Re: Scaried monent on a bike?

[Chris Eilbeck]

[email protected] writes:

> What about all of you?

Going hell for leather down a 1:8 hill in Workington, over the railway
bridge at the bottom just before the left hand bend by the hospital,
just to find a car parked right across the road having fluffed turning
round in a junction. In the few moments I had to react I decided that
going left or right around the car and sraping down the kerb/pavement
was more likely to hurt than hitting the car straight on and going
over the bonnet. I flew through the air and landed on my feet,
running to a stop. The bike was utterly trashed though.

Chris
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Chris Eilbeck

 

[Eiron]

Chris Eilbeck wrote:

> Going hell for leather down a 1:8 hill in Workington, over the railway
> bridge at the bottom just before the left hand bend by the hospital,
> just to find a car parked right across the road having fluffed turning
> round in a junction. In the few moments I had to react I decided that
> going left or right around the car and sraping down the kerb/pavement
> was more likely to hurt than hitting the car straight on and going
> over the bonnet. I flew through the air and landed on my feet,
> running to a stop. The bike was utterly trashed though.

What was the rule about being able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear?

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Eiron

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

 

[Chris Eilbeck]

Eiron <[email protected]> writes:

> Chris Eilbeck wrote:
>
>> Going hell for leather down a 1:8 hill in Workington, over the
>> railway bridge at the bottom just before the left hand bend by the
>> hospital, just to find a car parked right across the road having
>> fluffed turning round in a junction. In the few moments I had to
>> react I decided that going left or right around the car and sraping
>> down the kerb/pavement was more likely to hurt than hitting the car
>> straight on and going over the bonnet. I flew through the air and
>> landed on my feet, running to a stop. The bike was utterly trashed
>> though.
>
> What was the rule about being able to stop in the distance you can
> see to be clear?

Well I'd been doing the same thing for years before that, as well as
walking that way most days too, and I've never seen anyone stopped
across that road before or since.

Chris
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Chris Eilbeck