Hairy moment...........

[steve50]

I was out on the bike yesterday, enjoying the ride as it was the first time in quite a while, I was going down one of the local hills that has a steady left hand bend in the road (@classic33 Wheatley Road), as I rounded the bend there was a builders wagon parked up on my side of the road, i was within 30 feet of the wagon going wide to go round it when the wagon offside indicator came on and it started to maneuver out into the middle of the road.
I by this time was traveling quite rapidly, I grabbed for the brakes, my rear wheel locked up and started to slide I had split seconds to make a decision and decided the best option would be to steer around the wrong side of the traffic island that was in the middle of the road, at the last moment the driver of the wagon saw me and stopped and I was able to steer safely past the wagon.
I stopped a little further down the road to check my rear tyre and looked back to see the wagon complete a U-turn in the road, all in a days work for a cyclist I guess.
Incidentally, my rear tyre was fine, no bald patch or anything, only conclusion i can come to is the layer of powdered salt on the road surface acted as a lubricant much like oil on the road surface.

 

[darrentaytay]

Sounds scary - glad you (and your bike) are ok!

 

[classic33]

@steve50, house's to your left and a high wall, Long Lane. Takes you you to bottotm(top) of Brackenbed.
Traffic island is one reason I avoid that road and stay on the top road into town.

Local company?

 

[steve50]

Don't know mate, didn't get the chance to look properly. Too busy trying to stay upright.

 

[Banjo]

Glad it ended well.Good job you werent daydreaming.

 

[Montydog]

....could of been nasty........glad it ended well

 

[cyberknight]

Eep! And I thought it was going to be a shall I shave my legs thread......

 

[rualexander]

You're hardly going to take all the tread off your tyre in one brief lock-up incident.

 

[steve50]

You're hardly going to take all the tread off your tyre in one brief lock-up incident.

Doesn't take too much to bald patch a racing tyre, my tyres are slicks, no tread to take off.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Glad you're ok!
Good reflexes!

 

[classic33]

Just as well there appears to have been nothing coming the other way.
SatNav ratrun and boy racer track that road.

 

[Katherine]

Well done on your control.

 

[screenman]

Always expect the unexpected.

 

[classic33]

@steve50, were you coming down from what used to Wheatley Wells(pub) or the Crag Lane?

City Lane is around 35°-40° mark, Long Lane(mentioned earlier) isn't as steep at around at around 20°. It is wider though.

 

[steve50]

@steve50, were you coming down from what used to Wheatley Wells(pub) or the Crag Lane?

City Lane is around 35°-40° mark, Long Lane(mentioned earlier) isn't as steep at around at around 20°. It is wider though.

I had come from the top of ovenden way down wharfedale mount then onto long lane, I was about two thirds of the way down long lane when the incident happened