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• #202
changed my tack
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• #203
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!
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• #204
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.
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• #205
If you live in a city that is hard to imagine.
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• #206
Ed Balls
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• #207
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.
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• #208
i ride like a cunt so they cant ignore me
On the contrary, you blend in.
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• #209
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.
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• #210
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.
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• #212
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
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• #213
Better than it falling into a huge latrine.
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• #215
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.
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• #216
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.
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• #217
have you ever actually done this?
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• #218
No, it's a mere fantasy of mine.
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• #220
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.
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• #221
oh and when the sky is looking a certain way, getting soaked because I didn't pack waterproofs..
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• #222
That I'll ride past and some cunt will yell 'do a skid!!'
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• #223
Absolute fucking morons. This makes my piss boil. And all their bravado sped up... lol.
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• #224
getting taken out by a taxi
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• #225
i get quite scared my bent forks might snap.
Being turned into a pillar of salt during a shouldercheck.