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Non-bike related, but full of Oh Shit:
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^ linked from that, and bike related...
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^ linked from that, and bike related...
This is not news
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^^ My thinking exactly. I'm now sad I got rid of last nights footage of the attempted dooring by a police car (I spotted the "officer" waggling the door slightly ajar, and so gave even more room than normal, hence missing it with space to spare, rather than just.)
^ yup, "Cylists wear helmet cams, and not just in London SHOCKER!" I think...
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Got knocked off my bike by a headless goat outside a halal butchers in Peckham once (when the driver of a delivery wagon was chucking down whole frozen carcasses out the back for his mate on the roadside to catch. 'Course, the catcher fumbled it just as I was approaching and the carcase slithered/flopped out into the road taking my front wheel out from under me. No harm done, but the goat didn't even apologise. Bastard.
Still better than a collision with a live horse, though.
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Got knocked off my bike by a headless goat
It wasn't a goat any more, it was an ex-goat.
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Riding home from college today I was coming the usual way home; down Preston Hill.
http://i42.tinypic.com/66yvd5.jpg
Now as you can see it's not a particularly large or steep hill, but you can definitely get up some spped(computer said 35 but I think that's off, more like 25/2).
Where I turn off the hill is a relatively sharp left turn that has, quite recently, been sharpened further to stop drivers gunning the blind corner.
http://i44.tinypic.com/sm7ccy.jpg
All well and good, except you can't see the road surface for the bollards, so you don't see this crap ALL over the road until it's on you, going around 20 on a fully leant corner in drizzle.
http://i39.tinypic.com/mvp0ky.jpg
Oh shit! precisely.Luckily, there was no oncoming traffic, so I ducked onto the other side of the road and missed it, but I'm pretty sure that I would have slid out had I not. I got off to take the photos and saw that it was diesel, but it's not just this patch;it continues for about 200m down the road. Bloody buses...
Apologies for the huge images, I couldn't find a way to resize them.
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Leant?
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Commute home from Bracknell on Friday afternoon. Have left roundabout, probably 15yards up road just past the triangular island. Road is quite wide - about car and a half width - so I'm in secondary.
Hear car approaching - souped up exhaust.
Car passes - 20mph speed differential? (me 10mph him 30?) Wing mirror hits elbow, side of car brushes leg for the length behind the mirror. I am moved closer to kerb but don't fall off. Wing mirrors on Ford Focus must be on a pretty weak spring as I don't even get a bruise.
I stop and call 999 - he initialy continues, then slows, turns off and stops up the road, coming back on foot very contrite. I think the only way he could have managed what he did is deliberately and continue with call.
Police arrive, take the view he's a young driver from the outset. They interview him, he says he misjudged the roundabout, they say there is no way they can disprove this and that's that - they will 'send him away with a stiff talking to' - great. Someone admits to an officer of the law that he nearly killed someone by poor driving and that's that........
Zone 2 training goes out the window for return journey - 90minutes of pain cave anger management ensues. Later I wonder how fair it is on my family to continue with road cycling.
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This isn't on, is it? Surely driving a car into a cyclist should be some sort of crime, even if they're not killed/injured? That's a dangerous driving conviction, surely? He admits that he hit you, they send him away with a "stiff talking to"? Maybe you should complain.
Commute home from Bracknell on Friday afternoon. Have left roundabout, probably 15yards up road just past the triangular island. Road is quite wide - about car and a half width - so I'm in secondary.
Hear car approaching - souped up exhaust.
Car passes - 20mph speed differential? (me 10mph him 30?) Wing mirror hits elbow, side of car brushes leg for the length behind the mirror. I am moved closer to kerb but don't fall off. Wing mirrors on Ford Focus must be on a pretty weak spring as I don't even get a bruise.
I stop and call 999 - he initialy continues, then slows, turns off and stops up the road, coming back on foot very contrite. I think the only way he could have managed what he did is deliberately and continue with call.
Police arrive, take the view he's a young driver from the outset. They interview him, he says he misjudged the roundabout, they say there is no way they can disprove this and that's that - they will 'send him away with a stiff talking to' - great. Someone admits to an officer of the law that he nearly killed someone by poor driving and that's that........
Zone 2 training goes out the window for return journey - 90minutes of pain cave anger management ensues. Later I wonder how fair it is on my family to continue with road cycling.
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Yeah, you know, like I leant over. Leaned? Which is right?
Never lean
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Clipless fail x 3 during my first week of changing my pedals over. So embarrasing, a grown man who can't ride a bike.
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Commute home from Bracknell on Friday afternoon. Have left roundabout, probably 15yards up road just past the triangular island. Road is quite wide - about car and a half width - so I'm in secondary.
Hear car approaching - souped up exhaust.
Car passes - 20mph speed differential? (me 10mph him 30?) Wing mirror hits elbow, side of car brushes leg for the length behind the mirror. I am moved closer to kerb but don't fall off. Wing mirrors on Ford Focus must be on a pretty weak spring as I don't even get a bruise.
I stop and call 999 - he initialy continues, then slows, turns off and stops up the road, coming back on foot very contrite. I think the only way he could have managed what he did is deliberately and continue with call.
Police arrive, take the view he's a young driver from the outset. They interview him, he says he misjudged the roundabout, they say there is no way they can disprove this and that's that - they will 'send him away with a stiff talking to' - great. Someone admits to an officer of the law that he nearly killed someone by poor driving and that's that........
If he came to you 'very contrite' why do you think it was deliberate? It sounds like ineptitude on his part rather than aggression to me, so hopefully a useful lesson learnt on his part, particularly with having to explain himself to the police.Zone 2 training goes out the window for return journey - 90minutes of pain cave anger management ensues. Later I wonder how fair it is on my family to continue with road cycling.
Don't worry, as long as your life insurance premiums are getting paid they won't mind ;-) (but seriously its not that dangerous statistically for the average rider....). -
If he came to you 'very contrite' why do you think it was deliberate? It sounds like ineptitude on his part rather than aggression to me, so hopefully a useful lesson learnt on his part, particularly with having to explain himself to the police.
My immediate reaction was that it was a prank that went a bit wrong but I'm more inclined now I'm thinking a bit clearer to think it was as Wrongcog said - phone etc.
Don't worry, as long as your life insurance premiums are getting paid they won't mind ;-) (but seriously its not that dangerous statistically for the average rider....)
Don't think I'm particularly inept or risk prone - maybe the difference between fast rural B roads with not so much but very fast traffic and busy but slower urban?
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