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I don't know what "moments" you are talking about. My zen concentration allows me to see ahead of time, and I anticipate any tricky situation before it even happens. Me and my bike are one, like a Shaolin master and his sword, floating through traffic in a superb display of control and speed.
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When I was out on Sunday teaching my friend how to ride a bike, we were going down a quiet side road, and a white van (yes you know where this is going) started pull out of a driveway. I shouted to my friend "don't worry, he's got to wait for us, keep cycling". Of course white van man carried on nearly hitting us both. Cue me hurling obsenities. I was VERY angry, especially as I'm trying to build my friend confidence in cycling and idiots like that don't help.
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le car I don't know what "moments" you are talking about. My zen concentration allows me to see ahead of time, and I anticipate any tricky situation before it even happens. Me and my bike are one, like a Shaolin master and his sword, floating through traffic in a superb display of control and speed.
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Your shaolin sword is no match for my Wu-tang style. En garde.
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aidan [quote]glow no but i did i have an "oh shit i crashed" moment today when some silly cunt walked out between two buses on new oxford st withouth looking and i crashed into him and hit the deck, ripped my new saddle!
how did the person you hit react?[/quote]
he apologised sheepishly as i was calling him a cunt
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glow [quote]aidan [quote]glow no but i did i have an "oh shit i crashed" moment today when some silly cunt walked out between two buses on new oxford st withouth looking and i crashed into him and hit the deck, ripped my new saddle!
how did the person you hit react?[/quote]
he apologised sheepishly as i was calling him a cunt[/quote]
was your saddle bad??
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Hey at least you got an apology, just before i started riding fixed - around 3 years ago - i hit a german teenager tourist in parliament square, on the crossing just past the gates into parliament. The road heading west was totally clear, and the lights were green for me, just as i came past the crossing where she was waiting she stepped into the side of my bars and i went over. Her friends giggled and then they ran off.
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100 bus quickly pulled over from the left lane into a bus stop, without knowing that i was to the left of it. it was one of those slow-mo action film moments (minus the explosion). front part grazed my right arm. two days later blackfriars road was closed off because a 100 bus hit a guy on a brompton. a very very weird moment.
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The very day I acquired the new bike, as I was riding it home, a drunk stumbled straight into my path on Kentish Town high street. I had no time to swerve or shout, he just bounced straight off me. If I'd have been a bus, he'd be dead. His reaction: "Yooooouuuu fffffffuckin' iiiiidioooot"
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a similar thing happened to me after purchasing my bike from the barbican, riding back on a nice sunny day, being abit cautious as first long run on a fixed bike, going through ealing broadway and 2 massive guys walked straight into my path, from behind a bus (why is it always from behind a bus???) had no choice but to collide, it was like hitting a tree, went down in a pile of expletives, tangled up, only to get up stopped my self from carrying on yelling when realised both were a good foot taller/wider than me.......only to have one have them say " no problem" in a voice that any arnold swartenthinger fan would have benn proud to hear. just got back on my bike mumbling wankers ......... and peddaled off...
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Oxford St. is fscked - why I see so many couriers riding down there I don't know. They're never going fast though so maybe it's a cafe run?
Suburbs also fcked - something about 3x more likely to get hit/killed in the suburbs? People are looking for cars, drivers are looking for cars, the road is for cars. You don't count in the 'burbs. You are invisible.
The quicker you realise you are invisible to everyone the less likely you will be taken down. That's why I have little qualms about wearing all black - drivers/peds wouldn't see me if I was a flaming ball of magnesium. -
i used to hit peds, then i mounted a sawed off 12gage on my bars...
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Any 'ohshiti'mabouttocrashanddie' moments recently?
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You know - where your mind plays out the next 30 seconds in the space of half a second when you see you are about to hit something?
Mine this afteroon was on clerkenwell road, heading east past the petrol station. Solid traffic as usual and i'm right next to the kerb coming along and suddenly a motorbike (hot dispatches?) pops its front tyre out between two bumpers, doing a u-turn through the traffic to get to the petrol station. I see myself hitting the side of his bike, going over the bars and into the small gap of gutter between the van in front and the pavement. Instead i shout and he slams the brakes, i manage to wiggle past and turn to see him struggling to not fall after pulling the brake hard. I think he said sorry though.