Do you ever fail to relate a near-miss to a loved one so as not to worry them?

[fossyant]

Not until one actually gets me. Bit hard to hide a broken body and bike.

 

[Ganymede]

I share a bit in a mild way with Mr G. I probably don't cycle enough to have any really lurid stories.

When this thread is ready to take the leap into stories beyond cycling, I've got a corker. But I sense we have more cycling stories to come.

 

[young Ed]

I share a bit in a mild way with Mr G. I probably don't cycle enough to have any really lurid stories.

When this thread is ready to take the leap into stories beyond cycling, I've got a corker. But I sense we have more cycling stories to come.

we are ready for your stupid accidents!
oh go on i will start off!
i nearly broke my arm when my brother tripped me up getting the post
i very badly sprained my ankle outside asda tripping over my own feet
this weekend i sprained my ankle again...... i'm not quite sure how though!
ad i have sprained ankles and wrists tooooo many times
Cheers Ed

 

[Ganymede]

Ah no Ed, not a stupid accident. I'm talking about concealing major incidents from loved ones.

I've still not told my mother that I was within 20 minutes of being kidnapped by extremist Islamist terrorists in 2002. My airmail letters started coming from a completely different part of Borneo, accompanied by a very weak explanation. She totally bought it. I was knocking 40 at the time but she's susceptible to strokes and I've always tried not to worry her unduly...

Back to cycling stuff...

 

[Crankarm]

I experienced an incident last week I have been trying to airbrush from my mind. Cycling along a very short part of a road in Cambridge, no other options unfortunately, I heard the loud revving of an engine and screeching tyres. Checked my mirrors and looked behind to see some c**t in sports car driving at an insane speed away from a set of traffic lights back down the road behind me. 30mph speed limit. The c**t was making no attempt to slow or move out to pass me, driving as if I wasn't there. I thought I am gonna die unless I get out the way of this one. As I jumped up the kerb to try and get out the way of the way of the c**t I am sure his vehicle skimmed my panniers as I went over. Had I not bailed out he would have driven over me and I would have been killed there and then. I reckon he was doing 50-60mph in this 30 zone. I have told no one nor do I want to try to remember it as the driver probably male tried to kill me. I remember seeing a right arm and middle finger being shoved out the drivers window as it sped off up the road. It is almost one year since I was knocked down in a hit and run. Chilling, the stuff of nightmares.

So I don't tell anyone who is close to me as they get very upset, but get really angry with morons who think it's funny to close pass or punishment pass scaring the crap out of cyclists or even think it's funny to run us down.

 

[Ganymede]

I experienced an incident last week I have been trying to airbrush from my mind. Cycling along a very short part of a road in Cambridge, no other options unfortunately, I heard the loud revving of an engine and screeching tyres. Checked my mirrors and looked behind to see some c**t in sports car driving at an insane speed away from the traffic lights back down the road approaching me from behind at an insane speed. 30mph speed limit. The c**t was making no attempt to slow or move out to pass me, driving as if I wasn't there. I thought I am gonna die unless I get out the way of this one. As jumped up the kerb to try and get out the way of the way of the c**t I am sure his vehicle skimmed my panniers as it went by. Had I not bailed out he would have driven over me and I would have been killed there and then. I reckon he was doing 50-60mph in this 30 zone. I have told no one nor do I want to try to remember it as the driver probably male tried to kill me. I remember seeing a right arm and middle finger being shoved out the drivers window as it sped off up the road. It is almost one year since I was knocked down in a hit and run. Chilling, the stuff of nightmares.

So I don't tell anyone who is close to me as they get very upset, but get really angry with morons who think it's funny to close pass or punishment pass scaring the crap out of cyclists or even think it's funny to run us down.

Crumbs, Crankarm, sympathies x

 

[Crankarm]

Crumbs, Crankarm, sympathies x

Well I've told some one now, all you lot infact, but loved ones - no chance as they worry too much, think I should give up cycling as it is too dangerous. It is, but I have curtailed a lot of my road cycling only going on roads when I have absolutely no other option and can't go by car.

 

[Ern1e]

I tend not to need to, she knows everything anyway I just can't hide anything from her.

Mine also she always seems to know "something happened did'nt it" who the bl**dy hell tells them ?

 

[Jon George]

Well, @Crankarm, you've just reminded that less than five minutes after the incident with the car nearly knocking me off while I was in a cycle lane, I was cycling along a single track road (built to allow local access to villages and avoid a dangerous junction) and a lorry came towards me doing about sixty. When he realised I wasn't going to meekly swerve into the gutter, he swerved, mounted the kerb and nearly flipped his vehicle over. I reckon I could have just about thrown myself to one side if it had have come crashing down, but it's just another little thing I'm going to put down to experience.

 

[nickyboy]

Luckily I've never had a near miss. But I have had a blowout at about 40mph downhill and, worst of all, I hit a pothole doing 30-odd downhill and ended up losing control, just about keeping upright and shot down the wrong side of the road. Massively lucky that nobody was coming the other way.

I would never, ever, mention these to Mrs Nickboy. She worries enough about me on the bike

 

[summerdays]

I certainly don't tell him everything, but I do tell him the absolute worst ones as I've been pretty shaken up by them at the time. I probably keep all the mid ones as I don't want him to worry and just tell him about the daft ones I think. Occasionally my big mouth gets carried away and I accidentally let slip something which he works out that I wasn't telling him everything.