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Arthur Clune

Cycled home from work yesterday via a point 10 miles away, for a nice 20 mile trip home (instead of
the 2 miles direct). Lovely. Cold, crisp, new lumicycles doing the job nicely on the lighting front.

Just at the end of the ride, went up onto the York-Selby bike path to nip over the river. Dropped
off at Bisthorpe. It's a narrow (tarmaced) route off that drops down from the old railway track to
the road. Hit brakes very gently to slow speed and then went "ssssssshhhhhhhhiiiiiiiitttttttttt" as
both wheels skidded on the mulched wet leaves :(

Nice experience of having the bike point across the path while still going straight on :)

Interesting......

Managed to stay upright, but I bet I couldn't do it again if I tried!

Arthur

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Dirtylitterboxo

>Managed to stay upright, but I bet I couldn't do it again if I tried!

Glad you did stay upright and didn't get hurt - or wet if it was near the river.

Cheers, helen s

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"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <wafflycathcs@aol.comcomcom> wrote in message
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> >Managed to stay upright, but I bet I couldn't do it again if I tried!
>
> Glad you did stay upright and didn't get hurt - or wet if it was near the river.
>

I measured that I managed to stay on for 50 metres, whilst doing a 'tankslapper'. I fell off at a
low enough speed not to hurt (still bloody though). I should've used the parked car as a crumple
zone, but didn't want the hassle.

Zog The Undenia

Arthur Clune wrote:
> Cycled home from work yesterday via a point 10 miles away, for a nice 20 mile trip home
> (instead of the 2 miles direct). Lovely. Cold, crisp, new lumicycles doing the job nicely on
> the lighting front.
>
> Just at the end of the ride, went up onto the York-Selby bike path to nip over the river. Dropped
> off at Bisthorpe. It's a narrow (tarmaced) route off that drops down from the old railway track to
> the road. Hit brakes very gently to slow speed and then went "ssssssshhhhhhhhiiiiiiiitttttttttt"
> as both wheels skidded on the mulched wet leaves :(
>
> Nice experience of having the bike point across the path while still going straight on :)

I once slid about 100 yards on wet tarmac with both wheels locked, and stopped a couple of inches
from the rear bumper of a car.

Apparently in countries where you get frozen lakes in winter, it's a cyclists' game to try and ride
for as long as possible with the front wheel locked. It can be done (the gyroscopic effect of the
wheel isn't very important) but if the wheel is already skidding forwards, there's not much to
discourage it from slipping sideways as well...

Richard Goodman

"Arthur Clune" <ajc22@york.ac.uk> wrote in message news:bp0bgt$32s$1@pump1.york.ac.uk...
> Hit brakes very gently to slow speed and then went "ssssssshhhhhhhhiiiiiiiitttttttttt" as both
> wheels skidded on the mulched wet leaves :(
>
> Nice experience of having the bike point across the path while still going straight on :)
>

Nothing so dramatic but today I had the interesting and rather disconcerting experience of my front
tyre suddenly losing pressure just as I was braking into a turn from around 20mph. Made it skirm
somewhat! Fortunately I was only yards from my destination. Reminded me I must get around to putting
that slim liner back in after putting a new tyre on.......

Rich

Gadget

> Apparently in countries where you get frozen lakes in winter, it's a cyclists' game to try and
> ride for as long as possible with the front wheel locked. It can be done (the gyroscopic effect of
> the wheel isn't very important) but if the wheel is already skidding forwards, there's not much to
> discourage it from slipping sideways as well...
>

This I have done and managed about 200 yards. Just don't try popping a wheelie as a friend of
mine done.

Gadget

Pyromancer

Once upon a time, Arthur Clune <ajc22@york.ac.uk> wrote:
>Cycled home from work yesterday via a point 10 miles away, for a nice 20 mile trip home
>(instead of the 2 miles direct). Lovely. Cold, crisp, new lumicycles doing the job nicely on
>the lighting front.
>
>Just at the end of the ride, went up onto the York-Selby bike path to nip over the river. Dropped
>off at Bisthorpe. It's a narrow (tarmaced) route off that drops down from the old railway track to
>the road. Hit brakes very gently to slow speed and then went "ssssssshhhhhhhhiiiiiiiitttttttttt" as
>both wheels skidded on the mulched wet leaves :(
>
>Nice experience of having the bike point across the path while still going straight on :)

Leaves on the cycle-path as opposed to leaves on the line? That's what they get for using an old
railway formation. :-)

>Interesting......
>
>Managed to stay upright, but I bet I couldn't do it again if I tried!

Glad to read you didn't come off, could have been nasty!

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Elyob

"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <wafflycathcs@aol.comcomcom> wrote in message
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> >I measured that I managed to stay on for 50 metres, whilst doing a 'tankslapper'. I fell off at a
> >low enough speed not to hurt (still bloody though). I should've used the parked car as a crumple
> >zone, but didn't
want
> >the hassle.
>
> Ouch! Here's hoping the bloody bits heal & don't leave any scars.
>

It'll just be a scar on top of other scars ... ;) My favourite scar is from the time I managed to
embed my calf on the large sprocket. I tell people it's a shark bite, they just look at me and say
"bicycle again?" ...

I did learn that "however well you know a route, fallen leaves hide all sorts of surprises ..."