What are you afraid of whilst cycling

Have you had a TB jab, Rik?

I hate the way they swoop in your face or refuse to get out of the way until you've already started braking or swerving.

Rats with wings.

Sky rats.

"Refuse to get out of the way"? Perhaps you think pigeons have no right to be in the air and should walk, as best they can on their spindly pink toes, in the gutter? That they should abandon flying, which is, anyway, only for poor species and children, and get a bike. After all they don't pay airport duty do they?

Indeed, anyone or thing which uses the road should learn to do so considerately, or they ddddiiiiieeee :)

Maybe you could do some cycle training for pigeons, Will?

And maybe you can take your hate-speech and stick it up your agenda. Perhaps invite your friend Jeremy Clarkson over for a bit of pigeon pie.

Nick Cleg

Poor hats :( Can you see the sting in your finger?

I could see it for about 10 years but now it's buried so deeply that it's not visible. I tried to dig it out at the time and now my finger is slightly odd looking.

I second all the anti-pigeon comments. Horrible creatures.

Edscoble

A menace...

I have a new fear: getting lost and accidentally riding over the Westway again.

^ done that! Not much fun.

On my first forum ride to Clacton, an insect (probably a bee, though I didn't see it properly) hit me on the mouth and gave me a slightly 'fat lip'. Not sure why I mentioned this as I wasn't/aren't affraid of bee collisions

For me loose gravel on a bend on a descent is a bit hairy

Anyone can roll down a hill at 50mph and is extremely vulnerable ...

Another reason to get a fixie

Clipping a curb, accidentally running over a pigeon, being stuck in a dead end office job.

People that don't indicate, but speed up to get in front of me to turn quickly.

And Ainsley Harriott, he always scares me.

Dragons

And apart from that an adverse camber on a sharp turn in the wet. I washed out on one a few years back ending up literally sitting in the middle of the road, my bike on the curb and a few concerned looking motorists sat in their cars around me. Now I get twitchy about hitting one too hard, leaning in to much and above all touching my rear brake

People opening their car doors onto me, and mopeds

Despite how stupid.. I fear my front wheel coming off and getting a mouthful of concrete. I think its from seeing it happen once.. nasty.

Despit how stupid, I fear the surface rust on my TT/ST/Stays cluster is actually structural and I'm going to be speared by a surprise sheared off length of 531 while beasting it.

John Prescott

Helmet Hair, or I would if I wasn't bald.

Mike penning
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3451896.ece

Bike thieves.

Bike thieves.

Thieves that steal your bike while you're riding?

Once while mountain biking, I heard a loud buzzing in my helmet on a descent through some woods, causing me to take a hand off the bars in a panicked attempt to swat it.
All this just while my front wheel left the ground over a lip.

Piled into a tree at a descent pace, shoulder first, then lay there thinking I'd broken a rib for a minute or so. Limped down the hill and marveled at my stupidity.

^ Too bad. You should have just waited until you felt better and then cycled down the hill. Descent is the best part innit, plus you earned it by cycling up :(