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All time biggest oh shit moment lasted a while...
2nd day cycling solo in Pyrenees on a trip back to uk. Had covered about 130 miles and 2000m climbing and was left only with 15 miles of descent to the next hotel. Was summer and around 9 in evening cycling due west. Straight into sunset. Greasy sunglasses that I had nothing with which to clean them. Cycling down a pothole covered windy back road that was absolutely impossible to see. Each intermission between sun to shaded areas was blind and it was on off the whole way down. Was in pretty exhausted and in a hurry to finish day but had no intentions of falling off in any way. Was a fucking nightmare... Will always carry cloth to clean glasses although this would have only helped to a degree!
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I saw a lorry overtake my girlfriend and then turn left in front of her, she had to leap off her bike to get out the way. Reported to the police but didn't catch the reg, unfortunately.
Also my mum finally got married (after 25 years of being with her boyfriend) and the wedding was in Italy, the fancy hotel in the hills around Rome had some mountain bikes for rental. One of the guests had their 10 year old son with him so he took the other one. The hotel had massive grounds so we were just gonna ride around in the woods for a bit, but his mother was terrified, so I spent a few minutes reassuring her. She finally agreed to let him go, and the kid promptly hopped onto the bike, sprinted forwards and yanked the rear brake to do a skid (as I had been doing). Unfortunately I had forgotten to tell him that the brake levers were the 'european' way around and he faceplanted onto the paving slabs right in front of about 50 of my mum's friends. The kid was fine but I got some fucking icy stares for the rest of the week.
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This make me laugh everytime YouTube - Bike Idiot
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I had an oh shit/epic fail moment this morning, totally my fault.
Was talking to a guy with a massive light on his bike as we rolled up to the lambeth bridge roundabout, was paying too much attention to our conversation and nearly ended up being run over by an oncoming taxi and another cyclist, who shouted 'don't be a wanker'
I was (albeit unintentionally).
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Cracker for me today...really stupid and lucky to be unharmed.
About 20 miles in to an easyish ride (week off) I absent mindedly reached down for a water bottle.
Only problem is that I reached past the bottle, past the downtube and fed my fingers into the spokes of my front wheel. As I was doing about 18-20 at the time the spokes were moving too fast to let my fingers through.
Lucky really. I guess if I was riding slower I could have lost some fingers. Especially as I have bladed spokes on my front...
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Lucky really. I guess if I was riding slower I could have lost some fingers. Especially as I have bladed spokes on my front...
I can recommend not doing that. Riding to Portsmouth, computer kept buggering about going on and off. Decided it was the magnet/sensor interface. It stopped again. Reached down the folk at about 10 mph just to nudge the sensor a fraction as I was hacked off with keeping stopping to see to it. Didn't see the pothole coming; "le slice". Sharp those Kyserium spokes. Nice lady in bungalow gave me a torn up pillow case to stem the flood of blood.
Meanwhile, later at the A+E, having told stitchy nurse how I did it, she put a kids plaster and finger stool on, as she though it was "appropriate". Clearly fancied me./
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Cracker for me today...really stupid and lucky to be unharmed.
About 20 miles in to an easyish ride (week off) I absent mindedly reached down for a water bottle.
Only problem is that I reached past the bottle, past the downtube and fed my fingers into the spokes of my front wheel. As I was doing about 18-20 at the time the spokes were moving too fast to let my fingers through.
Lucky really. I guess if I was riding slower I could have lost some fingers. Especially as I have bladed spokes on my front...
Dumb arse......almost as silly as shutting your finger in a swiss army knife.....but then I was 10 when I did that and not 29!
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Ditto that.
Got this awesome swiss army knife for my tenth birthday from a relative. My mum was none too chuffed. I promptly displayed my prowess and how I could easily be trusted by snapping it shut on my thumb leaving me with a scar today some fifteen years later from the tip down to the joint.
Much blood and shrieking later and she'd finally calmed down.
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Thirteen years old, pretending to be a ninja with the blade from a food processor as a weapon.
FWAH! FWAH! Hu! Hu! YAH YAH YAH!
embeds blade in the side of thumb, hacks off thumbnail, squirty squirty gush gush
"DAD!!!!"
le faint.
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