"Oh Shit" moments...

Should be shitting not spitting on the homeless.

Clearly not one of Thatcher's children.

Should be shitting not spitting on the homeless.

dj plz, who has time for all that?

judging an appropriate speed is an important skill.

This is gold! have some rep sir!

Trackstand to chainslip (new fixieskidder trick) in the middle of a junction. Fortunetely unclipped in time to save myself from falling. That's what I get for having a slack chain and being too lazy to sort it.

^Jesus that sounds seriously slack! Is your chainline off as well?

Such a noob error:

Stopped at a busy crossroads on the way home this evening, waiting for a gap so I could cross to the opposite street. Gap appears, I take off, and half way over the crank decides to stop turning. Standing up, I just manage to force it over the road to safety before it seized up completely.

I adjusted chain tension yesterday and obviously neglected to tighten one of the nuts sufficiently, causing the axle to slip out of whack and jam the tyre up against the chainstay.

Didn't like it. Not going to let it happen again.

^Had this happen to me before, except I was flying down a hill. I've used chain tugs ever since.

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.

burnt

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

Information bounces off people like this like water off a duck's back. Completely clueless, and always will be. There are few things more irritating than a dangerous driver nearly killing you, then wandering off thinking they were in the right...

My OS moment is that I've got so much work over the next couple of weeks, all really horrible night and early-morning shifts, all mixed up, and I've put on a couple of KG since my marathon and done little training - cue me realising that I've got a half marathon this Sunday, and a sportive in Belgium next weekend. I'm going to be a husk.

Read the thread about the the last track day.

No, you nerged me for

3 Weeks Ago #44658
Emyr
So is your ability to effectively stop in unexpected circumstances.

Moaning about nerging >>>>>>>>>

Moaning about nerging >>>>>>>>>

nerged

Nerging for commenting about moaning about nerging >>>>>>>>>

^Jesus that sounds seriously slack! Is your chainline off as well?

Chainline's perfect, I just need to take more notice when my chain gets a bit slack... Oh and accelerate slower. Damn my hugely powerful legs. ha

Almost got T-boned, some driver in a fiesta speeds through the red at the last second, i flow through and go on the yellow, both come to a rubber burning stop, front wheel was barely an inch from hitting the car, Fuck.

So many cars burn through lights which have been clearly red for a second or two now. So many near collisions and anger cause by the impatience of stupid twats.

I see loads go through blatant reds, then another following them sometimes.

Yeah, it's one of those unwritten rules of motoring, that it doesn't count as red if it's only just changed. It ain't right, but it is what they do so always have a good look if you are leaving the lights promptly.

Lancaster Gate, cyclist stops, then goes through a red (1. wtf?). Car next to bike, decides to follow (2. wtf?!). Luckily there was a break in the traffic coming around the flow...

I love it when that happens. Everyone's following each other like lemmings.

Reading all of this, I'm afraid to go out on my bike unless I'm padded up. Fuck getting a plastic bag into my frontwheel.

So I'm cycling down to Marble Arch from Maida Vale and some twat in a Lamborghini speeds past me nearly clipping my elbow and throwing me off even though he should be decelerating since the lights are red 50m down the road. As I get to the lights they turn green so I don't get a chance to tell him off (that's if he could hear me over the monstrous sound he was making revving his engine). Then to my surprise he slowed down and the passenger seat window came down. I was impressed that having just realised I exist he probably wanted to apologise... However I couldn't have been more wrong, a hand popped out and threw a plastic bottle straight into my path. This time I was thrown off.

WAC, there must be some cctv with that car on it, it won't be hard to miss, although I doubt much will be done as they are quite obviously loaded.

Holy shit

If you can remember the registration number, or even a partial one, then it's worth talking to the rozzers or the cycle task force.