Forest of Dean for us.

I’ve been twice, both times with my twin boys (16 y.o.)

Last year No. 2 son, who’s a good rider but always pushing that little bit more, went OTB and busted his collar bone. Several hours at the Minor Injuries place just down the road.

Went again this weekend past and No. 1 son, decent rider but more conservative than No. 2 had a spill on one of the blue downhill sections. Not a ‘serious’ accident but a long slide and some pretty painful grazing to his arm, thigh and behind the shoulder.

Is it me next?

Where’s your location of doom?

Chicksands for me, not been the same for me since last year after I found a successful suicide early morning. I still ride there but not as much and always funny feeling about it, shame as it was my fave local area.

Hanchurch Woods for me.

Used to do regular evening rides there during the summer, the number of times they were cut short due to things breaking, e.g. mech hangers, handlebars, a swingarm on one occasion, and one time the 15 minute drive home ended up with the car spinning 3 times and crashing into a hedgerow twice.

The A4232

It’s a short dual carriageway that runs from Cardiff Bay to the M4.

In the 15 years I’ve been driving I’ve been stopped by the police exactly twice, both for speeding “it’s a fair cop officer” both times on that road. Once going north, once going south.

In 15 years I’ve broken down and been unable to continue exactly once – on that road.

But the one that sticks in my mind – early one morning I was escorting a young lady home I’d met the night before when she said she could smell burning, “that’s okay, it always does that” but it was worse than that, little drips of burning plastic were landing on her legs and as she told me so a lick of flame came out of the top of the dashboard – I managed to pull over and get us out just in time to see my beloved Golf VR6 burn to the ground – guess where I was?

If you ever drive north up the A4232 from Cardiff and exit on the junction for Culverhouse Cross you may still see a Golf shaped burn mark on the exit ramp, it belongs to me – I’ve owned that patch of road for more than 10 years and I do mean own – after the fire the council sent me a bill for £1500 to repair the road (as I had 3rd party only insurance) which I paid in the end – but they never repaired it.

Gatwick Airport

Junction 6 of the M8 – I’ve written off three cars at the same motorway junction, only one of which was my fault.

I don’t go that way now if i can help it.

Bridleway at the back of Beacon Hill Leicestershire – I still don’t fully know what went wrong. I must have hit a square edged obstacle went OTB and broke my collarbone right at the end. The broken bit is not big enough to get a screw in to it. That was last September, I finally got my surgery date to remove the broken bit as it is hindering movement.

Planet Earth. 100% of everything that has ever happened to me has happened on this planet so I’m pretty sure some mystical force is at work here. I’m certainly sticking to this assumption until I can verify whether I am similarly fortunate / unfortunate on another celestial body.

Miami, been delayed there 3 times now, on way out to honeymoon we missed connecting flight to St Lucia due to storm, then got delayed on way back to and stayed there an extra day due to electrical problems with plane. Got stuck there a third time on way back from Bolivia when American Airlines coulnd’t find my booking on their system, looks like a great place on TV, but i’ve only ever known the cheap hotels near the airport…

fter the fire the council sent me a bill for £1500 to repair the road

they can do that?

tuskaloosa – Member
fter the fire the council sent me a bill for £1500 to repair the road
they can do that?

Yes, there was a change in legalisation years ago that pretty much made you liable for costs due to a RTA.

It was a while ago but I think in total I had bills for:

from the council to clear and repair the road (of which they did none).

A bill for the Ambulance.

And a bill for recovering the car and storing it – it was nothing but a pile of twisted scrap so when they sent me a letter saying either I pay up £650 or they’d seize the car to recover the cost which seemed like a good deal so I took it.

Usually the insurance deals with it all so it just gets added to everyone else’s premium, but I had “3rd party only” cover without the all important “fire and theft” bit so I got stuck with it all. I tried to argue that they were all 3rd parties but they said it didn’t work that way.

The path at the bottom of Bathpool park near Kidsgrove, Stoke on Trent. As a new cyclist with some new pedals I very amateurishly grabbed a handful of front brake when confronted with a pedestrian round a corner, went otb and broke my clavicle. Had to have it plated and several months off the bike. I have a nice ribbony white scar to show for it and I always sorta wince whenever I pass there now.