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44 posts & 37 voices | Started 2 years ago by cynic-al | Latest reply from coffeeking

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cynic-al - Member

I went into the back of a car today, second time ever, only a couple of wee scratches on the back of a fairly mint Saab soft-top. Thought the rough 40's female driver might go raj but she was not bothered.

Last time my front rack dented the back of a builder's pick up...had to LOL when the driver got out to inspect his tailgate...there were 50+ other dents on it WTF111

Anyone elso done this? Best story I know of is a Bugher roadie (Simon Muir if anyone knows him) hitting a parked car at 30mh during a time trial...

Posted 2 years ago #
PeterPoddy - Member

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes.

I'm the expert on this. 1 Citroen and 1 BMW so far. It hurts.

Posted 2 years ago #
el_creedo - Member

Back in the days of awesome huge bar ends I destroyed a wingmirror on an Escort at about 25mph after the daft bint driving it decided to turn right with no indication.
Specialized bar ends saved my hand!

Posted 2 years ago #
Gary_M - Member

Is this a troll based on last weeks 'car ran into the back of cyclist but didn't really and cyclist went mental' thread?

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

Done it once - following a car that is about to turn right and I was turning right as well - the car decided at the last moment that the gap in traffic was too small and slammed on the brakes. I was intending to follow him thru the gap which was plenty big enough so didn't stop in time - ended up sitting on the boot of the car. No damage bar a bruised ego

Posted 2 years ago #
samuri - Member

Yeah, long time ago, cars up ahead stopped fast at a crossing, I braked hard (it was raining), too much water on my rims so nothing happened, SLAM!!!

Old chap got out, looked at the dint in his bumper and at my tacoed wheel, his wife made him give me a lift home and he apologised all the way.

Posted 2 years ago #
AndyP - Member

oh aye. Straight into the back of a 206. Completely cleared the car, lengthways, landed on the road in front. Car completely undamaged. Front wheel slightly the worse for wear. Woman driver somewhat shaken by loud bang and fat hairy man somersaulting her car.
My fault entirely. I was slipstreaming her and then I was...um..distracted as she braked, by an absolutely stunning young lady walking along the pavement. Cracking legs.

Posted 2 years ago #
allthepies - Member

>Thought the rough 40's female driver might go raj

What do her looks have to do with things ?

Posted 2 years ago #
thisisnotaspoon - Member

Took out the back of a pug estate with my moped when I was 16.

Bizzarely, from 30mph the only damage was a 1" crack to my front fairing (nicely covered by my L plate) and a chopped number plate! Ohh, and a very impressive bruise where my hips/abs had taken the brunt of my weight against the handlebars.

Similar excuse to AndyP, why does it never show up in official statistics?

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

Is it not radge rather than Raj?

Posted 2 years ago #
user-removed - Member

Been there twice. First age 12 on my paper round. Found a Reevox reel to reel tape recorder in a bin and took it home. Half way down King's Gate (steep Aberdeen hill) it swung round and banged my elbow. Went straight into a parked car, over the roof and hit the road hard.

Second was my fault too - not paying attention and ran into a car boot in Edinburgh. Woman was very apologetic despite brake lever scratches all over her boot....

Posted 2 years ago #
mtbfix - Member

15 years ago as a fit and fast teen I was beaning the Spec. Epic up a hill and ran into the back of a stationary Metro. I saw it a fraction before impact so only hit with the STI unit and recall seeing the faces of the girls in the back as I flew by. Dented their boot, bent my bars and got a load of cuts and scrapes for my inattention. Still have the ghost of a scar on my ankle too. Their was a smudge of red paint on the STI for years after.

Posted 2 years ago #
DezB - Member

I tumbled onto the boot of a Crossfire. Roadworks on a hill, sat at the temp traffic lights in the dark, head down, waiting to pull away.
Brake lights went off, so I leant on the pedal. And stopped! Over the bars onto the boot.
Woman in the Crossfire was really apologetic, but she had to drive off first to get through the roadworks and actually waited up the road to make sure I was ok!
Almost restored my faith in humanity (almost)

Posted 2 years ago #
LsD - Member

So ye'll be lookin' for new forks, then............

Posted 2 years ago #
coogan - Member

Sue them Al, you have the power.

Posted 2 years ago #
convert - Member

I went into the back of a scaffold lorry that slammed its brakes on to avoid a car coming out of a junction. I was flat out, head dropped a bit and didn't clock it in time. The scaffold bars were sticking out of the back of the flatbed and one grazed the side of my neck on the left and another broke my right collar bone. I broke both wrists on impact and to add injury to injury my front wheel got stuck around his number plate bar and when he set off again not realising I had gone into the back of him, I got dragged down the road for about 30yds before coming detached. It smarted a bit.

The real irony was that I was caning it back home (hence the dropped head) as I was late for a meeting to set up life insurance!

Posted 2 years ago #
walla24 - Member

was winging it through a traffic jam a while back lots of room to get by inbetween the cars and pavement...didnt expect the bike carrier on one car though-bike to bike collision. No damage to his bikes most of the impact was adsorbed by my flesh...got up and started to apologise to the driver but he went ape and started chasing me down the road....fairly embarrassing in front of a queue of people! hid in a bush for about an hour...

Posted 2 years ago #
cynic-al - Member

Pies - you should have seen her. Pub-fighting chav made good I reckon.

TandemJeremy - Member
Is it not radge rather than Raj?

Correct!

Posted 2 years ago #
owenfackrell - Member

Twice for me (sort of) the first time i was about 13 and doing a paper round in the dark and went round a courner straight in to the front of a parked van Got off with nothing worse than a dented pride. The second time was a few years ago when riding down a hill an old lady pulled out of a side road realised she couldn't get past the parked cars next to the junction, stopped and i couldn't. that left a dent in her boot and a dead leg for me with a lump on the top of my calf (which is still there). She tried to tell me it was my fault as i lay in the road. I pointed out that she had pulled out in front of me and i couldn't stop in time at which point she said i should get better brakes (I had discs and slick tyres and it was dry) and drove off with that comment.

Posted 2 years ago #
norbert colon - Member

Yep I've done this. Some time back commuting in Ipswich on a very windy day, head down. I look up and there is a parked car right in front of me, too late to brake and I ended up sprawled across the roof of the car.

No damage other than dented pride luckily

Posted 2 years ago #
ahwiles - Member

i once rode into the back of my own car...

(i carry a card that explains to others that i'm sometimes a bit 'special')

Posted 2 years ago #
Ben_mw - Member

Had the slowest speed bump into the back of someone waiting at a roundabout when I thought he was going to go, so was braking for the white line rather than the back of a car 3m closer. Couldn't un clip so keeled over into the road and was rather suprised when the driver started to apologise to me! No damage fortunatley.
2nd one wasn't my fault, a women in an Astra estate pulled out of a side road and set off the same direction as me. Still not sure how this happened but I slamed into the side of the car, leaving a forearm sized dent. I suspect her two little kids learnt a naughty word or two that day - and not from me either! The noise when we hit was amazing, and once more the driver was amazingly apologetic.

Posted 2 years ago #
ti_pin_man - Member

Yep, I dented the boot of a stoopid taxi driver who decided late to do a u-turn on dundas street in edinburgh. Anybody who knows the hill will know its a cracking quick decent where careless speeds of 40+ are easlty do-able. Yes I was being careless, cough.

the crash killed my old harry quinn steel commuter road bike but the dent was football shaped and i was very impressed by my heads efforts! Silly me had had a mtb crash the week before and had sent back the lid for crash replacement, so it was only my thick skull and the pirate bandana that did the dent!

Posted 2 years ago #
taka - Member

nowt to do with a car but my mate once tryed jumping a skip in town on his bmx he ended up brakeing his collar bone

Posted 2 years ago #
CountZero - Member

Once for me, riding home after doing my newspaper selling job at the local engineering works, (Westinghouse). Moving line of cars suddenly stop, me, not paying attentio, ride into back of a Jaguar. Fortunately no damage, except to pride. My step brother has ridden into the back of a couple of cars, out triathlon training. Head down, hammering it, sudden abrupt stop. Bent forks, taco'd wheel, broken collar-bone, multiple grazes and contusions. Clot!

Posted 2 years ago #
wwaswas - Member

There's a bloke near me who's a quadraplegic since riding into the back of a car in roadie 'full on sprint' mode

Posted 2 years ago #
anotherdeadhero - Member

I've had a couple of near misses, one dozy bint slammed her anchors on to TR with no warning, OK I was a bit close, I just managed to scrub enough speed off to bump her bumper. She didn't even notice. Another time I had a load of greasy grime on my rims, pulled up behind my boss at a T junction leaving work, no brakes, swerved around her and shot the junction, luckily there was just enough space in traffic for me to shoot the gap. She wasn't impressed

Posted 2 years ago #
ctznsmith - Member

I've never connected with the boot.

One door aged about 15 on a Claud Butler Kylama, the bike was fine not a scratch. The person who's car it was pretty annoyed even though they had pulled out in front of me.

One bonnet, last year on my tricross when someone 'was let out' of a road to turn right across two lanes of traffic. I (coming down the outside) couldn't see him behind the truck letting him out. Ended up sat on his bonnet with a large bruise on my leg from the end of my drop bars and a slightly bent brake lever/shifter. I'd completely knocked his front bumper off though and he was very irate claiming (like the person above) that it was my fault - which I hold my hands up and say it might have been, not sure on legally who was in the right.

Posted 2 years ago #
cynic-al - Member

ctzn smith in that situation I think it's accepted that you have a duty to expect that someone might be coming out and slow down accordingly - possibly shared blame?

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

cynic al - shared responsibility 50 / 50 has been the case in the past as there is case law on it - but I seem to remember recent stuff has altered this a bit so it is possible to put all blame on the car driver in some circumstances

Posted 2 years ago #
druidh - Member

IS that really shared responsibility? Surely the cyclist doing the overtaking was doing so un-sighted. That could have been a child crossing the road in front of that lorry.

Posted 2 years ago #
ctznsmith - Member

I'm a lot more careful these days...I really wasn't going that fast but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Posted 2 years ago #
Keva - Member

hey TJ...No damage bar a bruised ego

must have been a big bruise then

seriously, the only time I've ever known anyone to cycle into the back of a car was when me a mate were racing our bikes home from school. We used to pedal like maniacs down this hill to go a fast as possible and my mate rode into the back of a parked Transit van doing at least 20+ mph. I was laughin' my head off, until I went back up the hill and saw the state of him.

Kev

Posted 2 years ago #
TandemJeremy - Member

Druidh - yes - shared responsibility but a recent appeal gives more to the driver. The case law is from motorcycles

Powel v Moody is the original case from the 60s which puts it shared responsibility 80 / 20 in favour of the cvar driver to 50 / 50 which is more usual - a friend of mine was involved in one a few years ago that was decided 50 / 50 in court.

The recent appeal is Davis v Schrogin where the car driver was found 100% to blame.

So if a filtering accident came to court now i would expect somewhere between 50 / 50 and 100% car driver depending on the actual circumstances.

It is legal to filter therefore the driver has a responsibility to ensure that no one is filtering before they make their manouvere

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Posted 2 years ago #
xcstu - Member

Yep

Used to ride into London for work...

Brand new Mini Cooper S...
driver never got out of the car.... but a massive crack in his rear bumper... oops (must say wasn't my fault)

Mopeds a few time... and a courier motorbike...

Riding a road bike with not the best brakes and not the best traffic!

Posted 2 years ago #