Very nearly sported a bulge on the wrong side of my lycra...

SimonAH

Went home for lunch (as I normally do) and hammered back to the office. Feeling good, strong legs, tucked down on the bullhorns to slip a hard gusty wind and scroomed into the small roundabout at the foot of our business park.

I was probably carrying too much speed (but you know how it is when you're feeling good and the tarmac is dry and grippy).

Inside pedal hit the ground and dug in catapaulting the bike in the air straight on off the roundabout, flinging both feet out of the cages.

Fortunately the trajectory took me off the roundabout at an exit rather than into a curb or street furniture, fortunately there was no stationary traffic to headbutt.

Ten yards later I got the tankslapping front end back under control and one foot back in a pedal. Jeebus that was scary!

Brakeless fixed? You must be mental, with out captain dura-ace there to step in I'd be picking lumps of gravel out of shattered teeth right now.

dhope

Might need some new Lycra after that anyway :shock:

Cornered a bit too quickly last week and pedal struck the floor on a slightly ridged bit of roundabout. Little bit more angle and if the wheel had gone I'd have just slid across the lanes. Does get the heart going...

walkingbootweather

Whewwww,

For a minute there I thought you meant the bulge was on the outside :shock:

Not a good look. :oops:

_Brun_

Being brakeless might encourage people to ride in less cavalier fashion. I expect I'd have a fear-induced top speed of about 10mph.

Kieran_Burns

_Brun_ wrote:

Being brakeless might encourage people to ride in less cavalier fashion. I expect I'd have a fear-induced top speed of about 10mph.

this is true - they'd all wear helmets and be roundheads

hfidgen

Kieran_Burns wrote:

_Brun_ wrote:

Being brakeless might encourage people to ride in less cavalier fashion. I expect I'd have a fear-induced top speed of about 10mph.

this is true - they'd all wear helmets and be roundheads

I still contend that the greatest addition to road safety would be a mandatory 8 inch spike welded to the steering wheel / handlebars.

The roads would be filled with courteous, slow moving vehicles moving with the utmost of consideration and care.

And the occasional corpse.

PBo

I am thick. I do not understand the title.

Kieran_Burns

PBo wrote:

I am thick. I do not understand the title.

bloke in lycra = bulge at front
scared bloke in lycra = bulge at the back

walkingbootweather

Kieran_Burns wrote:

PBo wrote:

I am thick. I do not understand the title.

bloke in lycra = bulge at front
scared bloke in lycra = bulge at the back

well-endowed bloke in tight lycra with weak seams = bulge on the outside

bails87

Title=He nearly cacked himself!

I nearly came a cropper the other day, getting a tow off a lorry, up to 36 mph, it pulled away and I started losing speed just as I reached the point where I normally go onto the pavement/cyclepath. It's a nasty stretch of road, the pavement is deserted and it lets me get around a set of lights further up the road, that's why I use it. Anyway, I turn up the dropped kerb and very nearly go straight into a lampost when I forget I'm doing 30+mph on a stretch where I'm normally doing 16! :shock:

The Rookie

Pedal strikes are the things of nightmares, last had one about 12 months ago when a workman stepped out and I had to tighten my line unexpectedly, fortunatley I wear baggies so bulges not an issue!

Simon