How many times have you been taken out?
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Glad you are kinda OK Hoolio. Hit and run would be difficult to deal with. Id have to track them down... id get that guy of the 1980's TV show out of retirement to track them down and deal with them! (Im now going to spend the evening working out the name of the show! :x )
i am 4.5 months'ish riding, averaging 20 miles almost daily & 0 Hits. 1 close call. The thread is worrying.... :shock: i dont wear a helmet or gloves at the moment and i have enough scars already from other sources ......
Is there a national average?
John Snow of Channel 4 News said "I have a bike accident once every three years. It doesn't put me off cycling - it puts me off drivers ...."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... dwellbeing
EDIT : 1980's Show = The Equalizer with Edward Woodward... no wonder we are screwed up these days!0 -
roger merriman wrote:none and long may it be so, helped by the fact for most of my life it's been MTB and mud etc than road.0
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I was very nearly taken out today by one of my own colleagues while cycling into work. In one way useful...it was an ambulance...in another way disturbing....for the very fact that it was an ambulance!
my prize take out was when I was 10 and knocked off my bike by a poor driver who was in more shock than I was. I cycled out in front of him to totally my fault but it let me with two missing teeth (one a new adult tooth), a broken wrist, dislocated hip and road rash to my face
since then accidents have been minor, but still hair raising to say the least.Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men0 -
Always Tyred wrote:roger merriman wrote:none and long may it be so, helped by the fact for most of my life it's been MTB and mud etc than road.
bare in mind bar the honey pots the area around abergavenny has plenty of land to play on your tod. while plenty do go MTB most go a few miles away from the towns if that...0 -
once. roundabout turning right. driver from 12 o'clock broadsides me. It was a lawyer, but she did the right thing, and came good on my repairs.
Ironically, once I had stopped shaking and picked up the bits of bike, she was actually in a worse mess than I was. She fully hadn't seen me, so just a real accident. Its quite hard to get angry about being wiped out when theres no intent whatsoever.
Made a right mess of the car though.0 -
Actually quite a few times but I'm not a gigolo .Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
Think how stupid the average person is.......
half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.0 -
None yet, but the it was a damn near thing 25 mins ago.
On homeward stretch with 1/8th of a mile to go and a woman decides to do a U turn from the side of the road. No indication, no looking to see if there was any traffic coming ...just pulled out.
Thankfully as I was approaching at about 25mph I saw her there and I saw the front wheels turn before she moved (another stupid thing to do as it screws your steering in a car). So I hit the anchors and fishtailed to the rear or her car.
It was definatly a vocal S******* moment.
I yelled JEEEZ LADY!! (am Aussie) You could have bloody looked first!!
To her credit she was most appologetic ...she must have said sorry 10-15 times while I was at the side of her car.(no I didn't have her by the throat)
I looked down at my cycle computer and my heartrate was WAAY up there.
I reassured her that I was okay and told her to have a nice weekend and off I pedalled 8)The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle. ...Stapp’s Ironical Paradox Law
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Once, kind of.
Going down a main road, driver waiting to pull out and turn right. I'm doing around 25. He looks at me approaching and waits, so I carry on. With about 5 metres left, he changes his mind and pulls out with wheels screeching. I hit the brakes and turned left trying to get behind the car, but clipped the corner which sent me into the kerb and off. The guy vanished at high speed. Fortunately no damage to me or bike, but very shaken up.0 -
once, ish again. Approaching a crossroads, look behind me, woman watching me intently, I pull out to the middle of the road, she tries to ride around me on that side, I grabbed her wing mirror and managed not to fall off because I was slowing right down, she shouted at me, I politely reminded her that I signalled, she knew I was there and she had no excuses not to have a little patience. She then told me I should've been on the pavement :roll:Start Weight 18st 13lbs March 2009
17st 10lbs August 2009
17st 4lbs October 2009
15st 12lbs December 2010
Final planned weight 12st 7lbs0