cycling in reading
at a leisurely pace, coming up to a mini roundabout. emmer green end of school road for those in the know) traffic is quiet, broad daylight, i'm as close to the left hand side of my lane as i can be considering the solid row of parked cars to my left.
roundabout is bout 10 metres away, when i hear screeching, and a bmw comes round the blind corner from the hill to the right, travelling diagonally with smoke pouring out from under the tyres, and barrels towards me on the wrong side of the road, at a scary rate. my first reaction was to try and power past the parked cars into a safer position before getting splattered, i was already standing on the pedals as i was getting ready to turn up where he'd come from, so i hoofed down on the pedal at which point my chain snapped under strain, and i started to fall sideways into the road.. while this was happening, the guy managed to wrestle the car far enough across, and slow down just enough that it only clipped my thigh/hip with the wing mirror and window edge (it all happened so fast that's what i think happened, from the placing of the bruises and remnants of wing mirror) and i was spun round in the air like a ragdoll and landed thankfully with nothing more then heavy bruising, and a badly twisted knee.
i honestly thought for a second i was a fucking dead man.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 15:51, 7 replies)

Yeah, well...
Emmer Green's full of people who drive like nobbers (cough)
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:04, closed)

it is indeed
he didn't stop. he actually accelerated away while i was still rolling round the tarmac mentally repeating the mantra 'am i dead? AM I DEAD? AM I FUCKING DEAD? have i shit myself? DOES IT MATTER IF I'M DEAD??'
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:05, closed)

Oh yeah about that,
you owe me a wing mirror.

Fucking cyclists
( Peej, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:14, closed)

hahahahahaha
@you owning a bmw.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:16, closed)

The cunt two doors down from me has a BMW
Its nowt special
( Peej, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:32, closed)

This sounds like
an average day commuting into London on a motorbike.
(username failed moderation, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 16:17, closed)

bet that
...the fucker wasn't indicating either...
(NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 11:34, closed)