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Ploughing down a damp Daws Hill between Chingford and Sewardstone at the weekend. It's just been re-surfaced (thank god - it was crappy before) and I was following a couple of cars at about 35 - 40mph thinking that the pace was good and that I might bag a little Strava pb... A car was coming the other way and the cars in front of me pulled tight to the left and came to a halt to let him past. The gap between them and me shrunk very very rapidly indeed and such was their road position that there was no room at all to bail past them on the left. In the fraction of a second that followed I managed to run all the various escape routes, assess the greasy road surface, curse my vintage brakes, curse my stupidity and assess the potential cost of the damage caused to a mid-range Mondeo by my pretty chrome forks, knees and teeth.
The bike bucked and wriggled beneath me as I weighed up whether to let my front wheel do what it wanted to and lock up or to hit the car in front, I could hear my mudguards scraping rhythmically against my rims as my wheels bowed under the stress. Somehow I came to an awkward stop just in time - I think the cars in front must have edged on a tad while I was decelerating.
Proper shat me up it did! Might back off a bit more in future.