What are you afraid of whilst cycling

I'm scared of the middle place between light and nowhere.

HTTP 404 errors, mostly.

prostitutes on surfboards

Becoming more like Alfie

Fear itself
The sky falling on my head
The reaper
Streetsweepers
Suicidal leapers

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Exchange rate conversions where the third decimal place in the recipient country's currency is less than 4. Damn that shit freaks me right out!

I read a story about somewhere in Europe (maybe spain) where there was a off road motorcycle race going on. An angry local tied some wire between a couple of trees and it ended up totally decapitating a rider or two.

I know its super unlikely to ever happen, but when riding in woods where riff raff kids hang out it is easy to be concerned over potential sabotaging they may have done. I mean, kids like this happily drop concrete slabs over motorways.

Over cooking a corner.

It's so much more scary when you're not in a big box. On track in a car I've overcooked it and nipped the gravel loads of times, it's how you learn, but the equivalent of 'nipping the gravel' on a bike could be a lot more painful.

I had some kids in a BMW grab my saddle and pull me along. They did'nt know I was riding fixed. Still a twatish thing to do though. Nearly ended horrifically.

I still get a lump in my throat when a boy racer mobile passes me.

Flighty shopping bags scare me.

Clowns.

Small furry things

Riding down Cheetham hill, it's a bit like rolling the dice as to whether you're leaving without being slammed into by a reversing car or not.

Hitting a deer

I read a story about somewhere in Europe (maybe spain) where there was a off road motorcycle race going on. An angry local ties some wire between a couple of trees and it ended up totally decapitating a rider or too.

I know its super unlikely to ever happen, but when riding in woods where riff raff kids hang out it is easy to be concerned over potential sabotaging they may have done. I mean, kids like this happily drop concrete slabs over motorways.

AHH. You didn't have to share this one. I'm not going to stop thinking about it now!

Helmet wearing cyclists with no brakes, listening to ipods with thick wall tyres crashing into the back of me

Scoble?

Being stopped by the police for carrying a child. Not actually having any children, I would have a lot of explaining to do.

Stopping at a set of lights and overhearing someone confuse the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Republic of the Congo.

Eels

No ghosts.

rep

Trying to wipe sweat away and getting it in my eyes so I can't see and I fall into a giant hole at some roadworks and then it gets filled in while I'm still unconscious at the bottom

Impotence

ROUSes are scary.....

Hitting a deer

Zoophilliac