- 30mph is probably an inappropriate speed for a bicycle
- Blind corners should be taken considerably slower than this
- Cellphone conversations can be distracting at the best of times
- Especially if you don’t have a hands-free headset
And so I hurtled around the corner of the underpass at excessive speed, chattering away to a friend on my phone (thus cycling one-handed), pulled a sharp left, encountered an unexpected pedestrian, swerved, lost my balance, and did one of those slow-motion falls where you know you’re going to fall, and you know it’s going to hurt, and the whole thing happens in slow motion but you can’t do anything about it.
I escaped with cuts and bruises, a battered ego, and a determination to turn my phone off next time I go out on the bike…
arf!
u plank.
nb. using a phone on a bike sans handsfree is as illegal is using one in a car…
…i think.
I think you shouldn’t talk on the phone while cycling, even if you have a handsfree set. You better pull over first. But then again, if you’re in such a hurry you won’t be able to even think to do that LOL. Anyway, apart from that “little” accident of yours, I think to cycle on that speed while talking is kind of.. brave? At least, I don’t know if I have the gut to do that :) I hope you can recover soon.
Jim, cheers for the heads up! Eric, I don’t think “brave” is the word – possibly “stupid” would be more appropriate :)