How do I HTFU?!

how did this happen anyway ?
can you remember?
Sorry so late with the reply, but I'm doing some catching up on the sleep that I've missed for a few years it seems.

I'd hit a pothole that I didn't see. My speed and maybe the sharp lip of the pothole caused my tyre to burst. I sailed through the air, as if I was the same weight as Object*, hitting some pole head-first, bouncing (from a headbutt?) back onto the railing below (hitting that with my back, arse and back of my left leg), then bouncing from there a few feet forward into the road, where my 54 inch moobs stopped me from being squash-faced. I've always said "fat is good". :)

*Just playing with you Mr.Object

Oh yes, I will have to wear a cycling helmet. So, like I told Rocksteady, I'll be researching that soon. Yes, maybe I should've done that much earlier. :(

Ouch ouch ouch. Get well soon!

^ ah bloody hell. When did I say that the origin of HTFU came from that video? It was amusing (to me) and not completely unrelated to the topic.

HT..

I think you've misunderstood what I said.

That video, via the conduit of hippy, *is* the origin of the phrase 'HTFU' in the context of this forum, and so by posting it in the manner in which you did, as if it might be new to us, you showed no awareness of its place in lfgss folklore.

Dya get me?

Sorry so late with the reply, but I'm doing some catching up on the sleep that I've missed for a few years it seems.

I'd hit a pothole that I didn't see. My speed and maybe the sharp lip of the pothole caused my tyre to burst. I sailed through the air, as if I was the same weight as Object*, hitting some pole head-first, bouncing (from a headbutt?) back onto the railing below (hitting that with my back, arse and back of my left leg), then bouncing from there a few feet forward into the road, where my 54 inch moobs stopped me from being squash-faced. I've always said "fat is good". :)

*Just playing with you Mr.Object

Oh yes, I will have to wear a cycling helmet. So, like I told Rocksteady, I'll be researching that soon. Yes, maybe I should've done that much earlier. :(

If a pothole caused you to crash then you can ask the council for compensation; I got a new frame off Camden that way. You need to get a photo of that pothole ASAP and some legal advice. May take a while but well worth pursuing.

And a ruler/tape measure/well known object to hold next to/in the pothole in your photo.

and if, like the one I hit, it is not at the side of the road, and is obscured by cars then take pics of that too. If the hole has suddenly been repaired since you hit it still take a photo. If it has a very sharp edge make sure that is clearly shown in the picture. Take several photos of your injuries too.
The rest, witnesses, bike shop estimates for damage and such, is much like any other accident. I had a lawyer friend draft all the letters for me, took about 6 months I think.

I think you've misunderstood what I said.

That video, via the conduit of hippy, *is* the origin of the phrase 'HTFU' in the context of this forum, and so by posting it in the manner in which you did, as if it might be new to us, you showed no awareness of its place in lfgss folklore.

Dya get me?

Got you. I'm newer on here, so didn't see Hippy post the vid.

'Repost' would be another way to have said it.

Maybe new forumgers like me might like it.

If I'd posted 'repost', it would no doubt have been a repost, because someone will have posted 'repost' before, and I'm a stickler for not reposting, so you can see the quandry I'm in.

I don't give a shit about post-nurseryengers. If they weren't such "lazy cunts", and "used the fucking search", they'd have found the original HTFU post by now.*

*sensitivity fail

get your tyre as far on as you can then flip the wheel around and push the opposite side of the tyre that is on toward the side that is yet to go on. Flatlander showed me this and it really makes it a breeze.
If you don't get what i'm saying basically by flipping the tyre around adn pushing where i said, you are relieving the tension and grip on that side of the tyre therefore making more of the bit you have left to get on and so it being more slack easier to get on.

glad your ok GA2G

Hell's bells, it's like a stuck record round here... constant re-analysis of clique etiquette... yawn.

Shit dude.. that's nasty! Glad you're not dead! Hope your head is less red next time you tread towards your bed.

Where is the pothole? Do you need someone to try and grab a photo of it while you're out of action?

For the love of Satan, will people please stop passing judgement on the constant re-analysis of clique etiquette. Honestly, there's more to life.

For the love of Satan, will people please stop passing judgement on the constant re-analysis of clique etiquette. Honestly, there's more to life.

I'm probably an athiest, so don't believe in satan

Are you saying you're athier (sic) than everyone else?

Are you saying you're athier (sic) than everyone else?

Nah, I'm still trying to get over indoctrination since birth. Hence the probably.

The first step is chopping off your ears, aint it?

must of been decent to get airborn over the bars! happened to me full tilt going down fitzjohns av in hampstead, you think to yourself this is going to hurt!

Hell's bells, it's like a stuck record round here... constant re-analysis of clique etiquette... yawn.

So what are you bringing to the party?

So what are you bringing to the party?

cocktail sausages and a bottle of blue nun

cocktail sausages and a bottle of blue nun

You certainly know how to treat a lady ;)

Don't forget the pineapple chunks...
(Did you hear that hippy?)

There are no sounds to hear....