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Anyone had any close shaves lately ?

I had an idiot in a van do a right turn across me this morning. I turned to my right to let my shoulder take the worst of the impact and somehow and with bike handling skills of which Griff would have been proud, bounced and swerved around the van !! The driver just drove off !!

I was at the Dyffryn Arms heading for Brynhyfryd the other week. Lights were red and there were a small queue of cars up ahead. Suddenly, a (female) driver in a small black car at the side of the road started pulling out right in front of me. I swore and rapidly lost about 15mph, certain we would collide or I would get forced into oncoming traffic.

Turns out she was just moving to a better parking place and proceeded to gently pull back in again, never once taking her eyes off the left-hand kerb. She was oblivious to my presence throughout the whole manoeuvre, unlike some rather wide-eyed pedestrians.

Yeah, last Saturday. Margam Crem roundabout with the 'classic' fast car coming up the slip-road and entering the roundabout without looking right and nearly taking me out!

To be fair to the motorist, I did get an apology.

this was a bit more than a gillette moment.
i was going over kenfig links at about 20 mph last wednesday got out of saddle to go up rise by angle pub, snaped my chain and went straight over the handle bars. well cut and grazed and p***ed off at it.
simon

Ouch.

I had another close shave today. Just got to the top of Stormy when a car came across from the lanes on the right-hand side and decided not to bother waiting for a gap in the traffic but join the carriageway by turning right into the right-hand lane thus causing the cars overtaking me to swerve back into the left-hand lane and squeeze past very close. Gobsmacked.

James Lewis
Anything to tell us ?

plenty of war wound but so much choice which 1 do you want

The whole story of your battle with the car ! The race report can go on the other thread James !!

well what well what it was i was riding along in the race when a car pulled out on me without indicating or looking in his wing mirror so we went round the car but i took off then it stopped on a junction where there were no cars comin so we overtook him and he shouted to the marshals however 100 yrds up the road he overtook us again shouting at us so we ignored him he then stopped to talk to marshals at the bottom of a monstrosity of a hill so we carried on the 200 yrds up the road a car comes past us just a bit faster than we were going and forced us into the gutter and slowed down openning the door on us cutting my knee and some damage to my kit so i said what you playing at !!!