Comments on: The Most Terrifying Thing About Road Cycling http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/ It's like reality TV. Except it's real. And there's no TV. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 03:21:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: scratch repair cars http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-2/#comment-527033 scratch repair cars Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:11:39 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-527033 <strong>scratch repair cars...</strong> One day I may have the opportunity to participate in scratch repair cars. I hope I handle it as well as you did.... scratch repair cars…

One day I may have the opportunity to participate in scratch repair cars. I hope I handle it as well as you did….

]]> By: Greg http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-2/#comment-513311 Greg Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:28:36 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-513311 Fatty, this post is genius! Thanks for the laugh (at your expense, although now you know better!) Fatty, this post is genius! Thanks for the laugh (at your expense, although now you know better!)

]]> By: Matt http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-2/#comment-512034 Matt Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:31:15 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-512034 Once at a stop light at a busy intersection, my 220lb friend fell over on me while practicing a track stand. PTSD, I won't go within 5ft of him now anywhere. Todd's experience hitting a deer (above comment) sounds horrifying. Once at a stop light at a busy intersection, my 220lb friend fell over on me while practicing a track stand. PTSD, I won’t go within 5ft of him now anywhere. Todd’s experience hitting a deer (above comment) sounds horrifying.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-2/#comment-510873 Daniel Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:08:36 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-510873 That looking left and drifting right thing... In NC the road often ends right at the white line. My front wheel slipped over the edge and I went down hard. Broken collar bone, broken shoulder blade, ruptured tendon. I had shoulder reconstruction surgery and 2 months of physical therapy. Also someone up there mentioned RAGBRAI. I dropped into one of those center cracks and somehow didn't go down, but it sure as hell got my adrenaline pumping. 5 minutes later I saw a guy who was not as lucky as me go down and break his collar bone. That looking left and drifting right thing… In NC the road often ends right at the white line. My front wheel slipped over the edge and I went down hard. Broken collar bone, broken shoulder blade, ruptured tendon. I had shoulder reconstruction surgery and 2 months of physical therapy.

Also someone up there mentioned RAGBRAI. I dropped into one of those center cracks and somehow didn’t go down, but it sure as hell got my adrenaline pumping. 5 minutes later I saw a guy who was not as lucky as me go down and break his collar bone.

]]> By: Krissy http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-2/#comment-510042 Krissy Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:26:32 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-510042 Sheesh! This brings me back: I was 7 years old and racing my dad on a 10 speed, hit one of those cracks, took flight, and busted out my front 4 teeth. It took about 22 years to get back on a bike and I still get a little dry-mouthed around those cracks in the road! (Oh and my dad still feels guilty for mistaking me as "fine" and riding the rest of the way home without me. I feel guilty for picking my teeth up off the street and making him pass out when I got home!) Thanks, I'm home with pneumonia, and the blog and the comments have made me crack up! Sheesh! This brings me back: I was 7 years old and racing my dad on a 10 speed, hit one of those cracks, took flight, and busted out my front 4 teeth. It took about 22 years to get back on a bike and I still get a little dry-mouthed around those cracks in the road! (Oh and my dad still feels guilty for mistaking me as “fine” and riding the rest of the way home without me. I feel guilty for picking my teeth up off the street and making him pass out when I got home!)
Thanks, I’m home with pneumonia, and the blog and the comments have made me crack up!

]]> By: Art http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-2/#comment-510030 Art Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:43:29 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-510030 I was trying to clip into my pedals when I slowly rear ended a nice MG Midget stopped at a light. My left foot was forced by the left of the tail light my bike and the rest of me cleared the car. I found myself in a fine position of having to apologize to the passenger as I straddled my bike with my left foot on the trunk of the car! There was no damage done to my body, the car or the environment, but my social scars to this day have not healed. To this day (three decades hence)I cannot speak to people that even look like they might drive a two sports car! I was trying to clip into my pedals when I slowly rear ended a nice MG Midget stopped at a light. My left foot was forced by the left of the tail light my bike and the rest of me cleared the car. I found myself in a fine position of having to apologize to the passenger as I straddled my bike with my left foot on the trunk of the car! There was no damage done to my body, the car or the environment, but my social scars to this day have not healed. To this day (three decades hence)I cannot speak to people that even look like they might drive a two sports car!

]]> By: TimRides http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-1/#comment-510024 TimRides Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:52:37 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-510024 Our club has had way too many broken bones this year due to cracks. Concrete, blacktop, you name it, we've managed to encounter cracks in pretty much all road surface types. Maybe it was the heat this summer, but the cracks seem more numerous this year. Our club has had way too many broken bones this year due to cracks. Concrete, blacktop, you name it, we’ve managed to encounter cracks in pretty much all road surface types. Maybe it was the heat this summer, but the cracks seem more numerous this year.

]]> By: a chris http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-1/#comment-510017 a chris Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:29:58 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-510017 McBain and Gargoyle, I'm in the UK and I'm nodding vigorously at most of both of your points. Cyclist with earbuds and oblivious behaviour was this morning's encounter and I had a good rant about it to my husband who was riding with me. Bus drivers in Cambridge (UK) seem MOSTLY to be deliberately avoiding hurting me, for which I am grateful (and respect them all the more) but there are some odd drivers who are not. Taxis seem more pushy with cyclists as a class. Attractive females have no effect on me generally (nor I on them), as a heterosexual female myself, but you (McBain) remind me of a funny experience I had riding a motorbike as a teenager. Got smiled, waved, and giggled at by some girls as I went by in my high school jacket, ponytail sticking out the back of my full-face helmet. I did not have the nerve to go back, take off the helmet, and reciprocate their friendliness. McBain and Gargoyle, I’m in the UK and I’m nodding vigorously at most of both of your points. Cyclist with earbuds and oblivious behaviour was this morning’s encounter and I had a good rant about it to my husband who was riding with me.

Bus drivers in Cambridge (UK) seem MOSTLY to be deliberately avoiding hurting me, for which I am grateful (and respect them all the more) but there are some odd drivers who are not. Taxis seem more pushy with cyclists as a class.

Attractive females have no effect on me generally (nor I on them), as a heterosexual female myself, but you (McBain) remind me of a funny experience I had riding a motorbike as a teenager. Got smiled, waved, and giggled at by some girls as I went by in my high school jacket, ponytail sticking out the back of my full-face helmet. I did not have the nerve to go back, take off the helmet, and reciprocate their friendliness.

]]> By: Kathleen@ForgingAhead http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-1/#comment-510008 Kathleen@ForgingAhead Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:23:01 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-510008 Heard that. I miss a lot of lovely scenery while road cycling because I'm boring holes into the road ahead looking for glass chips and cracks. Heard that. I miss a lot of lovely scenery while road cycling because I’m boring holes into the road ahead looking for glass chips and cracks.

]]> By: Brian http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/comment-page-1/#comment-510006 Brian Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:42:05 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/12/09/the-most-terrifying-thing-about-road-cycling/#comment-510006 Yet another reason for using wide tires. I still respect cracks, but they're not as daunting on 35-40 mm tires as they were on my old race bike. Yet another reason for using wide tires. I still respect cracks, but they’re not as daunting on 35-40 mm tires as they were on my old race bike.

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