"Oh Shit" moments...

Heads up to anyone who's commute takes them west carriage drive through hyde park.

Wet leaves and horseshit make a potent mix. Find another route.

And the Thames at Twickenham. Loadsa dead leaves and duck ship that the tide has flowed in over and lots of cars driven across and flattened into a slippy thing.

Sorry - that should have been duck shit - they don't use boats because they are ducks

^ Explain duck boats then.

Does it really say "Ride the wanky duck" on that thing?

Rep to both.

Does it really say "Ride the wanky duck" on that thing?

A++++++ would lol again

What is "ride the wanky duck" a euph for?

Alcohol induced frivolities with a Big "un!

I think it says 'Ride the Wacky Duck', but I prefer your version.

What is "ride the wanky duck" a euph for?

I presume they mean cowgirl with hand relief, but I'd check before you book.

this morning i understood the limits of grip of my front wheel, on a roundabout this morn, putting my knee down, getting real low to the ground, whilst still turning on the roundabout i start to pedal again, front wheel loses grip, but somehow it was as if i pulled the bars back up straight when it was slipping away, kind of a fuck yes moment when i held it up

Never EVER lean.

Never riding home earlier than 7 in London Town, so many close calls with inexperienced cyclist and thinking they are cavendish or wiggins! The whether didn't help either! :s

putting my knee down, getting real low to the ground

The fuck? that's just asking your tyres to loose grip

riding 26 x 2.4 knobblys

Journey home tonight was awful. I've ridden home in the pissing rain plenty of times, but nothing has ever screwed up my vision like the drizzle on my glasses this evening. Could barely see the road in front of my wheel while creeping along at 15 mph being passed by no-lights fuckwits.

Did not like.

Fucking unlit roads. All the shit about wet leaves I was well away from the dge of the road when BAM! manhole cover! I literally yelped...

Get some fucking lights thread >>>>>

That said, I keep buying fancy new front lights and every single one of them flickers on and off when I'm riding over bumpy roads. The only one that doesn't do it is the £12 usb chargeable one that doesn't light the road in front of me for shit in the first place. :/

Or senses a tiny bit of drizzle and refuse to work until placed on a radiator for two weeks to dry out. We could send a man to the moon 40 years ago, but I can't have lights that work in the rain? And you only realise they've crapped out once you get to work and see that you've been riding without a rear light. Crap.

We could send a man to the moon 40 years ago, but I can't have lights that work in the rain?

Yeah, but he was doping.

Yeah, but he was doping.

must spread rep

He'd punch you if you said that to his face. Remember when he smacked that daft guy who heckled him and said he'd never been to the moon, that it was all faked?

He kept chasing him on camera and Armstrong said, basically, "stop or I'll smack you" and the guy kept going. Then Armstrong smacked him. Was beautiful to see.

Wet leaves, misty damp day. Seen well in advance, I knew they were likely to be trouble but the fast moving traffic wouldn't let up to allow me the few inches I needed to avoid them. Slowed right down and got through almost all of them, when I found myself ceremoniously dumped onto the pavement in slow motion. As I contemplated another minor cycling related injury, I noticed the leaves where I came off had been hiding a huge lump of moist dog exhaust. Nice.

Yeah, but he was doping.

You're thinking of Neil Diamond.