Wet Leaves

ShutUpLegs
ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
edited November 2010 in Road beginners
Slippery

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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,356
    and they hide pot holes
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • flanners1
    flanners1 Posts: 916
    and drain covers, they looked lovely in East Sussex's country lanes this morning though; beautiful time of the year.
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  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    You've just reminded me why I hate autumn :x
  • teamtalairan
    teamtalairan Posts: 175
    STOP! and the temperature is dropping which will mean frost .... oh lord ...
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    The Devil's dandruff. Avoid!
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • JohnCleland
    JohnCleland Posts: 172
    sungod wrote:
    and they hide pot holes

    and poop
  • Blacktemplar
    Blacktemplar Posts: 713
    Peddle Up! wrote:
    The Devil's dandruff. Avoid!

    +100

    Wet leaves = crash = grade 4 AC joint tear. Ouch ! :oops:
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  • Squillinossett
    Squillinossett Posts: 1,678
    Bah, I hate this time of the year for that exact reason!

    And grates, and frost, and ice....
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    You've just reminded me why I hate autumn :x

    Autumn is one way or the other, I had a lovely blue sky crisp sunny ride yesterday. Today I wish I hadnt had to get up from my bed, its fecking orrible out.
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    edited November 2010
    As a train driver and a cyclist I gain about 20 extra grey hairs at this time of the year!
    Out for a ride in the morning ran over some leaves that were hiding a nice pothole, luckily held on to it but a severe readjustment of wedding tackle was the result. Then in the afternoon at work went to apply brakes and they locked up and locked up well and good no matter what, the resultant 1.5 mile skid didn't do the wheels much good at all!
    Norfolk, who nicked all the hills?

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  • tigerben
    tigerben Posts: 233
    If you thought leaves were bad... try sea weed.

    lost the back wheel on it yesterday and went arse over tit. :(
  • silverpigeon
    silverpigeon Posts: 327
    + 1 for seaweed. A carpet of the stuff greeted me along the seafront this morning. Ended up having to walk. :cry:
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  • ajb72
    ajb72 Posts: 1,178
    Not alot of seaweed in Leicester, mercifully! :lol:
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    We need this topic to be automatically generated every October.
    Other Auto-generate topics to include:

    -Low sun at Spring/Autumn, cycling into the sun on a wet road makes you invisible.
    -ICE! Its slippery stuff.

    -Clocks go back, get some lights.
    -COLD! wear some tights
    (maybe combined into Lights go ON, Tights go UP)
  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    MichaelW wrote:
    We need this topic to be automatically generated every October.
    Other Auto-generate topics to include:

    -Low sun at Spring/Autumn, cycling into the sun on a wet road makes you invisible.
    -ICE! Its slippery stuff.

    -Clocks go back, get some lights.
    -COLD! wear some tights
    (maybe combined into Lights go ON, Tights go UP)

    Cycling by the sea, watch out for seaweed
  • alp078
    alp078 Posts: 28
    ShutUpLegs wrote:
    Slippery

    Dry leaves...




    Crunchy

    :wink:
    My blog: http://eastbournecyclist.blogspot.com/
  • ductions
    ductions Posts: 274
    Leafal.


    EDIT:
    On a serious note though, whenever I've slowed down behind some one to over take them on a shared bicycle path, I always make a fool of myself accelerating hard on wet leaves. Most of the time I manage to hang on though.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    The a road near to me which has a nasty little incline. In winter it's constantly running with water and after a frozen night it's a deadtrap. The leaves are already making it deadly but there's worse to come.
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