"Oh Shit" moments...

There's a nice little shortcut home from work that takes me off Buckingham Palace Road, misses out a nasty junction and spits me out at the bridge. It's a small, private, single-lane, kinked road that runs through a new housing development.

I came through a left turn way too fast, started to lost the back end on the shiny wet Tarmac, managed to get the bars turned right and my weight over, but then high-sided. Somehow I got back upright, but then realised I was heading for the other side of the road and straight at a kerb. I steered the front wheel away from a buckling - but then I was upside down in a hedge.

All very dramatic but luckily it was a really soft landing. No damage to me or bike. Could have been loads worse. Spent the next mile giggling at how lucky I was.

You are Pierre Rolland and I claim my five pounds.