fscking inexcusable

DeF said:

Extremely [censored] behaviour. Squeezing both brakes before
rolling off is my habit.

At some point I got into that habit, in the first 50m I always give a quick squeeze to each brake.

On 2006-02-22, dtmeister (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Tamyka Bell said:

It might just be me, but I think that's fscking inexcusable and
unforgivable. Back break - yeah, might be funny, I try to cut some speed
and it doesn't really work, okay haha yeah I didn't check my brake oops.
Front brake - that's my stopping power. Some w@nker in a Prado cuts me
off, and I need to brake in a hurry. Congratulations colleague, you've
just murdered me.

🙁 Report it. Not sure how much good it would do though. You'd have
better luck if you were a driver and someone had cut your brake lines.
That's equivalent to what happened to you, the difference is that
there'd be a police investigation on behalf of the cager.

Definitely worth doing. Combine that later with a department wide
highly sarcastic email, and an invitation to the luser to come chat.

Quoted message said:

Regarding testing brakes, when learning to fly, first item on the
checklist after commencing to taxi was to test the brakes. I do
this on my bike too. It's saved me at least once when I forgot to
close them after fixing a flat.

I am very happy that I have enough brake reach that I can brake
(slightly slower than normal) even with the quick releases disengaged.
Disadvantage to this is having to force the tire through the brake
blocks because there isn't quite enough room.

--
TimC
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
-- Ferenc Mantfeld

On 2006-02-22, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Lotsa lube on the nipples and
lots of checking.

Fnarr?

--
TimC
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.

Terry Collins said:

Tamyka Bell said:

I really hope it was just a joke. But when I find out who did it, I'm
letting their car tyres down. (No, I won't cut their brake cables).

Strongly recommend lodging an official complaint first, or attempting to
if the superiors are fsckwits.

Only then should you let their tyres down, preferrably with side cutters
in a public place, where it could have been any [censored].

Between now and then, just smile sweatly at them all. Makes them wonder.

My approach would be more subtle. Walk in, smile sweetly then in front
of the lot of thm. hold up the sidecutters and say "Which one of you
gutless wonders tried to kill me by Fscking with my brakes" Got the
guts to have a go at me face to face or am I going to have to watch my
back from now on"

If nothing happens then say "100 bucks to whoever turns in the [censored]
" And walk out

Dave

In aus.bicycle on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:26:52 GMT

TimC said:

On 2006-02-22, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Lotsa lube on the nipples and
lots of checking.

Fnarr?

Only if you are lucky.

I won't tell you what I use the sandpaper for...

Zebee

Tamyka Bell said:

I really hope it was just a joke. But when I find out who did it, I'm
letting their car tyres down. (No, I won't cut their brake cables).

Confiscate their valve cores.

-mkli.

I have a bad habit of not reconncting my V-brakes up after a wash so I usually squeeze everything just before lift-off instinctively...... sometimes.

Although I never look back at my rear squewer, so that one might bring me undone one day. :o

Quoted message said:

I am very happy that I have enough brake reach that I can brake
(slightly slower than normal) even with the quick releases disengaged.
Disadvantage to this is having to force the tire through the brake
blocks because there isn't quite enough room.

Well there has to be a good side to having the cheapie Tektro calipers,
doesn't there? I still think I'm up for an upgrade though. Now I can grab
big handfuls of brake, I can see the caliper fleeeex.

Jules said:

Quoted message said:

Still fairly unlikely, assuming you've maintained your bike properly, to
be fair, though.

Well over the years I've snapped a brake cable, 2 gear cables, and (on a
motorcycle) 2 clutch cables. Maybe I just ride in the rain more often
than some people ;-)

It's generally when water gets trapped in there and they rust through
that they fail.

I've broken a gear cable, but never a brake. My stuff does get wet 🙂

Generally, with pushbikes, if you pay attention to how your bike feels
you can notice the degredation of cables, much moreso than you
can/would on a motorbike (esp as my MB has hydraulic lines for
everything!, but my old one had a cable-clutch).

That said, Tam, if it was me, I'd have reacted rather rigourously
towards the prankster. Practical jokes are fine until they risk
serious harm, and mucking with brakes (front or rear) counts as
sabotage in my book.

cfsmtb said:

Tamyka Bell said:

I took my bike so I could ride home. One of my work colleagues opened
up my front brakes. I noticed this before I mounted my bike
because it's part of the standard checks I do in the interest of
staying
alive, but I know a lot of people aren't religious about this habit.

Discreetly dust their work station in fine chilli powder. Or create a
lovely homemade cake of soap, beautifully perfumed with roses or
patchouli, and gently infused with birdseye chillis.

mmmm, birdseyes. Maybe Habaneros as well?

Jules said:

Quoted message said:

For the record, the start of my ride, in 3 of the 4 locations I commonly
ride from, is down a big fsck off hill, right from the start. By the
time I've travelled 50m from my start point, I've hit at least 50km/h.
So yeah, I could pretty easily be dead.

Well in that case, you'd better hope you never snap a front brake cable.

It certainly can happen, and usually at the worst possible time - when
you're braking _hard_ in an emergency.

IMO this is a far more likely scenario than you failing to notice that
someone has monkeyed with your bike.

Or stick some hydraulics on your roadie... fully bling ;-)

Jules

Well maintained brake cables don't snap very easily, but thanks for your
concern. I don't see how I, living on top of a hill, am more likely to
suffer from a snapped brake cable any more than any other cyclist,
though. :-S

And I think your idea of bling is very different from my idea of bling
;-)

Tam

I think I've made my point poorly thus far...

We're all taking varying degrees of risk when we hop on the bicycle, and
we satisfy ourselves with what we consider "acceptable risk".

If we look, historically, at all the instances where people have been
injured or killed while cycling, can anyone point out a single case
where the crash has been caused by someone dastardly [censored] fiddling with
the bike?

I've never heard of this happening. Have you?

While I agree that it was a extraordinarily low act, and you should do
everything you can to have him/her sacked, in the scheme of things it's
highly unlikely to actually cause you injury. Unless, for some reason,
you're a statistically irregular case who is more susceptible to these
things.

I'd be [censored] too, but let's keep some perspective here. You're not
dead ;-)

Jules

Tamyka Bell said:

Jules said:

Quoted message said:

For the record, the start of my ride, in 3 of the 4 locations I commonly
ride from, is down a big fsck off hill, right from the start. By the
time I've travelled 50m from my start point, I've hit at least 50km/h.
So yeah, I could pretty easily be dead.

Well in that case, you'd better hope you never snap a front brake cable.

It certainly can happen, and usually at the worst possible time - when
you're braking _hard_ in an emergency.

IMO this is a far more likely scenario than you failing to notice that
someone has monkeyed with your bike.

Or stick some hydraulics on your roadie... fully bling ;-)

Jules

Well maintained brake cables don't snap very easily, but thanks for your
concern. I don't see how I, living on top of a hill, am more likely to
suffer from a snapped brake cable any more than any other cyclist,
though. :-S

And I think your idea of bling is very different from my idea of bling
;-)

Tam

Jules said:

I think I've made my point poorly thus far...

no comment... :P

Quoted message said:

We're all taking varying degrees of risk when we hop on the bicycle, and
we satisfy ourselves with what we consider "acceptable risk".

Agreed.

Quoted message said:

If we look, historically, at all the instances where people have been
injured or killed while cycling, can anyone point out a single case
where the crash has been caused by someone dastardly [censored] fiddling with
the bike?

I've never heard of this happening. Have you?

Have you ever heard of an investigation into whether or not a bike had
been tampered with?

Why would anyone bother?

If the accident resulted in the bike being smashed up, I imagine it
would be pretty damn hard to tell, anyway.

I hear about lots of bike accidents that don't involve other vehicles,
and I never hear what caused them. A cyclist ending up with a concussion
after stacking in a bunch ride, taking out two other riders in the
process, ending up with various minor injuries. The cause was the first
rider, unable to brake, riding into someone else and falling over
immediately in front of/onto another rider. Is that going to make the
news? Is the rider even going to admit to not having closed the brakes?

Quoted message said:

While I agree that it was a extraordinarily low act, and you should do
everything you can to have him/her sacked, in the scheme of things it's
highly unlikely to actually cause you injury. Unless, for some reason,
you're a statistically irregular case who is more susceptible to these
things.

Oh, I don't want to have the person sacked. I'm sure it was just a joke,
and that they're incredibly stupid.

Quoted message said:

I'd be [censored] too, but let's keep some perspective here. You're not
dead ;-)

Hehehe... well I might be...

zombieTam

DeF said:

Squeezing both brakes before rolling off is my habit.

That's what I do, too. It's a good habit to have, I think. Brakes are
pretty important.

Another good habit is to look at the tyres before hopping on. I tried
to ride with a flat rear tyre recently! :-( It was a slow leak
puncture caused by a paper staple.

David

--

David Trudgett
http://www.zeta.org.au/~wpower/

The state is so organized that wherever a man is placed in the social
scale, his irresponsibility is the same. The higher his grade the more
he is under the influence of demands from below, and the less he is
controlled by orders from above, and vice versa.

-- Leo Tolstoy, "The Kingdom of God is Within You"

cfsmtb said:

Tamyka Bell said:

I took my bike so I could ride home. One of my work colleagues opened
up my front brakes.

Discreetly dust their work station in fine chilli powder. Or create a
lovely homemade cake of soap, beautifully perfumed with roses or
patchouli, and gently infused with birdseye chillis.

Why be subtle? Three words: "Laxette chocolate cake".

If the culprit won't own up, hit the lot of them - "Hey guys, no hard
feelings about the brake thing - look, I baked you a cake." It allegedly
makes for a very amusing couple of days, and earns you a heap of
respect.

I know of three instances where this has worked - once on Army guys and
twice in the Air Force.

--
John
The velorution will not be motorised!

John Pitts said:

If the culprit won't own up, hit the lot of them - "Hey guys, no hard
feelings about the brake thing - look, I baked you a cake." It allegedly
makes for a very amusing couple of days, and earns you a heap of
respect.

And if anyone has health problems which are seriously exacerbated
by a massive bout of diarrhoea, well, that'd be even more amusing.
Both you and the company might need lawyers in a hurry.

--
Home page: http://members.westnet.com.au/mvw

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Quoted message said:

Jules said:

Quoted message said:

For the record, the start of my ride, in 3 of the 4 locations I

commonly

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

ride from, is down a big fsck off hill, right from the start. By the
time I've travelled 50m from my start point, I've hit at least 50km/h.
So yeah, I could pretty easily be dead.

Well in that case, you'd better hope you never snap a front brake cable.

It certainly can happen, and usually at the worst possible time - when
you're braking _hard_ in an emergency.

IMO this is a far more likely scenario than you failing to notice that
someone has monkeyed with your bike.

Or stick some hydraulics on your roadie... fully bling ;-)

Jules

Well maintained brake cables don't snap very easily, but thanks for your
concern. I don't see how I, living on top of a hill, am more likely to
suffer from a snapped brake cable any more than any other cyclist,
though. :-S

And I think your idea of bling is very different from my idea of bling
;-)

Tam

I went the other way when servicing my brother's bike a while back. Changed
the brake blocks and closed the brakes. When we went for a spin he stacked
it! Turns out he rides with the brakes open so they are not as powerful!
When he grabbed his usual handful of brake he locked up the back and slammed
on the front, causing him all sorts of grief.

I'd say that's a very bad habit but in many years of riding he's never
pranged, never had much of a problem with anything. His bikes have always
been a study in neglect! [censored] always chuckles when my meticulously
maintained bikes break down :-/ Sod.

Frank

Just got a call from the wiff; apparently this trick was done to my daughter's bike today for her ride home.
Now Im fecking mad... 😠 😠 😠

F"There's gonna be werds"Dutch

flyingdutch said:

Just got a call from the wiff; apparently this trick was done to my
daughter's bike today for her ride home.
Now Im fecking mad... 😠 😠 😠

F"There's gonna be werds"Dutch

--
flyingdutch

Is she okay?

Tam

Tamyka Bell said:

Is she okay?

Tam

yeah, 'luckily' her commute home is mainly uphill, but she got a hell of fright apparently on one nasty dip.