"Oh Shit" moments...

No, I don't know anything about things like that--I hardly ever watch TV and don't have one at home.

I just had a look. There's VCR out (scart) and what I assume is S-Video out. I have S-Video on this laptop but don't know if it's in or out. Looking at the graphic it appears to be out. damn.

I could film the tv with my phone :)

Keep well clear

DONT LEAN. What dont you get?

key words "black ice" and "inexplicable" i didnt know it was there, it certainly wasnt cold enough to be icy and it was black like tarmac

Fucking Westminster!
They've got a lane closed outside the Houses of Parliament at the moment, complete with non-functioning traffic lights.
6am this morning (still very dark, couldn't really see the other lane was closed) I had to swerve and panic stop as the "stop at red light" sign suddenly appeared out of the darkness, swiftly followed by an approaching stream of oncoming traffic. I cursed myself frantically for lack of observation until I noticed there ***was ***no red light.
Then a nodder almost goes into the back of me.
Then I hear a Doppler-effected "whoooaaaa" as a scooter goes flying past, screeching to a halt 3 feet from the front of a car.
Jesus H Christ.

I really hope this didn't cause any accidents today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWCE02HrMV4

thats brilliant...

-removed-

another carbon fan during conversion lesson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DNyMqgGlEM

I'm guessing there's "oh shit..." stories as well??

Was coming down the hill towards a set of traffic lights at a crossroad as they turned green, so started speeding up to catch the lights. As I got about twenty metres or so from the lights they turned red and the cars going across the intersection started driving off from the lights... I hit the brake a couple of times but had no time to slow down enough before I sped across the road, and slotted in between two cars speeding across the intersection....NEVER AGAIN!!

yes I have learnt my lesson and always look ahead for lights and traffic.

@reen - remove that photo from 4 days ago please. At least two cyclists were killed in that accident. :-(

about a week ago riding round coventry coming up to a sharp bend in the road i heard a bus behind me so i looked back and made eye contact with the driver. who promptly dived at the apex where me and my bike currently were. the oh shit was said as performing a bunny hop onto the kerb. lucky i did too as i would have been under a bus wheel. some people seriously cant drive at all grrrrrrrrr

about a week ago riding round coventry coming up to a sharp bend in the road i heard a bus behind me so i looked back and made eye contact with the driver. who promptly dived at the apex where me and my bike currently were. the oh shit was said as performing a bunny hop onto the kerb. lucky i did too as i would have been under a bus wheel. some people seriously cant drive at all grrrrrrrrr

I look forward to moving to Coventry for uni this year then :P

well if u like concrete, potholes and murderous bus drivers its a lovely place

"oh shit the suns out and i'm working"

well if u like concrete, potholes and murderous bus drivers its a lovely place

You should work in a travel agents, I can hardly wait :)

well its not that bad really

if your going to cov uni this year i would recomend singer halls its where im staying now

I've only looked at Trinitysomethingorother but got plenty of time to decide! Glad to know i won't be the only Coventry-residing forumenger in a few months

yh trinity is nice but over priced, priory is horrific, raglan/calice etc are quite nice but again a bit expensive.

and theres a few of us down here i seen at least 2 more fixeds near the uni

http://lp1.pinkbike.org/photo/1000/pbpic1000822.jpg

Might amuse my variation on this theme...

I raced a closed circuit 20 km time trial a couple of months ago. It was the tricycle world championships at Blenheim palace. Only being partly mad, I don't ride trike much: this must have been perhaps my 4th open race ever. No time to reccy the course, so lap one, took it easy. This is all in the absolute tipping rain, on poorly surfaced hilly perimeter road (3 laps in total). After pass start point to start second lap, me thought I knew the course, so began pushing to my limit. On a reasonably long left curving downhill swoop, I find me banked to my limit, hanging over the left side of the trike, watching my machine gently move from the oh-so-desirable left side of the road (where the camber is, in effect banked in my favour) to the right side. I had that moment of the title when I knew all was lost: me and my trike weren’t going to stay on the road. So off at a tangent I went, onto the rough ground for maybe 5 or 10 seconds, braking as hard as I could. But, as I said t'was raining a bit, so no retardation manifested itself at all, be it tyre skidding or brake block insufficiency. I could see the marshal I was heading towards at perhaps 20-25mph, scamper out the way, leaving me to admire the wooden fence behind him. I knew it was going to hurt. And it did. A theatrical/cartoon style flash and bang, and I slid down the aforementioned fence. I do the standard checklist to register damage: blood in mouth, right arm movable, neck movable, fair bit of blood around (being thoughtfully washed away by the rain), otherwise just scratches. I notice I'm still wanting to race, so twist the trike straight, ask the marshal if he'd push me back onto the course (in top gear: couldn't turn cranks on rough ground) and away I dripped. Finished in 7th place. No broken bones, about two weeks to get over the results of my unconventional stopping technique.
Great fun trikes. Their’s just something about them.

https://www.lfgss.com/thread56544.html#post1834231

Every time I open my eyes in the morning.