SMIDSY - The alternative view
YIMan
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Riding into work this morning into a strong headwind. I was in a white-lined off cycle lane on a fairly wide minor road through a village (Breaston, just past Leisure Lakes for those that know it). Head down, concentrating on pedalling......cycle lane white lines end.
Suddenly I ride at about 15mph straight into the front of a large lorry parked-up on my side of the road.
Clang! Oooof! 30 seconds lying on the ground. Cut lip, managed to turn at the last minute and take all the impact on the point of my right shoulder.
Bike took a bit of resetting but the front end is still properly stiff.
Anyone done anything similarly stupid?
Suddenly I ride at about 15mph straight into the front of a large lorry parked-up on my side of the road.
Clang! Oooof! 30 seconds lying on the ground. Cut lip, managed to turn at the last minute and take all the impact on the point of my right shoulder.
Bike took a bit of resetting but the front end is still properly stiff.
Anyone done anything similarly stupid?
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Yes but not going into the details, safe to say I was rather :oops:
Glad your OK though.Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.0 -
When I was a kid (about 11) I was riding up a hill and rode into the back of a parked car because a fly flew into my eye and I was distracted by trying to get it out.
Since then I always wear glasses when riding.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
Don't try and just tweak your front mudgaurd ever so slightly while riding.......0
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EKE_38BPM wrote:When I was a kid (about 11) I was riding up a hill and rode into the back of a parked car because a fly flew into my eye and I was distracted by trying to get it out.
Since then I always wear glasses when riding.
Done the same, only without the excuse of a fly in my eye. Needed new forks, but thankfully not a scratch on the car.01985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Many moons ago I was sitting in my car in a layby outside my parents house reading the paper. It was a Citroen GS estate (the one with the big curve in the top if the window). suddenly there was a big thumping sound - I thought one of my mates had walked past and slapped the roof of my car. When I turned round there was a little head sticking through the middle of the now shattered rear window. I ran round to the back to see a lad (about 12 years old) standing at the back of my car, his head stuck through the hole his head had punched in the window, his legs shaking, with a road bike still between his legs. I knocked the remaining glass out, freed his head and sat him down. He wasn't cut and didn't seem to badly hurt, but was shaking and couldn't speak, but I recognised him as one of the kids who lived nearby, so I took him home.
I went round later to see how he was and his Dad told me he'd just got his "racer" and was tearing around on it in the drops - he'd veered into the layby without noticing and sailed through my back window!cheers
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About 15 into parked car through back windows got out rear door..... frame inch shorter, bruised legs, bleeding nose, cut lip... no helmet either......--
Chris
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My grandfather used to tell a story of riding home in the blackout during WW2, straight down the white lines in the middle of the road because it was the only way he could see which way to go... crashed head-on into someone doing the same thing in the opposite direction.0
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d.mart wrote:http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40012&t=12889799&hilit=optimisticbiker+reborn
Be careful out there people
Wow that is proper scary & just goes to show how lucky/unlucky we can be as cyclists.Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.0 -
d.mart wrote:http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40012&t=12889799&hilit=optimisticbiker+reborn
Be careful out there people
Ultra sobering thought....I'd seen that thread before but not remembered the root cause. I'm not laughing quite so much at my absent mindedness now.
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Oh god that's awful.0
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I once rode into a bollard because I was distracted by a pair of legs.0
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Drfabulous0 wrote:I once rode into a bollard because I was distracted by a pair of legs.
This is the worst thing about cycling in the summer, but perversly also the best."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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When I was 11 I was in hospital having my arm reset having broke my wrist going over my handlebars. Kid in next bed to me was in traction (and would be for 6 weeks!) having broken his leg after riding into a parked car at full speed.0
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Drfabulous0 wrote:I once rode into a bollard because I was distracted by a pair of legs.
Me too - I cycled into the curb and came off the bike. The young lady concerned pissed herself laughing. She couldn't have been paid a bigger compliment, really. :oops:0 -
redhanded wrote:Drfabulous0 wrote:I once rode into a bollard because I was distracted by a pair of legs.
Me too - I cycled into the curb and came off the bike. The young lady concerned pissed herself laughing. She couldn't have been paid a bigger compliment, really. :oops:
yep, that's pretty much what happenned to me too.0 -
yes, broken collarbone, concussion and a night in the hospital, first time and there's a photo of me somewhere in the forum showing my face after I did it again 2 years ago.0
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Drfabulous0 wrote:I once rode into a bollard because I was distracted by a pair of legs.
I try not to look at my legs while cycling, it's hard I know...0
