lanes and advance stop lines are enforceable. i didn’t know that.
The idiots in wank tanks around my place (Audi Q7’s have taken over from the X5 it seems) always seem to pull up in the bike box. Must be shit cars if they can’t stop in time.
The Audi Q7 is the one of the worst conceived cars of all time. So fucking huge, yet not capable off road or able to actually carry much.
I think the worst car of all time is the BMW X6- the modern Toorak tractor. And a coupe… a coupe!
had a great one yesterday on the way home. the last set of lights before sweet couch bliss. i’m behind a driver stops perfectly behind the line in the right lane. there’s a bike box in front of the left lane, which i can only assume the driver saw and thought that’s the line he should be behind. so after already being stopped for 15 seconds, he creeps his car forward to match the bike box line, stopping perfectly again (although there’s no bike box line in his lane) we then wait another 30 secs for the lights to go green.
/coolstoreybrah.