"Oh Shit" moments...

that's no problem, just install brakeless™

Someone was talking bollocks on the brakes threads about fixed with one brake is fine, as most of your braking is done with a front brake anyway. Ummm... no it isn't for exactly that reason. If you are riding fixed and only using your front brake, you are doing it wrong. #skidz

The most efficient way to brake is with the front, the coolest way is a massive skid.

I had stupidly thought I would make the lights which seemed to change instantly. Handful of brake, clunk, I R BRAKLZ, fuuuuuck, stop.

Good replacement cable?

Someone was talking bollocks on the brakes threads about fixed with one brake is fine, as most of your braking is done with a front brake anyway. Ummm... no it isn't for exactly that reason. If you are riding fixed and only using your front brake, you are doing it wrong. #skidz

Your front brake is much more important than your rear brake, no matter whether the rear brake is cantilever, coaster or skidz. Deceleration throws your weight forward, shifting load off the rear wheel and so reducing its effectiveness as a brake. This, more than anything else, is why brakless requires a change in riding style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TgtwSIlfho&feature=share&list=FL5-wVT8FSZMiATKXApK0-jQ
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Brilliant.

^ Some UTF8 failure in the forum code that creates the title of the embedded media. But then it's PHP...

i'm sure it's unI18Ntentional.

still worth codepointing out though.

No need to accentuate it. This forum's full of odd characters anyway.

My oh shit moments always seem to come in three and one of them always involves a rich twat in a supercar.

Yesterday, car randomly slams brakes full on. I just about manage to swerve and hop onto the pavement. Turns out he's having an argument with his wife. Show him the finger and carry on.

On my commute back a driver talking on his IPhone with a Louis Vuitton case in a yellow Lamborghini doesn't seem to think a cyclist is good enough for him to wait. He looks me in the eye and then swerves out across my lane into the side road on the left. I call him a f*cking cnut or something to that effect, and knock his car as I swerve past. He beeps and gets out but some bloke on a motorbike tells him to get back in or he'll call the police. I was in a rush but in hindsight I should have taken his plate.

Early morning today i'm keeping my distance from this massive slow moving HGV in the left lane. Driver aware of my presence as I had overtaken a few times when he stopped in traffic. Road clears up, I'm bang in the middle of right lane as to not be on his inside (possibly in his blind spot for a few seconds but he should have seen me approach). Starts edging into my lane, I assume he's avoiding a parked car on his left or something but then it turns into a fully fledged U-turn and I end up U-turning on his inside to avoid being another statistic. He only realises after he had pulled across all 4 lanes of the road and started going the other way. He got out and apologised repeatedly, saying he didn't see me. I was happy to still be alive and kept shouting "That's how cyclist die!" until I calmed down. Still unsure of what to do. I have his number plate.

Christ. Glad you're ok. You've had a shit week!

If you think the HGV driver will change his behaviour after the incident, then you've done enough. If not then RoadSafe might send him a letter if you report.

I got U-Turned into yesterday. Wound up crashed into a bus stop... Glad your ok though mate! Not sure what you can do with his plate other than hope he learn his lesson, though.

some bloke on a motorbike tells him to get back in or he'll call the police.

I think he was building up the Karma he might rely on later.

Would rep that bloke.

It was a busy road, Edgware road. and he was so obviously in the wrong. I'd like to think that he didn't stand a chance if he tried to physically attack me.

Someone was talking bollocks on the brakes threads about fixed with one brake is fine, as most of your braking is done with a front brake anyway. Ummm... no it isn't for exactly that reason. If you are riding fixed and only using your front brake, you are doing it wrong. #skidz

That was me , I'm not the one talking bollocks

http://ukcyclerules.com/2011/05/04/the-rules-of-bike-brakes/

First bullet point.

At lunch today I bought a sandwich and also a cactus from the plant sale being held near to my office. Walking back to the office, holding the sandwich in one hand and the cactus in the other, I went to take a bite from the sandwich - I think you can guess what happened next.

you slipped on a banana peel in a comedy fashion?

A woman came past and grabbed your cactus?

Did you open the banana the correct way upside down?

At lunch today I bought a sandwich and also a cactus from the plant sale being held near to my office. Walking back to the office, holding the sandwich in one hand and the cactus in the other, I went to take a bite from the sandwich - I think you can guess what happened next.

The sandwich had egg in it.

I don't know, my money would be more on there being a sting in the tale.