"Oh Shit" moments...

Staying on your bike is personal preference i guess

Kensal road.
Truck pulls half way out, looks at me, I wave for him to go back and comes out all the way blocking the entire road.

At this point I'm 20 metres away, it's wet and I'm hitting about 20.

I try my best to stop but just end up doing a 2 wheels skid and fall over hitting the front of his truck.

Fucking hell my knees and shoulder hurt.

Heal up Indra.

Bloke pulled straight out in front of me this morning prompting a holler. He looked well angry that I'd startled him from his slumber - nearly dropped his fag and everything, which might have meant he would have had to change gear without taking his one spare hand off the steering wheel. When I got level he said "I was nowhere near you". When I explained that that was bullshit and that he hadn't seen me or even looked in my direction until I screamed at him he said "I fucking saw you miles away you prick"... "So you saw me and decided you'd pull out anyway? What a tool!".

This made him very angry indeed. I imagine a heart attack is on the cards.

ah man... Indra's bad luck strikes again. Heal up brah.
Should of bunnyhopped the truck...

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Heal up Indra.

Bloke pulled straight out in front of me this morning prompting a holler. He looked well angry that I'd startled him from his slumber - nearly dropped his fag and everything, which might have meant he would have had to change gear without taking his one spare hand off the steering wheel. When I got level he said "I was nowhere near you". When I explained that that was bullshit and that he hadn't seen me or even looked in my direction until I screamed at him he said "I fucking saw you miles away you prick"... "So you saw me and decided you'd pull out anyway? What a tool!".

This made him very angry indeed. I imagine a heart attack is on the cards.

Thanks, what happened to you makes me angry too, drivers not realising how easily they could cause you a serious injury.

ah man... Indra's bad luck strikes again. Heal up brah.
Should of bunnyhopped the truck...

troll face

If only I had a gangsta....

Aw mate, hope you are ok.

Kensal road.
Truck pulls half way out, looks at me, I wave for him to go back and comes out all the way blocking the entire road.

At this point I'm 20 metres away, it's wet and I'm hitting about 20.

I try my best to stop but just end up doing a 2 wheels skid and fall over hitting the front of his truck.

Fucking hell my knees and shoulder hurt.

Indra - 20 mph in the wet is pretty sketchy. I don't know if you were riding brakeless or not. If you can't stop in 20 metres then you are not riding safely - that is, you are unable to react quickly enough to surprises. Though, people pulling out when they shouldn't hardly qualifies as a surprise in London. You've had quite a few incidents. I really fear that if you continue to ride in the way you do now you will, sooner rather than later, be involved in a very serious collision.

Don't bother, he nerged me last time I tried to save his life.

Just reminded me of an o shit moment i had last week where i unintentionally and unwittingly ended up playing chicken with a mum doing the school run in a BMW,

She tried to overtake on a thin road that has many speed bumps and had to slow down loads when she realised/remembered the speed bumps, car pulls out of a side road and heads toward us, im level with this womans passenger door

I notice this and look at her she starts turning in then starts looking at me,

Took me a few secods to clock on that if i didnt slam my brakes it was one game of chicken i was never going to live through

I cought up with her at the lights and i pulled upto her window and she starts shouting 'what were you thinking?? My kids are in the car!!'

I was too stunned by her pigblind stupidity to respond

Should have taught her kids some new words

You weren't riding in primary AICMFP

^ huh?

The roads only just wide enough for 2 cars i was well into my lane

Kensal road.
Truck pulls half way out, looks at me, I wave for him to go back and comes out all the way blocking the entire road.

At this point I'm 20 metres away, it's wet and I'm hitting about 20.

I try my best to stop but just end up doing a 2 wheels skid and fall over hitting the front of his truck.

Fucking hell my knees and shoulder hurt.

Sounds like he mistook your "go-back" wave for a "go-ahead" wave.

I know people telling you to be more careful gets old pretty quickly, but it's best to assume that the average driver really isn't going to be doing everything they can to ensure the safety of cyclists, and to act accordingly.

Indra - 20 mph in the wet is pretty sketchy. I don't know if you were riding brakeless or not. If you can't stop in 20 metres then you are not riding safely - that is, you are unable to react quickly enough to surprises. Though, people pulling out when they shouldn't hardly qualifies as a surprise in London. You've had quite a few incidents. I really fear that if you continue to ride in the way you do now you will, sooner rather than later, be involved in a very serious collision.

Sorry I got confused and meant 20feet.

Not that that change much, it's on a part of the road that turns into a hill pretty quickly.

Not exactly sure why I couldn't stop because usually I can stop pretty quickly even in the wet, was riding with a front brake.

Don't bother, he nerged me last time I tried to save his life.

For fuck sale what is your problem?

Last time I nerged you wasn't because you tried to 'saved my life'...

You make it sound so heroic, last them I nerged you was because you attacked me claiming I couldn't ride safely on the track despite doing an induction and that you could even though you haven done one.

You're a right cunt you know that?

If you don't want to offer useful words to me after I crash then just keep your mouth shit and don't bother trying to sound wise and like you 'told me so'

Have another nerg.

Sounds like he mistook your "go-back" wave for a "go-ahead" wave.

I know people telling you to be more careful gets old pretty quickly, but it's best to assume that the average driver really isn't going to be doing everything they can to ensure the safety of cyclists, and to act accordingly.

Sounds most like this, although I imagine I looked insane when waving...

you should just extend your hand in a 'stop' gesture. although, that was proven to not work when i did this gesture to a car last week as it wanted to pull into a side road that was blocked, the driver saw me, saw the car blocking the side road but still pulled out, blocking my path. it wasn't until i had come to an emergency stop and gone round to the driver's window, that i realised it was Ian Brown giving it the whole "i'l do what i fucking want mate etc." what a twat that man is.

Well he did sing "I'm no clown, I wont back down", life imitating art an all that.

For fuck sale what is your problem?

Last time I nerged you wasn't because you tried to 'saved my life'...

You make it sound so heroic, last them I nerged you was because you attacked me claiming I couldn't ride safely on the track despite doing an induction and that you could even though you haven done one.

You're a right cunt you know that?

If you don't want to offer useful words to me after I crash then just keep your mouth shit and don't bother trying to sound wise and like you 'told me so'

Have another nerg.

Sand in yer vag?

cycling along at a good lick, overtake a bus that's letting people off, no cars on the road so took it quite wide, now cycling along the big white line in the middle of the lanes. The light 30 meters ahead turns red so I did a bit of a skid because it's fun in the wet. Didn't slow down at all, had to turn off the line while skidding to get any traction then stopped suddenly right at the light.

Sand in yer vag?

Read the thread about the the last track day.

cycling along at a good lick, overtake a bus that's letting people off, no cars on the road so took it quite wide, now cycling along the big white line in the middle of the lanes. The light 30 meters ahead turns red so I did a bit of a skid because it's fun in the wet. Didn't slow down at all, had to turn off the line while skidding to get any traction then stopped suddenly right at the light.

Epic win.

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Sorry I got confused and meant 20feet.

Not that that change much, it's on a part of the road that turns into a hill pretty quickly.

Not exactly sure why I couldn't stop because usually I can stop pretty quickly even in the wet, was riding with a front brake.

So, riding brakeless with no foot retention at 40 mph and you couldn't even stop in 200 metres? I see what's going on there.
20 mph is about 29 feet per second, so it's no wonder you couldn't stop in 20 feet, especially on a wet road. It's all experience for you though, judging an appropriate speed is an important skill.

He had a brake, *back off grandad you're ruining my life *etc.

^ I heard that he was riding no handed, whilst running red lights and spitting on the homeless.