Maybe it was funny and horrifying at the same time for the people who saw you? Ouch. At least the laughter can ease some of that pain... It probably wouldn't hurt as much if there were no other people around to see you flipped into the ice sheet.JoanMcWench said:Well, funny to me or funny to those watching me? I bike a lot in the winter & a hydrant sprung a leak I didn't see in the snow so the street I was turning onto was coated in a sheet of ice. So, as I leisurely approach the turn at a speed I reconsidered in 2 minutes, I flipped completely over in front of a ton of people outside snowing. Oh, I laughed but my body was not laughing.
lol Well, thanks for trying to look on the bright side of the situation. They were laughing before I really got a choice in the matter quite frankly. The body heals though so no big deal.Vickeree said:Maybe it was funny and horrifying at the same time for the people who saw you? Ouch. At least the laughter can ease some of that pain... It probably wouldn't hurt as much if there were no other people around to see you flipped into the ice sheet.
Gelsemium said:OK connie, I don't get what happened there, so they greeted you and after that they didn't? There are some strange people all over, but usually bike people tend to be friendly.
I'm sorry, I thought it was clear...Connie858 said:My husband and I sometimes cycle together and often tour together. One time we were touring we had front and rear panniers, plus extra kit on our bikes for a really long tour. We were on an uphill climb on a coast road when we were over taken by 2 men in matching lycra, made worse by the fact their kit matched the colour of their bikes. They didn't say hello or anything polite like that. Now my husband and I were not really trying, we still had an entire day of cycling ahead of us and were pacing ourselves, chatting away as we did the climb. We get to the top and start the downhill and it is not long before we are catching them. They are lying down across the top bars of their bikes trying their hardest to be aerodynamic. Our touring bikes don't have drop bars and are based on a mountain bike design. They are rugged off--road touring bikes capable of going anywhere, often further than the rider can. As we caught them up, these 2 were so far out into the road that our only line was to undertake them. So my husband unclips his cycle helmet and as he undertakes the first of them sits absolutely bolt upright and takes off his helmet and yells "good day sir!" as he sails on passed this man lying flat across his bike! It was rather hard to keep a straight face when I promptly undertook both of them as well. 3/4 of the way up the next climb they caught us up again, neither said a word to us as the overtook us, and then promptly stopped at the top of the hill. We just carried on cycling passed them with totally straight faces until the next corner.
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