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Hello, just promoting my own bike sale on eBay... Black Orbea fixed, 58cm, RRP is £899, starting price is £199.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130916283866

Ends Thursday evening. Cheers.

Going west from Gt Marlborough St into Mayfair, am stopped at the lights by Liberty (as usual - they are always bloody red). As the lights are about to change, I take prime position in the outside lane, moving from kerbside to the middle of the lane.

As I'm half way across Regent St, a black cab undercuts me at speed, managing to nip into Maddox St just ahead of me, without forcing me to do something daft. I got a real fright.

So I catch him up at the junction with Bond St, pull up to his window and say "are you trying to be funny?" He's a real gor-blimey strike-a-light character with a fag hanging out of his mouth. His response: "Bloody hell, sorry about that mate, I thought you were moving to turn right, then when you went straight ahead I thought 'fuck me'... I'm a cyclist myself, Santa Cruz innit... I wasn't trying to kill you!"

So apology accepted, and it proved to me that having words with drivers is totally worth it: if I hadn't spoken to him, I'd have been going around for the rest of the day thinking about "that wanker in the black cab".

Just had my bike stolen outside Tesco's on Goldhawk Road / Shepherd's Bush.

Sorry to hear that. I regularly pop in there - could you say how it was locked please?

Obvs will keep a lookout.

Fixie skidder, travelling west on Southwark St around 5.30pm today.

You undertook - at speed - a concrete mixing lorry turning left, indicating.

He honked his horn, you gave him the finger. Congratulations.

That day I made the decision never to be the sort of person to ding one's bell in anger.

Is that a quote from the Shawshank Redemption? It fair brought a tear to my eye.

He did actually try to sell me an Abus one - I just wasn't minded to take any advice from him after his bizarre Kryptonite comments. I had my last Mini-Evo for about three years, without incident, and my previous was a mega Abus job that was cut through silently right outside my house.

This is the 'Is It Time To Start Calling Out Bad Cyclists' thread.

He's just trolling. Joined today. Ignore.

In many ways, not really staff members fault.

Yes it is a new online system, so I think your analysis is right. However the bit where he lost my sympathy was when he (a) said a number of people had enquired about it = he could have taken some initiative to get the system changed and (b) totally didn't give a fuck when I said I'd made a specific journey.

You was stationary?

I was stopped at the red when he undertook me, yes. That was kind of the point of the post.

Me: "I'm after a Kryptonite Mini Evo - your website lists one in stock here but I can't see it on the shelves"
Hapless assistant: "Oh that shouldn't be there, it was stolen ages ago"
Me: "I made a specific journey here to come and get it"
Hapless assistant: "Funny, a few people have come in and asked for it recently because they saw it online"
Me: "Uh huh"
Hapless assistant: "Anyway, Kryptonite locks are useless; my brother could break into one in five minutes; even the British Transport Police think they're crap"
Me: "But you sell about five different Kryptonite locks here - they're all worthless???"
Hapless assistant: "Yeah you can crack them in 30 seconds flat"
Me: "Thanks for your help" [backs slowly towards door]

Having just read this thread yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon I was stopped at a red on Ken High St by the south side of Hyde Park, when a nodder undertook me at high speed. So I caught him up (after the light went green obvs) and used the form of words suggested by HatBeard:

me: "When you ran that red, you undertook me at full speed. Was that the safest way you could have passed me?"
him: "Oh oh I was watching you the whole time while I did it"
me: "Sure but why not just overtake me next time?"
him: "Rightly said. Point taken"
me: nod / grunt in an "on your way, citizen" style

Result!

That knog may as well have been a strawberry lace. Hope you find your bike.

Did you see these two posts on the previous page:

would be a great resource for the community if people knew just what locks were being compromised (and how) when these bikes go missing.

Even if whoever has had their bike stolen locked badly and feels silly because of it it would really help educate people if the locking method was posted.

Can you see the connection between their posts and yours?

I realise it wasn't terribly secure but it was broad daylight when I parked it and the post was directly in front of the restaurant window. I know I fucked up but I don't need a lesson, thanks.

Boo. My Bianchi Pista Sei Giorni, white with red markings, fixed, 55cm, was nicked last Tuesday evening on Wigmore St, W1, behind Selfridges.

Disclosure: I cabled it to an enormous lamppost using a Knog Ringmaster, and then d-locked the cable to my frame - but crucially did not run the lock (Mini-Evo) through one of the wheels.

I was inside the restaurant from 8pm til 9.15pm and it was nicked during that time. No bits of cable/lock left behind by thieves.

The bike has a distinctive dent on the right hand side of the down tube.

Sample pic here: http://www.epic-cycles.co.uk/images/bianchi-sei-giorni-1000r.jpg

lol, no I am that stupid - I would rather accept the £100 and have done with it. Provided he actually pays.

Update. Just spoke to the dad (who actually wasn't at the scene).

Me: "so what do you want to do?"
Him: "oh I've had the flu, I'll try to drop the money round over the next few days"
Me: "by when?"
Him: "errr Wednesday?"
Me: "ok well if I haven't heard from you by the end of Wednesday, I'll call your insurers"
Him: "call them now if you like, your wife ran into the back of my car; if it wasn't my company car I'd be taking you to court - I've got an independent witness"
Me: "um so why are you paying out then? Just to be nice?"
Him: "yes"

TOTALLY CONFUSED.

Go to the solicitors we like page, get a decent solicitor. Deal with it properly in an adult fashion.

Ooh. With what objective in mind?

Thanks all for the feedback. I agree.

Hi all, would appreciate some practical advice here / "what would you do?"

Thursday lunchtime my missus was cycling down Hammersmith Grove when a white van reversed into the road and hit her. She came off the bike and the van rolled on to her foot. The driver, a 17-year-old, got out and apologised, and drove her to our friend's house nearby with the bike. His dad was with him and scribbled down his details for our friend on the back of an envelope. NB all these details are a bit sketchy because my wife can't properly remember what happened. There were no witnesses at the scene and no CCTV.

I cycled over from work, took her to A&E, where she was promptly seen and discharged: no head injury, no foot injury, just a bit of shock. Foot's a bit sore today but she's basically fine. The bike's front wheel is stuck but I haven't yet taken it apart to see how easy to fix it is, or whether the front wheel needs replacing. The bike's quite old and we were going to replace it, probably.

At the scene, the driver's dad offered to 'sort this out' without involving the insurers, because the kid had only passed his test a week ago. But when I called him yesterday and suggested £100, he said I needed to send him the receipt for the repair first. We had to finish the call and I'm due to ring him today.

A little twist is that a lot of his details that he scribbled down are deliberately false. He made the last digit of his mobile number wrong, although his office number was right (amusingly he seems to have had a last-minute change of heart about that: he wrote a 6 at the end of that number and then crossed it out and wrote 5). He's given a false address and postcode. The numberplate is correct and he's given the claims number of his insurers correctly (although I've yet to find out if they are really his insurers).

So my question is: what would you do? Given the injuries were slight at best, the police will tell me this is a civil matter (I've been there before with our local nick). The lack of witnesses means I don't especially rate my chances of a claim. And he's seeming quite slippery, so I'm not sure I can really be bothered to get worked up into chasing him / having numerous barneys, just to squeeze 100 quid out of him.

Any random thoughts most welcome.

**Q26 Mr Curry: What is your view of these flat bikes, bikes which are parallel to the ground where the cyclist lies back on them with his feet above his head? Do you think they are safe, according to some Health & Safety Executive rule, in that they are likely to go sliding under a lorry or under a dog's nose?
**

Christ that's so typical of a select committee - how many of those bikes are on the road? It's like listening in at a church coffee morning in Godalming.

While deaths and injuries of cyclists had fallen overall since the mid 1990s, they had risen by 11% since 2004, the committee said.
Brilliant. Gee, I wonder if it would be useful to know how many more cyclists there are on the road since 2004?

I have become obsessed with the minor detail of Hammersmith & Fulham moaning about the security costs. The BBC are the borough's biggest employer by a mile, staging an important political debate, and the council's response is to moan they'll have to pay for some extra police overtime for a night?!

Um, actually can someone else give me a 'serious' answer?

http://tiny.cc/b06DS

You're a star, thanks!

I need to send a message to someone that "I told you so" in a comedy way. Has anyone ever seen an equivalent to Let Me Google That For You / lmgtfy.com???

Ha - same thing myself today - not enough sleep but fast ride into work. Had a brilliant little bit of dodgems on Hammersmith Rd - cars pulling out from junctions on left and right, nodders stopped in the middle of the lane to turn, a bus pulling out without indicating... slalomed through them all, made a non-aggressive 'what the fuck' arm gesture to the bus driver and escaped down a side street. Lovely.

Has anyone noticed more and more geared riders putting their hands on the bars in the "fixie skidder" style narrow position? as demonstrated here:

I've seen more people on geared racers doing it lately and somehow thought 'fair enough', but I was just heading along The Vale and saw a fella on a bog-standard hybrid with wide flat bars - and his hands in this same position. I was taught to ride with my fingers on the brake for maximum speed of reaction, but if he had to brake in a hurry, what the hell was he going to do? Take both hands off the bars, ride no handed for a second, put them back on the grips and then brake? It's up there with brakless & singlespeed isn't it??