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

[roubaixtuesday]

I carry a Park Tools Nuclear Bunker in my toolkit. It was a bit pricier than the one from Aldi, but that's probably made from cheese.

Reminds me. Cheese is a risk.

On tour once we sat down on a park bench and opened the cheese to go with our baguette. The Frenchman on the next bench got up and walked away, such was the biohazard.

Ripe Munster, nicely warmed in the midday sun at the top of a pannier. Yum.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Reminds me. Cheese is a risk.

On tour once we sat down on a park bench and opened the cheese to go with our baguette. The Frenchman on the next bench got up and walked away, such was the biohazard.

Ripe Munster, nicely warmed in the midday sun at the top of a pannier. Yum.

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Yuk.

 

[T4tomo]

errrrrrr

no - not asking that

as in to tell whether its a male or female (for clarity). people from widnes eh?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

as in to tell whether its a male or female (for clarity). people from widnes eh?

Well I THOUGHT he meant that (I am well educated - it just went downhill after that!)

but I really didn't want to check

Oh - and I'm not 'from' Widnes - just live here now

 

[Will Spin]

I once fell off and squashed my banana.

 

[raleighnut]

I've had a badger run out at me when doing about 35mph (downhill) with a trailer loaded with @40kg of camping gear shoving me along, I swear there was a crease in the Brooks when I did stop.

 

[Smokin Joe]

People asking why I'm not wearing a helmet.

Cyclists who wave and start a thread because you couldn't be bothered to wave back. I never return a greeting to anyone wearing a helmet.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I've had a badger run out at me when doing about 35mph (downhill) with a trailer loaded with @40kg of camping gear shoving me along, I swear there was a crease in the Brooks when I did stop.

Yikes! I had a hare do that to me once - ran perhaps 6 feet ahead of me at about 30 mph, over what seemed like quite a long way at the time...

 

[nickyboy]

Dropping your water bottle when you stop on a steep hill

 

[classic33]

Low flying herons, who having just put some effort into clearing the roadside fence, decide to relax again.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Dropping a sausage when riding uphill in the dark on an audax, then being hungry till you find a 24hr garage a couple of hours later.

 

[geocycle]

Fell off after hitting a frozen rabbit....

 

[geocycle]

Survived a night at Tan Hill after landlady left us with instructions to put cash behind the till...

 

[Oldhippy]

Bugger!

 

[slowmotion]

Nearly offed by a determined badger one night in Richmond Park. There was absolutely no change in speed or direction as he trundled out of the darkness.