"Oh Shit" moments...

^ Which flavour milkshake?

Blasting down the canal from totenham hale to springfield park fixed, forgot about one of those stretches of raised strips of bricks, was going fast enough when i realised that i had no chance of stopping / slowing and had to brace, then effectively did a series of unplanned vaults over it, desperately trying to hold on to the bars and stay upright. was impressed that the carbon fork didn't just snap! must have looked ridiculous.

Looked like strawberry, but I didn't taste.

Seriously, kids these days... Fucking strawberry?

Always strawberry. But I never throw it at cyclists. It's wasteful.

Never . Ever strawberry! Strawberry is only for lobbing at cyclists. Do not drink.

Chocolate all the way.

if mcdonalds milkshakes it always had to be half-chocolate half-banana (do they even still do banana?)

They do it by accident a lot. If some clueless fool has been 'going yellow' before the choc gets poured. It's a travesty I tells ya!

Never . Ever strawberry! Strawberry is only for lobbing at cyclists. Do not drink.

Chocolate all the way.

Oh, Wrongcog, you so wrong.

You're right. My bad. Vanilla is a good one to lob at people too.

I went from an "oh shit" moment to a "fuck yes" moment earlier on my ride to work. Riding along fairly fast on a clear road when I see a blind guy with a cane feeling his way out of a shop towards the road, I assumed he'd stop but he didn't, stepping out into the road right in front of me, I couldn't really dodge him because he had his cane right out in front of him in the road so I did a super sweet skid stop, missing him by inches (totally forgetting that i'd fitted a brake a couple of days ago). I must have looked cool as shit (or like a total dickhead for not even touching my brake as I hurtled towards a blind man)

He didn't even notice me until I told him to be careful. He was lucky it was a guy on a bike and not a car or he would have been ploughed.

It sounds like you're blaming the blind man for your near miss. As you said, he was blind which means he can't see you and unless you've made an effort to communicate to him, he probably couldn't hear you either so explain why he should have noticed you.

You have your eyesight, he doesn't. Even when given all the slap in your face warnings you failed to anticipate that the blind man may not notice you. Telling the blind man to be more careful was entirely inappropriate and pretty much translates into "look where you're going".

Be more careful and try to show a bit more of an understanding towards those with disabilities.

I've never witnessed anyone being patronised close to death before.

^^ I agree that telling the blind man to be careful was a bit silly/obvious, like reminding a haemophiliac to avoid razor wire.

Still, it's not totally Itc's fault: A blind man cannot safely cross a road relying on hearing alone, but often must do so. This tactic leaves them defenceless to cyclists, who are silent. If the blind man was crossing a blind corner then the cyclist would have hit him, and it would have been unavoidable.

^ I'd suggest that in the blind corner scenario you describe above, the cyclist/motorist/roaduser shouldn't be navigating a blind corner so quickly as to be unable to stop for whatever they may encounter round the corner.

I went from an "oh shit" moment to a "fuck yes" moment earlier on my ride to work. Riding along fairly fast on a clear road when I see a blind guy with a cane feeling his way out of a shop towards the road, I assumed he'd stop but he didn't, stepping out into the road right in front of me, I couldn't really dodge him because he had his cane right out in front of him in the road so I did a super sweet skid stop, missing him by inches (totally forgetting that i'd fitted a brake a couple of days ago). I must have looked cool as shit (or like a total dickhead for not even touching my brake as I hurtled towards a blind man)

at the end of the day, it's still your fault if you hit the poor blind man.. peds are still more powerful than drivers/cyclists like us..

a bus tried to kill me yesterday by suddenly swinging to the right and into my lane without indicating just as I was about to overtake it AT GREAT SPEED in the rightmost lane at the top of Gray's Inn Road

Really though killer buses are nothing new, the oh shit! was because unusually for me I was riding a bike with a brake but my skidder instincts still kicked in and stopped the rear wheel, and my brain couldn't figure out what I was trying to do for a moment. I think I ended up doing a double wheel skid before stopping though.

is there a thread for fuck yes moments?

http://www.lfgss.com/thread19856.html

is there a thread for fuck yes moments?

Meme thread?

Favourite roundabout for cornering fun. Approach at speed, heel in, lurid rear wheel slide, pedal digs in and high side onto head with lesser impact on elbow and ass.

Stunned and double sight for 10s. Head really hurt. Sort self at side of road and head home. Wonder why such bad headache until I see helmet. Giro fucked with big dent and many large cracks. Elbow sorted with dressings left over from last skinning.

Forgo Sunday evening wine and tell wife in case of side affects. This generates much ear ache.

Not wanting to start a debate, but it was lucky you were wearing a helmet.

lesser impact on elbow and ass.

Next time you're transporting a large animal on your bike, allow for the reduced corning performance due to the extra weight.

Decided to take a slight detour from my usual commute, from Kew Gardens towards Hammersmith bridge so nipped down to the path behind the Budweiser brewery if you know it.
I got a bit carried away and got some good speed up, pretty stupid considering I have road tyres on my bike and I wasn't familiar with that route.

I eventually came to a part in the path with cobbled stones, covered in fresh mud from the recently high tide of the Thames, needless to say the grip on my front wheel disappeared.

..I landed all on the left side of my body, most of the fall was on my elbow but I have a bruised upper leg and a sore ankle (I was wearing SPD's too). I managed to wind myself too and cover most of the left side of my body with mud, I got up and continued along the rest of my commute (to Tower Hill) slightly embarrassed. When I got into the office and grabbed a shower I was a little bit grossed out by how much my elbow had swollen up:

Went to the hospital and got an x-ray just in case because the pain and swelling was getting worse. Nothing broken though. They called it a traumatic haemo bursa? Had a compression bandage on it since and it's gone down a lot since.

a bus tried to kill me yesterday by suddenly swinging to the right and into my lane without indicating just as I was about to overtake it AT GREAT SPEED in the rightmost lane at the top of Gray's Inn Road

Really though killer buses are nothing new, the oh shit! was because unusually for me I was riding a bike with a brake but my skidder instincts still kicked in and stopped the rear wheel, and my brain couldn't figure out what I was trying to do for a moment. I think I ended up doing a double wheel skid before stopping though.

Double wheel skidding at great speed?

Boast post.

Fucking hell Kieran I though that was a bone then *bork