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@CrazyJames
Tut tut...
2 crashes on the road this year, one relatively minor which involed a white van deciding to suddenly pull a U-turn out of stationary traffic without indicating, so I decided the side of his lovely van and his wing mirror would be a nice place to rest my shoulder whilst he was in the mood to try and kill me.
The other one caused by a numpty on a dutch shopper coming the wrong way up a one way street after nippin out of an alley way whilst I was mid-turn into the corner, I could have swerved and completely avoided her, but frankly I didn't fancy smacking up the pedestrians either side on the relatively small pieces of pavement.
For the record I have only had 2 other crashes on the roads whilst riding around London in 10 years, one was my own stupidity, and no one but myself and the car I hit were injured, and the other one was mechanical failure (cog thread stripped on my well used and abused formula rear hub at the time), which hurt a lot.
There's people on here who have had more crashes than that this year alone....i'm naming no names ;)