Not really a near death
But its as close as I'd like to come.

Whilst on a bike ride in Malham I was riding down a very steep and very bendy road. I was cutting corners left, right and centre. Finally I came flying around one corner on the wrong side to see a car heading towards me. I just managed to get out of it's way. Fortunatly for me we had passed two walkers on the way up, these two walkers had just got up to the point where I was flying around this corner. The car had slowed down to get passed the walkers. If it hadn't I'm sure that me and the car would have been fighting for the same bit of road.

About three turns after that I was still a bit miffed that I nearly hit a car so I had slowed down a bit, but not too much. I miss judged a corner and by the time I realised my only hope was to slam on my back brake and try skidding around the corner. Failed and skidded about 5m along the ground, across the other side of the road, stopping 2 foot away from a dry stone wall. Again about 5 seconds after I got up another car came around the corner. If I had been a few moments later I would have been under the car!
( bobzarkoff, Thu 25 Nov 2004, 23:34, Reply)