bad idea

el_presidente
el_presidente Posts: 1,963
edited June 2007 in Commuting chat
2 pints after work + embankment rush hour + my knakered old single speed MTB + being overtaken by gorgeous specimen on nice Cannondale = atttempt to race

I seriously thought I was going to have a heart attack or something

I'm not proud :(
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  • Unknown
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    [:D] good work

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  • Eat My Dust
    Eat My Dust Posts: 3,965
    Sounds very dangerous and stupid to me. I wouldn't even have a single drink and then try and cycle.

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  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    You are completely right EMD
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  • ianamc
    ianamc Posts: 90
    last time i did that i hit a pigeon.
  • Eat My Dust
    Eat My Dust Posts: 3,965
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by ianamc</i>

    last time i did that i hit a pigeon.
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    I'm sure there has been an argument in Soapbox that would say that it was the pigeon fault for not looking where it was going!!

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  • BentMikey
    BentMikey Posts: 4,895
    Blimey, I rode over a pigeon at the beach in Hyde Park yesterday. I didn't half get disgusted looks from all the pedestrians around me. I felt a bump and a crunch, there was a crowd of feathers, but the thing still flew off afterwards. I hate pigeons, but I still felt slightly guilty.
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  • lowe
    lowe Posts: 61
    I ran over a squirrel's tail a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I then kicked it after it jumped at my foot, as I couldn't unclip in time. Felt really bad, but it ran away afterwards. Coincidently, my husband ran over one at the spot the same morning.
  • Totalnewbie
    Totalnewbie Posts: 932
    I know someone whose face was all scratched up by a pigeon as she was walking along, it flew beak first into her face. So I'm exceedingly careful around the b*ggers, if that happened to me on the bike I'd probably fall off! They are not very bright.

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  • pzycoman
    pzycoman Posts: 285
    I hit a pigeon with my tennis raquet once, made a horrible sqeulching sound, and knakkered the raquet
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  • ianamc
    ianamc Posts: 90
    to be fair on the pigeon i was weaving all over the place so it couldn't predict where i was going
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pzycoman</i>

    I hit a pigeon with my tennis raquet once, made a horrible sqeulching sound, and knakkered the raquet
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  • BentMikey
    BentMikey Posts: 4,895
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by ianamc</i>

    to be fair on the pigeon i was weaving all over the place so it couldn't predict where i was going
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    I remember a newspaper quote, about a man in court over hitting a pedestrian with his car: "He didn't know which way to run so I hit him." Sounds awful, but I think was just the result of a classic misprediction accident.
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