Thanks ..

Paul - xxx

To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he reads this
though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped today on the 'Safeway'
roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe. Also thanks to the Range Rover
driver who also stopped and offered to "stick the bike in the back and give
me a lift" ..

My left knee hurts more than usual (damaged cruciate ligaments in both
knees, but worse on the left) so I guess I didn't unclip fast enough, or
landed strangely, but that seems all that's wrong.

Bike's fine. The Nissan Micra came off a _lot_ worse as my pedals seem to
be tougher than it's wing and front door skin ..

Old lady in Nissan was way more shook up than me and actually cried at one
point. She was so 'doddery' and un-coordinated that I get the impression she
either doesn't drive much or won't drive again, I hope it's the latter.
Typical SMIDSY, I had on a reflective grey over jacket with bright yellow
sleeves and reflective piping on the cuffs, collar, shoulders and .. er ..
other bits that join bits of jackets together, she pulled out of Safeway as
I was hammering it coming off the roundabout onto the dual carriageway.
Unlucky really, I'd only stopped a few moments or so before to adjust my
helmet. (Coming back from an off-road ride)

The helmet must have saved my life though, as it didn't have a scratch on
it.

--
Paul ...
http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

Not Responding

Paul - xxx wrote:
> To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he reads this
> though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped today on the 'Safeway'
> roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe. Also thanks to the Range Rover
> driver who also stopped and offered to "stick the bike in the back and give
> me a lift" ..
>
> My left knee hurts more than usual (damaged cruciate ligaments in both
> knees, but worse on the left) so I guess I didn't unclip fast enough, or
> landed strangely, but that seems all that's wrong.
>
> Bike's fine. The Nissan Micra came off a _lot_ worse as my pedals seem to
> be tougher than it's wing and front door skin ..
>
> Old lady in Nissan was way more shook up than me and actually cried at one
> point. She was so 'doddery' and un-coordinated that I get the impression she
> either doesn't drive much or won't drive again, I hope it's the latter.
> Typical SMIDSY, I had on a reflective grey over jacket with bright yellow
> sleeves and reflective piping on the cuffs, collar, shoulders and .. er ..
> other bits that join bits of jackets together, she pulled out of Safeway as
> I was hammering it coming off the roundabout onto the dual carriageway.
> Unlucky really, I'd only stopped a few moments or so before to adjust my
> helmet. (Coming back from an off-road ride)
>
> The helmet must have saved my life though, as it didn't have a scratch on
> it.
>

Get well soon and all that. Glad to hear that you bent the car a bit. If
you're going to get mashed then it's nice to give a bit back.

If this only happened today, wait until tomorrow before you give
yourself the medical all clear. I suspect you're going to wake up in the
morning with bruises and aches in places you didn't know you had. (I'm
sure a female group member will be along in a minute to tell you to see
a doctor).

Tony Raven

Paul - xxx wrote:
> Unlucky really, I'd only stopped a few moments or so before to adjust my
> helmet. (Coming back from an off-road ride)
>
> The helmet must have saved my life though, as it didn't have a scratch on
> it.
>

OTOH if you hadn't been wearing it you wouldn't have stopped to adjust
it and would have missed the accident. See, helmets do cause accidents ;-)

Tony

dkahn400

Paul - xxx wrote:

> To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he
> reads this though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped
> today on the 'Safeway' roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe.

Nasty. That could have been a lot worse than it was. That makes 2
urcers who've been hit by doddery old ladies this week. Glad you're not
too badly hurt.

--
Dave...

Paul - xxx

Not Responding composed the following ...
> Paul - xxx wrote:
>> To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he reads this
>> though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped today on the
>> 'Safeway' roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe. Also thanks to the
>> Range Rover driver who also stopped and offered to "stick the bike in
>> the back and give me a lift" ..
>
> Get well soon and all that. Glad to hear that you bent the car a bit. If
> you're going to get mashed then it's nice to give a bit back.

Thanks. Yeah, if the pedals hadn't already done the damage I'd have probably
thumped the door anyway ..

> If this only happened today, wait until tomorrow before you give
> yourself the medical all clear. I suspect you're going to wake up in the
> morning with bruises and aches in places you didn't know you had. (I'm
> sure a female group member will be along in a minute to tell you to see
> a doctor).

Heheheh, yeah, good point and I guess it gives me a good excuse to lay down
for a while, relax and have a bath. swmbo thinks I need some Lavender oil
in it, for relaxation .. I reckon I just need some kindly young nurse to
look after me.

--
Paul ...
http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

Clive George

"Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:32qecaF3ogj5cU1@individual.net...
> Heheheh, yeah, good point and I guess it gives me a good excuse to lay
down
> for a while, relax and have a bath. swmbo thinks I need some Lavender oil
> in it, for relaxation .. I reckon I just need some kindly young nurse to
> look after me.

Be careful what you wish for - the first nurse I can think of who frequents
this forum just did a post entitled "I bow my head a little".

cheers,
clive

Simon Mason

"Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:32qbtcF3mlue2U1@individual.net...
> To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he reads this
> though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped today on the
> 'Safeway' roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe. Also thanks to the
> Range Rover driver who also stopped and offered to "stick the bike in the
> back and give me a lift" ..
>

Is that the road from the M18 into Donny, the A630? I've driven down there
quite a few times and it struck me how dangerous the roundabouts were, what
with drivers who have been doing motorway speeds intersecting with doddery
people coming out of the shopping outlets. Hope you have a speedy recovery
:-)

--
Simon M.

Helen Deborah Vecht

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk>typed



> "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:32qbtcF3mlue2U1@individual.net...
> > To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he reads this
> > though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped today on the
> > 'Safeway' roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe. Also thanks to the
> > Range Rover driver who also stopped and offered to "stick the bike in the
> > back and give me a lift" ..
> >

> Is that the road from the M18 into Donny, the A630? I've driven down there
> quite a few times and it struck me how dangerous the roundabouts were, what
> with drivers who have been doing motorway speeds intersecting with doddery
> people coming out of the shopping outlets. Hope you have a speedy recovery
> :-)

I think that's Wheatley Hall Road.

Doncaster Royal Infirmary's on Armthorpe Road, which doesn't have a
number on my edition of AutoRoute. P'raps pop in there though.

It's 21 years since I worked at DRI, so nobody will remember me. (I
reckon the local Audax contingent does, though...)

Get well soon though.

--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.

Peter B

"Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:32qecaF3ogj5cU1@individual.net...
> Heheheh, yeah, good point and I guess it gives me a good excuse to lay
down
> for a while, relax and have a bath. swmbo thinks I need some Lavender oil
> in it, for relaxation .. I reckon I just need some kindly young nurse to
> look after me.

Best get SWMBO a naughty nurses outfit.


Pete

Peter B

"dkahn400" <dkahn400@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1103626970.125063.190960@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

> Nasty. That could have been a lot worse than it was. That makes 2
> urcers who've been hit by doddery old ladies this week. Glad you're not
> too badly hurt.

Is there an acronym for these doddery little old ladies? How about Doddery
Old Little Lady?
Anyway, a DOLL passed me within inches on a decent open road on Sunday while
the German registered artic following her managed to give me a good cars
width of clearance. Frightening as these DOLLS often don't seem to see me.
..
Pete

Paul - xxx

Simon Mason composed the following ...
> "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:32qbtcF3mlue2U1@individual.net...
>> To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he reads this
>> though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped today on the
>> 'Safeway' roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe. Also thanks to the
>> Range Rover driver who also stopped and offered to "stick the bike in the
>> back and give me a lift" ..
>>
>
> Is that the road from the M18 into Donny, the A630? I've driven down there
> quite a few times and it struck me how dangerous the roundabouts were,
> what with drivers who have been doing motorway speeds intersecting with
> doddery people coming out of the shopping outlets. Hope you have a speedy
> recovery :-)

Yes. It's a hell of a road. I'd just come from the M16 junction after
crossing over the Motocross track and riding various trails around there.
Nice and sandy, so not muddy until you get onto the farm tracks or roads ..


--
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http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

Paul - xxx

Helen Deborah Vecht composed the following ...
> "Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk>typed
>
>
>
>> "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:32qbtcF3mlue2U1@individual.net...
>>> To Geoff, who rides a very nice Trek road bike, (dunno if he reads this
>>> though) and who stopped to help when I got side-wiped today on the
>>> 'Safeway' roundabout between Doncaster and Armthorpe. Also thanks to the
>>> Range Rover driver who also stopped and offered to "stick the bike in
>>> the back and give me a lift" ..
>>>
>
>> Is that the road from the M18 into Donny, the A630? I've driven down
>> there quite a few times and it struck me how dangerous the roundabouts
>> were, what with drivers who have been doing motorway speeds intersecting
>> with doddery people coming out of the shopping outlets. Hope you have a
>> speedy recovery :-)
>
> I think that's Wheatley Hall Road.

No, Simon's right. It's a fairly new road, maybe only five years old, so as
you haven't been here for a few years you wouldn't know about it. Lovely
road surface, already getting cut up though.

> Doncaster Royal Infirmary's on Armthorpe Road, which doesn't have a
> number on my edition of AutoRoute. P'raps pop in there though.

I used to live on Malton road, a small road almost beside DRI, so know it
well. I did pop in actually and alls well, nothing broken, bruising to left
knee and swellings, and the bad cruciate ligament I have has been made a bit
worse, but that's it. Could have been much worse.

> It's 21 years since I worked at DRI, so nobody will remember me. (I
> reckon the local Audax contingent does, though...)
>
> Get well soon though.

Thanks.

--
Paul ...
http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

Roos Eisma

"Peter B" <peter28@btinternet.com> writes:

>Is there an acronym for these doddery little old ladies? How about Doddery
>Old Little Lady?
>Anyway, a DOLL passed me within inches on a decent open road on Sunday while
>the German registered artic following her managed to give me a good cars
>width of clearance. Frightening as these DOLLS often don't seem to see me.

And not just when they're driving. On the quite busy road near the
university I regularly see DOLLS (male and female) walking across the road
in front of me (in car or on bike), and their approach is to just step out
and refuse to look towards any oncoming traffic, probably along the lines
that if they don't see the traffic they don't have to acknowledge it's
there...

Roos

Clive George

"Roos Eisma" <roos@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:41c875ba$0$1160$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>
> And not just when they're driving. On the quite busy road near the
> university I regularly see DOLLS (male and female) walking across the road
> in front of me (in car or on bike), and their approach is to just step out
> and refuse to look towards any oncoming traffic, probably along the lines
> that if they don't see the traffic they don't have to acknowledge it's
> there...

Provided they do it equally to cars and bikes, I've got a certain amount of
respect for that attitude.

cheers,
clive