Cycling Dan
Cycle Crazy
Enough said. That first one.
No more liveleak for me.
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No more liveleak for me.
Holy ****
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swee'pea99
Legendary Member
That's just outside Luton isn't it?
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Occupational hazard....
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
thems big lorries
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
Aussie road trains.
And total to**sers - no traffic coming the other way and they still passed THAT close!
And total to**sers - no traffic coming the other way and they still passed THAT close!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
There must be remnants of kangaroos, cows, ostriches and people on the front of the first one...
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
They look like they don't stop for anything...
Puddles
Do I need to get the spray plaster out?
- Location
- Hamble, Southampton
East Bound and down?
They got to keep on truckin'
They got to keep on truckin'
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Yes Aussie road trains even cars get off the roads when their coming.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
When I was little I cycled to Castleford from Woodlesford, SE of Leeds- on my own, for an adventure, when I was 7- scared my mum half to death when she found out as they'd only just let me go off the end of the street that year. I used to always stop in at the kerbside whenever I heard a loud exhaust approaching behind me, usually motorbikes, as the shock of them passing while pedaling was unsettling....
I still do that now when I hear a really powerful car approaching on our particularly twisty lanes between high hedges. One Sunday morning it saved me from serious injury when a Subaru Impreza came racing round a bend far too fast for the forward visibility, followed by a Lotus and a Porsche, and would have taken me out, or anything else in the driver's path, had I still been in the road. The quieter the rural roads, the faster and more dangerous these people are [because they don't expect anything to be there].
I still do that now when I hear a really powerful car approaching on our particularly twisty lanes between high hedges. One Sunday morning it saved me from serious injury when a Subaru Impreza came racing round a bend far too fast for the forward visibility, followed by a Lotus and a Porsche, and would have taken me out, or anything else in the driver's path, had I still been in the road. The quieter the rural roads, the faster and more dangerous these people are [because they don't expect anything to be there].
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
It's funny, I was saying exactly that to a friend t'other day...how people always say 'ooh, I don't know how you cycle in London,' whereas the truth is, London is no big deal because the traffic is a) slow & b) predictable. It's out in countrysideland that things get hairy.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
I had a few close calls a few years back when I was cycling in Oz.
The worst one was when I'd reached my highest known speed on a bike (75 km an hour - downhill, of course) and fully loaded.
The sound/noise gets you first, very closely followed by the turbulance, and then the inevitable red/brown cloud of dust that stays in the air for far too long afterwards, and getting in (nearly) every orifice.
The worst one was when I'd reached my highest known speed on a bike (75 km an hour - downhill, of course) and fully loaded.
The sound/noise gets you first, very closely followed by the turbulance, and then the inevitable red/brown cloud of dust that stays in the air for far too long afterwards, and getting in (nearly) every orifice.