I would just like to thank the BMW driver last night, that jumped the lights at Great Queens Street, and made me do an emergency stop, and I was turning right, and I dropped my bike.
A big thank you to the scooter rider who stopped and helped me pick the bike up and get it out of the junction.
The BMW driver did not even stop.
Bike has no damage what so ever, the bungs did their job. I did manage to pull my hamstring though, didn’t stop me riding in this morning, as it is more comfortable to sit on the bike, than it is a chair.
not too bad, swelling is gone but its stil bruised and stiff/sore, plus if i move to quick not only does it hurt bu i get a sharp reminder that i have two big fug off scabs on it!! no KD play for a while
yes I’m ok, just a sore hamstring, so no bending over with straight legs for a while, and I have to purch at the end of every chair, as I can’t put a lot of weight on the back of the leg - sitting on the loo is interesting!
Seeing as us scooterists are SOOOOO much nippier around town than you dinosaur geared brigade, I’m surprised they scooter rider was still there to help you :P:D:P I’d have been way down the road by then ;)Seriously though, glad to hear you’re OK. (And I wish I could fit crash bungs to my scoot)I sometimes make myself wait for just half a sec or so after the green light because there are several jctns on my way to work where it’s the norm for someone coming the other way to jump a red light and risk collecting me when I’m quick away on my green light. I feel a bit daft for doing it (and of course there’s the worry about being rear-ended while you’re pausing slightly). It sort of takes away the point of being on a bike if you can’t be quick away at the lights. But the general level of car driving is v poor in London, and discipline at lights sometimes seems nonexistent.
The way that the light sequence works, is green for us, and as I said I was turning right, and indicating. The lights changed to red, and then the pedestrian lights changed to green on the other flow of traffic. I was waiting for the lights to change to red, so that I could turn, they were well red when the BMW came through the lights. The other scooter rider was stopped at the red lights that the BMW went through!
