This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Fuaaarrrr....glad to hear you are ok. Frogger peds are honestly the worst.

Sorry for the traffic jam at Parliament Sq today at about 8.20. Had my 7th pedestrian involved incident. I was first off the line heading towards number 10 and a ped thought it would be clever to initiate a game of frogger with oncoming traffic. Was doing about 25/30, had to do a massive emergency whip skid to avoid killing her and a poor roadie behind me clipped my back wheel. We both went flying :( I've got some brilliant road rash and my left leg which doesn't show any signs of damage is in quite a surprising amount of pain.
Roadie was rolling around on his back, I thought he had broken it for a minute. He turned out to be ok and left before I did. Loads of peds stopped to pick us up but the instigator fled the scene whilst we were rolling around on the floor.

Jeez! do get your leg checked out when you can, just to be on the safe side.

Fuaaarrrr....glad to hear you are ok. Frogger peds are honestly the worst.

Cheers man, yeah I haven't broken anything at least. Thinking back I'm pretty sure the roadie behind me also ran me over a bit lol.

Good to see you last night dude!

Jeez! do get your leg checked out when you can, just to be on the safe side.

Yeah it's incredibly painful but I can hobble around a bit.

Was doing about 25/30, had to do a massive emergency whip skid to avoid killing her and a poor roadie behind me clipped my back wheel.

Are your brakes in poor condition?

Brake are death boffy, that's why he's still alive.

Okay, maybe not quite alive, I'll give you that.

No I'm running Sram Red Aerolink (front) and funnily enough I changed the pads last night (only the forks are drilled because it's a track frame) I feathered it a bit to bring by back wheel out but if I used the brake only I would probably be in hospital getting my jaw removed from my forehead.

Shift your weight back, it's really hard to go over the bars if you try not to, even if you grab a massive handful of brake. My polo bike only has a front hydraulic and I grab a load of that as hard as I can all the time, only gone over the bars when I'm concentrating on other stuff, like scoring sweet goals or where I left my beer.

Or simply ride slower to reduced your braking distance in populated area.

#sickburn

#kickedwhiledown

25/30 lozzles...

undertaking cocktrumpet on endell street connected with my front wheel, cue both of us going arse over tit, me landing heavily on my left elbow and knee. it really fucking hurts.

Sounds horrible, as does said cocktrumpet (saved now to my phone's predictive txt dictionary).

There's way more fucking swearing on this forum than there used to be and I don't like it. When you've had a run-in like you describe you deserve some space for creative cussing.

No there's fucking not. If fucking anything some of us have fucking toned it fucking down. Fucking.

Yeah some places up town where peds are always stepping out you should just move into primary more often and go a bit slower kinda like passing cars give that extra space for some dumb peds first step like it was a car door.

Anyway working slightly different hours atm so on my way into work I have some dulwich paragon guy pass me and last 2 days he has decided to undertake like a dick. The first one he did just by what used to be ABC cinema just as I was approaching a parked car so he had to swerve across madly to miss the car, today was nearer odeon and he had to slam the brakes on a few feet infront of me just after under taking as the traffic slowed/stopped. Another different dulwich paragon guy after work decided to zoom along past the witgift to then stop at the lights in the middle of a lane and check his phone texting as they went green and then texting some more for them to go red before he pulled away(I arrived at the lights just as they went red). I'm sure they had been bad before DD but just notice them more...

No there's fucking not. If fucking anything some of us have fucking toned it fucking down. Fucking.

Cocktrumpet. Wemo.

Shift your weight back, it's really hard to go over the bars if you try not to, even if you grab a massive handful of brake. My polo bike only has a front hydraulic I grab a load of that as hard as I can all the time, only gone over the bars when I'm concentrating on other stuff, like scoring sweet goals or where I left my beer.

I thought you guys just used magnets to stay on the saddle.

That's a routine I'll have to break out of because I'm usually doing the opposite to skid etc.

And Ed I don't understand this "ride slower" principle, explain to me at SE's next time.

Cocktrumpet. Wemo.

Finding Wemo?

25/30 lozzles...

Km/H. I'm in strava speak these days.

I'm sure they had been bad before DD but just notice them more...

Did something happen on DD?

Shift your weight back more when you pull rad skidz and you'll stop more quickly too.

lock your arm = stop your weight shifting forward.

Ask CB about arm locking when you're in SE next.

ABC cinema... today was nearer odeon..middle of a lane and check his phone texting as they went green and then texting some more..
[QUOTE]

Maybe they are just checking the times for the new Transformers movie that we are all so stoked about (Y) and txting their friends the good news

^ quote fail.

See I did stop in time, if this guy didn't catch my back wheel they all would have been ok.

Not that I asked this guy for any explanation but after he got up he said "I was too busy concentrating on the woman in front of us to see where your rear was."

This all happened in the space of about 3 seconds so you have to imagine we had nearly no time to react before we were on the floor.