Why do you always fall off right at the end of your commute?

[Shaun]

50 yards from the door ... just as I turned onto the little plot where our office is ... and bang - big girly splits that made my eyes water a bit, and plonk ... cyclist meets road.

Never mind the traffic riddled icey 10 miles I'd just ridden - without a single problem - with traffic being ever so considerate (apart from the two chavs in a nova and corsa - the ones with the drainpipe exhaust and elastic band engines - who swerved around me only to hit a line of traffic that I simple breezed past [brings a smile to my face every time ... lol]) and without any of the ice-filled pot holes causing me a problem.

Anyway, there's always an upside to these things and tonight I will be popping along to audition as a soprano in the local church choir ...

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Leaway2]

I fell off this morning. I was pretty icy in Manchester this morning. I took a corner too fast........Spesh one way me straight on. Thats the first time in 3 years of commute so not too bad.
Shaun, perhaps we could do some harmonies?

Andy.

 

[asterix]

Not me, I can fall off anywhere..

 

[fossyant]

Ouch.........

Didn't notice the ice today...

 

[skudupnorth]

When i first started commuting properly again in winter i came off outside my house ! Quick brush down and inside sharpish before the neighbours clocked me !!!

 

[SquareDaff]

But what's the 1st thing you check when you do fall off? With me it's the bike before myself!!

 

[Moodyman]

Complacency I guess.

You got through the worst of it and let your guard down thinking you'd got off Scot free (

)

 

[Gatley lass]

I fell off this morning. I was pretty icy in Manchester this morning. I took a corner too fast........Spesh one way me straight on. Thats the first time in 3 years of commute so not too bad.
Shaun, perhaps we could do some harmonies?

Andy.

I came off in the snow on Tuesday on a side road in Northenden. A nice man came to help me up and he fell as well!! Quite farcical but fortunatley neither of us badly hurt. Will stick to main roads in future.

 

[Leaway2]

But what's the 1st thing you check when you do fall off? With me it's the bike before myself!!

To check if anyone is looking.

 

[Leaway2]

Ouch.........

Didn't notice the ice today...

It was only on the side roads. I knew it was there, I could hear it crackling under the tyres and see it glistening. Took my eye off the ball though when turning off the main road onto a side road (opp Timperley library).

 

[subaqua]

To check if anyone WAS looking.

+1 just corrected a little

 

[Banjo]

Had my first clipless moment of 2011 yesterday. Just fitted new A530 pedals on my commuting bike, had to stop suddenly on a hill and clip didnt disengage over I went like a felled tree, a motorist stopped to check I was ok which I was and it was nice of him.

Realized after the nice person in Shimano factory had tightened the tension screw right up and I normally run them fairly slack so my usual light flick of the heel wasnt enough

 

[HJ]

Have you been drinking again Admin?

 

[Shaun]

Have you been drinking again Admin?

Only ooodles of coffee ...

 

[mcshroom]

I hope you are ok Admin (I've found I tend to have some sore body parts the day after a fall but then they go away again).

I managed to fall off turning off of my driveway yesterday. The normally gritted road had a lovely transparent layer of solid black ice on it and as I turned left the bike didn't

This led to me going straight back into the house and getting out the hybrid with studded tyres. I really should be riding that one every day atm but it feels slow and heavy