Stopping on the Innocent Railway this morning (at the Tories Out graffiti) to see if any wildlife could be spied over the wall (couple of Moorhens, not much more of note) a gritty noise behind alerts me to the slowing of a bike (with gritty brakes) and presumably someone I know. I turn just in time to see Min start to say 'hello', before slowly and gracefully dismounting sideways, her front wheel taking the bike in the opposite direction.
I didn't admit at the time that I had similarly skidded to a halt at that point, though my denial of motion did not involve a dismount, and the mountain biker in me had applied the counter-intuitive 'more back than front' braking on loose or slippy surfaces. To point such out may have come across as, dare I say it, smug.
Instead I chose to point it out on a public forum.
Sympathy was administered, medical aid declined, and pride merely dented.
Take care out there folks!
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