Idiot cyclist hits bollard and cuts chin

[w00hoo_kent]

Did you forget to take the grappling hook off?

 

[mjr]

3 falls in circa 13,000 miles over 4 years. Only one properly hurt.

I've run myself over 3 times! But that is over close to 40 years.

 

[buggi]

Ridden in to the back of a parked car because I was watching my feet go round. Doh!!

 

[palinurus]

...because I was watching my feet go round.

While I haven't done that it's only a matter of time. Frequently I look down at my feet and become mesmerized, just watching them going around and seeing the road being pulled along underneath. It's amazing!

 

[buggi]

While I haven't done that it's only a matter of time. Frequently I look down at my feet and become mesmerized, just watching them going around and seeing the road being pulled along underneath. It's amazing!

That's exactly what happened... I got mesmerised. I think its something that we all do when we get a bit knackered

 

[Garry A]

I was so into swatting a wasp on my arm that I lost the steering and went flying. Checked the bike over before myself

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Bollards...........!!


these three in Sarf London confuse me...they serve no purpose and jup out of the kerb on a bend as you approach parked cars on the opposite side.

That looks familiar. Is it coming down towards the S Circular from Crystal Palace, just west of College Road? If is it, it's a pretty unexpected ''facility'' which doesn't seem to serve any purpose, except maybe keep Dulwich College, who do seem to encourage cycling, and the schoolchildren's parents, happy.

EDIT: Ah yes, I've just learned that it's called Alleyn Park

 

[Deleted member 1258]

That idiot was me, last night. I was on a familiar road not far from work, where there is a traffic-calming feature consisting of kerb build-outs on either side to narrow the carriageway and force car drivers to take turns. There are narrow but generally usable mini-cycle paths on the left of the build-outs. As here :
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I normally take the roadway, but if there are queuing cars I may use the cycle path. Last night, as I was approaching, a car came round the corner to approach the feature from the opposite direction, and I decided (or was deciding) to go down the cycle path.

Anyway, I must have vacillated a moment too long before engaging the turn, and suddenly realised I was heading straight for the middle of the kerb and the first ‘bollard’ on the left. The bike hit the bollard – luckily the flimsy plastic bendy sort – and I ended up sprawled on my front in the cycle path and felt a bump as my chin hit the ground.

I was quite OK except for* minor grazing on the knees and half an inch of skin scraped off the underside of my chin, which continued to bleed gently for the rest of my ride. Two drivers stopped to see if I was alright, and I thanked them but assured them I was. The main damage was that I felt so stupid for making such an elementary misjudgement.

No sympathy sought – it was my own stupid fault.

Has anyone else done anything stupid on a bike that they’d like to own up to amongst friends?

(*edit – and a bruised thigh that I can feel this morning)

That Baginton? The bottom of Mill Hill?

 

[jonny jeez]

That looks familiar. Is it coming down towards the S Circular from Crystal Palace, just west of College Road? If is it, it's a pretty unexpected ''facility'' which doesn't seem to serve any purpose, except maybe keep Dulwich College, who do seem to encourage cycling, and the schoolchildren's parents, happy.

EDIT: Ah yes, I've just learned that it's called Alleyn Park

That's the one...aka, stealthbollard

 

[robjh]

That Baginton? The bottom of Mill Hill?

Yes. I'd just come down past the allotments and onto the road.