Whats your scariest experience?

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Bruiser on June 21, 2011 at 15:59

It happened recently while bombing my street, and even eclipses the events of Christmas Day 1995 (that's for another time). I'm on a reasonable but short hill. There is a stop sign then a left turn and down the hill is a left hand bend. There is a single lane speed hump a little further on. The left handed dog leg means that the speed hump is not able to be sighted. I was on the Dervish at the top of the hill coming back from an early morning roll. A 3 tonne truck and a car went through the stop sign and I gave them a good 20 - 30 seconds to have gone past the speed hump... and then I took off. My ohnomoment happened as I came around the slight bend at reasonable speed and 'JEEZUS' the truck and car were stopped waiting for a garbage truck to go through the single speed hump. My footbraking stinks; Pendy is non existent and my reactions clearly not good enough. All I had available was to pick a line between everything. I hit 2 sets of catseyes, but stayed aboard. I grazed the truck mirror with my shoulder. The only thing I could do was to stay committed to the line I had available and went between all cars and trucks without any injury and a poofteenth of an inch to spare....following that episode I could almost swear that the colour of adrenalin is brown.

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Permalink Reply by Sam Downs on June 21, 2011 at 16:19

Hahaha

Bruiser said:

It happened recently while bombing my street, and even eclipses the events of Christmas Day 1995 (that's for another time). I'm on a reasonable but short hill. There is a stop sign then a left turn and down the hill is a left hand bend. There is a single lane speed hump a little further on. The left handed dog leg means that the speed hump is not able to be sighted. I was on the Dervish at the top of the hill coming back from an early morning roll. A 3 tonne truck and a car went through the stop sign and I gave them a good 20 - 30 seconds to have gone past the speed hump... and then I took off. My ohnomoment happened as I came around the slight bend at reasonable speed and 'JEEZUS' the truck and car were stopped waiting for a garbage truck to go through the single speed hump. My footbraking stinks; Pendy is non existent and my reactions clearly not good enough. All I had available was to pick a line between everything. I hit 2 sets of catseyes, but stayed aboard. I grazed the truck mirror with my shoulder. The only thing I could do was to stay committed to the line I had available and went between all cars and trucks without any injury and a poofteenth of an inch to spare....following that episode I could almost swear that the colour of adrenalin is brown.

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Permalink Reply by Leksi on June 29, 2011 at 22:18

coming down the sweep and on the tight corner i nearly hit my primary school principal!

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Permalink Reply by Jake Day on June 29, 2011 at 22:35

wobbles while being trailed by a truck on a ~60km/h hill next to my high school early last year I think. didn't realise the truck was there til I was wobbling, didn't help much but I managed to kill the wobbles and get out of its way. driver seemed to think tailgating skaters is a funny way of getting us off the road... asshole

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Permalink Reply by mack daddies daddie on June 30, 2011 at 12:26

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