What Low Level Risks Should be Considered Whilst Cycling - Advice for Others Please!

[Tigerbiten]

My unexpected risk was the road tunnels in Iceland.
Iceland has underground heating and the air in the road tunnels can be warmer and damper than the outside air.
With cold enough outside air, there was enough of a difference which caused my glasses to fog up just after I entered a tunnel.
It made for a "fun" couple of minutes until I could keep the lenses fog free.

Luck .........

 

[PapaZita]

If wearing clips and straps with cleated shoes, and hoping to avoid the faff of loosening the straps when stopping beside a wall, be sure to pay attention to the length of your arm in relation to the distance to the wall. Some angles of lean are harder to escape from than others.

 

[Hover Fly]

Bernina Pass SW Switzerland, the road and metre gauge railway both go through a through a train-width gap for quite a length; being in that gap when the warning bells start to ring is quite alarming.

SE Switzerland I should have said.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

SE Switzerland I should have said.

Been stuck there for the last four years?

 

[Drago]

I'm surprised there has been no mention of the shark attack risk.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Sadly, all the bars etc are at the top!

Ah, so they'd raised the bar...

I'll get me coat...

 

[classic33]

Ah, so they'd raised the bar...

I'll get me coat...

You going to the top?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I'm surprised there has been no mention of the shark attack risk.

Sharks are below ground level so not a low level risk to cyclists.

At the opposite end, Eagles for instance general fly at a high level.

Bustards are what you need to worry about. They're your low level risk.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm surprised there has been no mention of the shark attack risk.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Squirrels and rabbits are a low level risk

 

[Andy in Germany]

Sharks are below ground level so not a low level risk to cyclists.

Surely a risk that is "below ground" is the very definition of "low level"

 

[fossyant]

I'm surprised there has been no mention of the shark attack risk.

Knowing my recent luck, I'm saying nothing. Flying Piranha ?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Surely a risk that is "below ground" is the very definition of "low level"

After careful research of cyclist's height scales online I found this.

"The Tuesday Scale:

Relative height to ground
- above five cyclists: High level. Low risk. For example, the international space station.

- zero cyclists: Ground level. High risk. For example, Grizzly bear

- below zero cyclists: subterranean or underwater. Very low risk. For example, mole or shark.

- zero to one cyclist: low level. extreme risk. For example, the Eurasian Bustard in flight"

So I'm right, you're wrong and I demand an apology immediately.

 

[classic33]

Knowing my recent luck, I'm saying nothing. Flying Piranha ?

Unless you fall in the canal the next time you use the towpath.
That'll be a below ground level risk.