What are you afraid of whilst cycling

I have this irrational fear of getting someones name wrong, so i intentionally mumble introductions.

Also must return to the house at least once each morning to check the stove/iron/windows.

Stool in my blood.

wreckless driving

lol

being overtaken by a nodder

or a brompton

or a boris bike

gravel or sand in the road / oil or fuel patches / cars jumping lights...

on longer rides, running out of fluids or food far from a shop, or bonking for that matter. Getting sore wrists, or teh dreaded chafe.

I haz brakeless installed on my tarck bike and I sometimes worry about the chain snapping, that would sure be awesome fun.

spiders

I lost count of how many cobwebs I went through this morning along the A30. On the way back it was flies and mosquitos for some reason. Got a few in the mouth too. Visor and mask tomorrow for sure. That way I can do my darth vader voice on the train too.

metal drain covers in the rain

my hair getting messed up really bad by the wind
my shoes clashing with my bike in a bad way
cancer

Punctures

• diesel spill
  
• that pothole under Admiralty Arch that has reappeared again
  
• the undiagnosed noise eminating from somewhere on my bike whilst going downhill at speed whilst already holding on for dear life and thinking about where I put my will
  

I'm afraid of the way that increasingly drivers feel the need to approach junctions exiting side roads at 30 ,dropping the clutch and slamming the brake on at give way line when I'm on the main road, never know if they're gonna stop, it uses fuel, wastes energy and gets them nowhere faster the fuckheads.(dont quote that bit in your research)
Yeah that.
And people having shinier deep v's than me.

I have a wariness for:
School run mums, late and screaming at the kids.
Wasps down the neck of my shirt and stinging me repeatedly on the chest (happened, and has instilled a healthy dislike of the vicious little bastards).
Twat drivers yabbering on a moby.
I wouldn't say that I am in fear of any of the above, or similar hazards, I am just aware and wary.
However, having been deliberately run down, shot at with a catapult, and punched,in the past, I have a low level fear of drivers in an apoplectic rage. Normally prompted by me doing nothing more than overtaking them in traffic.
Those suckers really are scary.

The stabby youth of today = cold sweat
Also zombies, though maybe not in that order

being late for work

Carbon steerers...

School run mums, late and screaming at the kids.

An pedestrians walking into the road without looking

Asteroids

I am worried by the prospect of high speed mechanical failure and people.

Piles

I'm afraid of the way that increasingly drivers feel the need to approach junctions exiting side roads at 30 ,dropping the clutch and slamming the brake on at give way line when I'm on the main road, never know if they're gonna stop, it uses fuel, wastes energy and gets them nowhere faster the fuckheads.(dont quote that bit in your research)

This. If I can see a car approaching a junction ahead to turn onto the road I am on, I am never confident that they have seen me / are going to stop.

Messengers addicted to acid. God I hate them.

This. If I can see a car approaching a junction ahead to turn onto the road I am on, I am never confident that they have seen me / are going to stop.

Move into the primary position, that way you give yourself more room and won't be boxed in by a passing car.

Messengers addicted to acid house. God I hate them.

Messengers addicted to acid drops. God I hate them.

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