When am I most likely to have a cycling accident?

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Actually I just had one. Fell off. Only a little fall, but enough to
chip the top of my tibia (bone in leg). That's the nature of young-
persons arthritis unfortunately.

I was the only person harmed. It was rush hour on the Strand, coming
up to Trafalgar Square. Very very tight for space (if you've ever been
down the Strand in rush hour you will know), and I was also feeling
frustrated at not finding the place I was looking for.

Cue - discuss rush hour traffic in Central London.

On 19 Jun, 00:15, bornfree <justyouan...@xemaps.com> wrote:
> I was the only person harmed. It was rush hour on the Strand, coming
> up to Trafalgar Square. Very very tight for space (if you've ever been
> down the Strand in rush hour you will know), and I was also feeling
> frustrated at not finding the place I was looking for.
>
> Cue - discuss rush hour traffic in Central London.

Ouch. Sympathy etc.

Yeah, I gave up commuting down the Strand because it is always so
crowded in rush hour that it is hard to make forward progress even on
a bike. I now cut down to the river and go along the embankment,
slightly further but much faster.

As for your first question, my experience is that I'm most lilkely to
fall off when messing around doing silly stuff off-road than when
simply cycling from A to B. No surprise there then.

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:15:04 -0700 (PDT), bornfree
<justyouandme@xemaps.com> said in
<1e36d815-c936-4246-8f8a-1c96200814a2@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>:

>I was the only person harmed. It was rush hour on the Strand, coming
>up to Trafalgar Square. Very very tight for space (if you've ever been
>down the Strand in rush hour you will know), and I was also feeling
>frustrated at not finding the place I was looking for

I ride along the Strand in peak time most days

>Cue - discuss rush hour traffic in Central London.

I think the term "rush hour" is ironic. I prefer "morning hate" and
"evening hate" although in London I find that this is much reduced
since the advent of the C-charge.

Guy
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, bornfree wrote:

> Actually I just had one. Fell off. Only a little fall, but enough to
> chip the top of my tibia (bone in leg). That's the nature of young-
> persons arthritis unfortunately.
>
> I was the only person harmed. It was rush hour on the Strand, coming
> up to Trafalgar Square. Very very tight for space (if you've ever been
> down the Strand in rush hour you will know), and I was also feeling
> frustrated at not finding the place I was looking for.
>
> Cue - discuss rush hour traffic in Central London.

I've been commuting from Commercial Road to Euston at lunchtimes for the
past few weeks. With a buggered transmission which means i accelerate like
a geriatric sloth. Not fun.

tom

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