What are you afraid of whilst cycling

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  • Sodomite

    Being turned into a pillar of salt during a shouldercheck.

  • changed my tack

  • 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

    Wow, that's quite the specific fear there!

  • That one day I will stop enjoying cycling just because it's easier to be sedentary.

    Since my partner got a car we already shop by the bootful not the pannierful. I'm afraid the contagion might spread.

  • If you live in a city that is hard to imagine.

  • Ed Balls

  • on my daily commute, i am not really fearful.
    i am most weary of school kids that step out into the road infront of me. it happens with alarming frequency.
    bollocks to the rest of the traffic, i ride like a cunt so they cant ignore me

  • i ride like a cunt so they cant ignore me

    On the contrary, you blend in.

  • Scared shitless of roundabouts at the mo following me nearly t-boning a car that failed to spot me aleardy on the roundabout Sunday morning and then seeing another cyclist nearly getting annihilated by a BMW on some kind of a warp factor 10 mission yesterday afternoon.

  • I used to be scared of splitting my trousers somehow and riding down the busiest street in town not knowing my balls were hanging out every time I stopped at lights until it got pointed out by my gf when I got home.

    Yesterday afternoon I realised its not as scary as I thought because people are just to polite to mention it up here.

  • suddenly noticing the road has fallen away into a huge ravine and I won't be able to stop fast enough to avoid my bike or I or both tumbling in

  • Better than it falling into a huge latrine.

  • Better than it falling into a huge latrine.

    In London I guess the huge gorge would probably open up into a sewer. Same difference really.

  • Not being able to open the passenger door quick enough on a car that has just cut me up and then stopped at the lights.
    I wouldn't want to RLJ so timing it just as the lights are about to turn green is essential.

  • have you ever actually done this?

  • No, it's a mere fantasy of mine.

  • no.1 Pedestrians suddenly appearing in my path especially in the west end

    no.2 Car doors
    (they say it is a matter of positioning but no-one told me that when I first started cycling and it nearly happened very early on. I still fear it although I usually cycle in such a way that it won't happen.
    Similarly with lorries.
    The very size of them when they pass me can make my stomach flip over. Even if you position yourself right, the fact that the thing could mangle you in a couple of seconds should give you some level of fear. Not to feel it is a bit daft really. Fear makes us alert to things.
    And analogy: if I stand on the edge of a cliff I can feel fear of the jagged rocks below and the crashing waves even if I know I am not going to step dangerously close to the edge.

    no.3 (it scares me just as much as car doors but is infrequent hence the rank) ice.

    no.4 in snowy weather, kids throwing snowballs. Got a hit at almost point blank range in the upper arm once - arm went dead and if I hadn't seen it coming and gripped with the right arm I'd of gone under in traffic.

    no.5 when I see a police car. No they don't make me feel safe, they do the opposite, and it's not really specific to cycling...they just make me feel bloody uncomfortable.

  • oh and when the sky is looking a certain way, getting soaked because I didn't pack waterproofs..

  • That I'll ride past and some cunt will yell 'do a skid!!'

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcV4LVhSRLg

    Absolute fucking morons. This makes my piss boil. And all their bravado sped up... lol.

  • getting taken out by a taxi

  • i get quite scared my bent forks might snap.

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