"Oh Shit" moments...

All of it

You have to anticipate someone pulling out, but you can't give such a wide berth that it's literally impossible for someone to pull out and hit you.

Hah

Assuming decelerating from 40kph to 10 kph, the average speed would be 25kph which is roughly 7m/s, that would mean covering the 2m in 0.285 of a second. I didn't bother with any further calculations.

I've run the numbers

Well done.

Snapped my chain on a hill a little earlier. Definitely an Oh Shit moment for me- Took me about 5 seconds to work out what the fuck to do!
Temporarily without bike, not best pleased about that.

New minis are driven by assholes prepared to pay a small fortune for an overhyped crappy little car.

Old minis were driven by people that understood what a bargain they were, paying small potatoes for a fantastic little car.

No you're an asshole...

New Minis are BMWs.

Old Minis were the shit. You could buy and insure them for pennies, take them apart on the kitchen table to fix them when anything went wrong, and they handled like a go-kart.

I loved my Mini, drove like an arsehole all the time, and never owned another car since it finally died on me years ago.

MK2 was a BMW. MK1 was a Rover design through and through.

Riding in a tram line when both of trams came, then I could fit in the middle but I think I pissed myself!

Trams are fucking terrifying, I don't even like crossing the tram lines, let alone getting near a moving one.

Silent killers those bastard things.

edit: I'm trying to find a photo of Nasty's face after he hit some tramlines at a bad angle, but I'm drawing a blank for now. Suffice it to say, it wasn't pretty.

I'm trying to find a photo of Nasty's face after he hit some tramlines at a bad angle, but I'm drawing a blank for now. Suffice it to say, it wasn't pretty.

Nasty's Face (Neversfw)

Fucking hell, it's worse than I remember it....

the cuts look bad too!

#rimshot

You have to anticipate someone pulling out, but you can't give such a wide berth that it's literally impossible for someone to pull out and hit you.

I anticipated it and left enough room to avoid him but it put me in a dodgy spot. Also had the brake covered, as always, ready to slow if i had to. He should have looked, I should have dropped a bit of speed to give myself more time to avoid him, but really he was a donut and should be repeatedly struck with an uninflated and wet inner tube for his heinous sins.

In terms of the 93G that I pulled during my controlled stop, there was perhaps some exaggeration, fuelled by an enormous americano i consumed before posting on it. I was doing somewhere about 45kph coming up to him, and I reckon he pulled out about 4m in front of me, and I overtook him in the adjacent lane, so was probably doing about 25-30 kph by that point. I was on quite a spinny gear which added to the drama, according to the rpm calculators prob doing about 130rpm ish when he pulled out.

MK2 was a BMW. MK1 was a Rover design through and through.

BMC design, actually. Rover had nothing to do with it - they were a totally separate company from BMC/British Leyland until about 1968 or so, about fifteen years after the Mini was designed. The same guy (Issigonis) designed the Morris Minor, too.

Interesting, Alex Moulton designed the suspension for the original Mini - using little rubber cones, just like his bicycles.

Some of my tutors worked on the BMW Mini... and I have no respect for them, shit shit shit car that it is. Don't get me started on the DS3...

The whole of Brewer St was one big oh shit moment when I rode down it today around 2oclock. Stupid peds, 5 separate incidents of literally millimetric near-misses, dunno how I made it through. I fear for the future of the human race.

Yesterday:
Ped walking on nearside footway in same direction as me suddenly, and i mean kamakazi suddenly does a 90 degree right into the road and my path.
Cue lots of braking/swearing and I come to a stop kind of huddled up against him. Very intimate, and not a little awkward.
Managed not to fall over.
His excuse with iphone in hand?
"Sorry mate I was following my sat nav".

"Sorry mate I was following my sat nav".

Jesus christ. There really is no hope.

BMC design, actually. Rover had nothing to do with it - they were a totally separate company from BMC/British Leyland until about 1968 or so, about fifteen years after the Mini was designed. The same guy (Issigonis) designed the Morris Minor, too.

Interesting, Alex Moulton designed the suspension for the original Mini - using little rubber cones, just like his bicycles.

Some of my tutors worked on the BMW Mini... and I have no respect for them, shit shit shit car that it is. Don't get me started on the DS3...

We weren't discussing the classic Mini of which there have been many revisions, Mk1 - Mk6. I'm not a concourse winner at a classic Mini show for nothing. I don't need a lesson, thanks. My MK1 referred to the MK1 New Mini.

I'm not a conkers winner at a classic Mini show for nothing.

Oooh, it's naughty stuff they get up to there. Not worried about the paintwork? ;P

Yesterday:
Ped walking on nearside footway in same direction as me suddenly, and i mean kamakazi suddenly does a 90 degree right into the road and my path.
Cue lots of braking/swearing and I come to a stop kind of huddled up against him. Very intimate, and not a little awkward.
Managed not to fall over.
His excuse with iphone in hand?
"Sorry mate I was following my sat nav".

wac
i hope you said something

The whole of Brewer St was one big oh shit moment when I rode down it today around 2oclock. Stupid peds, 5 separate incidents of literally millimetric near-misses, dunno how I made it through. I fear for the future of the human race.

brewer street is always crap. part of the problem is the pavements are too narrow for peds to pass each other. same on vigo street (across regent st from brewer st)

shiiiiiit @ craig's face. looks grim. trust it's healed up now? Drewzy repped for "neversfw" comment :)

re: blind pulling out, maybe i'll start shouting "shoulder check, cunt" every time i see someone do it, even if there's no resulting near-incident. i already do it if they make me swerve or slow suddenly.

re: brainless ped danger areas, it's really worth having a bell because you can usually spot the potential lemmings preparing to wander across the road without looking, giving you time to start tinging your bell (I like to start quietly and calmly and crescendo into a violent 'what the HELL are you doing you fuckwit' in bell language) from a distance, which allows enough time for their slow brains to eventually react to the sound of the bell and move out of the way/not step into the road in time for you to pass without incident.

That makes sense. Sometimes I find myself watching something stupid happen in front of me and I can't think of what to shout. I probably want to make a primeval wail, but social conventions prohibit. A bell cuts through this confusion. But I still don't have one.

I want an air horn. Came law to fitting one a couple of years ago and then stopped short as I thought it might induce heart attacks in some people. Summer 2012 might be air horn summer.

I have a bell on each of my bikes and use them appropriatly..
However, the reaction is split:
For example on a shared path that I use on the way to work:
1: Don't use bell as there really is no need, ped is walking towards me and has obviously seen me in fluoro nodder with flashing light: ""Use your fucking bell!"

1. Approaching ped from the rear, so chances are he hasn't seen me, give a "ding ding" at 25m: "Don't you ring that fucking thing at me!".
   Hmmmm.
   I use the bell as a warning whenever I feel it is needed, and will continue to do so.
   But unless I ride along sounding like a demented campanologist Banzai peds will always present a totally unpredictable brake test opportunity.
   

We weren't discussing the classic Mini of which there have been many revisions, Mk1 - Mk6. I'm not a concourse winner at a classic Mini show for nothing. I don't need a lesson, thanks. My MK1 referred to the MK1 New Mini.

Ah I misunderstood. But even the Mk1 New Mini wasn't a Rover design 'through and through' - it wasn't really a Rover design at all. Rover developed some concepts (Evolution, Revolution, Spiritual) in the mid-late 90s but Rover design and engineering became less and less prevalent until eventually the whole project was taken over by BMW in the late 90s - the whole concept was by BMW, the styling was by Frank Stephenson at BMW, and the componentry was from BMW. The total sum of the British efforts in that car is the packaging of German components within a German bodyshell.