Your number one fear with cycling ?

[GrasB]

Wildlife... a lot of it is suicidal by nature & wanting to take me with it when it goes

 

[mangaman]

Is this bike thieving asylum seekers or just asylum seekers who might be bike thieves?

Just an all round, low-level fear of them which happens when I'm cycling and at all other times.

I could have added paedos and old people and young people as well I suppose.

Life on and off the bike is a terrifying thing.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Just an all round, low-level fear of them which happens when I'm cycling and at all other times.

I could have added paedos and old people and young people as well I suppose.

Life on and off the bike is a terrifying thing.

Best not to pay too much attention to the negatives

 

[Eddie]

Surprised no one has said this so far, but...The Bonk.

It's not scary, it just means you get to eat some nice food.

 

[wmtlynx]

Out of control dogs and murderers.

 

[mangaman]

Out of control dogs and murderers.

Dogs and their owners.

Before I am besiyged with criticism, I know the dogs know no better and most dog owners are responsible - but having been 3 times attacked by the animals, all of whose owners' insisted were loveable but playful, I disagree.

One of the dogs bit a large chunk from my leg and was put down.

The other 2 were just out of control,. off the lead, on shared use paths with clear signage that dogs should be on leads..

The irony is I live in the country, with about a billion acres of free land for dog owners to use - but they clog up the 2 usefullish shared use cycle paths we have

 

[lukesdad]

My wife ever finding out just how much I spend on bikes during the year

Nah ! its the missus joining CC reading the shite I come out with and some of the nobbers I associate with !

Lordy,lordy.lordy

 

[Linford]

Dogs and their owners.

Before I am besiyged with criticism, I know the dogs know no better and most dog owners are responsible - but having been 3 times attacked by the animals, all of whose owners' insisted were loveable but playful, I disagree.

One of the dogs bit a large chunk from my leg and was put down.

The other 2 were just out of control,. off the lead, on shared use paths with clear signage that dogs should be on leads..

The irony is I live in the country, with about a billion acres of free land for dog owners to use - but they clog up the 2 usefullish shared use cycle paths we have

Try eating garlic and marmite. Apparently you are what you eat and they don't like their dinners tasting of these. It might work with dogs

NB: Not so sure about bovril though. Can you give that one a go first and report back ?

 

[TheDoctor]

Just an all round, low-level fear of them which happens when I'm cycling and at all other times.

I could have added paedos and old people and young people as well I suppose.

Life on and off the bike is a terrifying thing.

I have to differ here.
I've travelled all over the place, on and off bikes. I've seen people come off, I've arrived at restaurants which were fully-booked weeks before, I've stayed at hotels where the restaurant was closed that night and the nearest one was 5 miles away and 400m lower down, I've got to campsites that were full, and got fearsomely lost on many occasions. Every time, someone's gone out of their way to sort me out.
The world is full of people who will help you when you need them.

 

[DeepBurn]

I have to differ here.
I've travelled all over the place, on and off bikes. I've seen people come off, I've arrived at restaurants which were fully-booked weeks before, I've stayed at hotels where the restaurant was closed that night and the nearest one was 5 miles away and 400m lower down, I've got to campsites that were full, and got fearsomely lost on many occasions. Every time, someone's gone out of their way to sort me out.
The world is full of people who will help you when you need them.

I have to agree - in my opinion (& experience) most people in the World are good people willing to help others.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

True, but I learned last night in London that if you offer to help a young lady carry her HUGE bag up an escalator she'll probably think you're going to rob her

 

[Linford]

Best not to pay too much attention to the negatives

I was really asking for just one thing which people considered to be an issue to them personally in relation to cycling
I wasn't asking for a raft of excuses, or reasons to hate anyone else in this thread

 

[Wobblers]

None of them.

The mild worry I have - I certainly wouldn't describe it as "fear" - is a high speed crash, not so much for the inevitable pain and inconvenience but because of the possibility of an extended lay-off from the bike.

Asd for all this harping on about "fear" -why?

I don't fear going to the shops, why the f*** would I fear getting on a bike??

 

[Accy cyclist]

Dogs and their owners.

Before I am besiyged with criticism, I know the dogs know no better and most dog owners are responsible - but having been 3 times attacked by the animals, all of whose owners' insisted were loveable but playful, I disagree.

One of the dogs bit a large chunk from my leg and was put down.

The other 2 were just out of control,. off the lead, on shared use paths with clear signage that dogs should be on leads..

The irony is I live in the country, with about a billion acres of free land for dog owners to use - but they clog up the 2 usefullish shared use cycle paths we have

Last Saturday i was driving along a road with a cycle lane. As i turned a bend i was confronted by two women who must have had 7 dogs between them, walking towards oncoming traffic in the cycle lane even though there's a perfectly good pavement on the other side. What could've happened if i'd have been cycling i shudder to think! How can anyone be so bloody stupid, and selfish?!

 

[TheDoctor]

Last Saturday i was driving along a road with a cycle lane. As i turned a bend i was confronted by two women who must have had 7 dogs between them, walking towards oncoming traffic in the cycle lane even though there's a perfectly good pavement on the other side. What could've happened if i'd have been cycling i shudder to think! How can anyone be so bloody stupid, and selfish?!

[lefty liberal wishy-washy twaddle deleted]
The world is full of people who will help you when you need them.

It's full of idiots too!!!