Lucky Escapes
Freddie Woo says: Looking back on it, the moment when we left the road because I was trying to get the demister to work, regaining control just in time to miss a tree probably wasn't my finest bit of driving, nor my cleanest pair of pants. Tell us about your lucky escapes
( , Thu 4 Jul 2013, 15:44)
Freddie Woo says: Looking back on it, the moment when we left the road because I was trying to get the demister to work, regaining control just in time to miss a tree probably wasn't my finest bit of driving, nor my cleanest pair of pants. Tell us about your lucky escapes
( , Thu 4 Jul 2013, 15:44)
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I've got about 40k miles on 2 wheels.
Spread out over 6 years. Would have more but keep getting iced in or my last functioning bike breaks down. I've really got to pull my finger out and fix one of the other ones...
"Well written." Not many people say that about my writing, lol.
As for the si(x)th sense, I actually have almost no recollection of one of my other near misses which happened about half a mile from near miss 1. I remember the car starting to pull out then my memory blanks up to the point where the danger had passed (when the car had got out of the way and I was virtually at a standstill about 4ft short of the junction) apart from one thing- the amount of pressure I was using on the front brake. That's the only thing that got filed away by my brain.
For all my near misses, the duration between dropping the anchors and (so far) not hitting the div that's cut me up has been less than 2 seconds.
I hope that, if I finally get taken out, it's by a mid-sized SUV as the height is about right for me to fly in through the driver's side window and take the driver out as well. Preferably an X5 'cos everybody hates BMW drivers.
( , Mon 8 Jul 2013, 13:31, Reply)
Spread out over 6 years. Would have more but keep getting iced in or my last functioning bike breaks down. I've really got to pull my finger out and fix one of the other ones...
"Well written." Not many people say that about my writing, lol.
As for the si(x)th sense, I actually have almost no recollection of one of my other near misses which happened about half a mile from near miss 1. I remember the car starting to pull out then my memory blanks up to the point where the danger had passed (when the car had got out of the way and I was virtually at a standstill about 4ft short of the junction) apart from one thing- the amount of pressure I was using on the front brake. That's the only thing that got filed away by my brain.
For all my near misses, the duration between dropping the anchors and (so far) not hitting the div that's cut me up has been less than 2 seconds.
I hope that, if I finally get taken out, it's by a mid-sized SUV as the height is about right for me to fly in through the driver's side window and take the driver out as well. Preferably an X5 'cos everybody hates BMW drivers.
( , Mon 8 Jul 2013, 13:31, Reply)
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