Made my day!

keep smilin' man.

Ha, great fucking stuff

I said: FUCKING GREAT!

Brilliant Cornie! Thanks for sharing good news.

A white van waited patiently as I was turning left from a roundabout, I waved to say thank you and the passenger looked at me with the biggest smile and said "that's alright love!".

I had a similar experience riding up Richmond Hill rise. Merc estate with the cutest two girls strapped in at the back of the estate facing me, they wore beaming smiles and were waving at me as I crunched through the gears, naturally I waved back. warms the heart...

sadly no such experiences to report in the last 2 years of cycling, although some blazing squad look-a-likes in wandsworth, kindly pointed "bruv you look like Shredder innit" with my helmet and face mask...fair cop...

However I have never, ever, ridden over any virgins.... :P

i would like to propose a discussion (this one?) where people post comments on 'nice' things that happened to them in the day.doesn't have to be cycling related.

i would like to propose a discussion (this one?) where people post comments on 'nice' things that happened to them in the day.doesn't have to be cycling related.

Good idea.

This isn't going to degenerate into a thread of people bragging about getting laid, right?

During one particularly dark time in scotland...i went out on my bike late at night to clear my head...the roads were unlit so just my light lit up the road ahead...my head was spinning with far too many things on my mind....i was heading down a tree lined road with the rain coming down...suddenly out of the woods by the side of the road a deer jumps out right in front of me...scared the life out of me. I slowed down and it stops....turns...and looks straight at me for a few seconds as if he was telling me something. Suddenly my mind cleared and i smiled at the deer...he then leapt over the hedge on the other side of the road and disappeared into the night.
I think i probably fed off that moment for a week or so.
Chance encounters with animals always seem to have an effect on me.

It's the little moments and gestures that make the biggest difference.
Nice story Corny.

I may be imagining it, or it may be many idiots being away on holiday, but I think all the bikes on telly have made people a bit more aware of bikes on the road this week - I've had people wave me through, give me space etc which would never narmally happen.

the overwhelming support i (and B.A.D) received while playing in the polo tournament has possibly made my year...thanks guys :)

I just had a parcel delivered by our super-happy Parcelforce driver. He's fucking great.

A couple of years ago I wrote to Parcelforce to comment on how the bloke was always smiling, seemed to enjoy his work, never had difficulty finding our estate our getting into the block (seems to baffle a lot of couriers), and deserved recognition/to be seen as a model employee.

He was really grateful, received some incentives from Parcelforce to continue being great, and has remained a vibrant figure in my community.

I think it's just as important to write and praise good service, as well as complain about poor service. I've said it before though, probably on this forum, so I'll shut up now.

I'm blaming the women's beach volleyball for the mis-blaming...

I just caught the China V USA match.. womens volleyball in the rain..HD super Slow Mos.. i feel dirty and i've done nothing wrong... figure??

Well timed story CB. prefer those bright time moods.

it reminded me as I was coming into kilburn last week this little blonde girl leaning out the car window was shouting "Smelly Snowmaaaaaaaaaan" at all the cars and bikes coming the other way. little shit was laughing her head off. Made me smile all the way back.

this is nice to here. next time i see you out riding corny i am definitely going to wave at you.

Chance encounters with animals always seem to have an effect on me.

Me too. I love going walking for this very reason too.

Group hug?

Me too. I love going walking for this very reason too.

I bet you're like a bloody ninja stealthy approaching animals.....

....from behind.

The same thing happened to me yesterday at the lights on Old Street. Except it was a big dog on the passenger seat of a car that tried to lean out of the window and sniff me, and it didn't wave but stuck its tongue out at me instead. So almost the same.

really bold foxes at night that don't bat an eyelid when you stagger past drunk. if they stay still i like to sit on the curb opposite until they do move, it can take ages it's great.

During one particularly dark time in scotland...i went out on my bike late at night to clear my head...the roads were unlit so just my light lit up the road ahead...my head was spinning with far too many things on my mind....i was heading down a tree lined road with the rain coming down...suddenly out of the woods by the side of the road a deer jumps out right in front of me...scared the life out of me. I slowed down and it stops....turns...and looks straight at me for a few seconds as if he was telling me something. Suddenly my mind cleared and i smiled at the deer...he then leapt over the hedge on the other side of the road and disappeared into the night.
I think i probably fed off that moment for a week or so.
Chance encounters with animals always seem to have an effect on me.

It's the little moments and gestures that make the biggest difference.
Nice story Corny.

ha! I had something similar happen to me twice only I was swimming in the sea, I had swam quite far out and had turned to look back at the coast, while treading water admiring the sun and that sense of peace and quiet ...I can only describe what I thought was Jaws surfacing in front of me which must have triggered my natural scream and flail mode.. after my brain had determined the shape and size wasn't a shark and that there are no great whites in the Scottish seas I stopped to look at a wee cheeky bastard sea lion who was clapping his front paw/flippers together and then spent the next couple of min swimming round me and splashing me with water.

The second time was in Oz, me and a mate had hired some surf boards and went out for a day down the beach, after some hours of catching shitty waves close to the shore we decided to go out a bit further.. we were lying on the boards chatting breeze ..when a fucking huge tiger shark swam between us, it broke the surface of the water and circled us once then headed off ...me and my mate lay on the boards for a while and didn't say a word to each other, was scary but amazing at the same time.

:D

being the only person who seems to use a bike to actually cycle anywhere in Japan.. and being gaijin, i get alot of people shouting random english phrases at me, its pretty funny.

and kids on the train wave at me

do a skid gai-jin! :D

got one yesterday that made me giggle.... a bunch of teenagers in a car.

'pedal speed... yeh!'

thankfully no one wants me to skid on the highway, its hard enough to avoid the trucks, and people pulling out

Back when I was living in Peckham we had a den of foxes in our back garden. One Sunday morning I was woken by the frantic yelping of an adult who was standing in the back garden looking very distressed. I went out to take a look to discover that one of her babies had fallen into the sewage manhole where the cover had been left off during repairs. The mother disappeared as soon a I walked out but the cub was left there shivering and mewling. I went back into the house and got a pair of heavy gloves (mother would reject the cub if it ended up smelling of human) and a bucket of warm water. Naturally the cub freaked as soon as I started to climb in and scuttled into the pipes. I gently pulled it out by the tail, checked it for injuries (none mercifully) and dumped it into the warm water. It perked up pretty well then so I dried it down and set it close to the entrance to the den.

Holding that little fox cub is one of the most magical moment I've ever experience.

my broken elbow just straightened itself about 5 degrees more than it was 15 minutes ago. i was sat there and all of a sudden could feel my tendons waking up and having a little stretch!

i'm so excited, i ran round the office sticking my arm in the faces of my confused co-workers.