Someone should benefit from this experience.

[jadesfire]

Can I offer some advice?

If you own a flared skirt, whose hem has a tendency to live around your shoulders rather than your knees, even on a non-windy day, do not wear said skirt to cycle in.

Especially do not wear said skirt to cycle in on a windy day.

Especially do not wear said skirt to cycle in on a windy day along one of the main roads out of town.

And please remember that, because the skirt is flared, there is much material available to become caught between the back wheel and the brake pad.

This, my friends, is why I wear opaque tights...

Comments

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

Aww. *pets* Sounds like quite the time!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It was entertaining for all but me, I suspect... ;)

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suspect it was a guilty moment of schadenfreude for onlookers. Hooray for the tights at least.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. This sounds like you completely lost the skirt. I hope that wasn't what happened!

Have you ever tried keeping a safety pin attached to the hem so that you can pin the skirt together (sort of like shorts) for bicycling and then unpin it for work? That will keep it from flying up, at least.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It was fine - it had been catching a bit before that, so I was half-expecting it and only the front brakes work anyway :) It didn't happen on the main road, and that I am immensely grateful for!

I hadn't thought of the safety pin. That might work, although there's quite a lot of skirt that will still be flapping - it might save my modesty, but I think the dignity's a lost cause...

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

The safety pin was an old trick from my newspaper days. I often had to take photos to go with my stories, and it's impossible to bat down a flying skirt and shoot pictures. I usually wore a flared skirt because it was hard to crouch down to take photos in a tight one.

[viola-jen.livejournal.com]

Oh dear!
Good job about the tights ;)

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Yes, the tights were extremely useful! :D

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Thank goodness for opaque tights, it sounds as if you had a bad time of it!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It was embarrassing rather than painful, fortunately - I managed to stop the bike before falling off. Which is always good. :D

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

Whew. That's a relief :)

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

:D Been there, done that, got the skinned knees and scraped hands. How 'bout you, did your tights survive unscathed?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Fortunately I managed not to fall off. But the skirt always seemed to know when there were people on the pavement, and chose those moments to blow up into my face...

[aoife-8.livejournal.com]

I learned long ago that skirts and bicycles never mix well! Glad you survived the experience!

On another note, I'm going to ask you if you've come across the following SGA fic yet: Written By the Victors. You can find it here:
http://www.trickster.org/speranza/cesper/Victors.html
It's recently taken the SGA fandom by storm, and I think you'd like it. It has a bibliographic index and everything...:D I've never read anything quite like it, it's unique. You don't need to have seen SGA to understand it (although I admit it helps). I can highly recommend it!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It was one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time...

And thanks - I read (and recced!) "Written by the Victors" a few days ago. Despite it being one of those stories that makes me want to weep and promise never to write anything ever again, I really enjoyed it. Very clever and nicely done. I'm slowly getting into Atlantis, but want to wait until I've actually seen it before plunging fully into the comms. Because I suspect it may eat the little that remains of my life...

[aoife-8.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely banner! Haven't seen that Sagan quote before.

SGA has effectively eaten what little remains of my life in the last few weeks after watching S1 and S2 back to back on DVD, so I know where you're coming from on that one!

[tanarian.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I know I shouldn't be laughing, but I can't help it. Before you strike me down, however, I should tell you that I have such a skirt; a much-loved grey number that I use constantly because it goes with every colour top I possess.

Try retaining your dignity while walking across Westminster Bridge towards St Thomas', the entire length of the bridge swarming with tourists with cameras, with your skirt channelling Marilyn Monroe's dress with a vengeance!

And also try walking along the far arm of Brixham Harbour wearing said skirt and practically taking off because of the force of the wind blowing said skirt skywards and coming back to the hotel (which faced onto the harbour) to find your supposed best friend shaking with suppressed laughter and clutching her camera to her bosom...

God is Murphy and Murphy really 'likes' me...

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

No, no, laugh away - I laughed at yours... :D The skirt thinks that I am Marilyn Monroe and reacts accordingly.

The things we put up with....

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Studiously taking notes.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Good plan - with the hills where you are, a brake failure could be somewhat more disastrous...

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

It's not the brakes even...my biggest nightmare is chain slippage during a gear change. GOD I HATE THAT!!!