Being literally sandwhich-ed between Two cars in Modesto after a Record producer fell asleep at the wheel at 40 mph while I was waiting for the light to turn green. My friends car was totaled. I had a little whiplash and some cuts and bruises.
The worst one was when I was 15, I was riding home on my "beater" bike from a friends house in Modesto and I was physically beaten by a person who felt I shouldn't have gone around a car on the street.
The sidewalk wasn't clear so I carefully went around the car. He literally got out and physically punched me. I made no gestures, no movements of my arms.
I went to the hospital. The DA and police never found them. Thankfully the bank employees and KO93 employees came out and helped me to the ambulance.
I could tell you more stories of my riding experiences back then. These days it's about the traffic and not so much the stereotypical aggitated- I hate cyclists in gay-clothes kind of person.

You reminded me of one (of MANY) bicycling accidents in my youth.

One time I was riding to my girlfriends house and I only had sandals on (yeah, I know: stupid). Somehow, my foot rolled forward on the peddle when the peddle was at the bottom of the stroke. My foot got trapped wedged between the peddle and the ground (due to the sudden imbalance, my other foot came of the other peddle). I was going quite fast, so the tip of my big toe got ground down by about a 1/2". Since there was nothing around besides closed businesses (it was industrial area). all I could do was ride the remaining mile and a half to the girlfriend's house.

Yummy!

:eek: The same thing happened to the Stoat while he was wearing a thong - he has the scar to prove it !

Please tell me this use of the word "thong" is what, in Hawaii, would be called a slipper and most other places a flip flop.

That's my guess. In New Zealand, they are called "jandals," which is a concatenation of Japanese sandals.

I grew up calling them thongs. Nickolas calls them flipflops.

Was he wearing the official LoT thong?

* the hood of my car coming loose and flipping up backwards onto my windshield at highway speeds.

* my driver side rear tire exploding at highway speeds

* zoning out and wondering why there were cars crossing in front of me only to realize I had a red light, they had the green- and it was too late to stop. I fly between one car that had gone through and one that saw me coming and stopped. I got through and flipped out and pulled over to collect myself.

Driving a rented U-Haul truck thru a blizzard/Ice Storm from Portland, Oregon to Gig Harbor Washington.......

The whole trip was white knuckle action.....it felt kinda like a bad video game with cars and trucks periodically skidding off the road in a kinda slow-motion ballet.

The highlight of the trip was going across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...couldn't see but a few feet in front of me but visibility was quite clear looking down:eek: At about the half-way point on my journey across the bridge I remembered just what bridge I was crossing....my knuckles got even whiter at that point. Long story short, I made it there and back and the whole trip only took me 19 hours(normally a round trip between Portland and Gig Harbor would take about 5 - 6)

Yesterday on the 15 the wind was blowing so hard that all the high profile vehicles were swaying as if they were going to flip. Cars were swerving within their lanes.

Very scary.