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  1. Dave
    Member

    Just a cross post from the 6mph topic...

    After contemplating my dotage I realised that if I find myself on my death bed and I never fell into the canal while cycling it will be a bit of a disappointment really. This is not to say that I am going to deliberately fall in, as that would be weird.

    I'm sure there's lots of stuff like this. I wouldn't do it frivolously, but I'm glad that I have had surgery under general anaesthetic because, firstly, it makes for a bunch of good stories but also the experience will be relevant in later life.

    Just me?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. Uberuce
    Member

    You're not missing much.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. Smudge
    Member

    @uberuce, oh I dunno, sepsis, veils disease, public (self) ridicule... ;-)

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. Min
    Member

    I have been in twice though not while cycling - both times on purpose although the first time I was forced to do it to rescue my partner in a rowing incident. The sludge at the bottom is unimaginably disgusting. I'd hate to get any on my lovely bikes.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. sallyhinch
    Member

    I'm not sure it's exactly something I'd aspire to, but I do sometimes think 'oh that would be good blogging material' about things that are otherwise dangerous/unpleasant/unwise

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I've just finished an assignment requiring two hundred and fifty return trips from Meggetland to Bridge Ten. I was quite convinced that I was going to fall in at some point, but the seasons turned and IWRATS remained superficial. Rats scuttled but I did not sink. Nor was I an impediment to the orderly accumulation of sediment. It's a commute I will miss.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Guy I saw going in thought it was cold and he instinctively swam to the far side and hauled himself out, thus he had to go in again to get over to the towpath side. You could see him bracing himself. Apropos the limit on speed, he went in because he was going too fast.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  8. Dave
    Member

    I have a video of a cyclist falling in - not sure whether I've ever posted it as we stopped to help retrieve bike and chap so they'd be quite easily identified. Very slow speed, seemed to be clipped by a runner. Maybe if he'd been going a bit faster the runner would have taken more care?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  9. neddie
    Member

    When I was a teenager, my parents took us kids to a volunteers canal clean up in Linlithgow.

    Remember we had great fun wading in the canal mud, picking out all sorts of objects: shopping trolleys, bike wheels, random spikey bits of metal, mines... etc.

    My dad got a leech or two attached which we thought was cool. Funny all those canal diseases didn't exist (in anyone's mind) back then.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

    Report(ed at PY) of close encounter with towpath and subsequent hospital visit in early hours.

    Ice not involved.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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