Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Our man @skudupnorth has been hit today. Rather bashed and bruised, and his Spesh hybrid has had the front wheel completely smashed, and forks cracked.

Fortunately the taxi driver stopped. He's relatively OK and I'm sure he'll be along at some point.

Worst thing, he is an avid Skoda fan, and it was a Skoda that knocked him off ! Noooooo

Heal well matey.

 

[summerdays]

Oh dear GWS@skudupnorth

 

[Simontm]

Our man @skudupnorth has been hit today. Rather bashed and bruised, and his Spesh hybrid has had the front wheel completely smashed, and forks cracked.

Fortunately the taxi driver stopped. He's relatively OK and I'm sure he'll be along at some point.

Worst thing, he is an avid Skoda fan, and it was a Skoda that knocked him off ! Noooooo

Heal well matey.

Ouch GWS @skudupnorth

 

[fossyant]

I hope he doesn't mind me posting, but I feel he needs some Get Well Soon messages. It's not good when you have a wife and kids.

 

[ianrauk]

All the best @skudupnorth , hope not too bashed up.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Ah, kids are back.

Nearly hit on a toucan by an RLJ taxi (and I don't mean an amber-gambler)
Brushed past inches away by some tatty silver vectra doing ~50 in a 30 "rat run"
Overtaken by an e-bike as I set off then held up by it stuck at 15.2 bloody mph
Cars all over the supposedly segregated cycle path

Ah, summer was lovely

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Our man @skudupnorth has been hit today. Rather bashed and bruised, and his Spesh hybrid has had the front wheel completely smashed, and forks cracked.

Fortunately the taxi driver stopped. He's relatively OK and I'm sure he'll be along at some point.

Worst thing, he is an avid Skoda fan, and it was a Skoda that knocked him off ! Noooooo

Heal well matey.

Aww s**t. I vaguely know skudupnorth from my Skoda days too, recognised the username when I arrived on here from sko-forum
Bet it wasn't a proper Skoda, just some modern VAG group budget Audi

Skodas have engines in the back where they belong

 

[fossyant]

Aww s**t. I vaguely know skudupnorth from my Skoda days too, recognised the username when I arrived on here from sko-forum
Bet it wasn't a proper Skoda, just some modern VAG group budget Audi

Skodas have engines in the back where they belong

It was a Superbe TAXI - bloody Taxi drivers.

His front wheel is a mess, big fold in it, and the spokes/rim/hub are all separate bits now !

 

[Lonestar]

I watched a fellow rider answering a text one handed then ride straight through a set of red lights.

At the same junction a lady cyclist decided the cycle lane was a great place to stop and chat to her mate on the other side of the railings!.

5 minutes before that at my first junction I watched the nightly red traffic light jumpers, this time it was a bendy bus and a coach, god knows how nobody has been flattened over the years at that junction..

Arrived home safe and sound though so all good!.

Cyclist in front of me jumped the first set of red cycling lights at Bow onto the roundabout then merged with the traffic and got all the way round without looking behind at all.Nightmare.Luckily the motorists were patient and tolerant.

Hope you are ok Mr Skud.It really was one of those days.Van overtook me to throw a left so had to brake sharply and not take the risk that he may have just gone straight left instead of stopping.Left hook job.The fixie stops on a sixpence,though.

 

[skudupnorth]

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. Bike a mess and may be dead but I am all good except for cuts and bruises. Taxi driver was a gent and did everything to sort me out so I cannot rant about him and he was a fellow Skoda driver even though he hit me ! Police turned up and advised what was required. I am gutted the bike is trashed, I rode to Cornwall on it, rode many forum rides on it and used it for commuting in all weathers since I bought it new in 2009. I'm still here and I will ride as soon as the lumps go down....... Plus I have got a new bike coming for tomorrow's big Birthday

 

[keithmac]

Get well soon, not nice at all being knocked off but at least he stopped and helped.

 

[keithmac]

I honestly can't understand the mentality of drivers who speed up to pass you and turn left at a junction, turn when there blatantly not enough room for them to complete the manoeuvre.

I've hung a few people out to dry trying that trick but only at slower speeds, most I hang back and shake my head at their useless driving.

Cyclist in front of me jumped the first set of red cycling lights at Bow onto the roundabout then merged with the traffic and got all the way round without looking behind at all.Nightmare.Luckily the motorists were patient and tolerant.

Hope you are ok Mr Skud.It really was one of those days.Van overtook me to throw a left so had to brake sharply and not take the risk that he may have just gone straight left instead of stopping.Left hook job.The fixie stops on a sixpence,though.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Sorry to hear about the crash @skudupnorth. I'm glad it's not worse than cuts and bruises. Shame about the bike.

I hope you don't ache too much for your birthday. Have a good one.

 

[martint235]

Back still sore (@ianrauk will confirm on Saturday whether or not it's fit for Sunday, hoping it will be but will see) so didn't hammer it. Still passed a roadie I see quite often now, he gets in front doing some iffy manouvres at lights then I pass him again. Repeat ad nauseum.

Are the schools fully back in South London? If they are then my new route in has much less traffic on it, there's a couple of places where is backs up a little but nowhere near as much as the other way.

 

[subaqua]

nice first part of ride.

a group of 5 riding in in full kit. they were nice and friendly and i rode with them for a bit then went separate ways at Hackney Wick.

regents canal was full of tw@ not riding sensibly near peds and other tyowpath users. FFS slow it down . the canals might have been a superhighway once upon a time but no they are a slow paced thing.