Well written and useful, they do say it takes two years of riding to develop the sixth sense to slow down or move with no conscious knowledge of why only to realise afterwards but avoiding dodgy spots sounds even better.
(Benzyl, Sat 6 Jul 2013, 14:26, 1 reply)

I've got about 40k miles on 2 wheels.
Spread out over 6 years. Would have more but keep getting iced in or my last functioning bike breaks down. I've really got to pull my finger out and fix one of the other ones...


"Well written." Not many people say that about my writing, lol.


As for the si(x)th sense, I actually have almost no recollection of one of my other near misses which happened about half a mile from near miss 1. I remember the car starting to pull out then my memory blanks up to the point where the danger had passed (when the car had got out of the way and I was virtually at a standstill about 4ft short of the junction) apart from one thing- the amount of pressure I was using on the front brake. That's the only thing that got filed away by my brain.
For all my near misses, the duration between dropping the anchors and (so far) not hitting the div that's cut me up has been less than 2 seconds.

I hope that, if I finally get taken out, it's by a mid-sized SUV as the height is about right for me to fly in through the driver's side window and take the driver out as well. Preferably an X5 'cos everybody hates BMW drivers.
(squigbobble existed, Mon 8 Jul 2013, 13:31, closed)