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Forget Road Rage - we now have Puncture Repair Rage!
You would think that repairing a puncture is non-controversial action and maybe even one that may elicit sympathy, understanding and help from others. Not so if you suffer a puncture in a small Hertforshire village on a Sunday morning.
Please read my account on my bike-write blog - http://bike-write.co.uk/lycra-paranoia/
Unbeleivable !!!
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- chrisonabike 2 sec ago
... and of course "what does good look like" is not hard to experience - just over 100 miles away......
- Rendel Harris 36 min 18 sec ago
Actually any person, victim or even just a member of the public with no connection to the offence, can ask the Attorney Genertal to review a case...
- Steve K 1 hour 13 min ago
When I was cycling to every Crystal Palace match for a season back in 2016/17, my LBS gave my bike Palace coloured outers.
- Oldfatgit 1 hour 48 min ago
Garmin Connect is proprietary to Garmin, so they aren't going to make it easy.
- Rendel Harris 1 hour 50 min ago
So let water and sweat in from the outside! I'm all for economic solutions and £30 for this case is just daft but not sure your alternative is a...
- hawkinspeter 3 hours 32 min ago
That's just cheating
- Hirsute 3 hours 36 min ago
Well done to the drivers. If the DISGUSTING COUNCIL can not provide adequate parking, then PARK WHERE EVER.
- David9694 4 hours 9 min ago
Bradford-on-Avon police chase ends in crash https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24914082.bradford-on-avon-police-c...
- BPhillips 6 hours 40 min ago
Car paint is a good idea, but my previous attempts haven't been good, so I'll leave it to someone that knows what they're doing!
- mdavidford 6 hours 40 min ago
Maybe someone stuck all their stuff to the ceiling.
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As 'unbeleivable' as your spellchecker.....
Your blog's shit Dave.
Maybe stop using the forum here to advertise your blog?
Maybe stop using the forum.
Just think, if it didn't happen you wouldn't have anything to write a blog post about - so they did you a favour in a way
Pics that were supposedly taken or it never happened.
Probably nothing to do with you being a cyclist, if he hadn't had the 'lycra' thing to throw in there he'd have found something else.
Seems to me that people who feel crap about themselves have a tendency to become intensely territorial, deciding they 'own' everything in the vincinity of their abode and picking fights with any stranger they see as encroaching on 'their' territory. Happens with gangs of urban youths, happens with cantakerous oddballs in rural villages.
I think you just have to come to terms with the fact that some people, in all walks of life, are twats!
They will look for a reason to exert some sort of power over you, and choose any identifying factor as leverage, you know the thing, bloody BMW driver, cyclist, skinny twat, fat git etc.
I usually try the "your talking too loudly, but have nothing to say" followed by "shhhh, I can still hear you" everytime they continue, it either escalates to a fight or they piss off (hmmm, now I think of it, possibly not the best advice, but...).
This has never happened to me, but I've routinely stopped to offer assistance if I see a cyclist at the side of the road, even when driving if I've got the bike in the car. Being relatively rural I've got a lot of spares/tools to get me home, particularly if I'm riding the tourer. Have also taught my son to ask "Need any help mate?" if he sees someone fixing a puncture, and even though he's 8 he's got a toolkit with spare tube on his bike.
As a cyclist if there was someone leant up against my window I'd probably offer assistance but I can also kinda understand the approach of the homeowner.
For “I’m in social media”, read “I was sacked from Tesco for stealing, I now spend all day on facefuck, instagroan and snaptwat and there’s no way you’re turning me into one of those angry tits I laugh at all day. Honestly, I’m scared, please stop”
Why else did he have nothing to do but angrily look out of his window at people having a life?
Rather sad isn't it.
When I had someone fixing a puncture outside my house I took my track pump out to them and offered them a replacement innertube (which they turned down, being quite content to use a patch).
shame there wasn't a bush nearby.
Was it a council house? you could have told him your taxes pay for his house.
simonmb
There is a perversity to what you are saying. This guy shut up and retreated the second I got my camera out, something which ten minutes of "discussion" hadn't and didn't look like achieving.
Believe me, this guy didn't want to listen to a reasoned point of view - HE JUST WANTED AN ARGUMENT - HE IS/WAS A BULLY. If a 66 year old pensioner is able to shut such a person up with something as simple as a camera - you should tell your parents/grandparents.
In the second encounter he stated he "was in social media" and knew "what I was trying to achieve" by photographing him. i.e. posting his outburst. The perversity is that social media, rightly or wrongly (and we all voluntarily take part) relies on and proliferates on such encounters. This guy knew the power of the camera/video and didn't like it at all when the boot was other foot and he might become a villain in a world which he inhabited.
Yes, you're right I should have walked away, something which I admitted in the blog. You should have ignored my blog and walked away, you didn't ...
What did I achieve? This guy started off with the intention of deliberately winding me up for no reason, instead, I wound him up. There are some things in society when it is wrong to turn the other cheek and walk away - so just remember the camera is mightier than the sword ( tell your granddad)
But there quickly comes a point where the conflict is over. He's slammed the window shut, you've finished your repair and even had time to buy a newpaper. It's THEN that you get your phone out again. Why? I just don't see this as the action of a rational man. You were goading him. Your words:
"The window immediately slams shut and I finish my repair, buy my newspaper and prepare to ride away, BUT I am seriously pissed off. I should ride away. Instead, I cross the road, get out my phone and raise it, as if taking a photo of his house. I am 99% certain he will be watching – the door opens and he crosses the road."
Are you proud to be a man that behaves this way?
And your comment to me: "You should have ignored my blog and walked away, you didn't ..." is beyond ridiculous. If you're going to be so keen to share your petty argument, you need to learn to expect the world won't agree with everything you do and say.
I read this.
What's the current obsession with getting the phone out and photographing anything that's pissing us (society) off? Whatever had gone on before, photographing his house after the job was done is just deliberately provocative. What did you think it was actually going to achieve?
This is unbeleivable [sic].
Taking a photo/video is just gathering evidence. It's quicker and easier than writing down a house number.
I can't believe that you think that just taking a photo in a public place of a publicly visible house is provocative. I bet you shake your fist at estate agents, don't you?
@Davidw07 - I'd have been surprised if someone had reacted that way to my fixing a puncture too. In my experience, people are usually more helpful (e.g. offering use of a foot-pump etc).