"Oh Shit" moments...

Irony

Starfish deep fried are delicious bro with some sweet chilli sauce. Still can't beat conch but not bad. I give you that.

But I'll be damned if I let anyone pollute my beloved fixed gear community.
"Skeeter get the shotgun"

Sooo...If I'm understanding this right...you don't want anyone to diss the "fixed gear community" by smacking buses...then blocking them...with your fixed gear bike...

I feel tempted to use the phrase

"Jumped the shark"

So FixedStar, your motto is "Ride like a cunt, die like a cunt"?

So FixedStar, your motto is "Ride like a cunt, die like a cunt"?

Hmmm... definitely not bro. Chill out that language is a bit strong. No need for the C...word to say something.

No need for the cunt word, but perfectly happy with smacking vehicles on purpose.

Can't see any problem here.

every man has to live to a code

The Armani code?

1-2-3-4-5

The same as the code on my luggage.

Last night I was cycling home from the gym. I was on a bicycle path (2 lanes). A woman with a child carrier on her handlebars with a about 2 year old kid in it, was cycling towards me, holding on to her handlebars with 1 hand while making a phonecall in the other. she wasn't paying attention. when she was very close to me she made a sudden move towards me (she went on my lane). I wasn't able to avoid it because of a brick wall next to me. I screamed at her to move which she did fast enough to avoid a colission. our shoulders touched but she didn't drop. almost had a head-on colission.

^ Christ. Imagine being that two year old kid. Hopefully the incident will have shaken the mother up enough to take cycling with a child more seriously.

Well for some reason, when I go into town I have to avoid women with strollers every time. No exceptions. They just push them on the bicycle lane and don't even bother to look. I used to know a guy who was a taxi driver. He quit when he hit the third stroller in a year. He hasn't done any serious damage to the kids but he quit riding. I talked to some other taxi drivers who had the same problems. They are terrified of women with strollers. They just push them into the street, push them into bicycle lanes. They don't seem to care, they are in their own little world where nothing can happen.

A few years ago I was driving a tuned 2stroke moped and my exhaust gasket blew. Believe me, that makes a lot of noise. There was this snackbar on wheels right next to the bicycle path. I was driving maybe 9 or 10 MPH (I'm allowed to drive 18MPh on the bicycle lane) when this women pushed her stroller on the bicycle path right in front of me. No way I could have seen her behind this snackbar. I hit the brakes and only touched the front wheel. No damage was done but I think that if I repeat the things I said to that woman on this forum, I would be banned for life. I hope she learned a lesson.

Women with small children are the most dangerous people on the road.

I think that if I repeat the things I said to that woman on this forum, I would be banned for life.

Women with small children are the most dangerous people on the road.

You must be very new here...

^ Christ. Imagine being that two year old kid. Hopefully the incident will have shaken the mother up enough to take cycling with a child more seriously.

They'll have thought it was all a fun game.

Last night I was cycling home from the gym. I was on a bicycle path (2 lanes). A woman with a child carrier on her handlebars with a about 2 year old kid in it, was cycling towards me, holding on to her handlebars with 1 hand while making a phonecall in the other. she wasn't paying attention. when she was very close to me she made a sudden move towards me (she went on my lane). I wasn't able to avoid it because of a brick wall next to me. I screamed at her to move which she did fast enough to avoid a colission. our shoulders touched but she didn't drop. almost had a head-on colission.

Scary, I get that a lot cycling in the Netherlands. Riders with zero spatial awareness talking on the phone and making random moves. Have had a few close calls especially when overtaking in the restricted width of the cycle lanes. I try and read the body language and if I'm getting a bad feel I scrub my speed as I draw level with with them to give me a better chance of avoiding a bad outcome if they suddenly decide to vere into my path.

You must be very new here...

I'm not sure Arawn is here, so maybe there really is a place where women pushing 'strollers' are the most dangerous things on the road?

Doesn't sound too bad to me, at least they're not driving HGVs.

Was referring more to their imagined lifetime ban... ;)

Sitting comfy in my track stand at lights on charing cross road... Until nodder bumps my rear wheel and takes me down like a sack of potatos. Only thought was oh crap lights please don't change

^the lights did change... Oh shit

Damn. Did you roll back into him, or he just a numpty and smashed into you?

I've been bumped numerous times on CS7 whilst trackstanding, although I've never lost it thankfully. Now I avoid that road like the plague

To the man I encountered on the road yesterday morning in Banana Hill village, Nairobi:

Your donkeys are stupid, and leaving the driving decisions to them is ill-advised. Yes, you looked a boss as you surfed your metal cart while your two tethered donkeys galloped gaily down towards the junction with the main road. Your mad skillz aside, I was not confident that your donkeys, being mammals of lesser cognitive function, would be able to recognise that they should not just plough straight across me as your slip road merged into my main road. You were certainly not communicating with them to stop, standing silently as you were with hands on hips, admiring your speedy progress.

Having made my donkey-neuro-assessments, I swung way clear into the right (oncoming) lane to give you space and true enough, your donkeys spilled onto the road with all the elegance of two uncoordinated 200kg beasts tied crudely to a cart. Their knowledge and consideration of the Highway Code, if Kenya even has one, left much to be desired.

Sort it out. You will crush somebody by proxy-hoof if you do not slow your donkeys before junctions. May they shit on you in your sleep.

ha!

Your donkeys are stupid, and leaving the driving decisions to them is ill-advised.

Laughed loud at work. I work in a library. Have some rep for all the people now looking funny at me.