Second Son

I nearly got killed by a bus yesterday, which was nice. I was cycling up alongside it when the driver decided to turn left without checking his mirrors, so I started to get dragged under the bus and could hear the sounds of crushing bike and punctured petrol tank. Luckily I somehow managed to get my leg out from under the bus and ended up standing in the road in a stream of gushing petrol with nothing but a slightly cut thumb and a completely mangled bike to show for it, while 40 people screamed around me and the emergency services scrambled 3 fire engines, an ambulance, a police van, a motorbike paramedic and a helicopter. At least the bike lock is still usable.

Moral of the story: never, ever ride alongside anything bigger than a car.

Thanks to the generous people at Carhartt for the bike, it was good while it lasted…