Pet Peeve Rant

[tekla]

You can't fix it on the fly?  Takes me about five minutes to swap out a tube.

[Kevin Peña]

You can't fix it on the fly?  Takes me about five minutes to swap out a tube.

I can do it in about 3 minutes, but the point is that I'm not always near an extra tube. I sometimes carry extra tubes, but I don't always carry them, so I get stuck with a flat and no tube to fix it. I only go to a bike shop when this happens so I can buy a tube or borrow some tools.

[tekla]

I always carry a spare fresh tube (and a patch kit too, just in case), mostly because 90% of my riding takes place in either odd times or odd places, or both.  Getting a flat in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge at 3am puts me a long way from any bike shop and a 7 hour wait for them to open.  Annadale is even worse.  But I've found that using real good tires (currently on Michelin City Tires with Protek Plus Layer as my main use tire - I have big knobbies too, but only use them up on the trails in the rain - with either thorn resistant or slime tubes has kept flats to a minimum (and I'm riding about 100-120 miles a week - 80 urban/20 trail-single track %) - say about twice a year.

[V M]

I almost always have a spare tube and my lil' tool kit with me 

[tekla]

Yeah.  Mine is just a little bag that fits under the seat.  As it is I give away more tubes than I use in a year because when I'm out on a rural road riding with my brother or up in the hills doing fire trails and single-tracks it's easier just to give a person a new tube then to hassle trying to patch it.  Especially if they are cute and female.

[Kevin Peña]

I always carry a spare fresh tube (and a patch kit too, just in case), mostly because 90% of my riding takes place in either odd times or odd places, or both.  Getting a flat in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge at 3am puts me a long way from any bike shop and a 7 hour wait for them to open.  Annadale is even worse.  But I've found that using real good tires (currently on Michelin City Tires with Protek Plus Layer as my main use tire - I have big knobbies too, but only use them up on the trails in the rain - with either thorn resistant or slime tubes has kept flats to a minimum (and I'm riding about 100-120 miles a week - 80 urban/20 trail-single track %) - say about twice a year.

I should start carrying tools and a spare tube with me everywhere. NYC roads stink, to be honest. They're filled with potholes and some are uprooted, leaving a jagged mess behind. Drivers just never notice because they're in their precious automobiles. I never liked the slime tubes, either. If you are ever caught going down a steep hill and have to skid or brake hard, then the heat makes the tire explode. I've seen it happen. It looks like Predator got stabbed  . Also, knobby tires don't really make much of a difference in the rain in terms of slipping. I only use them for increased traction on dirt.

What sucks is that I'm still in school, so I don't have money. Heck, I use butter knives as tire removers. When I become an EMT, the first thing I'm getting is a custom cross bike. 27-speed, break lever shifters, steel frame, double-layered tires, disk brakes, and all sorts of other great stuff. Glad to see that I'm not the only bicycle enthusiast here. 

Being poor stinks sometimes... 

[Snowpaw]

Other smokers who light up right outside doors.

Non smokers who drive big trucks telling me I am polluting the air.

[Ave]

getting EMT jobs in this city is just ugh...impossible.

same with nursing.

difference is you can actually live on a nurses salary.

[Snowpaw]

Their trucks are sooo much worse than your relatively insignificant cigarette.
But who cares if they smoke near doors? If its private property at least, it should be up to the owner. Im saying this and im one of those people who avoids all exposure to second hand smoke I can!

It kinda gets inside and I know one of my friends is allergic to cig smoke or it gets her very ill, I try not to light up around people, the pride parade it was near impossible what with 3000 there

But yeah the trucks, it's just too funny

[Jamie D]

I can do it in about 3 minutes, but the point is that I'm not always near an extra tube. I sometimes carry extra tubes, but I don't always carry them, so I get stuck with a flat and no tube to fix it. I only go to a bike shop when this happens so I can buy a tube or borrow some tools.

Get Slimed.

[V M]

Okay...

People that smoke right near entrances annoy the stuff out of me    I'll be heading out the back door of my apt.s to go out to the garden and there will be a couple of puffers right there and first opening the door drags their smoke into the building, pelting me in the face and then I have to walk through their cloud 

But what really ticks me off are people on their cell phones who nearly hit me with their cars because they aren't paying attention

[tekla]

The 'slime' injected into the tubes is far less effective than the slime tubes themselves.  Such is my experience anyway.

As for pet peeves I pretty much go the route of Point of No Return (even though the original French La Femme Nikita is far superior in every aspect) and just think:  I never did mind about the little things.

[Alexis]

I never had too much problem patching my tubes on the road. I always kept a patch kit and a spare tube in my saddle bag. My bike was stolen out of my building's garage though last year, so that ended all that :/

Another big one for me. Saying please, thank you, and you're welcome. I mean, it's not that hard to say any of them and it hardly takes any time. It's infuriating for me actually.

[Ave]

I never had too much problem patching my tubes on the road. I always kept a patch kit and a spare tube in my saddle bag. My bike was stolen out of my building's garage though last year, so that ended all that :/

Another big one for me. Saying please, thank you, and you're welcome. I mean, it's not that hard to say any of them and it hardly takes any time. It's infuriating for me actually.

Lol, that annoys me too, because it's automatic for me.

I have managed to shorten thank you to just thanks so I dont sound like a dweeb ^^.

[Alexis]

Lol, that annoys me too, because it's automatic for me.

I have managed to shorten thank you to just thanks so I dont sound like a dweeb ^^.

lol, I'm so excessive about thank you sometimes that it annoys people, but like you said it's automatic. I don't care though because it's proper manners
I do I say sorry too much, that I need to work on.

[Ave]

lol, I'm so excessive about thank you sometimes that it annoys people, but like you said it's automatic. I don't care though because it's proper manners
I do I say sorry too much, that I need to work on.

omg me too!

*lady bumps into me and I say sorry*

*someone spills my coffee and I say sorry*

lol, you get the point. Also, my sorry sounds like I'm from toronto. If you've ever watched Degrassi then you'll see how the kids say it is a bit funny

[Padma]

Also, my sorry sounds like I'm from toronto. If you've ever watched Degrassi then you'll see how the kids say it is a bit funny

Is it wrong that I find this cute?

[Ave]

Is it wrong that I find this cute?

lol, it sounds funny here in the states, people are like WTF?? when they hear me speak cause I sound more or less standard american but with a light something accent.

[Padma]

Now I'll have to watch DeGrassi to find out what you're on about (I'm only a poor Brit...)

[Snowpaw]

It would irk me when I went from Texas to Baltimore, people would make jokes about my accent or say are you from Texas.