Cotton balled society

[Farside]

Riding home late one night on the bike pedalling as fast as it would go, saw two red lights and thought 'I'll put the fear of god up these two when I pass between them' - that was a Thames van.

Riding home late at night, I ran right into a black tanker parked under a bridge, with no lights on, parking or otherwise. The bike lights back then were utter toss, of course, so had no chance of seeing it.
Clonked myself a bit, but got up, rode home and didn't even mention it to anyone.
I could have claimed for that now.

 

[wookie]

Did that on Christmas day,got a speedo for my bike ,found the biggest hill ,wanted to get up to 30 , did, looked up to see a parked up Transit a foot away..bang.

Only 30 ? you weren't trying, the best I ever saw was 68mph on my mountain bike, stopping it was fun even with disc brakes, even though I was hanging my **** right over the back wheel and my chest was touching the seat the back wheel was still about a foot in the air.

 

[GW8IZR]

I could have claimed for that now.

IMHO that's where many issues stem from.

We just got up and got on with it.

 

[Bryan Williams]

Only 30 ? you weren't trying, the best I ever saw was 68mph on my mountain bike, stopping it was fun even with disc brakes, even though I was hanging my **** right over the back wheel and my chest was touching the seat the back wheel was still about a foot in the air.

Mountain bike phffff... Chopper.

 

[Farside]

Mountain bike phffff... Chopper.

My bruv decided to be a Mountain Racing Downhill Daredevil before such things were even thought of - on his Raleigh Chopper.
He ended up nutting a fence. A cast iron park railing, that luckily for him had gaps in it his head fit through.
He wasn't well for a while, though.
If he could have, he'd have got up and rode home, and not mentioned it. The hospital mentioned it for him.

 

[angellonewolf]

Did that on Christmas day,got a speedo for my bike ,found the biggest hill ,wanted to get up to 30 , did, looked up to see a parked up Transit a foot away..bang.

yep going on a ride to sort my gears out on my bike just started going down the hill and would not change on to the higher gears looked ahead only a white car going down the hill looked down screw driver in hand tweeked looked up the car was 3 feet in front of me 1/4 second later i was spread eagled over the back window had no control over the bike as i had the screw driver think i was out for a few seconds as the screw driver was on the floor when i looked down cant rember droping it

turned out the car was parked 2/3 of a foot from the kerb as i was not realy paying much notice did not actualy see it moving just assumed it was as it was so far out from the kerb

 

[selectedgrub]

Mountain bike phffff... Chopper.

Raleigh 20

 

[selectedgrub]

Do kids even ride bikes anymore?
Use to carve this up in the early 80's

Forgotten.

 

[rockweasel]

When I was a kid my best friend had a wooden toboggan. In the winter (obviously) we'd take it to steep path. At the bottom of the path was a steep set of steps down to a busy road. To the side of the steps was just an outcrop of stones that never got covered in snow. We'd hurtle ourselves down the hill, come off the side of the steps, over the stones and land in the ditch at the side of the road. Maybe a 10 foot drop just a few feet away from the traffic. I shudder to think what could have happened but it never bothered us and we never got in trouble for doing it. Just being kids.

 

[BarrieJ]

Post war childhood in a South Wales mining village: playing in bombed houses - still rubble 10 years after being hit. Adventure playground made from: spoil tips, colliery surface, making dens out of pit props. Melting down lead from miner's cap lamp batteries and casting it in clay moulds. Excavating rubbish tips for goodies, Riding on coal drams - filled and empty - not without its dangers, a childhood friend was run over, sliced up his calf muscle, ended any thoughts of playing rugby but he went on to briefly become Britain's youngest QC and later a Recorder, still with us I'm glad to say. Apart from being knocked unconscious by the hook on a steam crane - generally decided to have been the crane operator's fault; my dad had words. I survived more or less intact.
We used to "dream of living in a cardboard box" sort of childhood, but everybody else was the same and I don't believe I ever went without. You don't miss TV if you've never had it and I still wash in cold water.