"Oh Shit" moments...

Welcome to Eco Toilets?

It doesn't seem that weird tbh. Flushing toilets are such a waste of water. Composting toilets ftw.

And potable water. Pure, clean water to flush shit into the sewer that mostly aren't black water systems.

Madness. And the thread title of 'Oh Shit' suits it entirely.

taxi tried to turn around in the road from being pulled up in a bus lane on my side of the road.

started to turn as i was going past him, almost hit me as I was going around his front right, he was still accelerating.

i don't know how i didn't end up over my bars..

what a twat.

6 o'clock this evening heading up Dalston lane towards lower clapton road, I just get to the lights opposite Mare street when some wanker on a mountain bike decides to ride out onto the crossing straight in front of me. I smashed straight into him go flying the bounce up straight into adrenalin fuled expletive mode and the cunt jumps on his bike and scarpers down Mare street as I'm shouting "and you're just gonna fuck off then wanker". Plenty of people about checking to see if I'm alright and in utter disbelief that he just fucked off.

Couldn't tell what the damage to me or the bike was but the bike looked a mess, handle bars had done a 180 and the brake levers had popped out of their mounts. So carried me and the bike home (just round the corner, fortunately) and looks like I've not got anything more serious than big old bruises to my hands and legs and after checking the bike everything's fine with that too.

Lucky, very lucky!

Presumably you have reported the crash to police?

That junction to be revamped in the coming year, most likely. One of the key aims is to re-establish the continuity of Mare Street Narroway and Clarence Road, i.e. the alignment that your assailant travelled along.

Two crashes in one day!

ONE:
My pacy, gliding arc around a parked car placed my tyres neatly into a tram track. They managed to slot in there nicely despite being like 8cm wide (it's a MTB I found in my garden). My wheels were obeying a new, linear metal master now and travelled straight ahead but I continued, sans bike, on my sideways course and hit the tarmac quite hard. The ground ripped open my DHB bibs, castelli gloves and gave me semi-severe road rash on the usual places: left forearm and hip. I hit my head quite hard but the helmet took all of that. Two fingers lost 1.5mm of their tips and dripped blood over my stem & bars. A pair of presentable young women animatedly enquired as to my wellbeing, and so I reassured them in as laid-back a fashion as I could "Oh yeah, fine. Yeah. No yeah really, just a scrape", whilst bleeding through gaping lycra shorts.

TWO:
Melbourne drives on the left and has green cycle paths on the left like in the UK, but to the left of these cycle paths there is a continuous line of parked cars, in bays on the side of the road. Awful design, as cyclists are guided right into the door zone. If you are in the centre of the bike lane you face a dooring, so I cycle on the right edge. Still, I have nearly been doored thrice in one week so today I thought I'd be clever... With a queue of crawling traffic ahead I opted to overtake the queue on the right, rather than slotting to the left past the parked cars (i.e. the painted green cycle path). However, no driver expected this and one of them pulled out of the queue to turn right, and I went straight into the driver's door and wing mirror. The driver fiercely apologised but it was perhaps my fault: I don't remember if she was indicating, I didn't look. Driver gasped "Oh my god did I do that to your arm?"
"No actually that was this morning. It's been a bad day."

The worst part about crashing is coming home to my girlfriend will tonnes of road rash because she gets all upset and scared about cycling.

Australia 2, Ndeipi 0.

Australia WILL kill you So it's true!

The worst part about crashing is coming home to my girlfriend will tonnes of road rash because she gets all upset and scared about cycling.

I try and laugh off any near misses with my girlfriend for this reason. What a girl.. LOL SEXISM.

Felt something hit my leg whilst riding along to discover my second rear light attached to my seat stays was emptying its batteries onto the road. Managed to collect them but no idea what happened to the base cap.

Well, had been meaning to replace that for a while as 3 of the 8 leds had stopped working.

^That is the tamest story this thread has ever seen :')

"Oh nevermind" moments thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Whoopsadaisy moments. >>>>>>>>>>

Scatterbatteries thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Spinning down Mile End road at 22 mph and feel something rattle against my ankle. Oh, it's my bottle cage with a full bidon coming off. It falls off the rest of the way and I'm left holding it against the seat tube with both calves until stopping and re-attaching.

Wasn't too stoked on the idea of it falling into my rear wheel.

See this is the kind of story that holds your attention right up to the explosive payoff.

Hollywood writers are watching this thread right now!

^That is the tamest story this thread has ever seen :')

"Oh nevermind" moments thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Whoopsadaisy moments. >>>>>>>>>>

Scatterbatteries thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Oh shoot moments thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

If you're going to take your cap off while riding, hold it in your left hand, not your braking hand during a turn on wet roads outside Euston surrounded by angry taxis.

Felt something hit my leg whilst riding along to discover my second rear light attached to my seat stays was emptying its batteries onto the road. Managed to collect them but no idea what happened to the base cap.

Well, had been meaning to replace that for a while as 3 of the 8 leds had stopped working.

I've lost so many rear lights hitting a random pothole and gone. Was drafting a bus waaaay too close and didnt see the pothole and no way to avoid it or stand up in time and off flew the light.

Had my left arm crank fall off on me a few weeks back. In some ways was a good thing as I needed to replace them anyway and was wondering how I was going to get them off with the threads all worn out.

Felt something hit my leg whilst riding along to discover my second rear light attached to my seat stays was emptying its batteries onto the road. Managed to collect them but no idea what happened to the base cap.

Well, had been meaning to replace that for a while as 3 of the 8 leds had stopped working.

Some of us really know how to live on the edge...

wondering how I was going to get them off with the threads all worn out.

For future reference, unscrew the crank bolt and stand/jump on the pedals until the crank arms work themselves loose

I did try that, in the end the drive side had to be heated up with a blow torch and malleted off!

Damn!

Right hooked by a left indicating van that then decided to turn right, into me, while i'm overtaking it. I put my hand out and ended up 'accidentally' punching his mirror off. That got him pissed off. At that point I pointed to the big camera looking straight at us, then his indicator light still indicating left. Told him to either shut up, apologise, pick up the mirror and carry on or he can pay for a year's worth of physio for my wrist which will suddenly start to hurt unless he decides to apologise.

He went with the first option.