Maddest thing you have done on a bike

[classic33]

Probably topping 60MPH. dropping down East Chevin

On more than one occasion too.............. especially given the state of the road-surface & the 'concealed entrances'

The angled one on the left is hard to spot.

 

[Bazzer]

From my perspective

From my wife's perspective, probably the night I went on a solo night ride for a few hours and disturbed a badger on a quiet country road. Said animal ran from a hedge straight in front of my bike. Cue dead stop as I hit badger, followed by meeting of road and body and a leg broken in two places.

 

[NorthernDave]

Probably topping 60MPH. dropping down East Chevin

On more than one occasion too.............. especially given the state of the road-surface & the 'concealed entrances'

You're a braver man than me (now anyway, as we've already established up thread I used to have a more cavalier attitude to my own safety...) That road surface is terrible in places.

 

[classic33]

On things carried whilst cycling, anyone else done a mile with a rear tractor tyre over their shoulder?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

You're a braver man than me! That road surface is terrible in places.

Oh it's at least 4 years since I rode down it, I tend to be more sedate, & go via Leeds Road, from (what I always think of as Dynley Arms crossroads, & Bramhope
Those kinds of speeds were back in the 90's, when I was younger & braver (measured via the little Avocet computers)

The last time I was on East Chevin, though, was having ridden up it, to watch the 2015 Tour de Yorkshire ascend it

 

[mustang1]

Rode downhill very fast ina forest. At the bottom was almost a foot of mud. In the mud was a log. Front wheel hit log. I fell in mud. Superman style.

 

[presta]

Probably topping 60MPH. dropping down East Chevin

I've done 47mph coming off Fleet Moss into Hawes, but that beats my record by a good margin. I wanted to ease off the brakes a bit and do a nice round 50, but one good bump in the road would have sent me clean over the Armco and down the fellside.

 

[swee'pea99]

I have no idea what my actual speed was on some of the descents when I did the Etape, but fast enough that I was thinking to myself 'If I did come off at this speed I would almost certainly die.'

 

[classic33]

Anyone else reading these and thinking "I've done something like that!"

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

When I was a postie I thought I could engineer a transfer to another sorting office in a town 10 miles away (where my girlfriend was) by pre-emptively moving. I was wrong and after I'd been caught for the third time hitching a lift in the back of the mail truck I got a bike.

10 miles at 5am on a deserted country road, no moon and only a Post Office issue right-angled torch to see by. Except the batteries died half way. Amazing how a road you've driven and walked along so many times in daylight can be utterly alien in the pitch dark.

A few weeks later, still determinedly cycling in, I braved a horrendous storm and arrived soaked to the skin at a sorting office that was deserted, closed because of the Bank Holiday I'd forgotten.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Cycling in shorts in the winter and getting mild frostbite.

 

[Bazzer]

You're a braver man than me (now anyway, as we've already established up thread I used to have a more cavalier attitude to my own safety...) That road surface is terrible in places.

Yes, sometimes it takes a large brave pill, to challenge Mrs B.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've done 47mph coming off Fleet Moss into Hawes, but that beats my record by a good margin. I wanted to ease off the brakes a bit and do a nice round 50, but one good bump in the road would have sent me clean over the Armco and down the fellside.

Fleet Moss is a scary road, due to the length, & as for the southern side back to Oughtershaw................

East Chevin is so steep, that's why it's such a fast descent



http://veloviewer.com/segment/1764048/East+Chevin+Road+Climb+

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ridden my bike sat on my handlebars. Worse thing was I was racing my mate who was running. He tripped over and I watch myself run over him before coming off the bike myself.

 

[presta]

Fleet Moss is a scary road

The problem with Fleet Moss is that it's just too bumpy to let go of the brakes. Steep hills in general are all either not straight enough, not smooth enough, not long enough, or too many hazards and side roads. The north side of Kirkstone pass is a good candidate, but when I went down there there was a slow bus coming up trailing a procession of cars just itching to pull out and overtake........