I had a great one this morning. Three month old Lil Miss Funk isn’t sleeping very well. This resulted in yours truly cycling to work on bugger all sleep. Cutting through a car park near work and managed to ride straight in to a wall. Resulting in a comedy gold low speed off whilst still clipped in.
A badly scuffed brake lever, bloody knee, grazed elbow and brusied pride. So happy when I nipped out for a sandwich and found my missing bar plug though.
What truly idiotic bike related falls have you had?
This is still the best series of crashes I've ever seen - I think mostly because no one seems to get hurt. And the music.
Arrrrgh. How do we post videos now?
Nice group bimble down a cycle path with one of the groups 8 year old who decided to beat us all to end of path by taking the racing line (a gap not big enough between 2 of us).
queue the slowest fall sideways ever when his handle bars got stuck, and my insurmountable 17st falling on said 8 year old as i couldn't unclip and work where to put foot down that wasn't his bike or his leg in time.
Luckily his legs were the floor side of his frame so his pedals took the brunt.
Tiiiiiiiimmmmbbbbbeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr.
Wasn't even on a gnarly/sick/drop off, but a flat canal path.
Getting towards the end of wet and cold road ride after work. Went to press the Pelican crossing button to stop the traffic on a major trunk road, (it was a cycle path, not on the footway)
Missed. Pressed thin air, ended up lying in the overgrown verge still clipped in, much to the amusement of a long line of cars, (which had conveniently just stopped anyway) and my work colleagues.
I pressed the button on a crossing light and placed my gloved hand on top of the wet button box. It slid off and I ended up lying sideways in the road.
For a while I had a Pompino and I used to commute on it to work. It was fitted with CX tyres for canal towpaths and through the park.
The car park that the bikes were locked in was underground, and accessed via a painted concrete slope.
One morning it'd been raining, and I swung in just before the gate started to close, only to have the whole bike slip under me. Incredibly even though I was clipped in, I stepped off it somehow and it slid at speed down the ramp to hit the wall after the 180 turn. I then had to totter down the slippery concrete ramp, collect the bike and complete the journey to the bottom of the ramp.
It must have been a lucky escape and quite impressive, because I got a call later from the chap manning security to say he'd seen it on the CCTV and he wondered if I wanted a copy of it?
This is still the best series of crashes I’ve ever seen – I think mostly because no one seems to get hurt. And the music.Arrrrgh. How do we post videos now?
🙂 that's great
On the way to work slipped on some bit's of old hoarding that a construction crew had laid on the Thames path. There'd been an especially high tide that morning and the whole path (hoarding included) had been covered by a thick coating of grey greasy silt. I had to turn up at work with the left half of my body completely clean and the right side covered from head to toe in river silt. Like a muddy version of Two Face.
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This is still the best series of crashes I’ve ever seen – I think mostly because no one seems to get hurt. And the music.
I'm no knarr god, but that honestly looks like some of the most woeful bike handling I think I've ever seen. Was it vertical? Does the camera angle make it look less steep than it was?
The only time I've ridden something where I felt that those sort of crashes were about to happen was Aston Hill, on a hardtail, when it was lashing it down. Basically slid down the DH track on my arse, with my bike approximately in the same vicinity as me.
Did a near perfect run on one of the Style Cop downhill routes, really pleased with myself and continued on to the forest road, only to get my front wheel caught in a front wheel sized dip.
Slow motion OTB in front of all my mates AND some the British Cycling youth squad who were doing some training there.
(i'm not even going to attempt to quote) It must have been a lucky escape and quite impressive, because I got a call later from the chap manning security to say he’d seen it on the CCTV and he wondered if I wanted a copy of it? (end quote fail)
To which you said yes? And you are now going to post the video?
I've had a few comedy ones, mostly while commuting on completely flat roads on a hardtail.
There was the one where I went off a standard kerb, only to somehow end up going completely OTB into the road. No idea how
And the one somewhere around the South Bank where my chain came off while I was properly mashing the pedals. I ended up sliding down the road on my back with the bike on top of me.
The most comedy off-road one was going over a jump somewhere in the North Downs. I was obviously pulling up on the pedals, because my foot came unclipped and swung into my front wheel and got stuck in the spokes. Front wheel landed, me and the bike went over it, and I landed pretty much straight on my head. Had a stiff neck for a week after that.
I've just realised that none of these paint me as actually being capable of riding a bike... In my defence they were all a long time ago
I did indeed say yes, but unfortunately he never made good on his promise, and after a while it seemed a bit puerile to keep chasing him over it...
threw myself over handlebars once, depressomg the forks by moving all my weight forward unfortunately i pulled on the front brake by mistake. 🙁
On a night ride many years ago with Mrs M, I was rolling slowly and looked behind me to see where was was. I rolled into a bump, stopped, couldn’t unclip and toppled over still holding onto my bar ends. As I hit the floor I cleanly snapped my new carbon bar at the point where the bar end was attached and also smashed my hip into a large flint.
Mrs M thought this hilarious.
I got this one on video... Needs some context. This is me on my hardtail, 2/3ds of the way down fort william, on an easy bit. I stopped on the road to talk to a guy on a dh bike with a flat, he says "what's it like, riding this on a hardtail". I said "Not as hard as you'd think, it's all going really well", took 2 pedal strokes into the trail and fell off the side for no reason at all.
This is me at Malvern in 1991. Think I styled it out.
I like that Northwind because it’s exactly the kind of thing that happens to me for no reason too.
My son's in that Bucs 2011 video. Not riding though, just laughing at the carnage..
Several years ago pedalling quite quickly along an estate track I came across a small bridge made from old railway sleepers that were laid in the same direction as the track rather than perpendicular. Unfortunately there was a gap between the sleepers exactly the right size to grab my front wheel . . . front wheel came to a sudden stop . . . bike (with me on it) rotatated around the front axle . . . landed flat on my back still on the saddle and clipped in with the bike above me. Sorry, no videos.
Rode into the back of a car parked on a national road. Had my head down warming up for a TT. Scudded my face off rear window, wheelbase shortened by a foot, frame that id spent months saving for was toast.
Then the three mile walk to civilisation ruined a set of cleats for good measure.
Not a mark on the frickin car!