"Oh Shit" moments...

Do they suck you right in?

2 of my 3 tram rail fails were caused by quick swerve to the middle of the road( to avoid car doors and car itself). In situations like that I tend to forget about 90deg angle and all this stuf.
Third crash was me being a clueless cunt.

I don't understand how people do that,

does that anyway

ftfy

^^Ed will be along shortly to tell you you should have been well away from the car doors to start with, he's right of course. What he won't tell you is that you should be riding between the tracks making "chuca chuca" noises and going "whoo whoo".

And a circular motion with your arms by your side

Puffing smoke to allow other track users to see that you are a locomotive.

Trams be electric yo.

It'll be like those vapourisers. Environmentally healthy smoke.

^^Ed will be along shortly to tell you you should have been well away from the car doors to start with, he's right of course. What he won't tell you is that you should be riding between the tracks making "chuca chuca" noises and going "whoo whoo".

And a circular motion with your arms by your side

Puffing smoke to allow other track users to see that you are a locomotive.
Now have slightly disturbing mental image of you all linked together, skipping along tram tracks singing...Kylie Minogue - The Loco-Motion - YouTube

No.

No.

Just, no.

I'm up for that, sound fun.

Will Kylie *actually *be there?

In, if she is.

Was blown into a side road this afternoon, luckily path of least resistance lead up a ramp, over the predestrian island and back down the other side, before re-joining the main road. As I'm sure others have said, take care everyone, its sketchy out there.

In other news, miming was a bit rubbish in the 80s?

Now have slightly disturbing mental image of you all linked together, skipping along tram tracks singing...Kylie Minogue - The Loco-Motion - YouTube

I swam to work this morning, it was that bad.

Close Encounter of the Taxi Driver kind: On the way back from Christmas shopping, he overtook me VERY close. Two inches more and exit wing mirror.

Knocked on window and said: You passed me VERY close there. Nodded. Let me out in front of him at green cycle box.

Which he shouldn't have been on to begin with, but no fighting and hopefully learned his lesson.

Oh my, only if I could ride no-handed I would do the locomotion anytime.

Last night, riding home with massive headwind, coming down Farringdon Rd (riding primary in the bus lane due to the wind/pissing rain/traffic) idiot black cab driver overtook me at speed brushing my shoulder, does the same thing to guy in front of me further on. Catch him just before Blackfriars bridge when he inevitably gets stuck in traffic so launched a foul mouthed, expletive filled tirade at him. Sat there chewing his gum with his mouth wide open staring at me, not a word in response. Felt bad for the passengers in the back, but then again the cabbie was/is still a cunt and deserved it.

If his wing mirror were to fall off he can't continue working.

Was in too much of a rage to think about it haha...need to remember this next time!

If his wing mirror were to fall off he can't continue working.

Same works for buses, in fact all you need to do is bend them, he then has to get out of his "c**t protection chamber (CPC)" and correct them. Well I think that's what happens, maybe he has to call in, as I can imagine crowds of angry Londoners would beat the crap out of him the second he leaves his CPC.

car pulls out in front of me from the opposite side of the road pushing me into the path of parked cars, had to squeeze the gap between the parked and moving car (since she decided to then stay level with me, cheers for that btw) and knee'd her wing mirror.after revving at me she pulled in and when she saw her mirror was still in place but pointing forward, went into apologetic mode telling me how her son got knocked off last week, very odd.

I have three, all unrelated, so I'll post one now and save the others.
Cycling fail #1:
A long time ago, as a kid, I was riding my bike down a hill in a forest, pretty quickly. At the bottom of this hill, packed with leaves so it was invisible, was a drainage ditch, whose diameter was approximately that of my front wheel.
I don't remember much after that, but those behind me told me that the wheel, quite predictably, jammed in the ditch, flung me over the handlebars, flat onto my face, before the bike proceeded to fling itself up in the air a metre or two, do a flip and come crashing down on top of my back.
Miraculously, I was fine, but my helmet was skewered on the end of the handlebars, and the forks were bent right back.

^^ Classic case of stupidity, me thinks.

I experienced this surprisingly commonplace dim-wittedness myself today whilst going down a hill in Brixton. I'm no Guy Martin but I wasn't going slowly.

A group of peds emerged from between some parked cars, looked up, saw me coming but carried on teetering across the road in their high-heels regardless.

I had the option of swerving to the right (risking cars behind ploughing in to me), diving to the left (and hugging a parked car), attempting a messy emergency stop, or warning them I wasn't stopping and hope they moved.

So I managed the latter but slowed right down. Even had a slightly odd bit of discourse with these death wish Dorises:

Me: Are you mental??!!
Woman 1: Who's mental?
Me: You're mental. Use a crossing!
Woman 2: You're mental!
All women: Raucous laughter and tongue clicking

Just realised this is a bit CSB and tl;dr, oops, sorry. :/

Anyway, I've always found it strange how many people laugh in the face of perceived threat/danger.

Had a big oh shit moment today. Far too fast descending on wet roads I don't know, locked up the rear at far too fast a speed due to temporary traffic lights.

My own stupidity amazes me sometimes.

^ Maybe you enjoy your 'oh shit' moments?