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Well I got hit last night. I was on a mini-roundabout, turning right, this dozy cow pulls out straight into me. Claimed not to have seen me... what did she think all the lights and scotchlite were doing right in front of her? I'm alright, took the impact with my face and protected the bike. She wasn't going that fast as she'd just pulled off, haven't even got a bruise to show for it. My glasses were a write off though.
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Well I got hit last night. I was on a mini-roundabout, turning right, this dozy cow pulls out straight into me. Claimed not to have seen me... what did she think all the lights and scotchlite were doing right in front of her? I'm alright, took the impact with my face and protected the bike. She wasn't going that fast as she'd just pulled off, haven't even got a bruise to show for it. My glasses were a write off though.
Ouch!
Im always in fear of faceplanting into things, a car cannot be the most forgiving.
Still definetely a "near miss" as your not thankfully your not too fucked up or dead. Its nice you got the opportunity for a verbal exchange. If you did actually get hit, you are fully entitled to make a report to the police, you should do it for what its worth.
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*I fucking crashed hard today people.
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Shamim this happened no more than 5 minutes after we parted... Fucking wounded i am, pissed off like. my face this morning makes me look like frankensteins monster!
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Today I was riding down a street just off Picaddilly Square in Manchester - the record shop street for anyone that knows - and some guy yelled something or other at me and as I looked around to see what he wanted I asked him and he didn't reply. So I started pedalling again at which point he lunged for me and started sprinting after me/my bike.
It was really unsettling just because I couldn't have been any more central than there.
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Heal up gav and pst88.
I got knocked off my bike last week on the Pershore road near the cricket ground.
I was riding to work on the right-hand side of gridlocked traffic when out of nowhere some ignorant prick pulls a 'U' without checking his mirrors, indicating or really checking to see if there was oncoming traffic, I say this last part because as I passed he smashed into my left hand side, which lifted me over his bonnet throught the air and skidding on my face, shoulder, forearm, and hip into oncoming traffic (scars to prove it).
The first car coming managed to stop about 3m away from me (so definitly would have had to brake for him if he'd made his u turn), which shook up driver.
First thing the guy does is check his car, the he comes over to ask me what I thought I was doing?
I was a bit stunned/concussed but not that stupid so i replied;
"I was riding my bike what's your excuse?"
he; "Well you should be riding on the left mate..." etc, he knew he was 100% in the wrong.I was shocked to hear that (motor) insurance companies tell drivers not to apologise, as it implies fault and responsibility. So if you don't it makes it easier to dismiss a claim by the other party!!!
Didn't even get his reg. The lady who stopped to help me on the other hand tried to hide my bike in a dentist so that I wouldn't go to work as she wanted to take me to a+e. -
Gav, Dan at OYB told me, and showed me the incident...
Heal up soon dude.
How's the rest of you - musculoskeletal and all that?? Neck, shoulders, etc etc.
If i can use my rehab skills in anyway, i.e. free up any tension, improve range of movement etc let me know mate, the following days are when you'll experience any probs. -
Yo Fin!
Sorry to hear about your accident bro.
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Gav, Dan at OYB told me, and showed me the incident...
Heal up soon dude.
How's the rest of you - musculoskeletal and all that?? Neck, shoulders, etc etc.
If i can use my rehab skills in anyway, i.e. free up any tension, improve range of movement etc let me know mate, the following days are when you'll experience any probs.Bashed up face and a achey shoulder but apart from that I am good to go.
Fu**ing hard like nails me I tell you ( touches wood again )!Cheers for your concern tho big man.
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Kinda Sorry for posting this in the main forum now, some peeps are a bit harsh.
But it was a pretty awesome crash which deserved to be seen, got a few people checking out spinwell at least.
Must be big wounder for you, got to pay £200 for the window and possibly new front end for your bike.
If it helps, theres tons of scrapyards you could get a window like that for about £40, fitted for another £20 at a garage. But I guess thatd be difficult to arrange with the car owner.
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Kinda Sorry for posting this in the main forum now, some peeps are a bit harsh.
But it was a pretty awesome crash which deserved to be seen, got a few people checking out spinwell at least.
Must be big wounder for you, got to pay £200 for the window and possibly new front end for your bike.
If it helps, theres tons of scrapyards you could get a window like that for about £40, fitted for another £20 at a garage. But I guess thatd be difficult to arrange with the car owner.
Its all good Shamim. I can take the harshness as only I know what truly happened... some of these guys just like to rip on folk like me after reading the bits they want to read. Like placing their whole argument on a picture of the broken window and the words "I crashed". Apparently that makes me a shit rider and a prick.
If some of these guys really read what I wrote instead of scanning it they would see that I say it was my fault and all of the reasons why it was my fault.
We all know a huge percentage of riders on this 'forum' ride 'brakeless' and we also know that a large portion of this forum have had some sort of an accident... It is just that I and a few others like me have chosen to tell people, and me I chose to blog it, why? because I write for a cycle related blog and I had a cycle related accident.
It is there now on Spinwell as a reminder to me and everyone who not only rides brakeless but people who ride bikes on the road period.
A momentary lapse of concentration can do nasty things.
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so today was the first day i cycled to work this year (yeah weather wuss i know) and forgot how scary/potentially dangerous camp hill circus/roundabout is! in the evenings its fine because its all gridlocked so i cruise between the 2 lanes but in the mornings its another story.
i hate always having to stop for my gap to cross then having to pedal as hard as i can to 'get out' out cars ways coming at me at like 30mph. scary and not fun!
I dont want to feeling like i'm avoiding being roadkill. i much prefer feeling like a confident occupant of the road like i do everywhere else.
the council should really put some sort of traffic calming measures there, like traffice lights but they probably wont until someone on a bike has a fatal accident.
anyone else have any potential death spots on there commutes?? has anyone tried to contact the council or a relevant organisation regarding issues like this and had any luck?
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I was pootling along today enjoying the good weather, the sun on my back and lack of rain in my eyes. I was going moderateley fast downhill (too fast to stop suddenly) but it 'was ok' as there was clear roads ahead and plenty of room either side of me for both cars to pas and pothole avoidance.
The cars going past on the right are managing to maintain their paths unchanged but are still 2metres to the right of me. Then this one car (was gold!) drives up beside me and then for no reason moves in towards me, I slow a little/stop accelerating to let the car pass but it MATCHES my speed and continues to move in rapidly towards the curb.
This is a really fast 'oh shit' moment where I thought I was becoming a victim of automotive asassination. I try to slow as much as possible in this brief moment and move closer and closer towards the curb hoping for the car to change course. Theres no room to pull a emergency stop manouvre, and besides this is all happening very rapidly. Im pushed within 2cm of the curb till I managed to near a stop, and car continues forward and eventually accellerates away while I am still paused in a little shock at the roadside.
I know there is a traffic light far ahead so I get pedalling trying to catch the car, it changes and I hope the car is caught. But there is still a huge distance to catch up, I filter a massive cue of traffic at speed and right at the end, I find it!
I plan to bash on the window and yell at the driver, making them get out. Once I come to the car, I see it is not some chavvy bloke as I expected but a middle aged indian woman. I bash on the window but then bottle it thinking it mustve just been an accident. And zip off a little confused & flustered.
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This happened to me in Balsall Heath on the cycle path...kinda... I was cycling away from town on the cycle path, then where it turns to street and i was ok still, speeding along minding my own business then a car came along (a seat ibiza) driving in the middle of the road toward me, then on my side of the road and i had to hop up the kerb to stop being hit. It just carried on, moved to its own side of the road and was gone in a flash. I was more shaken up than angry, I was about an inch away from being dead! Still I guess thats the risk you take on a bike. I thought after a while it was probably some old person that couldn't see me rather than a malicious driver but you don't know do you.
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Is the collapsing economy causing apocolyptic driving?
I decided to roll over to the city centre to fetch something about half past 4, little did I know what awaited me.
Ive ridden to town daily through rush hour for the past two years and I have to say there was something eerily different about today. Other than it being absolutley rammed, everyone was driving faster, drivers were paniccy and totally unreadable, and no-one was slowing down for ANYTHING!
In total I had the fear of death THREE times today.
But the one incident at Belgrave Middleway was absolutley extroadinarily shocking.
Ive actually been hit by a car before, but that was nothing compared to this. I am still a bit jittery. You kind of become confident/complacent after feeling youve learnt everythng about the way traffic moves, how long it takes you to react, and exactly how safe you are out on the road. This is why you feel a helmet is useless.
But how often do you actually think about extroadinary events? Being victim "wacky" driving worthy of being on a TV show?
Today a small white van (big surprise!) which was 2 exits behind me, sped half around belgrave round-about , caught up with me (who was signalling right to make sure all the drivers new where I was going) , sped past my inside (right) and suddenly turned left ACROSS my path, when there was LESS than a cars width in left in front of me at around 40mph!
I somehow managed to managed to miraculously avoid collision because I turned my handlebars left as the car came across my path, it brushed my wheel & bars!
If I had tried to brake/skid I wouldve been in intensive care. If the road hadnt just dried up minutes earlier, I wouldve been in a morgue.
I then proceeded to collapse in shock on the grass island, where I tried to compose myself. I called 999, but only realised I never actually got hurt halfway through. So I reported the plate, they said they would "look out for it" (yeah right!)
Well anyway, that was some scary shit. I thought it would be useful to start sharing some accounts of near misses & danger spots. Anybody else got some?
Ill add a pictorial account tommorow.