What's the worst that has happened whilst out

houndlegs

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

slowondefy2 wrote:

Had to walk up a hill once.

and you still cycle?

I'd have died from the embarrassment and burnt my bike and equipment.

Dammit,setting fire to mine as we speak

Anonymous

diy wrote:

sjmclean wrote:

I got knocked off by a van in front of about 30 cars at one of the busiest roads in Glasgow and phoned the police to be told "theres nothing we can do pal" i sai if he swerved and hit another car would it be dangerous driving? Copper said and I quote "yes but your on a bike so don't hold your breath". 8 weeks have passed and I haven't heard anything.

Why do you think it's dangerous driving? Its quite a lot short of the required test
see cps charging standard for a definition.
http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/pros ... olicy.html
http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/pros ... y.html#_25

Forgot to mention a real key fact, I was in the inside lane which was left only and he was on the outside lane which was straight only. He came straight across at about 25mph.

Does this constitute Dangerous driving in your mind now?

diy

Only if you could objectively show it was deliberate. Being in the wrong lane and failing to look sounds more like a case of careless driving. None of this is important to any claim you make for injury or loss. People seem to confuse civil liability for damages with a need to have the wrong doer prosecuted. You are better off focussing on your claim against his insurer.

simon_masterson

Mad Doug Biker wrote:

Simon Masterson wrote:

some people are ignorant enough to think that cyclists have to cycle against the curb and if there's a cycle path must use that instead.

In my area, it is safer to use the cyclepaths by far.... In certain areas where the roads are manic anyway, and yet, people still INSIST on the roads! :shock: Seeing people actually cycling along the most busiest sections of the A82 quite frankly makes me cringe, particularly when I know there is a perfectly well tarmaced path not far away between Dumbarton and Bowling (Bowling to Clydebank and onwards depending on what route you take is crap for skinny tyres though) and by and large between Dumbarton and Balloch, give or take the odd cow and the short 100 yard bit of rough track at Balloch where it joins the end of a road.
Further more, and maybe it is just me, but, with my super skinny tyres, I have found that actually, about 99% of all the punctures I have ever had have been on the road! I am beginning to hate cycling on the roads, I mean, what on earth are people spreading on the surface of them?

I admit that not all cyclepaths are born equal however.

Much of that definitely resonates with me!

But though I do tend to take to the roads given the choice, particularly when it's quiet, to get out of the town I live in I can take cyclepaths (which are quite good, to give credit where it's due) almost from my door to the edge of town, but getting onto the road to the next town (which is nearly always where I'm going anyway) by cycle path involves cycling to the end of the cycle path that runs adjacent to the main road, getting off and walking the bike across both lanes of the dual carriageway, before joining the road that I want to be on from the verge. I'd rather stay on the main road; it's both quicker and safer.

dubcat

The cycle paths round my way are only rideable on a mountain bike.

Mark Alexander

teulk wrote:

Had a bottle threw at me by some chavs. Luckily they were a bit thick as it was plastic and empty.

had a log thrown at me (I was going too fast for the little chavs) hit the frame and my leg. I have been T-boned at a T junction. went over the bonnet, I think that I t was a more than acceptable superman pose if I may say so myself! Any self-respecting cyclist would have been proud. Oh yes the bike was ok but the car was dented nicely.

lawrences

Dubcat wrote:

The cycle paths round my way are only rideable on a mountain bike.

If you go into Kingston upon Thames they actually paint raised pictures of bikes in the bike lanes to provide an even bumpier surface than the sh!t tarmac and drain covers that were there to begin with.

kleinstroker

Happened a few years back, mountain biking in Bali, ran over a snake which lunged at my feet, properly cr*pped my shorts! Well not properly...

ctc

Since last Christmas:
Smacked into the side of a car as they pulled out in front of me on a roundabout, wrecking bike I had finished restoring 3 weeks previously
Rack went over backwards and dragged panniers along the floor
Rear mech dropped into wheel. New mech hangar, rear mech and 9 spokes
Flying insect got under my helmet. In the blind panic caused by this knocked sunglasses off. Stopped went back to get them, and only then car appeared to go over them just as I was about to get them
4 punctures
2 internal and 13 external stitches in my calf caused by 3 mph accident with a commuter pedal.

oh yeah. I had to walk up a hill a couple of weeks ago too.

I'm cursed, but I reckon if I had managed to tape most of these I could have made £1000 from YBF.