What have you hit?

[Accy cyclist]

Immerse him in a huge vat of ravenous hairy caterpillars!

Yes they will be waiting for him, in hell!

 

[Seevio]

Car, bus, Emu, squirrel, Rat, Roebuck, Child, invalid, Dog, Horse, boar, Donkey, Snake, Armadillo, and an Echidna.

Are you working your way through some kind of list?

 

[Hugh Manatee]

A friend on a bike. We were warming up for the University Cycle Club hill climb that was entirely on campus. Being in S Wales it was quite a sharp climb. We both went around the same large building he anti clockwise and myself clockwise. You can guess the rest. Cue comedy loud collision with an audience of lots of attractive girls. Not cool but quite funny even at the time.

Out times couldn't be separated either so we shared injuries and first prize! Happy days when I had a 30" waist.

 

[sight-pin]

Cycling up a misjudged cycling ramp the other day and i hit the kerb....didn't kill it though..........It was already 'Stone' dead.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

A milk float,going up a hill in the pouring rain,head down, the milk float stopped............................................
I think you can guess the rest

 

[EltonFrog]

I hit a woman coming out of the Post Office in Wingham when I was about 11, I was riding my aunties bike which was too big for me. I was so scared I wet myself, about two years later I hit a Ford Escort that was parked outside a Wimpy in NW London riding my Kingpin, the owner of the car was so enraged I thought he was going to wet himself,me I just scarpered.

 

[welsh dragon]

[QUOTE 3939986, member: 9609"]try driving a bit slower, keep under 40, and if the hedges are high and close to the road stay under 30. you may save as much as 40% on your fuel bills, so worth doing even if you don't give a bugger about the wildlife your splattering[/QUOTE]


Its not a case of not giving a bugger about wildlife, its a case of not wanting to cause an accident by swerving to avoid a squirrel. I live in the middle of nowhere where there is a hell of a lot of wildlife and driving at 40 or even 30 miles an hour wouldnt make me popular with other road users.

 

[Colin_P]

All my hits have been to the tarmac.

Recently though, twice in fact, a bat has flown into my head. Not sure if it was the same one, could have been and he / she could have had a broken bat radar type thing.

 

[welsh dragon]

[QUOTE 394009, member: 9609"]being popular with other road users is important ?[/QUOTE]
No. But not smashing my car into them trying to avoid a small animal would.

 

[DaveReading]

It's not fair - when a car hits a cyclist, it's nearly always the cyclist who comes off worse, but when a cyclist hits a pedestrian it's still the cyclist who often takes the brunt.

I had personal experience of the latter a year ago when a runner swerved in front of me. She escaped with a grazed knee, it took nearly 6 months for my bruised/cracked ribs to recover fully.

We just can't win.

 

[rdfcyclist]

Only things I've hit so far are 2 cars and a dog (unscathed, it continued to chase the Frisbee after it's accidental pedal to the face). The amount of pedestrians that just step out into the road have made me coin the term 'Suicidal Pedestrian Zone'; equivalent to 0-75cm from the curb into the lane. I pity any city cyclist in that zone

 

[steveindenmark]

Almost a badger when I had my ICE trike. It was dawn and I thought it was a dog that had jumped out of the hedge to run alongside me. What a shock to see a badger so close. After about 500 m, it jumped back into the hedge. It was a great experience.

 

[jonny jeez]

was riding down from Ide hill to Sevenoaks a week or so ago. at the foot of the hill (very fast descent) a chap in a big mercendes was stopped on the opposite side of the road with his hazards on. I slowed and as i came level watched a big chap in a suit, get out of the drivers side and run to the front of the car, bend over and collect a rabbit. he lifted it to the grass field at the side and it hopped off.

takes all types to be kind.

 

[Ian193]

This bollard on the way to work in the rain last January the bike was only 3 weeks old who the hell puts a bollard in between the posts for a road sign on a CYCLE PATH

 

[jonny jeez]

View attachment 105963 This bollard on the way to work in the rain last January the bike was only 3 weeks old who the hell puts a bollard in between the posts for a road sign on a CYCLE PATH

did the bollard win?