Skidding

[Bollo]

I haven’t done a proper one since I was a kid until today on this morning‘s ride. I was out by Walbury Hill on the Hants/Berks border. It’s not especially well known but it’s the highest natural point is SE England by I think 3 metres over Leith Hill. The scarp side is particularly sharp and I believe it’s been used in national hill-climb competitions.

Anyways, I’ve just ascended the draggy “easy” side and was hooning it down the 15% drop on the scarp side when the driver of a car about 20-30 metres in front of me slowed to ease past some cyclists coming up the incline. I just managed to stop before I rear-ended him but pulled a monster, fish-tailing skid in the process. There was a moment when I thought I was augering in with the sure knowledge that was my own bloody fault.

No harm done, except to the tyre…

So, skidding then. Cool as feck or a manifestation of incompetence?

 

[fossyant]

Those tyres look knackered anyway.

 

[Drago]

30 seconds with a black sharpie and they'll be good for another few years.

 

[Slick]

Cool as feck, and the chick's love it.

 

[Bollo]

Those tyres look knackered anyway.

They’re not old or particularly high-mileage but victims of the local flinty geology with a helping hand from Hampshire CC’s love of surface dressing. My tyre graveyard could burn for weeks.

 

[Ian H]

A very stupid thing to do, as some old fool* demonstrated a few weeks ago.


*Oh! That was me.

 

[fossyant]

They’re not old or particularly high-mileage but victims of the local flinty geology with a helping hand from Hampshire CC’s love of surface dressing. My tyre graveyard could burn for weeks.

They look square and the rubber looks knackered.

 

[Beebo]

Cool as feck, and the chick's love it.

It took me a long time to realise the chicks think you’re an immature fool.
But I worked it out eventually.

 

[Bollo]

They look square and the rubber looks knackered.

They‘re on a bike with an electronic groupset so that’s probably what’s done it.

 

[Salad Dodger]

I used to love rear wheel skids when I was younger. But I try to avoid them now.
I did do an inadvertent one recently, when someone crossed the road rather unexpectedly in front of me. Hydraulic brakes have some power!

 

[Slick]

It took me a long time to realise the chicks think you’re an immature fool.
But I worked it out eventually.

Yeah, didn't we all.

I'm sure they loved my handbrake turns in my old mini though.

 

[Gunk]

Cool as feck, and the chick's love it.

They also love a BMW 140i with a de-cat that pops and bangs.

 

[craigwend]

Without evidence of skids marks..









There's no Drago underpants...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

30 seconds with a black sharpie and they'll be good for another few years.

N'ah, over sized piece of black electrical tape over those bald bits to stop the punctures, get it the right length and you get the nice ticking noise every revolution as a bonus.

 

[rogerzilla]

Two-wheel skids are scarier. I did one on a wet road, going too fast downhill and coming across a line of waiting cars. I stopped a foot from the last car's rear bumper. As long as you brake in a straight line, you can stay upright. I may have used a lot of bad words.