I swear it was the leaf on the drain cover
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NormanD
Lunatic Asylum Escapee
- Location
- Heworth the other side of life!
Sorry gaz but I'm only awarding you 0/10 on this one
-1 for no language
-1 for not screaming and rolling around like you've been shot
-1 for admiring your reflection in the shop window (before crash)
+5 for the crash
+2 for your calm collective manner after the fall
-6 for the compensation claim that leaf is going to throw at you
Glad you're OK mate
-1 for no language
-1 for not screaming and rolling around like you've been shot
-1 for admiring your reflection in the shop window (before crash)
+5 for the crash
+2 for your calm collective manner after the fall
-6 for the compensation claim that leaf is going to throw at you
Glad you're OK mate
Firestorm
Veteran
- Location
- Southend on Sea
Overbanding ?
Dropped manhole covers (Pothole + Manhole ?) are particularly bad, we have a bend near me with two of these buggers , each on a different line absolute nightmare on the motorbike......
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goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
Can I add the metal studs on the road a pedestrian crossings? They're a nightmare, especially when you're turning round a corner where you'll have to avoid them twice. Especially nasty when you have an impatient moron revving away inches from your back wheel.
There's a particularly dodgy set here, where the road between them is potholed, and they're on a bend and where the traffic's coming off a roundabout pretty quickly behind you. Not only that, but before you hit them you've got to avoid the ruts and disintegrating joins between different patch-up jobs on the surface which criss-cross the lane. It's awkward when it's dry and in daylight, but when it's dark and wet it can be real brown-trouser stuff. (The surface is much worse now than when the Streetview pic was taken - last winter saw to that and the council have avoided repairing it all year).
There's a particularly dodgy set here, where the road between them is potholed, and they're on a bend and where the traffic's coming off a roundabout pretty quickly behind you. Not only that, but before you hit them you've got to avoid the ruts and disintegrating joins between different patch-up jobs on the surface which criss-cross the lane. It's awkward when it's dry and in daylight, but when it's dark and wet it can be real brown-trouser stuff. (The surface is much worse now than when the Streetview pic was taken - last winter saw to that and the council have avoided repairing it all year).
Origamist
Legendary Member
Overbanding................................................accepted!
Dropped manhole covers.............................rejected - composite hazard!
Origamist
Legendary Member
Metal studs, cat's-eyes and wrongly laid directional, tactile paving - all accepted!
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Not sure about cat's eyes, I only know one person who has managed to fall off due to hitting a cat's eye.
jack cameron
Active Member
- Location
- scotand
Gaz...First and foremost...hope you are alright,a horrible thing to happen.Looking at your footage i think you may have just turned your wheel causing your front wheel to slightly slide for a second.These tiles you went onto are lethal for road bikes.Had you rntered onto them gradually,you would not have slipped.Anyway!!! a lesson learned to us all.Good Luck mate,
jack cameron
Active Member
- Location
- scotand
One more thing Gaz....Why did you not SSSSSCCCRRREEEEAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM! I bloody would have.
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gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
When the front wheel goes like that, your going down what ever and you will probably hit the deck before you know the wheel has slipped. i just got ready to roll and brace for impact!
Arfcollins
Soft southerner.
- Location
- Fareham
Good list of things to avoid, but you missed out pigeon shoot. Cycling through a slick if this under a tree was the cause of my last serious fall. Concussion, black eye, cut nose, bruised shoulder and ribs, shitty clothes. Helmet was wrecked but skull stayed intact.
decca234uk
New Member
- Location
- Leeds
I went down due to wet leaves when turning a corner once. I saw them too late. I just thought "shoot wet leaves" and the next thing I was pulling them out of my mouth.
You're mixing Gaz up with Magnatom
