"Oh Shit" moments...

Loads of women in Japan ride around holding an umbrella.. wearing miniskirts and CFMBs..

Shit. Maybe I should start wearing a helmet. I'd be interested to know how many people on here do or don't. I read an article in The Guardian that said normal bike helmets were not much better than nothing if the speed was greater than 12-15mph... so I kind of figured if I was going slow it wouldn't be that bad anyway and if I was going fast... well that would be more than 12mph, so sod it. Hmmm...

Err perhaps not the thread to discuss this.... But I take xrays innit, and I've scanned and xrayed more than enough helmetless cyclists who have done damage to their heads and brains coming off bikes.

Perhaps for every one cyclist who damages themselves riding helmetless a hundred walk away fine but who knows?

Makes you wonder! I guess you take a chance with everything you do.

Shit. Maybe I should start wearing a helmet. I'd be interested to know how many people on here do or don't. I read an article in The Guardian that said normal bike helmets were not much better than nothing if the speed was greater than 12-15mph... so I kind of figured if I was going slow it wouldn't be that bad anyway and if I was going fast... well that would be more than 12mph, so sod it. Hmmm...

Always. I had a fall with a shitty helmet on and I at least blacked out for a few seconds because of it. I bought a new helmet and I just hope I never have to use it. I wear it so much that I don't realise I've got it on. I walk into shops after locking my bike up and I get some funny looks and can't figure out why - then I remember the helmet! Put a lid on it!!

It's a common injury; I have one right now and it's the third time I've done it. There are some gruesome pics on Sheldon Brown.

How exactly have you managed it 3 times?! I would have thought you'd have learnt by now not to put ur fingers anywhere near you chain when it's moving. Have you lost any parts of fingers due to it, or just spliced them and had to have them sewn back up?

That's what we need - more pics like that!

Always. I had a fall with a shitty helmet on and I at least blacked out for a few seconds because of it. I bought a new helmet and I just hope I never have to use it. I wear it so much that I don't realise I've got it on. I walk into shops after locking my bike up and I get some funny looks and can't figure out why - then I remember the helmet! Put a lid on it!!

i thoguht all those dreads would do a decent job keeping your head safe

http://www.cyclehelmets.org/

Always worth re-posting, over and over again.

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I wear a helmet most of the time when I commute or ride longer distances.. I do however not wear my helmet when I'm riding to the pub, or if I'm doing something after work where it would be annoying carrying the helmet.

i thoguht all those dreads would do a decent job keeping your head safe

Yeah, the dreads certainly help but they don't do the full job of a helmet!

On another note word on the street is...

     **Helmets are cool.**

Everyone will start wearing them now

Yeah, the dreads certainly help but they don't do the full job of a helmet!

On another note word on the street is...

     **Helmets are cool.**

Everyone will start wearing them now

I refer to my previous post in this thread:

http://www.londonfgss.com/post570270.html

^ great album

+1

absolutely fuck that!!

Pussy... ;p

You think that's dangerous? Try cycling through Southhall...

Short, sharp, narrow 90* turn the other day on my way to work, didn't corner enough and was going way too fast, just put my 160/70 quid, full carbon inc steerer, 359g forks on, and narrowly missed going into the back of a suzi mini 4x4 thing, by about 1cm, my crumpler loop hit it a lot, so i must have been very close. It just didn't seem to turn.

I think they're quite real - here's another one:

I hope they had their plastic pants on for this ride

http://www.hansrey.com/latestadventures.htm

i think hes steve peat, one of the best downhill rider

Best oh shit moment:

Been at a mates place all afternoon drinking lots of beer with other friends. Gets late and dark. Spot random unused old mountain bike in back garden. Go for a quick blast around the primary school next door. Hurtle down a path and go to jam on the back brake for skid....except it's the front brake cos some nonse hooked em up the wrong way round! Front wheel stops dead and the rest of the bike begins to rotate around it with me on it, as it gets to around 45deg I just let go and fly through the air with legs rotating long jump style and land on my feet running. I honestly think that if I had been sober there's no way I would have avoided some kind of injury.

Very interesting link Oliver:

http://www.londonfgss.com/post570270.html

On helmets, I was a teenager in Australia when the helmet laws were introduced, we just didnt bother but the cops would stop you and fine you $25 which was loads for me at the time. It got tedious so I just gave in and wore one. They were just so very UNcool. Straight away kids stopped riding as much. Kids who were right into bmx etc would still ride but you'd get shit hung on you for wearing a helmet. I had a paper round and used to do it on my bike, now the kids get driven by their parents from house to house - WTF? Yeah, they'll really learn how to get things done on their own. When i see stuff like that I fear for the future of mankind.

thanks for that, so funny! LOLBODASOT

I had one on Wednesday, going across a train level crossing, had a short skirt on, whilst cycling across the first rail, realised I wanted to get my skirt under my bum, so what i would normally do on a geared bike, is coast and lower knees and body forward then slide back, voila, skirt under bum, all nice, no revealing..... ahhh yes, can't coast, won't coast, on fixed...... got to the lowering my knees and body down.... caught my left quad above knee, on my left drop, got knee stuck under drop... started to wobble bars violently, whilst still trying to manage dignifying my butt from my stoopid skirt !.... Hey, managed it thou.... all whilst trying to stay upright, get over train lines and not get hit by cars behind... no doubt laughing at me !!Thankyou and Goodnight ! Scared the crap out of me !! went all weak afterwards ! :(

I got doored today which was a bit shit. Luckily I was only doing about 10mph so got away with a slightly swollen knuckle and a bit less skin and for bonus points the bike was ok.

Definately oh shit as the door opens about a foot in front of you and there's nowhere to go though...

A couple of years ago I hit an very old granny in Chiswick. F*ck, she didn't half go flying, her shopping was all over the road. I thought I had killed her, that was definitely an "oh shit" moment!I wasn't even going that fast, but she was so small and frail she just pinged off me. She popped out from between the gap of 2 parked transits that a normal sized person wouldn't have fitted through, how do you look out for that?

Coming down the hill round the back of my house the other day going into town on my old commuter bike, was honking away and doing a nice pace by the bottom. Changed up a gear and the rear mech jammed, launched forward onto the toptube (crushed nuts >_< ) and just manged to grab the wobbling bars and straighten it out. I had to sit down for a minute just to stop shaking... would have lost alot of skin if I had lost it.

I think the cause was poor chain maintanance. I guess I now know that even the ratty old moutain bike needs looking after too...

Rolling down the Col de Tourmalet in the rain and noticing that my brake blocks were smoking...