beware of illegally parked cars

[saltyman]

:shock:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bbc_1282190545

 

[IDB1]

Good hit!! .. .. hard too by the look of the damage :?

Ok..they say illegally parked but everyone else managed to see it, and miss it...

 

[Pickle]

How the hell didnt he see it?!

 

[ajm]

Very easily done, happens in an instant... I went into the back of a car about ten years ago when I was cycle commuting.

It was stopped in the road in a very unusual place on a long straight uphill stretch; in my defence I was cycling into a biting cold headwind full of large hailstones at the time, and had my head down (clearly a bit too much!) using my visor to shield my eyes.

I did spot it before I hit, but with the wet and my brakes not being particularly impressive anyway I didn't manage to scrub much momentum off before putting a decent dent in the boot lid! The driver was in the car at the time and took a fair amount of calming down, but I did of course pay for the damage...

 

[drystonepaul]

Ouch, that was a very hard hit.
At that speed and in those circumstances he didn't have much of a chance to react.
Effectively he came from a blind-spot on the opposite side of two other riders. He would've seen the car much too late to avoid a collision.

He had is leg out though...

 

[longun]

holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :shock:

 

[BobCatMax]

i think he may have scratched the paint just a little

ouch

 

[marin man]

Sorry to ressurect the dead but did not see this till now and ......ouch

reminds me of my brother who years ago rode into the back of a white car parked in the snow and ended up on the roof of it,no damage to the car or him but it bent his forks pretty bad