Man versus Lamp post.

[edwardd67]

Hi Guys & Girls
Headed out with 8 others to take advantage of a glorious day .
On the way home we decided to head on to the cycle track, rounded a corner where an old bloke decided to step right in front of me !
Swerved to avoid hitting him lost the back wheel on wet leaves, spun the bike ended up flying backwards into a lamp -post catching myself from the right shoulder to my right kidney area.
I was a wee bit winded lying on the ground thinking this should hurt more than it did ,think i was very lucky.Kidney area very swollen and badly bruised
I managed to free myself from my Keo's as i was spinning before impact and the bike was undamaged . To add insult to injury i had landed in some dog poo!!!!!!!!!!!
Old bloke just kept walking as if nothing had happened---- think i'll stick to the road from now on.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Sorry to hear of you being landed in the sh*t!

Seriously though, I hope you are ok.

 

[edwardd67]

I'm fine thanks

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Ouch! Slow down, you are obviously riding too fast!
GWS

 

[PpPete]

Old lady stepped out in front of me yesterday as I rode though the New Forest, she didn't look and was clearly utterly oblivious to the fact that not all road users make a noise. I was lucky, and so was she, that she did so when I was still maybe 10 metres away. Much closer, and I could have run her right through with the aero-bars.
I swear the New Forest ponies have more sense.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

People just don't expect cyclists, and we spend so long trying to solve all the squeaks and creaks on our bikes we're quite stealthy. I am trying more of an effort to sing while cycling, that'll make me presence known!

 

[Licramite]

its called a bell. - I've snuck up on foxes on my bike before now, so people have got no chance unless I warn them, and then they are confused - some even look up !.

I take horses more seriously than people , they just go loopy if you don't give 50yds of warning.

 

[Globalti]

I have a permanent "dip" in the subcutaneous fat of my hip caused by hitting a cast iron stanchion at speed. I went out on the mountain bike when we were in temporary accommodation, the evening before moving into our new house. Riding down a flight of shallow curving steps where pikeys had stolen the metal handrail I banked over and my right hip contacted the top of a stanchion, causing me to bounce off and slam into another stanchion on the opposite side with my left shoulder. Amazingly I didn't break my collarbone but I was as bruised as hell on both hip and shoulder and almost unable to move my left arm.

We moved into a new house the next day and the following day we started pulling down stud walls and ceilings; which was not easy one-handed so Mrs Gti did most of the destructive work. For the next two weeks I was on holiday mixing and serving up for the plasterer who came to skim over all the Artex.

 

[theclaud]

its called a bell. - I've snuck up on foxes on my bike before now, so people have got no chance unless I warn them, and then they are confused - some even look up !.

I take horses more seriously than people , they just go loopy if you don't give 50yds of warning.

@Linford! Your sig line has arrived...

 

[akb]

clearly utterly oblivious to the fact that not all road users make a noise

Maybe you should, especially in the new forest where there is bound to be loads of different people taking part in different activities; cycling, walking etc. A ring of a bell or a voice warning wont do any harm and will help to reduce the risk of the step out imho.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Get an old fag packet & tape it to the frame & let the end catch the spokes, people always moved out of the way last century when I did this as a lad

Alan...

 

[Licramite]

"To add insult to injury i had landed in some dog poo!!!!!!!!!!!"
I hate dog crap, - somehow people think (or don,t think at all) that its fine to turn a lane into a dogs toilet
Horse and cow is bad enough but having to hose the dog crap of everything afterwards is a real pain.

but its strange how people love to go to a beauty spot or a pull in place with fantastic views , and dump all their crap there. - some are considerate enough to put it in a carrier bag, then dump it there. - or put dog Pooh in a bag, and hang it from a tree ! (ducked that one) . what do they think, birds will fly off with it, squirrels will go Oh yummy. - morons !.

 

[Kins]

Ouch, hope your ok besides the hurt pride!

Came off myself today riding down the steps behind my house at 0.5 mph. Steps go down the hill in a snaking path from 1 to 6 steps. One sharp turn has 5 steps in it, went to turn the front with the back wheel still on the steps, front wheel slid on leaf debris and sent me right over the bars and hit the lamp post lighting the corner with my shoulder. Ouchy.