City gearing up for Sky Ride 2012 (From Daily Echo)

From the talk at work it does make me wonder if there will be MORE than 10,000 people attending this year. Lots of people are really looking forward to it.

Get your bikes ready, check the brakes and gears (lots of good cycle shops in and around Southampton will do this for you for not very much). Oil the chain, pump the tyres up to their proper pressure (this will make the ride smoother and more comfortable and reduce the chance of puncture). Apply your sun lotion to you and the kids and take a drink. It will be hot.

wow it took the whole day before someone talked rubbish.here's my day today.cycle with son into town first we are in the cycle lane and a car heads towards us and it our fault because she wants the petrol station.second why are we cycling on the pavement (on the cycle lane they walking the dog in the lane and again its my fault.on the way home up the avenue by the church why are we cycling on the pavement cant you read my reply was it is a cycle path and footpath which we both use and the reply back was its a wedding have some respect and go in the road.told a local bobby and he was not interested.a great way to teach children how to be respectful to other people.so if you dont know the rules shut up and we have not heard from the you dont pay road tax trolls yet.

Here is my day, driving my bus from 4 Post Hill to Waterloo Rd, avoid the idiot cyclist riding 4ft from the pavement while talking on his mobile phone. Oh good he has gone up onto the pavement time to proceed. Whoops here he comes again straight into the road without even pausing his conversation. Clear road ahead so give him plenty of room while I go round him. Approaching Waterloo Rd now with left hand indicator on and slowing to make the turn while aware thay cyclist has now speeded up and is in no mood to hold back. Watch in amazement as cyclist continues straight up inside of bus to carry on toward shirley despite being in wrong lane and cutting the front of the bus.

so in other words both are as wrong as each other then ? no one person is better than the other so we should all get along.

teamgreen wrote:
wow it took the whole day before someone talked rubbish.here's my day today.cycle with son into town first we are in the cycle lane and a car heads towards us and it our fault because she wants the petrol station.second why are we cycling on the pavement (on the cycle lane they walking the dog in the lane and again its my fault.on the way home up the avenue by the church why are we cycling on the pavement cant you read my reply was it is a cycle path and footpath which we both use and the reply back was its a wedding have some respect and go in the road.told a local bobby and he was not interested.a great way to teach children how to be respectful to other people.so if you dont know the rules shut up and we have not heard from the you dont pay road tax trolls yet.

Your such a martyr, your sad story brought tears to my eyes, when I had stopped laughing and changed my underwear.
Get over yourself and your persecution complex, you sad man

downfader wrote:
From the talk at work it does make me wonder if there will be MORE than 10,000 people attending this year. Lots of people are really looking forward to it.

Get your bikes ready, check the brakes and gears (lots of good cycle shops in and around Southampton will do this for you for not very much). Oil the chain, pump the tyres up to their proper pressure (this will make the ride smoother and more comfortable and reduce the chance of puncture). Apply your sun lotion to you and the kids and take a drink. It will be hot.

That many idiots in garishly coloured lycra clogging up the City centre, oh Joy be unconfined.
You really ought to talk about something else at work or your mates will think you are weird we do already so you dont need to bore us with your exciting life.

downfader wrote:
From the talk at work it does make me wonder if there will be MORE than 10,000 people attending this year. Lots of people are really looking forward to it.

Get your bikes ready, check the brakes and gears (lots of good cycle shops in and around Southampton will do this for you for not very much). Oil the chain, pump the tyres up to their proper pressure (this will make the ride smoother and more comfortable and reduce the chance of puncture). Apply your sun lotion to you and the kids and take a drink. It will be hot.

Let's face it, most of the people who turn up for this event will be decent, happy families and friends, and I hope they enjoy a thoroughly good day out without lorries and buses scaring them half to death !

But there will also be the fanatical minority present in the shape of Clownfader and his mob, all dressed in their pink, orange, black and yellow comedy outfits looking like hopefuls at an audition for the stage version of "A Bug's Life" !

There will be the "Cycle Past" parade at the Civic Centre where they all salute Herr Deutchfader, and then on to the precinct to lay a wreath at the Cycle Stand Of The Unknown Solitary Bicycle Wheel. As you all know, the single wheel was left chained there in memory of lost bicycles everywhere.

Loonphaser's comment was classic, wasn't it ? Could have been so easily mistaken for the first paragraph of another "Famous Five" adventure !

I don't know how true it is, but I heard that Daftvader and his cycle terrorist gang were trying to think up a name for themselves on a par with the motorcyclist fraternity's "Hell's Angels". Apparently it's a t oss-up between "Satan's Fairies", and "Lucifer's Goblins" !

BillyTheKid wrote:

downfader wrote:
From the talk at work it does make me wonder if there will be MORE than 10,000 people attending this year. Lots of people are really looking forward to it.

Get your bikes ready, check the brakes and gears (lots of good cycle shops in and around Southampton will do this for you for not very much). Oil the chain, pump the tyres up to their proper pressure (this will make the ride smoother and more comfortable and reduce the chance of puncture). Apply your sun lotion to you and the kids and take a drink. It will be hot.

Let's face it, most of the people who turn up for this event will be decent, happy families and friends, and I hope they enjoy a thoroughly good day out without lorries and buses scaring them half to death !

But there will also be the fanatical minority present in the shape of Clownfader and his mob, all dressed in their pink, orange, black and yellow comedy outfits looking like hopefuls at an audition for the stage version of "A Bug's Life" !

There will be the "Cycle Past" parade at the Civic Centre where they all salute Herr Deutchfader, and then on to the precinct to lay a wreath at the Cycle Stand Of The Unknown Solitary Bicycle Wheel. As you all know, the single wheel was left chained there in memory of lost bicycles everywhere.

Loonphaser's comment was classic, wasn't it ? Could have been so easily mistaken for the first paragraph of another "Famous Five" adventure !

I don't know how true it is, but I heard that Daftvader and his cycle terrorist gang were trying to think up a name for themselves on a par with the motorcyclist fraternity's "Hell's Angels". Apparently it's a t oss-up between "Satan's Fairies", and "Lucifer's Goblins" !

Actually I thought Goblin Fairies was a better name!!
You crack me up, you are a breath of fresh air against these boring cycling loonies, keep it up!

I thought I’d try and find out a little more about this “downfader” person on the net, and I just could not believe what I saw. He has set up a personal presence of epic proportions, writing one blog after another. He fills interminable paragraphs with tedious, trivial banality and trite on a monumental scale, pouring detailed enthusiasm into such activities as getting up in the morning and cycling to work. Making clichéd references to alarm clocks, and describing road surfaces is the sort of thing that interests him.

He has made dozens of films and posted them on You Tube, all about cycling, where he tells you how to turn left safely, and how to go shopping with a bike ! The quality of the actual filming, to be fair, is better than many of the amateur efforts you find on the Tube, but he splatters all of them with endless, redundant comments, instructions, and statistics, all in huge, red type faces.

He is a giant in the world of superficiality and shallowness. Describing himself as a photographer, musician, and philosopher, he appears to be deluded, obsessional, and possessed of a massive ego complex. His sole purpose seems to be self-promotion masquerading as some kind of skewed, unsolicited advisory service. I would encourage people to examine this “downfader’s” work, and see if you, too, conclude that the vast majority of his work is of no literary or artistic value, and that, frankly, he didn't really ought to be out anywhere on his own.

BillyTheKid wrote:
I thought I’d try and find out a little more about this “downfader” person on the net, and I just could not believe what I saw. He has set up a personal presence of epic proportions, writing one blog after another. He fills interminable paragraphs with tedious, trivial banality and trite on a monumental scale, pouring detailed enthusiasm into such activities as getting up in the morning and cycling to work. Making clichéd references to alarm clocks, and describing road surfaces is the sort of thing that interests him.

He has made dozens of films and posted them on You Tube, all about cycling, where he tells you how to turn left safely, and how to go shopping with a bike ! The quality of the actual filming, to be fair, is better than many of the amateur efforts you find on the Tube, but he splatters all of them with endless, redundant comments, instructions, and statistics, all in huge, red type faces.

He is a giant in the world of superficiality and shallowness. Describing himself as a photographer, musician, and philosopher, he appears to be deluded, obsessional, and possessed of a massive ego complex. His sole purpose seems to be self-promotion masquerading as some kind of skewed, unsolicited advisory service. I would encourage people to examine this “downfader’s” work, and see if you, too, conclude that the vast majority of his work is of no literary or artistic value, and that, frankly, he didn't really ought to be out anywhere on his own.

I came to the same conclusion ages ago the man is a one trick pony who could bore the pants off of the most patient listener.
He is totally incapable of commenting on anything apart from cycling and I wonder if its due to the tightness of his Lycra constricting his brain!