http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Two mornings, two crashes en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:14:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25779 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:18:19 +0000 BicycleLegal 25779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry to hear about your close encounter with a truck Dave. Might be worth reporting it to the police and Highways Agency though. Firstly, if it is not recorded, it 'never happened' statistically. Secondly, if you did decide later to make a claim, this could help. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25738 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:08:12 +0000 LaidBack 25738@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I was just about smeared on the way in by a driver who very politely overtook me with loads of room, </em></p> <p>Hey... looks like they are picking on you Dave. </p> <p>Need to do a LB hi-speed critcal mass (4 bikes maybe?) on your commute. </p> <p>Anth may join us on trike I hope! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25732 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:33:50 +0000 Dave 25732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've always had a secret terrible fantasy that when people do what he did, they'd crash into an HGV or something pulling out of a side street. Obviously nobody else would be hurt. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25688 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:21:07 +0000 Min 25688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's cool TBC. Bet you are really looking forward to trying your newly awesomed Surly. :-)</p> <p>"In front of him again down Easter Rd, at about 30mph"</p> <p>Yeah but Dave, you are on a bike and therefore In His Way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25684 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:55:27 +0000 ruggtomcat 25684@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>is the cast off? congratulations! Id get 'back on the horse' soon tho :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25663 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:58:17 +0000 thebikechain 25663@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mmm nervous about riding on road with Gimp wrist so might go WOL canal for a while. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25660 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:47:55 +0000 Dave 25660@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Man, I just can't win at the moment. </p> <p>I was just about smeared on the way in by a driver who very politely overtook me with loads of room, right in the oncoming lane - except that I was already tailgating the car in front, so he then moved in as if I wasn't there..!</p> <p>In front of him again down Easter Rd, at about 30mph he came roaring down the wrong side of the road at 40+. Fortunately traffic at side-street on the right didn't pull out!</p> <p>Sadly I lost him coming over Leith Links, or I thought he really might have been a candidate for the polis.</p> <p>Headcam tomorrow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25594 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:45:13 +0000 Dave 25594@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have an expensive one that I bought for kayaking. You can buy relatively cheap ones though, which are fine in good light. Not able to give a recommendation though! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25577 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:50:28 +0000 alanr 25577@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really sorry to hear of this really nasty incident - there do seem to be a higher-than-usual proportion of dodgy drivers around just now - may it's mad march drivers, rather than mad march hares? On my tricycle, I've had a couple of near-misses, mainly due to people not looking properly, but fortunately you can't easily fall *off* a tricycle. BTW, how much does a head-cam actually cost and how do you use it? I ask cos of the near-misses due to dodgy drivers. Glad that nothing worse happened to you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25571 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:43:12 +0000 Dave 25571@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Annoyingly I've also trashed the buckle on my slinky road shoes. Bah!</p> <p>Just one of these things, re the truck driver. There's not much point reporting it when the report is essentially hearsay.</p> <p>Interestingly it's the second time I've crashed at a junction because of a truck driving on the wrong side of the road - happened a couple of years ago at South Queensferry too. Scary stuff! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25563 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:07:38 +0000 DaveC 25563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry to hear this Dave. I hope thats your accident allocation for the next few years used up, so your accident free from now on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25549 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:04:06 +0000 kaputnik 25549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I fell off a Brompton on Sunday evening.</em></p> <p>sounds more like the Brompton fell off you </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25547 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:53:52 +0000 Arellcat 25547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Inevitably I was following the First Rule of Headcams</em></p> <p>I believe this is also known as a <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2037&amp;page=2#post-24097">clipless moment</a>. Skinned thighs and elbows are de rigeur for recumbent warriors.</p> <p>Any chance you can report the driver, Dave? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25545 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:49:35 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 25545@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>wee (un)folding bike.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25544 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:43:53 +0000 wee folding bike 25544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I fell off a Brompton on Sunday evening.</p> <p>I'd been replacing a worn out bit so I hadn't assembled it. Then I jumped on to check it was working and had gone a good 100yrds before I noticed that the main frame clamp wasn't engaged.</p> <p>Front brake, Newton's first law, tangled pile of me and bike on the ground.</p> <p>Bike is fine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25543 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:43:07 +0000 Dave 25543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Inevitably I was following the First Rule of Headcams (that you never have it on when you really need to make a fuss). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25538 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:22:40 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 25538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Even if he DID need to swing out he should be checking the road is clear before doing so!!!!</p> <p>Rage well deserved! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2406#post-25531 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:11:49 +0000 Dave 25531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yesterday I came off the bike behind the supermarket at the end of the Roseburn path (towards South Queensferry - Davidson's Mains). The path has been "treated" with a thick pouring of marble-sized gravel which resulted in a long slide on my left elbow and thigh.</p> <p>This morning was beautiful and crisp and sunny, perfect if I hadn't had a run-in with a Highways Agency tipper truck that was driving on the wrong side of the road (!!) approaching a T-junction by Kirkliston. </p> <p>Luckily I was climbing - if it had been a descent I'd have been right under his front wheels. As it was, I've cut up my elbow and thigh right over the cuts on my elbow and thigh from yesterday :(</p> <p>The driver shouted out of his window that he needed to be on the wrong side of the road to get around the corner. However, he was blatantly lying because he then turned out perfectly well from the proper side of the road (he'd had to swerve back onto his side to avoid flattening me as I skidded down the road).</p> <p>I won't blacken the forum with my true rage. However, I suppose I should be grateful that I was on a low bike and not the fixed-wheel. I've got a tenth of the injury from two crashes that I suffered when my MTB chain broke in town over winter! </p>