"Oh Shit" moments...

Best part, the driver just got out, spoke on his phone for a couple seconds, talked to the ambulance crew, then just rolled a cigarette and just sat the hell down.

What a Boss! :-D

I floored a pedestrian this morning. My first proper accident in Kenya, after eight months.

Standard raft of people crossing the road where it joins Westlands roundabout (site of my previous lorry Oh Shit moment). I face this daily, and you just learn to judge where the gaps are going to be.

One gentleman, half way across the road, decides he'd like to:

• turn to face me and stop abruptly,
  
• stare into my eyes like a frightened bambi,
  
• receive an ergo lever in the liver,
  
• fly with me through the air for a very brief moment,
  
• scramble to his feet,
  
• walk off clutching his arm, pausing momentarily to look at me in horror
  
  

I wonder why the guy didn't speak to me afterwards. I guess being knocked over by a strange looking white man in full lycra is comparable to being assaulted by an alien. Also perhaps he didn't have much English.

being knocked over by a strange looking white man in full lycra is comparable to being assaulted by an alien.

favourite line of the day

^^
Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Yeah I was expecting that response, it's probably justified. I'm certainly much slower and louder now when approaching that crossing point.

The problem is that here in Kenya there's no infrastructure nor guidelines to handle this clash of ped vs. road user. There are no ped. crossing lights, so people are continually crossing at that spot - popping out every two seconds like a video game. It's my right of way there, not that anyone thinks that way here in Kenya. No-one will stop to let you through either, it's every man for himself. You just poke your nose in and deal with it.

It's these sorts of clashes on an unregulated highway which led to the UK's adoption of lights, lanes, ped crossings, right-of-way etc.

If you're travelling fast enough on your vehicle when approaching a group of human beings crossing the road, to not be able to stop and end up knocking someone to the ground, I would think that you're doing the whole cycling in public thing wrong.

I agree, I was travelling too quickly. Just glad no-one got seriously hurt.

Big oh shit yesterday. Doing sprint work and hit a pothole that I missed in the minefield. Then hit a curb, face first.

^
needs a parrot

^^Ohhh man that looks bad :S

Heal up soon fella. Did you head to A+E etc?

Fuck.
Get well soon!

I miss cycling in Africa.

Shit, somebody stole your eye!

Heal up

Bag of frozen peas on that mate.

Make sure you take photos of the pothole and sue the council.

Well ahead! but thanks!

And I need more than peas to sort the face, metal work! Good and proper bang.

Nice blanket. The inappropriate thumbs up makes you like you've escaped from an institution, though.

having had a few motorbike crashes make sure you take pics of the road, get pics of the hole with a ruler next to it and in it also any holes close should be noted and also do a sketch of the same. I've had to do this for solicitors before they also say get pics at the same time of day as the accident.
I'm not sure if they shifted responsibility for potholes from the council to the highways agency, I know if you report it to the council they tend to have the hole fixed that night and if you haven't got pics they say it never existed as my mate found when he snapped an alloy.

Yeah someone took pics on my phone yesterday when it happened while I was face down and the autosales centre opposite say they've reported the hole to the council already as cars have been puncturing on it.

id get back there. the more detailed the better. some useful stuff on the mib website or used to be.

heal up quick mate

I'd expect the Highways Agency to be responsible if it's a trunk road, county council otherwise or TfL if it's a London red route. I'm sure it's more complicated than that, but it should be quite easy to find out.

Oof, nasty.

Heal like you ride, fast.

Thanks man! Hope it heals faster than I ride though! Don't want to wait that long!
I wrote about it here!
http://ridehardridehome.co.uk/the-ride/if-youre-going-to-ride-hard/

Damn that's some serious 9/10 damage there, heal up soon!!!

Chalk it up Homie, Best wisheS

there were a couple oh shit moments on last nights Social Group ride... but the most notable was when we rode through what i assume was a train yard in complete darkness.. you guessed it my front wheel dropped through and i some how was able to pull it out and recover before eating Sand. Didn't escape the night without any injury though... caught some fencing following a steep/narrow descend off an overpass