stone pinging...
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Dan_h
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Reading, UK
Blimey, so what are you meant to do if that happens? Pedal as fast as possible perhaps... ????
It's a good question... my mother had a windscreen smashed by a stone flying out behind the car in front, and as far as I recall they didn't even notice and drove on. No liability on anyone's part I would guess... just unlucky.
So the same rules should apply to a cyclist that would to another motorist.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I must admit that sometimes when it happens to the right car I quietly bless the pebble fairy!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
It happens quite a bit to me ... and I don't worry about cars ... but more about passing pedestrians. My son once managed to ping one which hit my leg whilst we were both cycling side by side.
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
- Location
- 'ampsheeeer
Few years back I was riding down a twisty urban road and a lady driver with her friend in the passenger seat came up behind. No safe way to overtake imo as there was oncoming traffic, yet she squeezed past me with a couple of inches to spare. As she drew level, doing not much more than my speed (I was keeping up with the traffic flow tbh) her front passenger side wheel went over a large stone, flicked up and hit my downtube before bouncing off that and into the front passenger window.
The look of shock was one to behold. Schadenfreude perhaps on my part.
The look of shock was one to behold. Schadenfreude perhaps on my part.
PJ79LIZARD
Über Member
- Location
- WEST MIDLANDS
This happened to me Monday morning, pulled up close to the gutter at a set of traffic lights, as I did a stone flicked at the car passenger door next to me. To my shame I just pretended I hadn't noticed lol
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Well exactly, what are you supposed to do about it?
Cars also ping very small rocks at cyclists and other cars and pedestrians ... how the hell are we supposed to prevent it?
Stone pinging! The main reason I wear eyewear and a helmet
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
I often stone ping my own bike. I have got cyclo-cross tires on ATM and they have a habit of picking up stones and throwing them at my downtube. I also get cars pinging them at me.
thefollen
Veteran
- Location
- Balham/Tooting Bec
I did this a while back. Accepting it's just 'one of those things' I adopted the classic whistle and carry on strategy. It really did ping the car too. Perhaps I should've said sorry; a couple of weeks later a stone caught my windscreen on the M4 at 70+ and totally cracked it. Guess that's karma for ya.