What is your least favourite part about cycling?

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Get another job... he's a twat, you need to not work for him. Don't waste your life.

Thanks Skully. Its a huge company . There is no guarantee that changing job will avoid that sort of casual 'bloody cyclists' attitude is there ?

Looking for new places to cycle to.

Cycling on your own.

Waking up at 4.20 to cycle to work.....

waking up at 4.20 is not cyclings fault, thats your jobs fault, surely!

Any least favourite parts about cycling I may have soon evaporate once I'm actually cycling except the distraction of being wound up by the people I have to work with in the day by their deliberate snide and cliched remarks about cyclists.
I don't bite but I cracked once and told a senior manager ( ha! he's 20 years younger than me ) what he'd just spewed out was deeply offensive/wrong/unfunny . This was around the time of recent cyclist fatality. Nearly got me into a lot of trouble. This 'senior' manager was also the the little shit whose contribution in a get well soon card sent to me at home while I was recovering from a nasty smash was " grow up and get a car".

I'm getting wound up again now ...
Is there a 'least favourite part about not cycling' thread ?

You can claim workplace harrassment you know. Big company = KACHING!

Do some research, lay some bait and then reeeel them in. Your manager could get end up getting fired.

If not, just blitz a bag of prawns and tip them down his plenum chamber, then casually ask in a week how his car's going. Guarantee he aint even able to get inside it.

Edit Seriously though, there are laws against this kind of behaviour for a reason. What your manager is doing is most definitely classed as being workplace harrassment. I would assume your company would have policies and procedures in place to deal with this kind of thing. Have you looked into this already? Clearly your manager has no idea about such laws or indeed the proper way to treat people in the workplace. Don get mad mate, get even.

^ OR he could learn to take it on the chin, as a bit of banter from a knobhead, return the banter, walk away and utter 'cunt' under his breath, accept that you can't win everybody over and move on.....?

^ OR he could learn to take it on the chin, as a bit of banter from a knobhead, return the banter, walk away and utter 'cunt' under his breath, accept that you can't win everybody over and move on.....?

Absolutely not. The best reaction is a massive overreaction, as my old landlord used to say. He once told me a story about an old friend of his who used to be his boss at an agency in Notting Hill Gate. He lent his friend the Robert Maxwell biography and it changed his life. He was always an argumentative and combative sort, but now, whenever a client or a contractor or an old girlfriend or someone who cut him up on the road or a neighbour whose dog he didn't like crossed him, he would have his solicitor injunct them. Apparently it cost about 2 grand a pop but it was worth it to see the panic, hatred and anger it provoked in the other party. Eventually he took on a large Spanish industrial company because, during a boozy lunch, one of the directors jokingly suggested that he might buy a small stake in the man's small agency. Once he'd sobered up he sent a sober and respectful nolo me contendere but it was too late. The chap devoted himself to pursuing the Spaniards, and after a four year suit, the court decided that he needed to be paid a large enough sum of money to retire to an agreeable home in Buckinghamshire with ten acres.

Anyway the moral of the story is that backing down and being the better man is for people who don't want ten acres in Buckinghamshire or a golden yacht.

The time and effort spent on recriminations and revenge could be far better spent elsewhere

Looking for new places to cycle to.

Cycling on your own.

This is one of the best parts of cycling.

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Big Dave, you're doing it all wrong.

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Big Dave, you're doing it all wrong.

Where I'm having problems with cycling lately, is that I live in hackney, work in Dalston. Cycling to and from work takes only 5 minutes top. After a hard day grafting at work dealing with the public I find myself mentally shattered. I'm finding it increasingly hard to motivate myself to go back out and cycle around London.

So really it's living in London that is your problem. Which is fair enough.

That sound....... Whilst you are pedalling along, that causes you to look front and back about four times to establish which wheel it was.....
.....then realising it was both.
That horrible sensation of riding on the rims for just a few seconds as people in their cars watch you grind to a halt and mouth the words "oh fuckin' 'ell....
Yesterday was a bitch, and everyone was a cunt.

Seeing pictures of myself wearing Lycra.

sealions?

condolences, you appear to work with a bunch of cunts.
i'm assuming that you are a dude. try pointing out to them that erections are primarily a vascular event and that their sedentary lifestyles will result/may have already resulted in premature erectile dysfunction and consequent impotence, while your superior cyclist's cardio-vascular fitness and flexibility mean you can and do fuck like a puma.

Cysts on testies. Inflamed bollocks after forgetting an allen key and riding 40 miles without padding in the middle of winter on a misadjusted saddle pointing up.

The chain. Forever cleaning the friggin' thing.

Also, persevering with a Marathon tyre that blows on a frequent basis as i haven't had my moneys worth from yet.

A hangover. Eventually. After every of my cycling trip.

sealions?

Where does your cycling take you that sealions become an issue?

Odd man.

Where I'm having problems with cycling lately, is that I live in hackney, work in Dalston. Cycling to and from work takes only 5 minutes top. After a hard day grafting at work dealing with the public I find myself mentally shattered. I'm finding it increasingly hard to motivate myself to go back out and cycle around London.

I'm the same. I live a 35mins walk from work or 7/8mins on my bike

I haven't cycled to work for ages as I can't be arsed with the 'shortness' of my journey. In fact I haven't ridden my bike since The Football Stadium Ride in July!!*

Ducks for cover

Actually fucked my left knee on that ride so left it to heal

Me too.

I used to commute 10 miles, out of necessity as it's how far my place of work from home, I loved it because it a great way to unwind myself before I get home, no matter how bad my day was, cycling home/to work is always the highlight of my day.

now mine a measly five minutes, not even worth riding.

scoble and pisti in agreement

wonders never cease, next week ed starts ruling the football thread and graham sticks a rack on all his bikes

no matter how bad my day was, cycling home/to work is always the highlight of my day.

^ this.

Where does your cycling take you that sealions become an issue?

Odd man.

I think he was making a comparison with you in Lycra. This is very unfair. Let's kick him in his bad leg for being so cruel to sealions.