Today's learned lesson

[User]

 

[Matty]

What's a bell?

 

[BrumJim]

Wet stop?

 

[hackbike 666]

I had a funny one yesterday...I thought to myself "one of these days a ped is going to step from the front of a bus in front of me" after passing yet another bus....Then 5 minutes later thats what happened on London Bridge.


Oh yeah...they took the railings away so peds can cross anywhere.

I just had a thought...why was the ped crossing there?I just answered my own question.

 

[gouldina]

Just because you chose your new MTB this morning because of the snow, and the bell that it came with is no louder than an ant's sneeze, and it's really early in the morning don't chance riding under the bridge on the towpath without making any warning noise because there's rarely anyone coming the other way,



...today may be the morning when there is.

This won't cheer you up, but it did me:

I've been cycling the Regent's Canal in London for many years now and almost every single bridge is on a blind bend on the bit I ride and yet many cyclists don't use bells and also ride like stink under them. I've always thought to myself that one day, two of these morons (soz User) are going to encounter each other precisely when they go under the bridge and a few years ago I saw that very thing happen and one of them ended up in the canal with his bike. I'm afraid I thought it was very funny - certainly funnier than one of them hitting a pedestrian.

Hope you're OK though. What happened?

 

[Downward]

Just because you chose your new MTB this morning because of the snow, and the bell that it came with is no louder than an ant's sneeze, and it's really early in the morning don't chance riding under the bridge on the towpath without making any warning noise because there's rarely anyone coming the other way,



...today may be the morning when there is.

Snow ? What all 1mm of it ?

 

[psmiffy]

Near where I live not so long ago a couple of cyclists went into each end of a narrow blind underpass under the railway - the fire brigade were needed to remove a section of bicycle from one of the combatants

 

[fossyant]

What's a bell?

+1

 

[BrumJim]

One head on (rails on the canal side), one parapet scrape, and one wet stop - for him rather than me. Always yell a sharp warning before heading through, but sometimes my mind has wandered a bit too far, and I yell about the subject that is occupying my mind at that moment.

Birmingham to Fazeley canal, though, rather than through Selly Oak.

 

[Downward]

The towpaths were white with compressed snow this morning. Not too much for my other bike, but I wasn't sure if we would get more today.

Worse over your way than back home - It's clear back home - Here on the side roads it's still iffy (Damn you St Mary's Road primary gritted route my ****). Mind you since I put on my new tyres to replace the skinnys I'm a bit happier riding in this weather.