This was a first...

[Richie]

So been commuting by bike for 6 months now and in that time I have nearly been taken down by:

• A seagull
• Pedestrians (AKA in Brighton Lemmings)
• Cars/car doors/Vans etc
• potholes/debris on the road
• Black ice
• A runaway toddler
• Dogs
• Other cyclists (a common one is with a protrusion from the bike/ ruck sack such as a squash racket).

And a new first for me Thursday night, when a drunk amputee in a wheel chair decided he would like to move his wheelchair from the safety of the pavement on to the road. So I got to wondering if I have any thing else to look forward to. Has any one been nearly/taken down by any thing else I have not encountered so far?

 

[hackbike 666]

Large lump of Snow
Oil
Chain Breakage.
A biscuit tin.(1987 Maryland Point)
A coke can almost.

 

[gaz]

a runaway trolley.
cats and dogs.
any kind of bird.
Leaves!! a big one fell from a tree and smacked me right in the face, that really stung
getting your shorts/tights stuck on the peak of your saddle. happened to me twice today

 

[hackbike 666]

Incidents of spd lace getting caught in chainwheel.

 

[ianrauk]

A Squirrel decided to run into my front wheel.. little furry fekker

 

[johnr]

ducks and rabbits (live and various); deer (dead)

 

[Kestevan]

+1 on the broken chain. Pulling away from the lights and Bam! The sudden meeting of top tube and gentlemans area didn't half bring tears to my eyes.

Acorn shells, thrown up from the tyres of the bus I was drafting at the time... felt like I'd been shot.

 

[gazmercer]

• Gritters
• Dead rabbits
• A fox
• Beer Bottle
• Loose stones around potholes

 

[Norm]

About a million years ago, a cat tried to top itself under my tyres, scooting out from behind a wall at warp speed, it was that close I got it's tail.

I think my front wheel was "life #9" for the cat, as there was a bus overtaking me at time...

 

[rusky]

Brighton Lemmings
Brighton Taxis
Brighton buses
Potholes
Ice
Mad bitch on the school run
Mad bitch
Scantily clad students
Cyclists Peds on BSOs

 

[upsidedown]

And a new first for me Thursday night, when a drunk amputee in a wheel chair decided he would like to move his wheelchair from the safety of the pavement on to the road.

Don't suppose you're in North Birmingham ?

 

[Bugner]

Cat
Bentley Continental
Mental Goose that actually decided to chase me after the near collision!!

 

[Sam Kennedy]

-Freehub body packing in (same effect as a snapped chain)
-Cornering Fast
-Lace getting wrapped in spd cleat (only way to get free was to tear the lace with a hard tug)

 

[Tinuts]

A smashed TV screen - instant explosive blowout!

 

[Tim Bennet.]

In Majorca, a rat ran into the back wheel of Mrs TB who was cycling in front. The rat was flicked up and hit me full on the chest before scurrying over my shoulder and jumping off.