"Oh Shit" moments...

i just bashed my front wheel on one of those metal door stoppers that protrude form the ground

painted not more than a month ago...

What's the damage?

*Searches first world problem memes.

mere scratches... shows personality

I have a feeling no one will notice...

no one that actually matters.

^Shouldn't have gone for that rim free front wheel...

cycling on this really nice stretch of road, flat / very slightly downhill and theres always a tailwind on it and it's recently had some fresh tarmac so its smooov, i'm going about about 26-28mph fixed, all of a sudden i realise i'm freewheeling, i look down and see my chain dangling, i look back up and see a bunch of girls i know walking on the road, obviously i didn't want to embarrass myself by stopping and fixing my chain, i just rolled past them and said hey like nothing happened, turned the corner, and walked the bike for a bit and tightened up dat chain.

if i was riding with tighter clearances i would've ended up skidding all over the place

moderately tight clearances ftw

last time i threw a chain it wrapped around the sprocket and locked the wheel in less than 5 metres destroying the hub and spokes in the process, sounds like you got away easy there...

^Shouldn't have landed with the wheel turned...

^Shouldn't have attempted epic barspins with an impending increase in front loading...

^Shouldn't have used alloy nipples...

ftfy, take your pick.

Should have bought an actual BMX.

That guy looks pretty heavy it has to be said. He shoulda thought about that before putting all his weight, suddenly, onto a wheel facing sideways.

Anyway, what did he think would happen? That he would just roll out of there, sideways?

I'm guessing he didn't land that way on purpose.

mid barspin

I saw a stationary bike in the hotel after dinner yesterday, I jumped on and got to some made cadence then thought 'fuck it this is boring' and stopped pedalling, it was a fucking fixed gear and I ended up on the floor...

Now doesn't that surprise me.

hahahah. That happened at my first spin class.

I was travelling anti clockwise around Regent's park this morning and taking the South West corner. It's always innocous around there, light traffic, wide road so switched off momentarily.

Was properly woken up by guy in white van deciding to pull a U-turn aproximately 1 second after overtaking. Due to the position on the curve I was tending to swing out a bit on the exit and so pulling to the left didn't feel too clever. Ended up stopping about level with his rear bumper as he'd come to a full stop for some reason.

Was a literal 'oh shit' moment, followed up with some choice anglo saxon. He lent out to point out that "I have indicated!"

Does slicing the top of my right index finger off while degreasing my chain count? Did it yesterday, despite having read the blessed Sheldon's warnings. I'm sure no-one else here is daft enough to, but just in case - don't try this at home boys and girls, catching your finger between chain and sprocket can get blood all over your rear wheel, not a cool look unless you're Boadicea I suppose.

Am still in shock.

Was riding back west from Piccadilly. Going through Knightsbridge I notice that the lights are red ahead and filter through a bus and a black cab that are stopped at the lights. Had just got into the ASL and BAAAAANG! The black cab flies past me through the ASL. There was a Range Rover now sat where the cab had been. Less than a second before I had been behind that cab before I filtered through the gap. Often I would have plonked myself in front of the cab in case other cyclists had wanted to filter through. Thank fuck I hadn't. Or that cab would have been pushed into me. Thank fuck I had filtered through, the back of the cab was completely crushed.

DJ of old kicked into action, shouting at the dumb fuck who had been driving. She was drunk but was denying it. She also claimed the car in front had suddenly slammed on its brakes, that the lights had been green and that she had never even seen me. Part of me was incredulous at her account (though later I realised how much it reminded me of someones account of an accident I witnessed last year). I went ballistic, repeatedly pointing out that she was a dangerous drunk retarded cunt. FFS the cab had been stopped at a red light, and given the ridiculous lights I have on my bike, the hi vis on my back pack etc she had no fucking excuse.

Luckily there was an ambulance on hand to tend the shaken up cabbie. Drunk bitch was frantically drinking bottles of water and coke to presumably defy a brethalyser. Her friends then got out of the car to have a go at me, they could not understand why I might be a little vexed at what had happened. One of them pushed me and I pushed her back. There was more shouting and then the cunts drove off.

Cabbie was shaken up, but will be fine. We have exchanged details and I will give an account to the police.

With hindsight I was clearly in shock at the scene of the accident as I was very nauseous on the rest of my journey home. 1 second difference in the timing and I would have been between the Range Rover and the cab. Things really could have been very different.

I am alive and now need to breathe.

Fucking hell! That's ridiculous, glad you're alright and that nutcase gets exactly what they have coming to them!

Cheers

It's a shame that she will more than likely get off the drunk driving charge - I doubt the police will go after her tonight.

I did not hear any use of the brakes from her at all, the cab was moved from being behind the ASL to 4 meters in front.

That's insane, surely there's still plenty for a decent prosecution though?

I hope so. Dangerous driving, driving away from the scene ...

Could of killed you and they got an attitude? fucked up.