I personally will never not trust my gut feeling.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Excessive speed on a bicycle. Alright, I did it more than once, until a slow car scared the shit out of me.

    At one point I lived near a small mountain with a road going up. It was so slow and painful to get up, but a huge thrill going down. I didn’t have a speedometer but it was a 45mph road (and everyone speeds) and I consistently passed cars. It had only one lane in each direction and I regularly passed cars going over 45 mph, by a lot. Then one day I was about to pass the car and she slowed to turn. Panic time, huge continual squeal of my brakes that scared her into accelerating past her turn, and I still zoomed by on the shoulder before I could stop, hundreds of feet beyond.

    Clearly way too fast for my vehicle and my (lack of) protective gear