Forum Rider Down and/or notification of minor incidents

It was a full moon yesterday, I think. It does seem to make people lose their shit.

You fucking massive bellend

How the fuck can you claim you have not hit me, given that my bike is embedded in the front of your fucking car?!?!?!?

I actually got off my bike to take the photo, it was just standing there.

This from before your hols?

Sadly not.

Last week I had my rear wheel taken out by another cretin. As I was going away for a few days there was not time for me to buy a rim and rebuild the wheel so I got Neil's Wheels to do the job for me and collected the wheel from them on Saturday evening.

The pics are from today, when another cretin ran into me. His initial response was to tell me to get out of his way, at which point I made it clear to him that my fucking bike was now attached like a bonnet ornament.

The collision was absolutely perpendicular, so amazingly the wheel is less than .5mm off from true. The driver was furious that I demanded his insurance details, he did not give them and fobbed me off with £20 to get it retrued.

My back is starting to hurt. If I am still in pain tomorrow morning I shall be off to A&E and he will then be paying my Harley St osteopath's fees.

Must say it was a great wheel build by Neil's Wheels, I'd strongly endorse them as wheelbuilders. This afternoon I had just replaced the bearings in the Royce hubs (which were notably fucked from about 2 years of use and were 2ndhand anyway).

i thought if you accepted cash on the spot you were no longer able to pursue any further action.

i believe it can be considered an interim payment

Pun intended?

Well that was not supposed to happen...where to start.

Riding up through Eltham high street, i get to the junction of westmount road. I have a green light so power on through down towards blackfen / bexley (home)

I get half way across the junction and am hit full on by a blue toyota yaris turning right at the lights (into westmount road). I am pinged from the front of her car into a bollard and into the road. Found myself lying in the road with multiple cuts and swellings all over.

Bike is totalled, a Gangsta track, sugino 75's and phils / brooks swallow Ti......by some miracle my Panerai watch (wedding present from my wife) is unscathed (totally, not a mark).

Ambulance and Police were called, the driver admitted that she did not see me, we both had a green light but i had right of way. In her statement to the police she admitted fault and her story was a mirror of mine, so happy with that.

Trip to A&E to get checked over, nothing broken just soft tissue damage and cuts.

She hit me on my right in the middle of the bike (my right leg took the impact). The Cranks have sheered off the BB and the BB / drive side stay / seat tube / downtube have all shifted right about 1"....can't quite believe that i have been so lucky, If it was anything bigger than a yaris my leg would have been shattered, saddle has a big scratch in the top but apart from that I think its okay (it was taken home by a fellow cyclist who lived local)

Thank god I was wearing a helmet, nothing i could have done to avoid the impact. I was in primary and travelling at about 20mph, she must have been doing the same speed approaching the corner and the first I knew of it was about 3 secs prior to impact.

Shit Happens....first accident in 4 years, lucky I have another bike in the garage so use while I sort this one out.

Did I see you standing by the roadside in sharkpits early in the Dunwich Dynamo, with the same facial expression but less abrasions ?

Ha no not me....I have 2 young kids, the only cycling I get to do for the moment is to and from work.

Terrrifying story, glad you didn't come out worse. Heal up soon.

It sounds like you got away fairly lightly in the personnel injury department, not so the bike

Thank whomever and heal fast

well, today i am weeping rivers of plasma from my face, arms and knees......but apart from that, yes I was very lucky !

Scary, heal up fast.

Please note, I've just deleted a video which was posted in this thread as it was not related to the content of this subforum.
If the poster would like to resubmit it elsewhere, I would suggest that this would make a good home for it.

That sucks! Heal up maddernj!

Not really forum rider down, but forum rider in collision where other riders went down.

I slowed down to stop to let a van turn right into a side road as there was a car already giving way on CS7 this morning, and a girl on a road bike smashed into me from behind. I think I must have done a Cav-style shoulder punt as I was completely unaffected while she came off, also knocking down a second girl on another road bike like a skittle who was in the process of undertaking me on the other side.

Both girls have been packed off to hospital in an ambulance in tears, one with a dislocated shoulder that looked and sounded extremely painful. Ho hum. Feel pretty shitty about the whole affair and need to examine my riding style a bit more.

if they were going too fast to not be able to stop when you did it's their own fault. what was the alternative, ride in front of a turning car?

The van wasn't actually turning at that point - I was doing a courtesy stop rather than an emergency stop. I could have checked behind me a bit more carefully before deciding to give way, for eg.

Bloody CS7 commutes :/

^^ Completely agree. I have a similar junction on my commute where often traffic is waved through into a side street through the cycle lane. I slow down considerably as I approach and the number of times I've heard the squeel of hastily applied brakes and mutering curses behind me is rediculous. I now use hand signals to show I'm slowing and it works.

Sounds like you'd be good at polo.

you are meant to slow when you perceive a potential hazard not when it's the absolute last chance to do so.

one of my biggest gripes on cs7 are the cunts who don't slow when approaching hazards and end up undertaking/buzzing on the right hand side at speed.

You shouldn’t feel bad about that, Bothwell. As others have said, it’s up to those riding behind you to make sure that they are alert enough and have enough space to stop if you stop (regardless of your reason for stopping).

I rather shocked a colleague the other day when I reported an incident the other morning on Waterloo Bridge, where a rider in front of me slowed (a bus was threatening to pull out of the bus lane), I slowed, but the person behind me clipped my wheel. I was only aware of the buzzing of their tyre on my mudguard, but when I looked round a couple of seconds later there was a whole heap of cyclists on the tarmac – enough for it to be difficult to tell how many. I felt absolutely no remorse.

This is why I generally don't do courtesy stops unless I'm absolutely sure there is nothing coming up behind. So difficult to predict how the numpty peloton are going to react.

whenever changing vector it is a good idea to check behind to see what is happening and if you need to communicate with any road users further back

you would hope people behind you will also be looking forward and that they can appreciate the need to slow down if something is up ahead. but given the number of nodders who undertake at speed without paying attention to parked cars immediately in front i have my doubts about some peoples ability to predict or understand how to move through traffic. there are too many very short sighted road users who just want to race up to the next impediment - the same kind of people who in cars beep at you to get out of their way just so they can tailgate the car in front

It's definitely a nice idea to check behind if time permits but I'd not want anyone to start arguing that the following rider isn't prima facie responsible for ensuring that he or she can stop in time if the traffic stops. And in Bothwell's case it sounds as though an observant following rider would have been able to see what was up.