so i'm riding with three kids on our way to the bar (sidenote: we drank for 14 hours in total that day)
i'm in the middle and a car cuts us off on a turn, my friend infront of me makes it but i have skip to a quick stop to avoid hitting the car. i go to pull out of my clip because there's now traffic and i can only trackstand for like .0987 seconds low and behold my #$@*%in shoelace gets tangled up and i tip. hit the ground so hard that i bent my toe clip with my foot still in it and broke my toe in the process. so now i'm laid up at home with a blue toe the size of a hoagie when i should be out riding. moral of the story...i don't know just wanted to vent.

damn that sucks! what about clipless? a friend of mine has to do physiotherapy
for his knee and ankle because he got stuck in tram tracks and fell.

i usually do! just slipped my mind in a hurry to get to the bar, and i may have been slightly impared.

14 hours? Aint that just getting started?

That said, with how drunk I might be when I ride, I take the extra percautions before I put my foot on the pedals...

Slightly impaired is never enough!!!!

[edit]Learn to trackstand for longer than 1 second!!!![/edit]

haha noon to just after 2 then of course the next day i get the call to go out again and numb the pain...you can't beat the city wide special. 3 bucks for a pbr and a shot of jb. that being said point well take on the extra percautions.

tram tracks! ha! there are streetcar tracks all over the place near my apartment.. you'd think i'd learn to avoid them by now but i still get hung up every once in a while. i've never been hurt but i bet seeing me suddenly stop in the middle of the street, t-bone my bike and go over the handlebars into a tuck & roll sure looks funny. dang........

I just cut my laces short...

Get well fast...

my grandad (now 83 and still riding faster than me) joined his brother's cycling club in brixton when he was 14, on his first ride out with them he was up front on a fixed gear tandem and managed to steer the front wheel into a tram track sending his stoker flying over the top and take out about 50 members members of the club.
its a good thing we dont have trams in london (keep em in croydon livingston)

He must have become a legend after that! does that mean you are a true londoner?
I dont see many of them in london

yea, 165 reminds me to tuck my laces. everybody should have a 165 around.

aw...shucks. just keep buying me the occasional beer - or finishing mine when I have to drive home

Who's morals?

haha definatly not mine

What morals?

I'll raise you one:

Why morals?

The moral is definitely to practice track standing until you can beat all red lights. It only takes a couple of hours to learn.

hey, where were you drinkin' in philly? i hit up tattooed moms and mcglinchys this past weekend... i am just wondering where the best bar is to drink for 14 hours.... i would need to find a place where I can take a nap in the process... I think if I fell asleep at Dirty Franks I would be absorbed by the filth. I have cheapo velcro shoes that I wear for biking now, they have a really hard bottom and they are pointy at the end so they slip in and out of my clips real nice. i would suggest getting a pair for about 10 bucks in payless or some ****ty store. feel better.

oh yes, born and bred in southeast london (guy's hospital to be precise). currently slumming it in holloway road area.

thanks...yeah i'm at moms on a regular basis but the binge for that day started at a friends place when we woke up then on to the beer dist. to buy a case for the 2 of us going out didn't happen till later when we went to silk city for "so you wannna be a rapper" or what ever it's called. but i'm usually at either moms, mcglinchy's, ministry sometimes or places like 700 or silk.