Whoosh..

[PoorOldSpike]

And as I said earlier, Lady Luck can be a fickle witch..
30 years ago I pedalled my bike up and down our street in heavy snow while my sister and brother-in-law pelted me with snowballs,great fun, and not once did I even come close to losing control and falling off, you should have seen me throwing that machine around with high-speed passes, violent evasive manoeuvres, high-G u-turns, the lot..
So, brimming with confidence next day, I decided to pedal into town in the snow rather than taking the bus in order to show off my bike-handling skills to the crowds.
But Lady Luck deserted me and I hit the deck at high speed in front of a bus stop queue in the city centre, sliding along in an untidy heap on top of my bike with my chin acting like a snowplough and my foot jammed in the spokes.
I got straight back up smiling and bowing to my audience of course, and got straight back in the saddle and arrived home without further incident and promptly fainted on the living room floor with a combination of cold, shock to the system and pain in my foot but nobody was around to see it except the cat..:)