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@DisasterIRL
I've had three oh shit moments since I started riding 7 days a week recently
One was during an alleycat during the day, we all started off hopped on the bike on a hill, didn't clip in properly due to the rush, as we flew down this hill I realised that the exit to the park was cobblestoned. The cobblestones where quite old and there was nothing in between the cobblestones. That was fine I just aimed for a spot and hit it fine, but as I was doing that the people ahead of me shouted "BUS!!". I started to try slow down using my legs and realising that I couldn't due to not clipping in properly. I then knew what I had to do and accelerate as fast as I could, still not sure if I could make it. ended up clipping it with my bars. Nearly dropped a log there and then.
Another one was how I totalled my new frame. Stupidly steep hill, I decided ah fuck it I'll try going down it brakeless(quite heavy gearing too), sure I can just hop off if things go wrong. I started going down nearly back peddling, then gravity started to win, so I unlclipped my left foot, after which realised I was going far to fast to hop off, next thought was maybe I can ride it out, as I saw a car in the distance. Looked to my left and saw a driveway off the hill and just steered towards the wire fence, hit it at about 30mph, my face had the pattern of the fence on it. I also felt a pain between my legs as I picked myself up, I had skidded along the top tube and ripped something with the cable guides I never removed, that was the biggest oh shit moment. Upon further checking I realised it was a my leg that got ripped up less than a cm away from my scrotum.
Last one was going down a hill on my mountain bike, my lane was congested so decided to go on the wrong side of the road, after checking that there where no immediate cars. Started picking up a lot of speed, hit a bump heard a noise, just had a quick look to see if my suspension was alright. As I looked back up noticed a car hurtling towards me well over the speed limit(as was I). Ah it's fine I'll just pull into the right lane, looked across and noticed there was NO space left in the lane and knew I just have to ride it out, I just missed the car, not at all helped by the supper wide MTB bars
Wow that was long...