Dear christ I nearly crashed...

[downfader]

...not more than 30 minutes ago. Just coming up my road, get overtaken at the last second by a driver who wants to beat me to the lollypop lady. Its been peeing down for about 2 hours here so I was in no rush.

As we pull away I say hello to the lollypop lady and as we flow up a slight incline he all of a sudden hammers on his brakes. I too, went to brake, only found that I couldnt and very nearly went into the back of him. I JUST mananaged to stop by flicking around to his driver's side and managed to stop by his window (with a driver, it turned out, had squeezed through the gap from the other side forcing him to stop).

Now the thing is I should have been able to stop. I was about 8-9 feet away from the back of him and doing no more than 4-5mph. I had noticed a hell of a lot of oily patches again on the roads. My pads are still fresh so imo on examining the brakes over (I pulled right over after to double check) I think I must have oil on them.

Gonna pull the pads out in a minute and do some cleaning. They had some sort of black gunk on there.

 

[swee'pea99]

We've all done it. How are the pants?

 

[downfader]

Cadburrys

 

[magnatom]

Not good. Glad you avoided it!

The roads have been very greasy recently, so I have certainly been more wary. Just this morning I had van pull out on me at a roundabout. It was very wet at the time and while my koolstop pads are pretty good in the rain, the wet still makes a big difference. Luckily I had eased off just before he pulled out.

Hone those spidey senses everyone!

 

[downfader]

Not good. Glad you avoided it!

The roads have been very greasy recently, so I have certainly been more wary. Just this morning I had van pull out on me at a roundabout. It was very wet at the time and while my koolstop pads are pretty good in the rain, the wet still makes a big difference. Luckily I had eased off just before he pulled out.

Hone those spidey senses everyone!

I had an afternoon of people testing my brakes for me tbh. A good 5 drivers doing things like pulling out. Dont know why they were panicking and rushing things, rain aint gonna disolve their car LOL.

The morning ride was sweet though

 

[Plague]

Sorry to hear about your experience downfader! That sounds quite scary! Il have to keep a good close eye out when I get back on to the roads!

 

[HLaB]

Glad to hear you escaped.

I think we've all done it, I certainly have

 

[Bollo]

Glad to hear you escaped.

I think we've all done it, I certainly have

+have also. Glad it didn't end in tears.