road or mountain bike?......based solely on fear!

[brand]

@brand

In the interests of balance, perhaps when you've finished your dinner/pudding/siesta, you could list the infinite (probably) number of occasions when absolutely nothing untoward happened to you.

List a probably infinite number....oxymoron!
You can only kill someone once... not an oxymoron!

 

[brand]

I did a new route today and on the way back heard a very large double-trailer lorry downshifting behind me, probably from about 60kmh to the 30odd that I was doing. He gave me a friendly beep-beep, and I waved him through once the road got a little wider and I could get safely over to the gutter, and another wave to his wing mirror after he passed.

I considered myself lucky as he was bringing a load of earth down from the mountains and usually the drivers do not like to slow down at all. I see plenty go through red lights rather than stop and use up fuel to get going again. And I probably won't be doing that route again.

Yeah that sounds like a route to avoid.

 

[snorri]

think of taking the mountain bike option ( biking trials away from the road ) rather than my original decision of buying a road bike. Even my girlfriend is terrified of me cycling to work.............

I look at it this way, if I fall off at the roadside I would expect to be seen fairly soon by a passerby, whereas falling off in the hills I would be thinking of an overnight stay and looking for a helicopter at first light!

 

[Cycleops]

Next, car coming over top of the hill wheels left the ground (teenage half wits again) saw me changed sides and drove straight at me. He did move over before he got to me. Now in this case it was me at fault...I was on his road!

Probably a foreigner and got confused by which side of the road he should be on!

 

[brand]

@brand

In the interests of balance, perhaps when you've finished your dinner/pudding/siesta, you could list the infinite (probably) number of occasions when absolutely nothing untoward happened to you.

Although this isn't a list, virtually every time I cycle back from the pub nothing happens to me but then I don't normally see a car on the way home!!

 

[brand]

Probably a foreigner and got confused by which side of the road he should be on!

What are the tyres like that they make there? Someone said they were really bad as in plastic like?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Although this isn't a list, virtually every time I cycle back from the pub nothing happens to me but then I don't normally see a car on the way home!!

There you go - not all bad is it.

 

[brand]

I can not be expected to only cycle to the pub and back at night. The pub is opened in the day as well. Anyway badgers are a pain in the arse at night.

 

[surfdude]

get yourself a decent hybrid bike that way you have the best of both worlds .good for the road and some of the softer trails .you might want different tyres for different situations . i have been riding for a few years now and never had any road rage directed at me . enjoy it when you get it

 

[brand]

i have been riding for a few years now and never had any road rage directed at me . enjoy it when you get it

Not looking in the right place, try roads!

 

[surfdude]

Not looking in the right place, try roads!

not been looking for anywhere really .

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Yes I agree it is everyone else's fault!
But not the person who started shouting at me to get over while driving beside me. Then speeded up swerved in front of me and slammed the brakes on. I needed quite a lot of stitches but no doubt you would say that was my fault? Wil get back...dinner

not sure why you seem to think I'm apportioning blame for your incident, but hey. I've also never said people are 100% perfect, read my initial post on this thread if nothing else. I've put on here before several times how I was hit and run from behind & have suffered 3 years of surgery and knee problems since. I'm simply saying as is pretty much everyone else that such people and incidents are exceptionally rare both in real life & compared to the doom and gloom dangerous activity portrayal of cycling from certain quarters of social & news media
I try to take a proportionate pragmatic view of the hazards and not overplay them to new cyclists such as the OP who could easily be put off by the misrepresentation of the incidences of scary drivers, and miss the sheer joy and fun and good challenge that 99% and more of cycling time is.

hope you have a lovely ride tomorrow and beyond.

 

[brand]

not sure why you seem to think I'm apportioning blame for your incident ,

First plural not singular

Are you sure the problem is everyone else?

The end of your post above clearly implies that I am at fault.

 

[brand]

not been looking for anywhere really .

First post made me assume you were!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

(please don't let this thread descend into yet another repetitive helmet dirge)

But the original post to which I was replying which said:
But, it may save you from being fed pureed food via a spoon for life (I've worked in & around an A&E unit for 17 years, so have seen the results, helmeted & not!!)
Would make all beginners embrace cycling as a relatively risk free sport?

Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not attempting to scare anyone off, or influence them unjustly