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nuttycyclist:
Commuting home.  Not raining but moisture in air.  Very wet roads.  30mph of A13 in very heavy traffic.

I think I hit a big stone, might have been the edge of a manhole but my autopilot usually avoids them and it felt like a stone.


Front wheel popped up, jerked left by a few inches, slid left on landing.  Somehow I grabbed the bars (nearly sprained my left wrist, it ached for a few minutes) and recovered the bike.


In hindsight I nearly ate tarmac and was then crushed by the rush hour traffic.

Phew.

toekneep:
Blimey, bad luck Nutty. Hope you've come down, that sort of incident can really freak you out.

Well done for keeping control.

nuttycyclist:
It was the hindsight stuff, such as realising I was on FrankenFixie so couldn't even have freewheeled while recovering, that was the scariest (while also monitoring that painful wrist).



It really does start to kick in that the only way to keep a bike upright is to spend hours and hours in the saddle.

andygates:
Those "way-hey! yargh!" moments are horrid on fixed, aren't they?

nuttycyclist:
underpants changed.

chilling out.


just remembered bike is still on drive.  Back in 2 ticks once I've put it away..

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