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@Creation_Iration
Fuckin hell! Low flying bread definatley to be avoided you got lucky. . .
Reminds me of a couple more:
Coming up Tabernacle St flying round past the memorial into Paul St a pigeon flew directly into my face hitting my glasses into my left eye. I saw stars, was temporarily blinded for a few seconds and managed against all odds to stay on. Luckily the errant bird hit me chest on, I imagine at worst if the beak or feet were involved I'd have definatley lost my eye. The fucker just fluttered away, its always so eerie how they never squawk or make any 'real' bird noises innit? It felt like I'd taken a feathery football to the face.
The other, definatley more of an oh shit moment was before I was a courier and was heading from City Rd up to Angel to meet my then girlfriend for a beer. I'd rounded the southern half of City Rd roundabout and found myself on the inside lane overtaking slow traffic taking the entry into the northern seciton of City Rd. The 'no mans land' triangular-shaped area of loose debris on every junction was suddenly beneath my wheels and as I was cornering fast at a steep angle I felt my front start to slide out, then the back went too. For a few seconds I was a t the mercy of the gravel, glass, and litter and looked ahead - there was a bus heading south and I was headed directly under it unless the skid / slip could be controlled.
Luckily I found solid ground and the bus and me passed with a gnats pube's width of air between us.
I cant remember, but I must have nearly shit my pants at that point.
Another lesson learned, less haste keeps you alive.