"Oh Shit" moments...

I had a funny one yesterday in cardiff, waiting at a cross roads when a guy on an old mountain bike comes bombing down the hill but as he gets to the lights his rear wheel comes out of the drops. The bike then skids to a stop with him cracking his nuts on the top bar. He then gets off the bike, picks it up and literally runs down the road as fast as he can.

I lol'd

few days ago i had a real scary moment, i was riding along one of the mane roads riding pretty much the same speed at the cars next to them on a cycle path which was atleast 25mph, was starting to get dark and i had all my lights on, then 1 of them about 2 cars in front decided to just drive in the cycle lane and open the door, but they did it so damn quick!? i skidded(fixed gear) for about 3 metres and managed to drift around to the right to get around the car and rode passed clearing by 1 foot and had to pass in the middle of the road

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wiiiiiiin

that baby's awesome, i admit, skidding is fun! :)

took a corner too tight, leaned over, clipped my pedal on the corner of the kerb and lifted both wheels off the ground, whilst being over taken by a cab at about 30cm distance!

blimey!bet that got your heart pumping

so you did a pedal strike hop? major skills

effectively yes, but not intentionally! it was quite a hair raiser!

i have pedal striked my self, but nowhere near that bad, no storys for this thread anyway, but defiantly not fun

Don't le..... oh

One time a car did an emergency stop in front of me along bethnal green road and I skidded to the right around it then back to the left, in front of it, and carried on cycling. True story.

small world, my story is very similar

One time I was being chased by armed-to-the-teeth assassins and I cycled right through a market stall that was inexplicably filled with hay and chickens. Managed to lose them down a dark alleyway that was only 6 inches wide. Very close shave, that one.

Were there piles of empty boxes in the alleyway? ... And an old drunk who looked quizzically at his hooch as you sped past?

I'm surprised you didn't smash into the fruit seller stall.

I once narrowly avoided smashing through a pane of plate glass two people were carrying across the road. luckily I was able to use a pedestrian who had knelt down in the middle of the road to tie his shoelaces as an improvised ramp and clear it.

Sadly the convoy of town cars that was chasing me at the time went straight through smashing it to pieces. I do not know what happened to the ped.

Reminds me of the time I was being chased by evil henchmen on black motorbikes. just as two of them stopped and fired an RPG at me a juggernaut crossed my path. Luckily I was able to throw the bike down into a skid and glide under the moving truck, which took the full force of the missile. I was particularly pleased as the beautiful but strong willed and cautious daughter of a civil rights activist (I later freed him from a military compound in the jungle) whose legs were wrapped around me at the time, made correcting the skid and cycling away at speed particularly tricky.

Boring Boring,
Getting a bit Monty Python....

Who are you - Boyd Hilton?

the caped avenger, those posts reminded me of the Transporter films (No3 i think) where he rides a BMX through a sweat shop, oh and the 4 yorkshiremen sketch off Monty Pyton....

picked up a spare set of keys to go to the shop, left my cell at home. take out the keys on exiting the shop and realize the key head is wrong. oh fuck. oh fuck fuck fuck, husband isn't due home for many hours. get to door, try key, doesn't quite work. goes in, but doesn't turn. oh fuck. try key again, it works. phewwwwwwwwwwwww!

Some asshole nearly made me ride into the side of his BMW this morning, i was going at speed down a hill and he just pulls out in front of me! i had to full on emergency stop, even the passengers just looked at me like nothing happened, plank heads.

few months ago with a lower skill level i could of hit that car.

Some asshole nearly made me ride into the side of his BMW this morning, i was going nowhere slowly and he just pulls out in front of me! i had to full on emergency stop, even the passengers just looked at me like nothing happened, plank heads.

few months ago with a lower skill level i could of hit that car.

tinlmf

these are the provinces my friend

Got to Marble Arch this morning on my fixed to start my window cleaning round. Turned the corner, and the ladder got caught across the front of two busses coming the other way. Next thing I knew, I'd gone backwards at 30mph all the way to Fairoak.

backwards at 30mph!?? i would shat my pants

Luckily, I had my bucket and sponge to hand.