"Oh Shit" moments...

I'd collect them, you can never have too many tools.

Or people pulling out their bellends...

on the way home, stupid woman on a ladies bike (no offence to anyone else), over takes a stationed bus, and when she saw the oncoming car freaked out and slammed her brakes with a massive squeek, me following was like holy shit, skidded to avoid hitting her and when im parallel with her i brushed the wing mirror of that oncoming car,, looked and shouted at her, and she fucking shrugged, didnt even say sorry you evil bitch

You didn't leave enough room to stop safely, not her problem

^ This. Stopping distances aren't just for cars you know. Perhaps she shouldn't have panicked, but it happened.

but he is like a well sickkkkkkkkkk fixie skkkkkkkkkkkidder, and people in front of him should be aware that they have an idiot behind them

fine fair enough

Came unclipped on a 35mph+ (i don't have a speedometer but this is what the people i was riding with were getting) decent this morning, i saw death and now my SPDs scare the shit out of me

You can give them to me if you want.

^^ That's my only fear and why I love straps so much..
Still want to try them out though

Unclipping unintentionally = worn cleats or poor pedaling action.

Unclipping unintentionally = worn cleats or poor pedaling action.

we put it down to worn cleats which i was pretty surprised by as i've been using them for about 7 months (if that) and am always hearing of spd cleats lasting years

You can give them to me if you want.

I will probably put them up, Shimano(obviously) XTs you interested?

Check they're not multi release cleats. I thought mine weren't be after a few months I was unclipping on the acceleration. Turns out they were. 2yrs in on a set so far.

They're not i made very sure when i brought them. I do walk on them A LOT though so probably explains it

Did the black ice shuffle twice this morning, my heavy Monday morning bag didn't help. Not bad falls by any sense of the word, though my shins do look like their dressing up to attend a Star Trek convention.

I wish my local council would grit the paths as well as the roads. :( Letters being sent to my councillors today.

Arrived at work today, 35 minutes before a meeting with my boss. Looked in my bag. No work trousers. Oh shit.

Back on the bike and rode 8km home.
Sprinted up & down four flights of stairs.
Rode 8km back to office with the trousers strapped to my chest with leather belt.

Arrived sweaty and 10 minutes late, but still 5 minutes earlier than my boss. Just scraped it!

Down the main drag into Abridge on our ride yesterday I was following Benj at 35mph when he got a front tyre blow out. Very very squirmy! Well held sir. Well held!

Came unclipped on a 35mph+ (i don't have a speedometer but this is what the people i was riding with were getting) decent this morning, i saw death and now my SPDs scare the shit out of me

Shit, how did you manage to stop?

Shit, how did you manage to stop?

Hopefully not with face/knees.

They're not i made very sure when i brought them. I do walk on them A LOT though so probably explains it

these people that claim they last years are the people that get their 2k mountain bikes out to roll around the park a sunday a month ;)

7 months sounds reasonable

Oi! Only 1k

Wet manhole cover - massively lost the front end on the brompton turning left from Guilford St onto Grays Inn Rd. Rode through it like a boss.

Heading downhill on the MTB at a decent clip.
Snow hiding a massive pot hole.
Front wheel goes in - I hit the deck like a sack of spuds.
My elbow takes the full brunt of it as I take 10ft of gritty, snowy road to grind to a halt.
Somehow the only thing ripped is my skin - through a lumo jacket and TWO long sleeve t-shirts.
Ouch.

100% my fault. Lesson learned. Need elbow-pads.

Riding my most expensive bike which doesn't go out much, I'm patiently waiting in a queue of traffic, with an ambulance behind me (you can see where this is going).

I wanted to turn right and there was plenty of room for me to overtake the cars, so I turned round and gave the ambulance a loooong hard look to check it wasn't going to pull any of it's woop woop I'm an ambulance get out of my way shit. It's doing nothing, and it's been chilling in the traffic all the way down the road.

But sure enough half a second after I pull out and BWOOOOOOOOOFUCKYOOOOOOOOOU, rapidly accelerating ambulance right up my arse and I have to do a sketchy skid dodge back into the queue.