Harriet Edmund advises what you need to do—and what you need to know—if you are involved in a crash. You know the importance of staying vigilant while you ride into work but the road is greasy and nothing has prepared you for what’s about to happen. A motorist suddenly turns left, cutting in front of
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Iain Treloar discovers that the physical wounds of a bad crash heal quicker than the mental ones. It happened in a moment – drizzle-haloed streetlights, a double-parked taxi, merging across tram tracks to pass on the right, tyres slipping on the greasy surface, sliding out of control. In a series of freeze frames I can replay it in my mind;
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I’m one of those pushing 65+ riders who tends to ride solo. Having pigged out a bit over the Christmas period and with a couple of extra kilos to get rid of, it was time to go for a Sunday morning trundle. Sunday 30/12/2012, 0900 hours, fabulous conditions and absolutely enjoying myself. I’m in the bright lycra, twin AyUps flashing as usual, doing
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Coming off your bike is never a pleasant experience, but there are some basic skills you can practise and use to help minimise damage, finds Margot McGovern and Stephen Huntley. It’s a commonly held view that if you ride a bike often enough for long enough, at some point you’ll have a fall that will leave you
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