"Oh Shit" moments...

Doggers?

Had my first oh shit moment on saturday. Was in herne hill not sure of the road name and I was cruising along, had a van pull out and try and do a u turn basically covering the whole road. I've been riding without a lockring since 400AD and just a bit of loctite but i had to pull up sharpish here and I got the rear wheel locked up and then bang no tension i couldn't do anything pedal forwards or backwards. Thought i'd dropped the chain and was bricking it thinking the rear was gonna lock up but it didnt, ended up scraping my shoes along the ground mounting the pavement and sticking my foot in a muddy verge to stop almost ripping my leg off. Next day I got a lockring lesson learnt the hard way

My friend was telling me about an oh shit moment he had as well yesterday. He was riding in paris and a lorry opened the door right in front of him so at head height. He thought about doing a james bond and sliding under it but didnt feel like hitting the ground so he locked up the rear hard got thrown up into an endo swerved into the opposite lane with the rear still in the air, somehow didnt get hit and managed to ride it out.

Had my first oh shit moment on saturday. Was in herne hill not sure of the road name and I was cruising along, had a van pull out and try and do a u turn basically covering the whole road. I've been riding without a lockring since 400AD and just a bit of loctite but i had to pull up sharpish here and I got the rear wheel locked up and then bang no tension i couldn't do anything pedal forwards or backwards. Thought i'd dropped the chain and was bricking it thinking the rear was gonna lock up but it didnt, ended up scraping my shoes along the ground mounting the pavement and sticking my foot in a muddy verge to stop almost ripping my leg off. Next day I got a lockring lesson learnt the hard way

Why not have a brake as well? This is the reason why two braking mechanisms are a legal requirement.

Do you have a brake or was you entire braking mechanism reliant on a bit of loctite? I get the whole "life on the edge" thing but seriously, there are limits.

Why not have a brake as well? This is the reason why two braking mechanisms are a legal requirement.

The frame I've got is an old schwinn continental, when i originally built it i bought some long drop diacompe callipers and they didnt reach the brake track and I kinda gave up hope of finding a brake, since then though i've been looking

^ He didn't forget the final full stop, he just face-planted the back of a bus while typing. I guess we'll never find out what he was looking at. Or through.

Touching a wheel in a crowded track race is always an ''Oh Shit'' moment, however, it's double this if you're carrying pace into the very top of one of Manchester's bankings, heading straight for a slowing rider peeling up right in front of you and pretty much ramming his rear Michelin

Heart fell through my arse.

Dear diary, today I experienced what I hoped to have never experienced.
I kneed a baby in the face and broke a tooth while flying over him.
I am now terrified of parents/nannies and their prams/pushchairs crossing.
I will tube it for the rest of the month.

What the fuck happened?

Dear diary, today I experienced what I hoped to have never experienced.
I kneed a baby in the face and broke a tooth while flying over him.
I am now terrified of parents/nannies and their prams/pushchairs crossing.
I will tube it for the rest of the month.

No sweat, this is why they have milk teeth.

Dear diary, today I experienced what I hoped to have never experienced.
I kneed a baby in the face and broke a tooth while flying over him.
I am now terrified of parents/nannies and their prams/pushchairs crossing.
I will tube it for the rest of the month.

Da fuuu...

Some very irresponsible parent pushed their baby into the road without looking?

I love kneeing babies, really sets up a good day.

It's honestly one of my worst fears when cycling - that day someone pushes their buggy onto the road or a kid runs onto the road.

No shit... Kinda curious what actually happened.

I caught a little girl by her schoolbag on my handlebars one morning as she crossed the road in front of her mother without looking (and not at a green man). Managed to stay upright, stop, plop her down on the path and tell her to look both ways and tell the mother to take care of her kids.

once a woman watched me approach and pushed her buggy (containing baby) in front of me in what I'm fairly sure was an attempt to make me stop so she didn't have to wait for the green man* in that "I've got a baby, everyone has get out of my way" attitude some people have, I was briefly tempted to change course into her instead of into the clear road on the other side of the buggy

*or maybe an attempt to kill her baby considering I was riding quite fast and she did it when I was very close

I once bunnyhopped over a fallen toddler on the pavement. I was pretty young and stupid though. Scratch that, stupider.

Some very irresponsible parent pushed their baby into the road without looking?

Yup. Park Crescent towards Portland. There was an impatient van behind me so I decided to go primary. All good. Green, I go, pick up pace, she stops for over a second but doesn't look anywhere, then for hell knows what reason, she crosses. Everything else happened very fast. Indecipherable shout from me, she freezes, I veer but too late, somehow grab all the brake I got. The rest is according to the nurse who luckily happened to be walking by. Apparently, I hit the pram head on, but because of timing and size of pram, I flipped at the last second, bike locked to me, and flew over it, at the same time (this I can still remember feeling) my right knee made a distinct crunch with the kids face.
Cue red rage followed by immediate panic that happens when you damage a tiny humanoid. Commotion etc.
What blew my mind was the Mother/Nanny. She seemed prozac'd to oblivion. Complete dead set calm on her face like nothing just happened. She wanted to just walk away while we're looking for missing teeth and rummaging for tissue. After much checking, baby was crying but perfectly fine. We couldn't find the teeth sadly enough, would have made a good necklace.
Chipped bones in my hand and elbow and what suspect is a wrecked rear wheel.

Constant fear of pedestrians now. Fuck this, I'm getting a Range Rover.
I really wanted that baby teeth necklace.

Fuck-a-doodle-do!

^ Shitting hell. Sounds a lot like a mother with PTSD trying to use WVM to off her baby.

Crashing into pedestrians alongside busy streets has become my No1 fear on the roads. To the extent that I absolutely crawl through places like Brixton and around queuing traffic.

^ likewise tooting high street at high speed. nope.

I had a lady step out in front of me this morning without looking at a ped red light, no baby though. I screamed, she looked, she froze, I swerved.

I was tempted to turn around and lecture her about using the eyes shes been blessed with, but as per usual these things happen so fast it never happens.

Must have been a nanny, surely. Why else would she have been blase about her baby being kneed in the face?