silly cycling

jemjah

i had an appontment with my consultant last week, so was up in london. A friend was driving me back down to south london during rush hour, and as we came off sloane square we both commented on a cyclist in front of us, who was cycling with no hands and had a shopping bag swinging off the handle bars. he looked like he was trying to be too cool for school, and as he took his mobile out of his pocket and read a text as we we about to pass him. again we both commented on how foolish he was. my driver friend slowed right down, and as he tried to put his phone back in his back pocket he lost his balance and swerved into the middle of the road right in front of the car. luckily we were going really slowly (as i am now a fairly nervous - and very annoying - passenger and always on the lookout for cyclists) he tried to right himself, but the shopping bag threw the balance and he came down hard in the middle of the road. he is so luckily we didn't go right over him.
I really felt for him, as he hit his elbow hard on the concrete (and i think his pride took quite a fall too) but it is cyclists like him that give other cyclists a bad name and drivers a bad attitude....

Stuey01

i had a little chuckle reading that, schadenfreude, hopefully he will learn something...

AllTheGear

And I'm picky about when I take my bottle out. He was a kid I guess?

biondino

Ouchy. But, well, it serves him right, he#ll learn from his mistake (you'd hope) and he's very lucky he had such understanding and far-sighted driver/passenger behind him!

jemjah

AllTheGear wrote:

And I'm picky about when I take my bottle out. He was a kid I guess?

nope. late twenties, early thirties.... :roll:

always_tyred

jemjah wrote:

AllTheGear wrote:

And I'm picky about when I take my bottle out. He was a kid I guess?

nope. late twenties, early thirties.... :roll:

How did he make it that far?

AllTheGear

Always Tyred wrote:

jemjah wrote:

AllTheGear wrote:

And I'm picky about when I take my bottle out. He was a kid I guess?

nope. late twenties, early thirties.... :roll:

How did he make it that far?

Hopefully he hit the crossbar on the way down and earned himself a Darwin.

Jay dubbleU

Obviously from the shallow end of the gene pool 8)

Gazzaputt