"Oh Shit" moments...

What is an emergency brake? Do you mean 'the brake'

Haterz

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"Steaming guy" sounds like a cnut. But so does "Transit man" - he did have an option other than swerving into the curb without being aware what he'd be crushing - he should have barrelled into "Steaming guy" and allowed evolution to take it's course.

Transit Man was on his phone...

20 metres or so behind a taxi at a resonable pace today in central London and taxi slowed down to a stop. Taxi was pointing towards side street on the left which was swarming with peds so assumed he was waiting for them to cross before turning.....So, i moved towards middle of the road and just as i came along right hand side of said 'left turning' taxi, he pulled a speedy U-turn.

I bloody hate it when they do that!

I bloody hate it when they do that!
seemingly no damage to bike (at first) and no injuries, apart from a few knocks, he apologized profusely and gave me 20 quid for some sort of consolation. I told him off, accepted the 20 quid and he was on his way.

It wasn't until 5 minutes later I realized that my nds crank arm was bent beyond use!

sad and shaken walk back to Camberwell where edwardes cycles kindly bent it back with a huge spanner.

Rideable but feels dodgy. will have to replace chainset soon sadly, particularly liked it. good luck at finding the nds crank arm for this set individually!!

http://www.t-trader.eu/_userfiles/image/2011-03-30-rino-cambio/19884-big.jpg

Bugger, those are bloody lovely :(

Nearly hit two donkeys today on a long ride. Yeah there are tonnes of donkeys in Kenya, who knew? They just crossed the road all casual like, rather sweet in the way one followed the other, oblivious to the 85kg of human and aluminium shooting downhill towards them. I broke hard and avoided them, the novelty was worth losing all my (modest) speed.

I was pulling away from a traffic light today when my crank arm snapped off my bike for no reason, definitely went oh shit when i smashed onto the asphalt. Only been riding the bike for 8 months. To add insult to injury i was in the process of chasing down a beautiful lady in hopes of acquiring a number.

^can't have been lady luck then.

hahaha no i guess not, but i've seen her twice now while i've been riding, so i decided to strike up the nerve, obviously a very bad idea ahhahaha.

I was pulling away from a traffic light today when my crank arm snapped off my bike for no reason, .

Createuninologo?

createuninologo? je ne comprends pas. what's that mean?

Create/unipak/nologo

cheap bikes to avoid at all costs.

ahhh no. it was a state bicycle co. so i guess a cheap bike of another variety. That being said i switched out most of the components, but i was like come on a cheap crankset the worst thing i'll have to contend with is shitty force transfer ratio. well, i've learnt my lesson. An expensive one at that, going to need a new crankset and a new bottom bracket, any suggestions?

Lasco and Tange from Velosolo, never had a problem with mine, and they have seen many miles.

Pulling wheelies out of corners, don't do it kids.

ahhh no. it was a state bicycle co. so i guess a cheap bike of another variety. That being said i switched out most of the components, but i was like come on a cheap crankset the worst thing i'll have to contend with is shitty force transfer ratio. well, i've learnt my lesson. An expensive one at that, going to need a new crankset and a new bottom bracket, any suggestions?

my friend bought a state bike and the stem has changed colour from black to gold. he's not impressed

Alchemy?

Magic.

Magnets.

How do they work?

Just saw some drunk guy flying around a corner after a hill, goes onto the road without looking and some car misses him by inches! thank fuck the driver was skilled otherwise he would of got ran over.

On brompton this morning, bombing down the 30mph ish hill toward the train station, road is streaming with surface water so brakes are useless, but vis is good and all clear. Until trollface SUV driver coming out of a driveway, looks me in the eye, does a quick mental calc, can almost see his tiny brain conclude 'ah, fuck it', an pulls straight out across me. I had to haul as hard as poss on brakes to scrub off speed and avoid his rear bumper. Only consolation is that I shouted 'wanker!' through his open window and basically directly into his face.