Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
My most prolonged one ever:
I was down south last week and I had hired a bike to pootle about on.
One day, after a long day photographing at various locations, I was going to get the train back from Brockenhurst to Lymington once I had had something to eat. Unfortunately, I hadn't realised that the last train was at 21.59 (I kid you not), and I arrived at the station just in time to see the Blue and Grey 3 - CIG disappear into the darkness, rear headcode box blazing orange/red as it went.
Now, I never had had any real intention to cycle at night, particularly when I realised the bike I had been given didn't have any lights, but, this clearly was what I'd have to do, and most of the roads didn't have any street lights.
Luckily it was only about 5 or 6 miles and obviously I picked the less busy of the two roads
So, off I went into the pitch darkness (with me also wearing a black jacket I hasten to add - I'd mostly been doing off roading you see), looking out all the time for car headlights, and I would stop in enough time and get to the side of the road as they passed. It was slow, but it seemed to work.
And then, about halfway round the moor (you take one road and then you join another that doubles back on itself, so yes, round the moor), a Police car appeared, so after explaining the situation, they told me to go along the wrong side of the road so that oncoming traffic would see me, and I would see them much more readily, which sounded sensible if somewhat dangerous to me, and they would try to send a van out to pick me up.
Well, I never saw the van, so I just continued avoiding cars in the unlit blackness. The first roads were good, but the last unlit one was busier, which wasn't much fun to say the least!
Anyway, after a longer than usual journey, with all that stopping and starting and walking, (and hoping that nobody was lurking in the darkness beside me - car lights are great for illuminating the area about you), I finally got back to the B&B just about in one piece and not feeling terribly clever about what I'd just done (even though it had been unintentional).
Anyway, what's been your most dodgiest ride??
I was down south last week and I had hired a bike to pootle about on.
One day, after a long day photographing at various locations, I was going to get the train back from Brockenhurst to Lymington once I had had something to eat. Unfortunately, I hadn't realised that the last train was at 21.59 (I kid you not), and I arrived at the station just in time to see the Blue and Grey 3 - CIG disappear into the darkness, rear headcode box blazing orange/red as it went.
Now, I never had had any real intention to cycle at night, particularly when I realised the bike I had been given didn't have any lights, but, this clearly was what I'd have to do, and most of the roads didn't have any street lights.
Luckily it was only about 5 or 6 miles and obviously I picked the less busy of the two roads
So, off I went into the pitch darkness (with me also wearing a black jacket I hasten to add - I'd mostly been doing off roading you see), looking out all the time for car headlights, and I would stop in enough time and get to the side of the road as they passed. It was slow, but it seemed to work.
And then, about halfway round the moor (you take one road and then you join another that doubles back on itself, so yes, round the moor), a Police car appeared, so after explaining the situation, they told me to go along the wrong side of the road so that oncoming traffic would see me, and I would see them much more readily, which sounded sensible if somewhat dangerous to me, and they would try to send a van out to pick me up.
Well, I never saw the van, so I just continued avoiding cars in the unlit blackness. The first roads were good, but the last unlit one was busier, which wasn't much fun to say the least!
Anyway, after a longer than usual journey, with all that stopping and starting and walking, (and hoping that nobody was lurking in the darkness beside me - car lights are great for illuminating the area about you), I finally got back to the B&B just about in one piece and not feeling terribly clever about what I'd just done (even though it had been unintentional).
Anyway, what's been your most dodgiest ride??