20 cm away from death

[magnatom]

BTW, seriously now.... do not show your Wife that footage!!!! If she's anything like mine she'll be worrying enough about you being on a bike anyway!

Bit difficult that, as the police will be arriving at my house later for a chat.

She should be fine. She'a a tough Lancashire lass!

 

[Tinuts]

Never been quite that close to meeting the grim one just yet.

Glad you're OK and hope you've recovered your composure by now!

I'm sure we'd all miss your vids, not to mention your insightful comments, if you got squished!

 

[wafflycat]

Good grief... that driver needs to have his licence removed. Glad you are ok. I can understand the language, Mags, indeed, if it were me, I'd have descended into a particularly colourful 'North Shields Fishwife' mode.

 

[arallsopp]

Bl00dy hell Mag. That's awful. Worst bit has to be the gasps in the closing seconds after the adrenalin starts to desert you. I'd have been sobbing at the edge of the road, no doubt.

So glad you're ok.

 

[Tinuts]

Geez....Just watched the vid. Word's fail me.

 

[trickletreat]

You are a very lucky chap, and almost became a statistic. That has made me go cold watching it. I do hope that this incident is pursued and a prosecution brought. The driver should be off the road for that.

Don't apologise for the swearing, but a bit of heavy smoking might make it's delivery sound better...

Hope posting this incident helps you to move on chap.

 

[magnatom]

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm honestly fine now, just determined to get something done about this.

It was quite an important meeting this morning, and I am now waiting back to hear how a follow on meeting went, so I'm finding it hard to concentrate on work with everything that happened today!

 

[gavintc]

Wow, that was one of the scariest moments I have seen. I really felt for you there - good reaction as well. You did not have long to make a decision.

 

[hackbike 666]

Im really sorry mags.We all have nasty ones from time to time.

That lorry driving was so irresponsible.

 

[magnatom]

Wow, that was one of the scariest moments I have seen. I really felt for you there - good reaction as well. You did not have long to make a decision.

Thanks for the compliment! However, to be fair I had clocked the HGV before it comes into the view of the camera, so I probably had a little bit more time, although it was one of those instances where: you REALLY don't think it will pull out....it REEEEEEALLY won't....oh bu@@er!

What I was impressed with was the fact I stayed upright. If you listen carefully to the video you can actually hear my rear wheel skid just before I stop. The road was certainly slippery!

 

[magnatom]

Im really sorry mags.We all have nasty ones from time to time.

That lorry driving was so irresponsible.

Aye hack. It happens, and the vast majority of the time we live to tell the tail just as I did today.

It really does happen in slow motion. It felt like I was braking for ages, but watching the video it wasn't nearly as long.

I'm stil waiting for Mr Hippo to come along and tell me I'm worrying about nothing and he has to deal with drivers like that 59 times a day...blah, blah, blah!

 

[MacB]

Well done for keeping your head Mags, outrageous driving from the lorry. If you'd not got on the brakes so fast we'd have been reading about cyclist killed in collision with lorry. Then all the usual rubbish about how you'd probably been doing something stupid like undertaking.

Make sure the police follow this one up.

Oh yeah, I'm just in from a ride, I'm glad I didn't watch the vid first!

 

[hackbike 666]

Aye hack. It happens, and the vast majority of the time we live to tell the tail just as I did today.

It really does happen in slow motion. It felt like I was braking for ages, but watching the video it wasn't nearly as long.

I'm stil waiting for Mr Hippo to come along and tell me I'm worrying about nothing and he has to deal with drivers like that 59 times a day...blah, blah, blah!

It's funny how slow motion works...I've been in plenty of scrapes and at the time when it all looks desperate and hopeless a sort of miracle happens.

 

[magnatom]

Well done for keeping your head Mags, outrageous driving from the lorry. If you'd not got on the brakes so fast we'd have been reading about cyclist killed in collision with lorry. Then all the usual rubbish about how you'd probably been doing something stupid like undertaking.

Make sure the police follow this one up.

Oh yeah, I'm just in from a ride, I'm glad I didn't watch the vid first!

Aye, and I'm glad I recently upgraded my pads from the ones that came with the bike to Koolstop dual compound pads!

 

[Brahan]

Nothing spectacular really......just another day in the life of a cyclist. Sad that we have to put up with this level of stupidity and neglect of responsibility on an ongoing basis.

I'm glad you're ok man and I really hope that you get some mileage from the police.