A close shave

[Geoff Crowther]

So there I was, just chugging quietly up the hill that starts the Kettlehulme road out of Whaley Bridge today, approaching the left turn to Whingather Rocks when ... BANG!

A small hatchback driven by a madwoman had just passed and knocked something. I was still upright but stopped to check the bike. I soon realised that she had hit my lovely new Zefal Spy mirror. Here's a pic to show how tiny the mirror is.

It sticks out about one and a half inches from my bars. That's how close the silly cow was!
Of course, she stopped to check I was ok . In your dreams!
I hurled some choice anglo-saxon phrases after her ... which made me feel slightly better.
It's the first time anything like this has happened to me ... and on a bright sunny day with yours truly, by chance, wearing a bright yellow jersey. P'raps she didn't like the colour.
Thankfully the mirror survived intact. Good job it's not glass.
Those who know this road will know what a rat run it is. Many's the time I've commuted on it in the past on my (very powerful) motorbike and been overtaken by cars.

I guess there has to be a first time. And it could have been a lot worse.

 

[ScotiaLass]

OMG! Glad you're okay!

 

[Geoff Crowther]

Thanks ScotiaLass. I'll live to ride another day .

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I read the threat title and was expecting a Wallace and Grommet show ,,,
Glad to hear it was just the mirror that got it

 

[Geoff Crowther]

Ah ... Wensleydale Gromit. Yum yum

 

[swee'pea99]

You do wonder sometimes. I've been going out on training runs - 3-4 hours sort of thing - with friends, out in the middle of nowhere. Without fail, at some point on the ride we'll get a really close pass from someone when there's nothing coming the other way, so absolutely no reason for them not to give us a ten foot berth. You can only assume some people just hate cyclists and that's all there is to it.

Glad you (and your mirror) are ok.

 

[Geoff Crowther]

Cheers Swee'pea .

 

[vernon]

I thought that the thread was going to be about this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27412415

How to shave correctly and avoid razor burn and ingrown hairs.

 

[welsh dragon]

It scares the bejeezus, out, of you doesn't it. Have you stopped shaking yet?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Scary!
Extra cake is required after such an episode.

 

[Maverick Goose]

from me .

 

[fossyant]

That's a Nat's willy too close.

 

[400bhp]

A small hatchback driven by a madwoman had just passed and knocked something. I was still upright but stopped to check the bike. I soon realised that she had hit my lovely new Zefal Spy mirror.

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Bast-it's still in one piece.

Mirrors and bikes don't mix.

 

[albion]

I get them most days but the dangerous ones seem to be allocated to certain neighbourhoods.
It is also there that lorries have overtaken a couple of times near the top of a narrow hill approaching a top blind bend.

I'm going to have to do some mathematics because the severity of the odds may mean I have to cycle elsewhere.

 

[Globalti]

Er.... 'scuse me... 'scuse me.... may I ask a question?

The mirror is for keeping an eye on traffic approaching from behind, right?

So why didn't you see her coming up very close and swerve into the kerb to avoid being hit?