bloody hell!!, that was close!!

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bloody hell!!, that was close!!

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I was on my way back home from the g/f's at about 7am and was having a crack at beating my PB of 16-08. While flying along on a blind down hill section, which most times can be taken nearly flat out, I come across a pick up towing a large trailer. It had been travelling in the opposite direction to me, but had pulled over to my side of the road to allow him to turn left into a field. It was stopped blocking most of two lanes :shock: .. I somehow managed to miss his nearside front wing while going on the opposite side of the road. I was then heading for a stone wall but luckily it had a build up of mud at the bottom and I managed to use it like a berm and bounce off it…... :shock:

So, luckily, no damage or injury 8) .

Over the last few years, I’ve really eased off the speed at which I ride my motorbike on the road, maybe its old age :roll: or maybe there are just too many unforeseeable hazards….

And now it looks like I’m going to have to slow up on my bicycle too :roll: :lol: :D
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Save the heroics for the track! 8)
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too close to call, but tell the whole truth, at the time you were actually about to out brake a car and do it up the inside :roll: :wink:
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Outbrake another mountainbike more like..
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Whats that old adage - never travel faster than the distance in which you can see to stop :?

Or some old b*ll*x like that anyway - if in doubt keep it pinned, and at worst you'll look like Evel Knievel 8)


oh, and of course by a bicycle with disc brakes :wink:
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Glad to hear we're not morning the lose of a riding god! :wink: :wink: :wink:
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