Many moons ago..
I used to ride to and from work, (about 7 miles according to Google maps), straight along the coast road.
It was long, straight and boring but every now and then with a tail wind you could really fly along. I did the trip several time in less than 20 minutes.

Until one day.

I was found on the floor just over a mile from home. Laying unconsciousness in the gutter. My face shredded and surrounded by broken glass, my bike broken clean in two. This was about 12 years ago and I still have no recollection of what happened.
I needed 54 stitches, lost a few teeth, LOTS of blood, and plenty of cuts, bruises and was general fucked up for a couple of weeks or so.
Not to be big headed but I was fairly handy on my bike. I could wheelie forever, stoppie all day and rode everyday for fun as well as commuting, so I never accepted the 'you hit someone' theory.
That being said, who ever hit me must have known they did so, I smashed one of their windows!
They're still out there somewhere too.
( Mr.Pickle Is not big or clever.., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 19:03, 39 replies)

Clicked, although it's not really a 'likeable' story
except that you were found and sorted out.

I hope the bastard who knocked you off dreams about you every night. Cowardly and callous, lower than a worm. Whoever's fault the collision was, the driver had a responsibility to an unconscious, possibly dying boy.

Gaahh, I really HATE hit-and-run drivers.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 18 Feb 2012, 19:14, closed)

Fucking cyclists.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sat 18 Feb 2012, 19:14, closed)

Cunt

( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 21:21, closed)

I hope the car you hit was ok

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Sat 18 Feb 2012, 19:41, closed)

Cunt

( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 21:21, closed)

Such an idiotic thing to say.
This is why. This is what happens when a cyclist is hit by a car.



Source: bianchista.blogspot.com/2009/09/open-letter-to-james-martin.html
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 7:13, closed)

If they're lucky
If they're not lucky, it's a casket. I've had 2 workmates who've lost the car v. bike matches, fortunately at relatively slow speeds. Both due to driver inattention ("I'd no idea a bike could travel that fast after I passed it and turned directly in front of it!").

One mate went from being a triathlete to being a gimp. The other had a hairline neck fracture that went undiagnosed for several days, she had to be medevac'd from a remote military site after the fracture worsened due to the rough transport ride.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 8:05, closed)

Yep.
Exactly this. And the situation isn't improved by dumbfuck morons who think that running someone off the road is a justifiable thing to do, simply because they consider them to be "in the way" or "not paying road tax" or whatever the lame excuse of the day is.

As a cyclist I understand that some drivers don't like cyclists (and vice versa) - hell, some people act on the road like they don't like anyone... but most people treat other people with respect. The difference is cyclists are human beings who aren't encased in a protective box. They don't have crumple zones, and getting the bodywork replaced is a whole lot harder.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 8:22, closed)

I'm trying to work out
what her point is?

Is this supposed to be an illustration of the dire and life ruining consequences of not treating cyclists like they own the road, as they all seem to expect?

So she faceplanted. I'm pretty sure I did something similar when I was 7, and fell out of a tree. What she really should have done is found something from the Internet, say a 17 tonne truck popping a cyclists head.

That'd get my attention.
(username failed moderation, Mon 20 Feb 2012, 9:07, closed)

As I read somewhere recently
Fast metal boxes and slow, wobbling dangerously-exposed humans can never happily co-exist.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 20 Feb 2012, 12:51, closed)

I agree
cyclists are horribly vulnerable on roads. I ride a motorbike in the city, and am often doing the same sort of filtering and dodging around as they are, but at 3 x the speed. I am probably more wary of them than the average car driver.

But sometimes I just wonder what they're thinking. Sometimes they simply rely on the cars, buses and motorbikes around them to avoid hitting them.

Most of the time they're lucky. Sometimes they're not.
(username failed moderation, Mon 20 Feb 2012, 13:21, closed)

"Like they own the road..."
...is on the list of lame excuses for running someone over.

And if you think that excuse justifies injuring, or potentially killing someone then you're exactly the sort of cockwomble I'm referring to above. Its the judge, jury and executioner mentality. The sort that thinks its OK to run someone off the road because you perceive them to be doing something they really are not. Of course they don't "own" the road, nor do most people think like that... but they do own the right not to be run off it.

And for what its worth, I think cars and cyclists can peacefully co-exist. The vast majority of people are courteous and respectful to each other.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Mon 20 Feb 2012, 14:56, closed)

Hmm. Calm down.
This doesn't need your shouty reinterpretation.

Some cyclists do behave like dicks. Some car drivers behave like dicks too. When the two meet, the cyclist invariably comes off worst.

Driving through central London, I'm often required to slow down / move / even PROTECT some stupid spandex wearing bastard who is switching from lane to lane without looking. Running someone 'off the road' isn't the right expression to describe some twit who has become a red smear along the middle of 4 lanes of traffic.
(username failed moderation, Mon 20 Feb 2012, 17:34, closed)

Did two different people write your replies?
I'll concede that riding through London is a mugs game... but then so is driving. Horrible sport. And you do get some idiots on bikes - though the damage they cause is more likely to be to themselves than to anyone else. The same cannot be said of the idiots who decide to drive instead.

But you equated being hit with a car (losing a front row of teeth and gaining a broken nose in the process) to falling a few feet out of a tree. Then you moved to being someone who goes out of their way to be especially nice to the poor beleaguered but rather unintelligent cyclist.

Why don't those poor dears just get a car?
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Wed 22 Feb 2012, 17:20, closed)

Hey, it's my road, I'll run whoever I want off of it

No...wait...




(just kidding, I'm not a Bristolian bus driver)
(teebie jeebie, Wed 22 Feb 2012, 14:23, closed)

Heh
Now that's funny. Context and satire. Username failed moderation could learn from you!
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Wed 22 Feb 2012, 17:25, closed)

It was me
In my Honda Accord, while high on MASSIVE drugs
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Sat 18 Feb 2012, 20:25, closed)

Almost funny cunt

( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 21:22, closed)

That'll do for me

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 1:47, closed)

What is the
'you hit someone' theory by the way?
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Sat 18 Feb 2012, 20:26, closed)

surrounded by broken glass, my bike broken clean in two
Unless that happened spontaneously?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 21:20, closed)

Like to meet someone who carries tempered plate glass around and can snap steel bike frames in two.
Actually, no I wouldn't.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:41, closed)

Some people have said I 'must have rode into something/one?! Exactly what Im not sure. Car, Lorry, Maybe two guys carrying a bit of cliché enriched, toughened glass across the road? (Mr.Pickle is not that Dave.., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:11, Ignore, Reply, I
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( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 23:21, closed)

Some people have said I 'must have rode into something/one?!
Exactly what Im not sure. Car, Lorry,
Maybe two guys carrying a bit of cliché enriched, toughened glass across the road?
( Mr.Pickle Is not big or clever.., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:11, closed)

I must admit
To having read that wrong. I thought there was some special general theory about the safety of motorbikes or something. Bah
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 1:47, closed)

Half of all users on this site
have motive, so it's just a question of opportunity.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:10, closed)

it was me.
guy owes me fifty quid for my windscreen excess.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:14, closed)

Call it quits on the 400 quid bike that got smashed? ;)
3 inches back from the stem, both top and bottom tubes snapped in two
( Mr.Pickle Is not big or clever.., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:18, closed)

Ooh, sounds like you'll never father children then.
Hang on a minute...oh, your bike frame you mean.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:21, closed)

I take it back about not wanting to meet this person.
Unless it was carbon fibre in which case, pffft!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 19 Feb 2012, 2:40, closed)

Get a cheaper bike,
then repeatedly break all your own bones, so that they heal to nigh indestructible hardness.

Problem solved. Why don't more people do this?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 19:02, closed)

Easier 1 for you.
1 - mutate so you have the ability to instantly heal.
2 - Get picked for govmint experiment, have really rare/hard metal grafted onto skeleton.
3 - Buy many cheap Chinese made bikes and never look back!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 19 Feb 2012, 22:42, closed)

That totally happened to a mate of mine,
and you can't prove otherwise.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 20 Feb 2012, 16:43, closed)

You're a goldfish and your bowl fell off the mantelpiece.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 18 Feb 2012, 22:43, closed)

Yes!
Thinking outside the box ( bowl)
I'll click purely for that
(boarders You won't catch me with my trousers, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 21:36, closed)

ow.

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 19 Feb 2012, 13:20, closed)

This cyclist thing
is very fertile trolling territory.

They fly into a frothy rage at almost nothing. Must be the lycra, cutting off blood to the brain or something.
(username failed moderation, Tue 21 Feb 2012, 8:23, closed)

True.
But then its quite difficult to gauge between people who "joke" about it, and those who actually will happily intimidate others on the road with the use of a vehicle.

And trolling about death and injury. Yeah, well done.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Wed 22 Feb 2012, 17:24, closed)

You probably deserved it
fuckin cyclist cunts
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 22 Feb 2012, 12:44, closed)