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oh wait wrong thread
That must have shat you right up. :)
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Was riding in Cambridge last week. I had just been to the local fixed gear shop to get my headset tightened and I was riding home. I passed a school as they were finishing and it was a green light on my road so I kept my fast pace. Straight after the lights was the turn off to the school. Just as I past the lights, a car turned in without any indication and didn't even look in the first place. At the moment I saw it I thought I was going to be dead considering the speed we were both riding at. I had three options and half a second to decide: 1) Go into the school and smash down a bunch of school girls 2) Continue my speed and hope for the best 3) Smash into the curb and hope for the best.
I ride no breaks so I skidded for the curb (I didn't want to harm the girls and going straight was too risky). Managed to lift the front wheel but smashed my back wheel off the curb. Tyre exploded straight out. I flipped off the bike and smashed my elbow on the ground and initially I thought it was broken but just bruising to the bone. The bike continued and smashed into a wall and blew the front tyre as well. Lucky it didn't fuck the cranks or the rims tbh.
Car didn't even stop and no one checked to see if I was okay. £70 worth of damage that I had to go fix a few days later by borrowing money off a mate. Passed the school again the other day and noticed a light post that I didn't see when I hit the curb and took a moment to think about how fucked I would have been if I hit the light post!
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Long story short - You were riding like a dick on a dangerous bike and you ended up hurting yourself because you were going too quickly to react to some bad driving.
Oh shit indeed.
Calling out bad cyclists thread >>>>>>>>
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Was riding in Cambridge last week. I had just been to the local fixed gear shop to get my headset tightened and I was riding home. I passed a school as they were finishing and it was a green light on my road so I kept my fast pace. Straight after the lights was the turn off to the school. Just as I past the lights, a car turned in without any indication and didn't even look in the first place. At the moment I saw it I thought I was going to be dead considering the speed we were both riding at. I had three options and half a second to decide: 1) Go into the school and smash down a bunch of school girls 2) Continue my speed and hope for the best 3) Smash into the curb and hope for the best.
I ride no breaks so I skidded for the curb (I didn't want to harm the girls and going straight was too risky). Managed to lift the front wheel but smashed my back wheel off the curb. Tyre exploded straight out. I flipped off the bike and smashed my elbow on the ground and initially I thought it was broken but just bruising to the bone. The bike continued and smashed into a wall and blew the front tyre as well. Lucky it didn't fuck the cranks or the rims tbh.
Car didn't even stop and no one checked to see if I was okay. £70 worth of damage that I had to go fix a few days later by borrowing money off a mate. Passed the school again the other day and noticed a light post that I didn't see when I hit the curb and took a moment to think about how fucked I would have been if I hit the light post!
Wow, 2nd post on here and it's a statement of how the bike was not road legal and this contributed to the accident.
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Well, that rapped it up nicely.
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Made a tit of myself, I was approaching a cycle path that runs along the M2, to get on it you have to go around the slip road roundabout and partially down the slip road before mounting the curb. This time I had a car sitting on my back wheel as I left the roundabout, so I singled for him to slow and the looked back saw it was clear and made the turn. sadly I think I must have let him intimidate me as I entered the corner twice as fast as normal, half missed the drop curb and then flipped over the bars as the front wheel clubhauled/jackknifed.
Either goes here or bad cyclist thread, should have gone slower was too concerned about a car sitting on back wheel -
White Lined* while filtering through the traffic in Hounslow this morning in front of a bus stop full of people.
Oh how they laughed and stroked the finger of shame at myself.
Grazed to fuck and cut the tip of my finger so typing is annoying.
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Ha!
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I whip myself in the lid when flicking out the washing. Always with jeans, always.
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I ended up on a borrow-bike from Victoria to Barbican this morning. As I went round the roundabout at the top of Horseferry my laptop fell out of the bag in the front holder thingy and I actually ran it over with my rear wheel. It was then narrowly missed by a taxi.
Scuffed to fuck and has a tyre track across it but I am typing this on it now, so no harm done.
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Just punched myself in the balls putting a t-shirt on. That is all.
Slipped when removing a stubborn tyre and did this the other day. I think the "oh shit" is the split second when you realise exactly what just happend but the pain hasn't fully kicked in...
...and that everyone else is laughing.
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Forgot I was playing around with my bike while half asleep last night. I subsequently rode of this morning with loose chainring bolts and no crank bolts... a few skids later and the left crank arm came off. On closer inspection I had also lost a couple of bolts on the chainring. Lucky that didn't come off first.
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Forgot I was playing around with my bike while half asleep last night. I subsequently rode of this morning with loose chainring bolts and no crank bolts... a few skids later and the left crank arm came off. On closer inspection I had also lost a couple of bolts on the chainring. Lucky that didn't come off first.
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oh wait wrong thread, I can't be bothered to put it in the right one tho