I was born in 1972 and went online in 2000. 28 years.... 2006 for broadband so, no broadband for 34 years....
I was born in 1972 and went online in 2000. 28 years.... 2006 for broadband so, no broadband for 34 years....
I don't understand how internet is (or not having it rather) can be called scary. Some, myself included, would call it beneficial, as I find myself being regularly couped up in the back room visiting LFS, Facebook, MSN and such instead of being outside and doing fun stuff such as socialising. I can't understand it sometimes.
thats hardcore! must have been quite a laugh after it was all said and done!
Ok guys seriously now...
I went to the Ace Cafe yesterday.. had to ride through central London basically..it was like rush hour!! WAS NOT FUN. :cry:
I went to the Ace Cafe yesterday.. had to ride through central London basically..it was like rush hour!! WAS NOT FUN. :cry:
Haha, yeah, North London has some scary roundabouts and people change lanes without indicating, people I know who ride bikes round here have been knocked off more times than they can remember.
The morning after my first (& last) pull a minger competition :eek: ive never ran so fast in my life.
& the split second before my worst car accident
.i dont know if thats north london, but this looks FAIL
Ah yeah, theres quite a few of those evil things about, I reckon the local councils design them just to scare/confuse the crap out of recently passed drivers/motorcyclists.
Ah yes, that old chesnut.
I have always thought that particular competition delivers a somewhat bittersweet victory to the man that goes that extra mile to take the title, because although you may have won, you may well have missed out on some very nice members of the fairer sex in the process of completing your mission.
The stuff of nightmares i tell ya!
that is a brilliant design if you think about it! and the link is wrong, you have to include the end parenthesi in the link.
All you need to do as add the ) on the end so it comes out as (swindon) and it works just fine!
Hmm, I have four moments that rank equally on my "most shaken" list:#
1) When scratching my neck, I felt a hard knot next to my spine. Thank god, it was just an infection of a lymph node and not cancer.
2) When a doe got partly into my car, through the windscreen at 80 kph. It was the only time in my life I had kind of a panic black out. Not that I passed out, but there's a gap in my memory from going along the road nicely when my then GF yelled "DOE!" to standing on a bycicle lane next to the road, with the car and myself full of doe fur and broken windscreen glass, and a thankfully quite dead but not brutally maimed doe next to the car.
3) Driving home on the busy Autobahn, going 140-150 kph when right out of nowhere a bike lay across my lane. I had no room to swerve left or right due to the heavy traffic and me and the bike being in the middle lane. Everything slowed down for me, including my perception of my own speed of reacting. Still I remained strangely calm, seeing the bike come nearer and nearer and realizing that when I hit it, I will most likely spin into another car at a very high speed, causing quite a severe accident.
Surprisingly, I squeezed past it.
I immediately called the authorities, and while phoning, I saw a hungarian car with a bike stand on the roof parked on the emergency lane. I described the car to the police. Sadly, the police wasn't able to clear or at least close the lane quickly enough, so the bike caused a heavy accident with severe injuries (but no fatalaties). Due to my help though, they got the culprits before they were 20 kilometers away from the scene.
4) Going on a well known road in the middle of a foggy winter night. The speed limit is 80, but most drivers drive 100 as it's safely possible to do so and no speed cameras around. That night though, I felt uneasy and I slowed down to 60. Then, at a right hand turn leading into a downward slope, I hit black ice. The steering got light, I got on the opposite lane, spun out to the right and skidded down the whole slope blocking both lanes. The 200 metres I slid were the longest in my life, with nothing I could do except bracing for impact in case I hit the guardrail, miss it and drop down the embankment, or an oncoming car which would be unable to brake due to the very ice I slid on.
Thank god none of that happened, and I could continue after having a few relieved deep breaths. Turned out that from the point I skid, the road was a massive surface of ice all the way home, which were another 10 kilometers.
1) When scratching my neck, I felt a hard knot next to my spine. Thank god, it was just an infection of a lymph node and not cancer.
2) When a doe got partly into my car, through the windscreen at 80 kph. It was the only time in my life I had kind of a panic black out. Not that I passed out, but there's a gap in my memory from going along the road nicely when my then GF yelled "DOE!" to standing on a bycicle lane next to the road, with the car and myself full of doe fur and broken windscreen glass, and a thankfully quite dead but not brutally maimed doe next to the car.
3) Driving home on the busy Autobahn, going 140-150 kph when right out of nowhere a bike lay across my lane. I had no room to swerve left or right due to the heavy traffic and me and the bike being in the middle lane. Everything slowed down for me, including my perception of my own speed of reacting. Still I remained strangely calm, seeing the bike come nearer and nearer and realizing that when I hit it, I will most likely spin into another car at a very high speed, causing quite a severe accident.
Surprisingly, I squeezed past it.
I immediately called the authorities, and while phoning, I saw a hungarian car with a bike stand on the roof parked on the emergency lane. I described the car to the police. Sadly, the police wasn't able to clear or at least close the lane quickly enough, so the bike caused a heavy accident with severe injuries (but no fatalaties). Due to my help though, they got the culprits before they were 20 kilometers away from the scene.
4) Going on a well known road in the middle of a foggy winter night. The speed limit is 80, but most drivers drive 100 as it's safely possible to do so and no speed cameras around. That night though, I felt uneasy and I slowed down to 60. Then, at a right hand turn leading into a downward slope, I hit black ice. The steering got light, I got on the opposite lane, spun out to the right and skidded down the whole slope blocking both lanes. The 200 metres I slid were the longest in my life, with nothing I could do except bracing for impact in case I hit the guardrail, miss it and drop down the embankment, or an oncoming car which would be unable to brake due to the very ice I slid on.
Thank god none of that happened, and I could continue after having a few relieved deep breaths. Turned out that from the point I skid, the road was a massive surface of ice all the way home, which were another 10 kilometers.
Not that good ones, i'll admit, but here goes:
1 - Coming round a bend on my bike. It's a blind 45° bend, thats quite narrow - the road is usually empty, and easy to blat round. However over the last few days i'd ended up with a bus coming into the middle of the road at me so I decided to slow down a little - I let off the throttle, slowing from about 50 - 55 to 45 - 40, and moved my right hand to the rear brake ready to squeeze - I also started to move my left hand to the front brake, however by this point I was almost at the apex. As I came round the bend, there was a bus coming straight at me on my side of the road about 10 feet away, doing about 30 - I grabbed the brake, however as only my right hand was ready the rear wheel was all I was slowing down. The rear wheel locked, and the bike started to slide across the road - however it meant I could go for the 4 foot gap between the bus and the verge. I slid past the bus sideways in the end, pulled the bike under control and carried on going.
2. Coming down a single-lane hill to find a car coming the other way at great speed. I put the brakes on, the wheels locked up straight away - turns out it was covered in ice. I managed to point the car at a bush rather than a head on collision, but my car was the one left stuck on an embankment while the other guy drove off! Every week I see this guy - and every week he's always driving way to fast and doesn't slow down...
3. A friend tried to overtake a bus before a tight-90° bend - the bus didn't see him and actually sped up, whereas my friends car wasn't as fast as he thought. As hard as he pushed he just got infront of the bus, and then turned into the bend understeering he was going so far. The tyres still smelt burnt a few minutes later...
4. Multiple on road moments as people do monumentally stupid things on the road without looking.
1 - Coming round a bend on my bike. It's a blind 45° bend, thats quite narrow - the road is usually empty, and easy to blat round. However over the last few days i'd ended up with a bus coming into the middle of the road at me so I decided to slow down a little - I let off the throttle, slowing from about 50 - 55 to 45 - 40, and moved my right hand to the rear brake ready to squeeze - I also started to move my left hand to the front brake, however by this point I was almost at the apex. As I came round the bend, there was a bus coming straight at me on my side of the road about 10 feet away, doing about 30 - I grabbed the brake, however as only my right hand was ready the rear wheel was all I was slowing down. The rear wheel locked, and the bike started to slide across the road - however it meant I could go for the 4 foot gap between the bus and the verge. I slid past the bus sideways in the end, pulled the bike under control and carried on going.
2. Coming down a single-lane hill to find a car coming the other way at great speed. I put the brakes on, the wheels locked up straight away - turns out it was covered in ice. I managed to point the car at a bush rather than a head on collision, but my car was the one left stuck on an embankment while the other guy drove off! Every week I see this guy - and every week he's always driving way to fast and doesn't slow down...
3. A friend tried to overtake a bus before a tight-90° bend - the bus didn't see him and actually sped up, whereas my friends car wasn't as fast as he thought. As hard as he pushed he just got infront of the bus, and then turned into the bend understeering he was going so far. The tyres still smelt burnt a few minutes later...
4. Multiple on road moments as people do monumentally stupid things on the road without looking.
it amazes me how some people can be so careless on the roads - just the other day me and my dad went to Banbury in his van to buy a couple of motorbikes and as we approached a roundabout a car parked on the side of the road suddenly cut right in front of us without even looking, then preceeded to drive straight onto the roundabout without looking almost getting totalled by a car going round the roundabout
as far as my family goes my dad's scary moments top the lot - the one I remember best happened about 10 years or so ago now. He was driving down a country lane in the evening so it was quite dark, he rounded a corner and suddenly saw a totally out of control car somersaulting towards him at speed. He swerved our car into the ditch on the side of the road as the car came within a few inches of smashing into the roof of it, it somersaulted a couple more times and landed upside down in a hedge. As me dad got out the car the headlights from it illuminated a what on later inspection turned out to be a Metro embedded in a tree. It turned out the other car had hit the Metro head on, catapulting the Metro backwards into a tree leaving it about half it's original size. Surprisingly the Metro driver only had a bad cut above his eye as far as I can remember and the guy in the other car broke his shoulder
Once i had gun on my head :tired: (ffs, im joking!!!)
Why would you put a gun on your head?
Thats just silly.
Thats just silly.
Road incidents are frequently a lot less horrific than they appear to be, and the fear is over fast as there is no sustained adrenaline, there is a moment you think you might die, then it's all over and you clearly aren't dead (or if you are, you maybe should stop reading LFS Forums and go about your business say 'woo' a lot).
If the most scared you have ever been is a near miss road accident then you are very lucky indeed, and I hope you can appreciate that.
Or are you all just too butch to admit your real fears, but talking about car stuff is easy because accidents are accepted as a bit random ?
If the most scared you have ever been is a near miss road accident then you are very lucky indeed, and I hope you can appreciate that.
Or are you all just too butch to admit your real fears, but talking about car stuff is easy because accidents are accepted as a bit random ?
Or maybe it's just because they are our real fears.
The average person dosen't get caught in a driveby, which may seem suprising, especially in this area.
Well, cars are the most dangerous things people in europe and northern america encounter on a regularly base. So this doesn't surprise me really.
Also, this threads dedicated to scary moments, as in: very short periods of time.
My biggest scare wasn't really over quickly, so it wouldn't qualify, but I will tell it anyway:
The Head of Department of my Journalism University simply didn't accept my final thesis, which I had worked on for over a year three times, thus expelling me from my university. He tried to do that since the second semester, but as there wasn't anything he could've done officially, as my "misconduct" was limited to not agreeing with him and costly things he did more for his personal gain and prestige than for the good of the students. He did try to force the occasional professor into having me to fail often enough to get kicked out, but I always managed to pass. Until the very last thesis. I honestly thought that, as I had come that far and would be gone anyway, he would just let me pass. But alas, he didn't.
So I stood there, with basically 4 years and lots of money and even more of my energy wasted, and no idea how to tell my parents, let alone how to cope with it or what I should do. Took quite a while until I recovered from that one.
Also, this threads dedicated to scary moments, as in: very short periods of time.
My biggest scare wasn't really over quickly, so it wouldn't qualify, but I will tell it anyway:
The Head of Department of my Journalism University simply didn't accept my final thesis, which I had worked on for over a year three times, thus expelling me from my university. He tried to do that since the second semester, but as there wasn't anything he could've done officially, as my "misconduct" was limited to not agreeing with him and costly things he did more for his personal gain and prestige than for the good of the students. He did try to force the occasional professor into having me to fail often enough to get kicked out, but I always managed to pass. Until the very last thesis. I honestly thought that, as I had come that far and would be gone anyway, he would just let me pass. But alas, he didn't.
So I stood there, with basically 4 years and lots of money and even more of my energy wasted, and no idea how to tell my parents, let alone how to cope with it or what I should do. Took quite a while until I recovered from that one.
everything i hear is, that OTHER PEOPLE do all this stupid things and dont know the rules / disrespect others.
but if you really could drive or handle what you are doing on the streets, you wouldn´t shit yourselfe every minute you´re driving..
i wonder how many people per day are pissed because they have to drive behind you lameass.
Wow - aggressive much? I'm sure i've done stupid things - but I can't believe I make stupid mistakes THAT often.
When i was in Egypt and the Taxi we were in, crashed onto a truck which was standing still in a corner.
What happened then? Konntest du da mit Hilfe der Justiz irgendwas machen?
does having someone who looks like miss piggy and is the size of a maybach jump on you at a party count as scary ?? or death its self
Post your scary moments thread!!
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