"Oh Shit" moments...

On the rare occasions I attempt to ride the full length of Mott Street, the dogs have given no trouble. That, I suspect, is simply because the noise of a bike being ridden and pushed are quite different, and at that stage of the hill I'm alongside the bike rather than on it.

That's put me off using this hill for practice, particularly as we have a cat at home, and if they got loose I'm not taken on the idea of being their new squeaky toy.

Fixed? At this point I must admit I do this route geared.

There is at least on badger set on the Thames Path between Putney and Richmond as I have encountered them a few times at night when cycling along there.

I'm actually quite jealous of this. I've never even seen a (live) badger, despite living in the countryside for 18 years :(

Before this I hadn't seen a live one. I saw a lot of dead ones as a child because farmers would aim for them in their Land Rovers as they weren't allowed to hunt them.
My amazement at the charming countryside scene being played out in front of me made the shock when they went for me a lot worse, I imagine.
I was also possibly quite high at the time.

Top of a climb? Must have made it more difficult to escape.

Fixed? At this point I must admit I do this route geared.

Single speed, can't manage fixed as I've done my right knee and back in. After the clocks change again I'll have a geared bike out (in which time I hope my knee trouble will be resolved and gears will get me up without the walk of shame), but at the moment I love having less bike to move around and less to go wrong and get covered in mud/snow/general crap on the road.

"Fixed? At this point I must admit I do this route geared."

"Single speed, can't manage fixed... [insert sob story about knee and back injuries] ...After the clocks change again [insert more sobbing and an array of empty promises]... but at the moment I love having less bike [read single speed] to move around and less to go wrong [insert girlie stuff about low maintenance and not getting down and dirty] on the road."

I confess thread, please gentlemen.

*Keep at it Workstand; you'll be fixed in no time ;-)

I confess thread, please gentlemen.

*Keep at it Workstand; you'll be fixed in no time ;-)

Damn! I'm torn between improving my cycling or just pitching this as a plot to a film studio.

I'm actually quite jealous of this. I've never even seen a (live) badger, despite living in the countryside for 18 years :(

Riding home one night (11.30ish) I T boned a badger.We both fell off/over,got up dusted ourselves of and went on our way.(Badger T bone a little tough)

"Riding home one night I tea bagged a badger. We both got off, got up dusted ourselves of and went on our way."

Each to their own mate, each to their own...

Riding home one night (11.30ish) I boned a badger.We both fell off/over,got up dusted ourselves of and went on our way.(Badger bone a little tough)

Required less editing, Lynchman.

^Reped

^Reped

No,we lit some candles,shared a bottle of beaujolais,lay there gazing at the stars a while and then ......

Absolutely belting it towards old st roundabout city bound white van behind me, we go around the roundabout, I take the 2nd turnoff left as I do, I notice the twat is overtaking me on the corner in my lane!!! He cuts too close to me causing me to be plastered to the side of his van around the corner at about 25+... Bike slants right over as he accelerates away leaving me sliding the length of the white coffin. If I had gone down I would have been wheel fodder. Really would have been violent had I not been so rattled. That's my oh shit

^ That happens at my local roundabout far too often regardless of position. Never a van though, fuuuuuu

Overtaking a queue of traffic, I saw a massive Land Cruiser ahead waiting to pull into the road from the right and join the queue. I gave a few loud Airzound honks to alert him that I'm coming and he looked at me, looked at the small gap in the queue he fancied, looked at me again, showed me his palm to say "thank you" and then pulled out across me a couple of seconds before I arrived, lodging himself sideways in the road. I braked in the emergency style, then shouted a polite, condescending request for him not to repeat that ever again. He probably couldn't give a flying poop. The next time someone does that to me I'm going to hammer on their window with a psycho expression on my face, like Jack Nicholson coming through the bathroom door in The Shining.

Stopping at a set of lights, I put my foot down on a pile of snow this morning.

Except it wasn't snow, it was the dead fox(*) that's been there a week.

(*) Actually, part of it - the other bits are scattered around.

I'm imagining that scene in The Thing with the heart defib machine?

A new one for me....I was riding along on my way to work ignoring the cycle path to my left as it tends to lead to punctures, and most of my route is on rural roads with the rest of the traffic anyway so never keen on suddenly being segregated. This seems to annoy some motorists for some reason ;-) and on this occasion I did have a large lorry behind me for all of 50 to 100 yards, saw another lorry coming the opposite way, something flew from the cab window directly into my path and disintegrated, arrived at the spot to find broken glass so had to either ride through it or pull out just at the point at which the lorry behind was about to pass me. I executed a hasty right hand turn signal and pulled out and in again sharpish as lorry behind thundered past. All seemed a bit homicidal to me, beats the banana skin that got thrown at me the other day.

Fuck that. Just ride through the glass and fix the puncture if you get one.

you sound a bit sucidial, would you rather have a puncture or a flatten head?
be safe man!

Bunnyhop like a boss.

bosshop like a bunny

Was considering going brakeless but after reading peoples stories up there it'd be nice to have at least a front brake for back-up so I'm putting my old Weinmann lever back on, trouble is it's still got the sidepull on when I don't need it on my new bullhorns, does anyone know how to take it off?

I rode brakeless today. It was fine. HTFU.

My chain has only over popped off once, and it was on a downhill. Prefer front brake to face brake.

TBH it was a straight downhill followed by an uphill, so I probably would have been fine unless something else had happened.