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Like the man said, "Brexit plus, plus, plus"

Excellent, thanks.

I must have missed it, as I thought I'd read it through on the half a dozen times I watched the video.

Just for the music you understand.

I really enjoyed following this years race, so looking forward to next years already.

On a slightly related matter, can anyone tell me the name of the piece of music that was used on the video this year that featured Hippy?

You can always have the op to put it back again. So far I have chosen not to and it's been three years. Try to get out of the sling, I went back to see the specialist after a month and pretty much had totally normal movement, just a bit of weakness and some discomfort from the skin stretching and the various tendons and stuff having to work around, rather than over, the collarbone.

Did that a few years ago. They sent me home in a sling for the weekend but the specialist got rid of it first thing Monday morning and gave me a few simple exercises to do. Month off work was a bore, especially as I was not getting paid, but I was already doing turbo sessions and trying to use the arm as normally as possible.

Mostly it's good now, the Doctors said I could do everything after the injury I had been able to do before, but too much hammering, or chopping wood with an axe ends up giving me a couple of days of slight discomfort.

At the time this incident happened, someone on here did a search for the car and found it had a current MOT but no current VED.

Looks good.

I am a big fan of retro frame / modern running gear, I have a 1980's Coppell, a 2004 Rourke and have just finished a 1997 Lloyd Concept 90. Luv em.

If you're going to give in to a craving, that's an excellent one to give in to.

Five times!

Screened out.

Would have been good to know you don't want to hear from leisure cyclists before I started the survey.

Some of us are not city / office based and have to drive.

My recent experience leads me to believe that the authorities use / ignore the Highway Code to suit their own purposes.

I reported a driver who overtook me just as I had my arm out signalling I was turning right. I was told by the popo that a Traffic Officer had looked at my video and I was actually at fault for breaking the Highway Code! I disagreed but did not have a copy to hand to make my case.

It turns out the code says that cyclists MAY wish to dismount when turning right on a busy road, and push their bike across the road. However the code also states that drivers MUST NOT overtake any vehicle indicating right.

So in my case the Traffic Officer had chosen the bit of the code that meant he / she did not have to do anything about my complaint. Thanks A&S popo, way to go!

My thoughts on the AA's code? They should make it compulsory reading for all their driving members, then we may have a few less ' the highway code says...' comments shouted at us.

It seems RLJ'ing is habitual with some people. Sitting at a junction with Gloucester Rd, Bristol and a lady on an orange MTB just came straight across under a red (as we were on the other side of the junction). I then turned left and left again and into the top end of St Pauls, stopped at another red and the orange MTB lady filtered through the traffic, overshot the white line, sat there for a few minutes, then just rode through another red light.

I didn't catch up with her again, but anyone shouting anything from a car at a cyclist is only going to get a mouth full of abuse.

Good luck orange MTB lady, let's hope you don't become a statistic.

What were they driving? A JCB!

A son banned for using EPO, now a daughter banned for mechanical doping... their father must be VERY proud.

Well, for starters he's broken item 1 of the code of conduct.

I didn't read any further.

Don't take it personally, too many people with too much hate.

I got a tirade of really high level expletives shouted at me in Frome (Somerset) on a wet Sunday evening on almost deserted roads. My crime was using a roundabout and preventing a driver from doing a quick pull away from ASDA...

I really don't take this sort of thing personally, the offending drivers have nothing against me as an individual, more the form of transport I am using.

This in itself is pretty odd, but I see all sorts of nonsense on the roads when I am driving so I just regard these people as accidents waiting to happen and just hope I am not there when the inevitable occurs.

Cold and windy lunchtime leg stretch, pretty uneventful until a smiley young mum with little blonde baby in a baby seat (that's how close she was), decided that despite the fact I was in primary and that I was only 10 yards from a roundabout and five from a raised kerb she was going to overtake.

I heard the tell tale revs and past she came, cutting hard left in order to avoid smashing into the raised kerb on the right with the illuminated sign on it. I swung hard left as she came past and then had to brake hard as her dirty silver Ford Focus was now occupying the section of road I was supposed to be on.

When she drove off I made eye contact in her side mirror and she was all happy happy smiley, so I guess she thinks that's a perfectly sensible way to drive. Not sure what she will think when she finally manages to knock someone off their bike... assuming she hasn't done it already.

Reg noted and report filed on line with A&S Popo. Not expecting a response.

That's incidents on each of my last three rides... if I were paranoid I would think they are out to get me.. but in truth there are just an awful lot of fuckwits out there, and sooner or later one or two..or five will pass through my sphere of existence.

Great idea, but I looked him up and despite the fancy web site, he's just a bloke that lives in one of the local housing estates. I did think about a note under the wiper saying "From the cyclist you tried to squash. I know where you live!" But it's just one of those things and was actually more amusing than dangerous, as he was going so slowly.

Two beeps and a shouting at in the last two miles of my lunchtime bid to regain some of the fitness lost in the recent monsoon.

Moped tried to T bone me on a roundabout, coming at me from my left as I went straight across, then tried to undertake me as I was heading to the left hand side of the road and finally passed while shouting mrff feffen gurdy fluffufuf... nah mate, don't work, what with you wearing a full face helmet an all. Then got beeped at by an arm waving old bloke in a Honda CRV as I was banging along at the same speed as the cars in front, to the left of the road while heading for the cycle lane, I left him in a queue of cars.

Last I got beeped and tail gated by a heavily overloaded flatbed Transit, this was after he had tried to overtake me on my left as we both made a right turn off a main road... not sure how that was ever going to work. Anyway, after holding him up for at least 30 yards by way of parked cars to the left and oncoming traffic, he passed me so close that had the passenger window of the cab been open I could have gobbed into the ear of the extremely embarrassed looking passenger. It turned out that the flatbed was so overloaded that he passed me doing about 2 MPH more than me with smoke coming off the back tyres where they were rubbing on the inside of the mudguards and their associated fixing bolts. So, Premiere Paving Services ltd from Weston-s-Mare, you are a very angry man and I suspect you will soon be in the market for a new wagon, if the whining noise coming from your diff is anything to go by.

Of course I blame myself for all this nonsense, as I will insist on wearing a red jacket, it just enrages bulls and certain types of idiot humans.

You didn't come across at patronising, at least not to me.

I had an almost identical situation a while ago where the passenger of the car doing the non overtake shouted "get on the pavement". My reply was the same as this time, say nothing, flip to the outside of the stationary traffic and ride into the distance.... or bakery, whichever is nearest.

Even though I drive something like 35,000 business miles a year, I find it almost impossible to put myself in the mindset of someone who sees a 3 metre space and tries to insert a 4.5 metre vehicle into it.

This desperate need to be 'in front' is everywhere I accept (but don't like) that, it is just in this particular situation, which I have experienced many times, it is doomed to failure before it even starts, hence the question why?

As for my position, I was in primary getting ready to overtake all the stationary cars, that was another reason she was left with the back end of her car on the wrong side of the white lines.

Ahh well, no harm done, just slightly bewildering.

Another of those ... why? moments.

Rolling towards the back of a small queue of stationary cars waiting their turn to go though a narrow rail bridge and a women in a blue BMW 3 series insists on trying to quickly 'nip around' me and into the gap between me and the car in front, only she can't as it wasn't big enough to start with and certainly isn't now that I have rolled forwards another yard or two. This means she stopped with the nose of her car behind the queue and arse ends sticking out over the white line and so on the other carriageway.

I was able to brake, swing round behind her and overtake while she sat in the queue and I continued on my way.

No harm done, no real hassle, but just WHY?

Talk to this guy, he will hand make something to suit, at a very fair price.

http://www.mackworkshop.com/

Check out his instagram.

Actually a Wednesday ride, but...