Slipstreaming buses

never had any good experiences with tractors, they're usually chucking dirt back at me if I get too close..

Which is nice. I used to get pulled off at half-time at Crewe Alexandra though...

Have you ever jumped off at Ardwick?

never had any good experiences with tractors, they're usually chucking dirt back at me if I get too close..

The ones carrying a house size load of straw bales are the worst.

Trucks is where it's at!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdg91Z0VgDw

is that the bit where he drops it into the little ring to go faster ?

Have you ever jumped off at Ardwick?

"Alighting at Haymarket" is what the Platini household refer to. Happily infrequently...

I just witnesses the most beautiful dance I´ve ever seen in my life the moment I shouted "OI!!" when going down a busy Oxford Street today, this bloke can make Riverdance look like a brunch of people jumping up and down.

Cannibal.

never that keen to slipstream buses after a friend smacked into the back of my school bus and came in the next day with road burn on his face. A friend told me recently he saw a guy in full Rapha kit riding behind a motorbike with a huge windshield to provide drafting.

Motorpacing. Good training, that.

so i was riding behind this bus yeh and it was well mental like 30mph and then there was a red light and the bus started slowing down and i was like trying to break and slow down and this was in liverpool cos i was going to see my mates at the pier head yeh so that's why i was slipstreaming a bus and anyway the bus stopped really quickly and i skidded with my back wheel not my front wheel my back wheel and it didn't work so like i had the fear and my head went bang in to the back of thew bus and i was in a heap on the floor and these guys helped me up i thought i had broken my bike but i hadn't though the front wheel not the back wheel was bent to fuck and then the cops came they were the best cops ever and they put me in the riot van though there wasn't a riot it was just a riot van and they took me to the pier head and my head is sore and can i sue the bus for stopping?

ha ha!! Classic. No fixie shops in liverpool, hey? :P

Understanding joke FAIL.

I understood and I posted it anyway. Incessant criticism is what this forums all about.

Criticism or good humoured mickey taking? Give it a rest Fanny.

I had embarassing/painfull incident drafting a bus in Aus. Checked over the shoulder to change lanes, by the time I turned my head around the bus had stopped. My helmet took most of the impact and cracked right through - bike was fine. Doesn't seem to be much point drafting them over here with such frequent stopping.

Same here, Oxford Street, London, bus slowed so I looked over my shoulder to check it was good to overtake, turned back to see a stopped bus . . . . . boof!

No real damage other than shame and embarrassment. :)

I always liked that doumentary on those US BMXers/Couriers who not only hung onto the side of buses and lorries to get a free ride around Manhatten but also had a habit of riding head-on against cars down one-way streets. XXXXcore!

Haha class, what was the name of the documentary?

There's this thing called brake lights, you generally find them on the back of buses.

There's also this thing called hand-eye co-ordination, you usually have it yourself, and it generally stops you from crashing into the back of a bus when it brakes.

Except that said bus can stop in half the distance that you can, so you're gonna stack anyway... blah blah... search:

http://www.londonfgss.com/post98558-35.html

Except that said bus can stop in half the distance that you can, so you're gonna stack anyway... blah blah... search:

http://www.londonfgss.com/post98558-35.html

Yeah. A bus can decelerate at a higher rate than a bicycle, in other words its maximum deceleration rate is higher, but how often is it that a bus decelerates at its maximum rate?

I am fully aware that a bus driver could one day need to perform an emergency stop while I am right behind it, but how likely is that?

Yeah. A bus can decelerate at a higher rate than a bicycle, in other words its maximum deceleration rate is higher, but how often is it that a bus decelerates at its maximum rate?

I am fully aware that a bus driver could one day need to perform an emergency stop while I am right behind it, but how likely is that?

I am fully aware that a bus driver could one day need to perform an emergency stop while I am right behind it, but how likely is that?

Three.
Next question.

Haha class, what was the name of the documentary?

'Refining America's Gene Pool'.

'Refining America's Gene Pool'.

Perhaps we should initiate cycling's own version of the Darwin Awards.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

i do it as often as i can. up park lane is a good one.

i find the biggest issue isn't running into the back of the bus it's potholes and other nasties appearing from under it at high speed. fell foul of that phenomenon last week.

ambulance chasing can be wicked as well.

don't draft them skootch them

don't draft them skootch them

... skitch them?

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drafting

skitching

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anyone read any good books lately?