I left early to work from home the other day. Saw Buffalo ‘where’s my razor’ Bill on Grays Inn Rd. Lalala happy riding..
Riding out of Shepherds Bush Green on the Soma, the day after I’d swapped the ITM full-carbon forks for aluminium-steerer Quest carbon forks.. when..
Some stupid fscking idiot rides his frickin’ bike through a gap in the moving traffic, alongside which I’m riding. Bang! Flashes of over-the-bars collarbone breakage. Smash into the sh1thead’s back wheel. Luckily I was already on the hoods and being careful due to driver’s tendencies to tighten up and squash cyclists into the gutter on that corner. Still, no real braking achieved before impact.
I flip out. This idiot complains about my language! (He must be English.) Now he wants to start something! He quickly gives up returning the grief when I must look and sound just as keen to kick it off.. I’m checking over my bike and realise it’s okay. He says something about my bike being fine and his being fscked. I look at his bike – his back wheel is totally fscked. It looks like a taco. I’m almost happy at this point so I don’t end up kicking his face off. No need to call the police.
Anyway, I’m over it now and actually help him – taking pleasure disconnecting his rear brake and kicking sh1t out of his wheel to bend it back into a rough line. I leave, happy, given the circumstances, until I get home and at the door notice my Selcof headset has a split down the side.. FSCK!
I’m going to ride it until it fails totally (which hopefully wont be during the 200k Dunwich Dynamo).
Speaking of failures, I was planning on swapping the Soma’s stem for the 100mm Bontrager XXXLite off the Ribble, but noticed hairline cracks around the bolt holes! Handlebars falling off at at 60kph.. err.. no thanks!
Ah come on, HTFU and use a hose clamp on the headset.
Worked for me for a while.
How much do you weigh tho?
Nae’mind, I’m riding it – the bars just move around.
I just bought another 1" headset for the OTHER trashed one on the Raleigh. *sigh*
You doing the Hillingdon 10 tomorrow?
Sorry this comment is not bike related so please don’t sensor me! But have you watched season 2 of Prison Break? Awesomely frustrating stuff! PB dance lives on in Melbourne :p Next for us is LOST 3!
Moreover! Do you want to meet in Ealing to cycle out to Hackney before the Dynamo? You don’t have a spare front LED do you? I’ve lost all my mountings 🙁
Ed: By tomorrow, do you mean tonight? Either way, nup. I’ve been skipping ’em. Naughty.
I might be up for an Ealing ride-out. I have a spare front LED but I was going to use it as backup. My charger’s power supply blew up the other day so I have no idea on the status of my light’s batteries! Doh!
Do you have an email address?
hippy AT thehippy -D-O-T- NET might get through if the stupid spam detector doesn’t block everything..
I do have an email address. Try my first initial, a dot, my surname then an AT lse.ac.uk
I might be able to cobble together a mounting, so might be OK.
Conditions at Hillingdon were shit tonight, but I was able to quicker than previous efforts, which was nice. I am starting to ‘corner’ rather than stagger round bends.