I was togged up in my cycling gear at work yesterday about to set off home when a guy I'm on nodding terms with said.
"Don't you think it's unsafe to be cycling at the moment, Simon. What with all the grease and mud on the road?"
It was hard to argue with him on that score. Especially as I have to ride quite far out into the road to avoid all the muck and have HGVs thundering past my right ear 'ole. It's only a matter of time.
I might go on the hybrid using my off road routes until things improve.
I was togged up in my cycling gear at work yesterday about to set off home when a guy I'm on nodding terms with said.
"Don't you think it's unsafe to be cycling at the moment, Simon. What with all the grease and mud on the road?"
It was hard to argue with him on that score. Especially as I have to ride quite far out into the road to avoid all the muck and have HGVs thundering past my right ear 'ole. It's only a matter of time.
I might go on the hybrid using my off road routes until things improve.
-- Simon M.
Wear a helmet and as if by magic you will be safe. Isn't that right ?
I was togged up in my cycling gear at work yesterday about to set off home when a guy I'm on nodding terms with said.
"Don't you think it's unsafe to be cycling at the moment, Simon. What with all the grease and mud on the road?"
It was hard to argue with him on that score. Especially as I have to ride quite far out into the road to avoid all the muck and have HGVs thundering past my right ear 'ole. It's only a matter of time.
I might go on the hybrid using my off road routes until things improve.
Just ride carefully, keeping aware of road surfaces and changing levels of grip .. as many cyclists do when off-road.
-- Paul ... http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php (8(!) Homer Rules ... 😉 "A [censored] is a [censored], no matter what mode of transport they're using."
I was togged up in my cycling gear at work yesterday about to set off home when a guy I'm on nodding terms with said.
"Don't you think it's unsafe to be cycling at the moment, Simon. What with all the grease and mud on the road?"
I'd certainly say it's less safe, rather than unsafe, at the moment. There definitely seems to have been a spate of mishaps reported here recently.
I took my first spill in a couple of decades the other day. Despite covering a couple of thousand commuting miles every year at a fair pace on my road bike with skinny tyres, I ended up dumped in the middle of a mini-roundabout while travelling at a fairly sedate pace on my fat-tyred bike. One second I'm heading home, the next I'm a miserable-looking traffic obstruction with a badly torn pair of oil-stained trousers.
I might do a rain-dance tonight in the hope that we get a decent downpour to wash all the [censored] off the roads. We seem to have had nothing but light misty rain recently that just makes the roads slippy :-(
I took my first spill in a couple of decades the other day. Despite covering a couple of thousand commuting miles every year at a fair pace on my road bike with skinny tyres, I ended up dumped in the middle of a mini-roundabout while travelling at a fairly sedate pace on my fat-tyred bike. One second I'm heading home, the next I'm a miserable-looking traffic obstruction with a badly torn pair of oil-stained trousers.
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I might do a rain-dance tonight in the hope that we get a decent downpour to wash all the [censored] off the roads. We seem to have had nothing but light misty rain recently that just makes the roads slippy :-(
I seem to be OK when cycling but a couple of times I put my foot down while I still had some speed and just glided along instead of stopping.
Wear a helmet and as if by magic you will be safe. Isn't that right ?
Oh yes. It will be an indestructible layer over your head, ensuring that the eggshell within will come to no harm. It also has a teleprotective effect; the rays emanating from it will also protect your knees, hands, feet, and all other parts of you. It will anticipate your every wish and sprout a straw which magically enters your mouth with a free flow of Bass Bitter. Oh, btw, you won't be able to breathe with it, but this is no problem. You just hook yourself up to a heart-lung machine towed behind on a trailer.
Peter
-- If you are careful enough in life, nothing bad -- or good -- will ever happen to you.
