you know he was in the wrong… cyclists should not be on the road and all
last 4 posts = so much win.
Gah, riding my bike this morning was fucked, and then worked out that the car door bent my hanger and fucked up my derailluer, eh. Time to make it singlespeed
Got doored by someone getting out of a taxi. Managed to stay on the bike but mangled my shoulder on the door. Hurts hey…
And twice in the hour following this (on my way home) had people turn infront of me at intersections. Second one was a bit more serious as I was going bloody fast. Chased that one down and gave him some kind words. He chased me through USyd and I rode across the football field. Fuck riding on grass.
A car full of girls hit me on Lonsdale st yesterday, they were turning left into a carpark and didn’t indicate or check their mirrors.
I ended up rear ending them and went on to the boot.
I shouted at them. Got helped by a tradie and some business men who also shouted at them.
5 minutes later I think I scored my self a job building bikes, good turn of events.
i was engaged to this english girl once.
she was a near missus.
If anyone else said this, my lord.
Mr X you’ve done it again.
Holy shit.
brendan, you’ve been waiting since 10/12/09 to use that one haven’t you?
took me that long to get the wording right.
thanks to the retarded twat who tried to end my life on the way home from the wednesday ride.
turned left off sydney rd, with a hand signal, rode down the side street for about 50m before signalling to make a right turn (giving plenty of warning knowing there was a car behind me)
dopey bitch in her car decides to PASS ME ON THE RIGHT as i’m trying to make a right hand turn from the centre of the road. wtf??
so i end up simultaneously skidding/swerving/binning and then getting up to scream abuse at her and throw my d-lock at her car (which by now is about 100m away)as she speeds off down the road.
I hope you catch Scleroderma
better story than mine.
thursday night coming down the main st in bacchus, cars banked up cos of a school function, vn wagon decides to turn left down a side street from a stationary position, just as i come up to the back of it…quick swerve, just missed the front window with the bars and the front panel with my pedal, half skid as bike jack-knifes and straightens up, turn around and salute the driver, then eyes back forward as i’m approaching car-door alley coming up to the roundabout…
Stupid Merc driver pulled out in front of me today to exit a car park on Church st, Richmond (just before the yarra). I narrowly miss it and then they pull out in front of me again to pull into another car park. So I swerve in front of them to avoid them and they hit the brakes. My foot brushed their front left fully turned wheel. Any closer and I’d have ended up with my face on their bonnet. Then I flip em the bird and they toot me like I did something wrong.
So I had a small stroke catching the train the other day. Turns out I had a carotid aneurysm from when I got hit on my bike three months ago. Almost had a major stroke and a haematoma. Be careful out there folks
Holy shit, great that you’re ok. This is why one should go to the doctor after an accident people!
Fark, thats freakin scary
dropped my chain sprinting in the middle lane of the roundabout of death (top of elizabeth st, melbourne) this morning. was thinkin it was a touch loose before i left!!
note to self - don’t do that again
^ That’s scary Rolly…
I had a hit this morning, riding through the thoroughfair between the fitzroy pool and the little park at the north end of napier st.
As I was approaching the footpath at Alexandra Pde to turn left a bike come flying into it in my lane and head ons right into me.
We both hit pretty hard, lucky I was going about 5kms or less as I always expect tards like this to come flying into the lane at high speed.
It seriously took all my might to not punch him on the end of the nose, as he had no regard for anyone coming out of that lane, lucky it wasn’t some school kids walking through there on the way to school or else it would have been really fucked up.
that section is a black spot, i’ve tried a bunch of alternatives to try and avoid running into people (hugging the wall, etc) but the best by far is to ring your bell/horn/raise your voice and make noise and stay in your lane and be prepared for brain-dead behaviour.
i love watching people heading south go for the inside pass into the opposite lane around the blind corner. 