2010-12-09 - Rider Down (Me), Blackstock Road and Mountgrove Road

Posted on Thu 9th, December 2010

• #1

Well_is_it

Corner of Blackstock road and Mountgrove road. Slippery bricks on a crossing/corner were to blame. I'm always wary of that corner but just wasn't thinking about it today...

No real injuries apart from a bruised ego. First accident in five years!

Do not lean!
• #2

dancing james

Did you learn from your leaning?
• #3

Well_is_it

I doubt it.
• #4

chrizzzfosho

happened to me in front of peckham rye weekend about two months ago...
it's so embarrassing as it's COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED!
all of a sudden it was like the bike just came out from under me....
sympathetic, well is it
• #5

deleted

I bent one of the hoods round on my new Pinarello doing that a few weeks ago. Those bricks/cobbles are lethal!

Wont be doing that again.
• #6

nickyspaghetti

Cobbles are a bastard - no matter how many times you fall on them, they always know how to get you one more time. My town is full of cobbles, my usual cause of a fall is that there are bricks missing in places leaving a nice sized hole to avoid. When it is wet........

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.