"Oh Shit" moments...

Extra care, yes. Also, green cross code... Crossing peds should take extra care too.

I did take extra care. That's why I anticipated something might happen, slowed down in advance, and didn't squash the kids.

Seeing that they took no care whatsoever, and that their mum let them run out between stopped cars on a red light made me think 'Oh, shit'.

I agree with both of you, I was just being a dick.

Had to bring my bmx back from leeds to sell it and when riding it home down crouch hill I'd forgotten quite how steep & long the hill was.... the traffic lights at the bottom completely slipped my mind as well until i saw them. I tried to kill my speed a bit by putting my foot against the rear trye but I had a 15kg bag on my back an it almost broke my toes. I hurriedly sat down an dug both heels into the road which slowed me down a bit but it didn't feel sufficient to stop me before the red light! I was worried I'd have to ghost my bike at the lights but luckily 50m from the lights they went yellow and that 'oh shit' feeling faded away an I pulled my feet up whizzed through. Wish I'd just gotten off an walked it down the hill

Or had a brake on your freewheel bicycle.

Had to bring my bmx back from leeds to sell it and when riding it home down crouch hill I'd forgotten quite how steep & long the hill was.... the traffic lights at the bottom completely slipped my mind as well until i saw them. I tried to kill my speed a bit by putting my foot against the rear trye but I had a 15kg bag on my back an it almost broke my toes. I hurriedly sat down an dug both heels into the road which slowed me down a bit but it didn't feel sufficient to stop me before the red light! I was worried I'd have to ghost my bike at the lights but luckily 50m from the lights they went yellow and that 'oh shit' feeling faded away an I pulled my feet up whizzed through. Wish I'd just gotten off an walked it down the hill

Classic brakeless. You have to jam your foot between rear triangle and tyre so it locks, or sit down and use your foot on the front tyre.

I agree with both of you, I was just being a dick.

Typical Mazda driver

los lollos hermanos

Ram that foot in the triangle I between the seat stays and whip that rear end

I have no words. I'm too old for this shit.

More of an oh shit 4 minutes of annoyance... Started with getting wheel slip, luckily I was near the end of my ride so could have been worse. Get back and find my phone has crashed so strava hadn't recorded. Sit down on my bed, and it collapses. Great.

In town on the tourer yesterday, coming up Ludgate Hill in the pissing rain towards St Pauls I hear a loud twanging noise from the back wheel and feel the wheel sliding out from under me. Shout 'oh shit!' and pull over to realise that I've run over a bent 3" nail which has punctured my tyre, and the noise was the nail knocking all my mudguard stays out.

Boo.

Bimbling down a residental street yesterday when a gust of wind blew the bike horizontally from under me, managed to get my feet down and not stack it. Was harder to get back on due to fits of laughter.

Getting jumped in Essex is the best. Oh wait no that's the opposite of what it is.

Jumped in Essex, where?

Flipped my wheel and went single speeding tonight, going up the main road on the way to meet my mate, just as you get the barriers outside the college and the parked cars up ahead some arse in a van with a gardening trailer pulls across the road and almost splatters me. I sprinted down the road after him hoping to call him a cock and was going to make it until another wanker trys to overtake me between more parked cars and a bollard and to make matters worse I went down a pothole and nearly broke my already ruined wrist :(

The London to Brighton was one long Oh Shit moment from beginning to end.

It's not cool to brake with your face, people. Although, to be fair, it is a very effective stopping technique.

Turned it to my estate in suburbia and like i always do when riding geared took my hands off (stupid i know, but there's no one about) and stopped pedalling, it's a slight downhill and i see it as my little reward. Forgot i was riding fixed however, cue me being kicked over the handlebars trying to grab hold of something - "oh shit", nothing was there. Went down and got some nice road rash and some ripped jeans... never gonna take my hands of the bars again

After getting up to about 55km/hr down hill in my biggest gear I decide to keep the momentum up when it flattens out and starts to go slightly uphill so get out of the saddle, had noticed before that the chain was rubbing on the front mech slightly but didn't think it would be a problem, wrong, chain came off, suddenly i'm trying to peddle air, massive wobble from the handlebars and brown trousers time. Need to sort my gears I think!

Just got a brand new (old) track bike, only to stick my finger in and the sprocket cut clean through the nail into the bloody (literally) thing. Needless to say, the offending machine is in the dog house for a little while. The irony is, 20 seconds before the incident I was informing my housemate that its really easy to lose a finger getting it caught.....

Not sure I follow. You bought a track bike, then stuck your finger between the chain and sprocket? I really hope you're OK.

Numpty.

;)

The London to Brighton was one long Oh Shit moment from beginning to end.

It's not cool to brake with your face, people. Although, to be fair, it is a very effective stopping technique.

+1. Random swerving, inability to control speed or, indeed, any other aspect of your bike, a cacophony of horrible graunching, crunching and squeeling from poorly maintained and poorly ridden heaps of BSO crap. One guy riding beside me on a mountain bike managed to go over the handlebars, while riding uphill, due to a massively failed attempt at changing gear. I've still no idea how he managed it.

Not sure I follow. You bought a track bike, then stuck your finger between the chain and sprocket? I really hope you're OK.

Numpty.

;)

thats it, got it in one. i'm pretty special.

And now you're uniquely modified.

Going at a fair clip down Matthias road (off Newington green), turn left into Wordsworth road but due to my speed I can feel myself drifting wide, all the way to the centre line, look up and see a car in the middle of the road. I'm still fully leant over, so I slammed the rear brake on and managed to scrub enough speed that I could steer left around the car. I thought I was either going to high side it and end up on the car's bonnet or hit it head on.