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My work commute has a couple of excellent wind funnels. In a storm you have to get on the kerb unless you want to play catch with the steel lorries going down the road.
After a vision of what's left of me being loaded onto a lorry with the mangled bike for scrap metal and forever disappearing with pictures of "missing person" all over town...kerb it is.
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Having been enjoying the smoothness of the new headset I installed last night on my ride to work this morning, I was track standing behind a queue of traffic when, with all the smoothness in the world, I felt my front wheel turn in a manner sickeningly seperate from my bars. Here's one for "oh shit" moments, thought I as I hit the pavement.
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that reminds me of a time as a kid on a family outing to a farm there was a competition for who could ride a bike which had the headset set in such a way that you turned the handlebars one way and the wheel would turn in the other direction.
Was quite tricky for me even then. At least I wasnt afraid of falling off back then...
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On the way to work this morning, lockring on rear hub was loose (on a brand new bike) that caused my pedals to give way whilst accelerating.
This threw my weight forward, hit a car in front of me that was moving, eventually got upright again and hit my brake.
Went over the handlebars and landed in front of a nice bus man who had watched the whole thing happen and didn't move.
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Theres something just wrong about having a bike off when no one else is involved.
I remember cycling through regents park a few years ago on my mtb, spd pedals in new user gaff, taking a left turn with left pedal in 6 oclock position, pedal hit the ground and catapaulted me off the bike and landing on my back and the bike landing on top of me somehow unclipped somewhere in that carnage.
Also another time gunning it down bow flyover eastbound, the nearest set of traffic lights went red and 2 coaches blocked both lanes so I couldnt filter through again on my wide barred mtb. Realised a little too late i wouldnt make it so jammed on the disc brakes and actually had to drop the bike and jump off or I would have rammed myself up the back of the car in front of me!
Worst thing was the coachload of people on my right staring down at me as I lay on my back staring into space!
Good times!
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Yesterday on Oxford St, three suicidal peds wander out onto the road. I was going at quite a pace because a) there was no traffic and b) was running late for a lunch date. They separate and I manage to squeeze through, clipping one of them. I look behind just to see she hasn't fallen over, she continues dawdling across the road without looking and wandering what just hit her. Honestly...
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that reminds me of a time as a kid on a family outing to a farm there was a competition for who could ride a bike which had the headset set in such a way that you turned the handlebars one way and the wheel would turn in the other direction.
Was quite tricky for me even then. At least I wasnt afraid of falling off back then...
Cross your arms.
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Yesterday on Oxford St, three suicidal peds wander out onto the road. I was going at quite a pace because a) there was no traffic and b) was running late for a lunch date. They separate and I manage to squeeze through, clipping one of them. I look behind just to see she hasn't fallen over, she continues dawdling across the road without looking and wandering what just hit her. Honestly...
Need to carry a joust, just in case.
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Cross your arms.
S'all about riding no handed.
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Just back from my first ride out here, was going along a straight and wooded, down hill section at a fair pace when I thought I'd glance down at the garmin to check I was still on course, to my shock I saw a fairly sharp turn, I then looked up and saw that it was right ahead of me, I feathered the brake and slowed down to what felt like about 20mph when all of a sudden my front wheel slipped from under me, I managed to pull a little skid with the back wheel to get upright again.
At this point I was pretty proud of myself before I realised I was still about to hit the corner way faster than I should be so I brake again but more gently, no luck though I slipped again before instinctively locking up the back wheel, I ended up accidentally whip skidded left and right before eventually just sliding onto the ground.
Edit: Strava data tells me I was doing about 30mph and the decline was 22%
I started laughing like a maniac and 'grammed a pic of my bar tape and mildly road rashed elbow.
Needless to say I took the rest of the ride very easy.
Edit2: I take full responsibility for the this crash, I was going too fast and not paying enough attention, however the second I get home I'm ditching my hardshells for good, I've never had a tyre slip out with that little braking before!
Dat squiggle
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You really should take up something safer that does not involve you and bikes.
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@Sparky
Decided to ride in. Was pretty gnarly...had a few "oh shit" moments near Brockwell park - massive gusts of wind pushing me around, had to go straight over some pretty big branches. Even had one fall out of a tree and smack me in the face...helmet + glasses = me keeping my eyesight