[Closed] I fell off.....

Almost, but not quite.
Had one of these new road jerseys with the drop tail to protect from spray on - tried to stand to power up a hill, but tail was caught under saddle - major wobble and dumped back into saddle 😳

Most importantly, how are the shorts?

I had bottle cage bolts installed on top of the top tube near the seat tube, which is where Orange started putting them the following year - to use a bottle cage mounted light battery. Unfortunately they were cheese-head bolts which used to very effectively snag my shorts when trying to get pedalling again after putting a foot down, with similar results.

Shorts were fine, and thanks to the guy in the golf who stopped to see if I was OK.
I'm sure I heard him laughing as he drove off.

cycling home from work stopped to let some pedestrians past and swung my leg over the saddle to dismount forgetting i had dropped my daughter at nursery in the morning and had the seat on the back, which meant a comedy sideways falling into the road! cue much s****ing from the pedestrians. Dented pride and broken sun glasses what a numpty 😳

Attempted to bunny hop the road bike up a kerb in the middle of town. Front wheel clipped the kerb, untidy heap followed.

My commute home often sees me stop at a narrow hump back bridge with traffic lights halfway up it. Earlier this year I was waiting for the lights to change when I hear a bus load of commuters from the Science Park pull up behind me.
The lights turn green, I power up and rise to sit on the saddle. The saddle nose responded and catching in my Humvee's it dragged them down below buttock level so the entire bus can enjoy tens seconds of my gyrating ass as I get to the crest of the hill.

Happy days.

Yup. Stopped at a bus stop on a cycle ride, unclipped one side to stand, reached back to my daysack to get a water bottle and fell onto the floor in front of some old dears.

How I laughed. Not.

My best one was up in the Pentlands where there is two possible routes at the outflow of one of the reservoirs. The normal route is over a footbridge but as there was walkers on it I decided to go through the cobbled overflow despite it having some water flowing through it, thinking it'd be ok. Unfortunately there was a lot of moss on the cobbles so there was less grip than there would have been on ice, so I ended up doing the crossing on my face with water flying everywhere. Amused the walkers considerably once they realised I wasn't injured and was laughing at my own stupidity.

I was being pulled along by my 2 dogs, with my daughter in a child seat on my rear rack. Son and wife cycling separately. All going beautifully until I forgot about the dogs when I got to the cattle grid.

Did not go well

Big crash, shrieking dogs, daughter crying, very unhappy wife

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cycling home from work stopped to let some pedestrians past and swung my leg over the saddle to dismount forgetting i had dropped my daughter at nursery in the morning and had the seat on the back, which meant a comedy sideways falling into the road! cue much s****ing from the pedestrians.

Ah, [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bored-in-a-e-so-start-thread ]most definitely[/url]. Shoulder still not fully recovered. At least I can ride 2 handed now.

Went to pull off a stylish endo turn at some pedestrian lights,(in front of large queue of bus stoppers) the back wheel arched up and round, i looked oh-so Pro, but it came back down perfectly in the narrow gap between the end of the railing and a municipal concrete waste bin, whereupon it promptly folded in half and down i went with a slap.........

Hero -> Zero in 5 sec flat.... 😉

Went up a short steep climb and lost momentum. No chance to get my feet down and went off the back of the bike. 5ft fall onto my back still holding the bars and bike on top of me. 6 months of Physio and probably gonna have back issues the rest of my life now. Yoga helps a lot.

Descending Dumyat years ago, sporting a very at the time, de rigueur pair of Ron Hills. I got to what for me was a really steep bit at the time and was just about to tackle it when I saw that there were at least a couple of families walking up the slope towards me.

"Come on then!" they shouted, or words to that effect. So, knees and elbows bent, off the back of the saddle with chin virtually on the stem I started down the slope like some sort of hero from MTB Action. About halfway down my knees started to give out, and I realised I needed to straighten up. That's when the crotch of my Ron Hill's snagged under the tail of my saddle. 🙁

The cheers of encouragement from the watching families quickly turned to screams and shouts of "Look away Martha!"and "Somebody think of the children!"

It was not my finest, bare arsed moment, it has to be said.

pulled a nice manual in the car park at the end of a ride last October. Was going nicely till i hit a bump, hand slipped of rear brake and i went over the back, clipped in 😳

Much blood and pain, 4 hrs in A&E and then back to hospital following day for 12hr wait for a scrape out of the wound and a sizeable skin graft....and a fractured elbow...

Train station car park, just got off the train & am powering away stood up on my SS whilst weaving on a wide, pedestrian & traffic free slip road. Feeling like an organic F1 driver as they keep their tyres warm & ready for the day ahead. Felt like a king

Not sure if my chain slipped off (SS & needed a link removing for a while) or my front wheel went out form under me due to the weaving & pressure from my 'powering' away but I end up hitting the tarmac on my side

Badly bruised ankle & thigh, aggravated old wrist injury, very very sore stiff neck & shoulder, grazes to wrist, elbow, ankle & side and inflamed rib muscles (the worst pain of the lot).

No one else involved - just me, my under serviced SS steed and [i]too much power [/i], all in front of a appreciative morning crowd of commuters waiting for taxis

So it's not just me who is a muppets then 😀

Last winter I headed out for a solo night ride to test my new Exposure light.
I was half way across a cattle grid when I had a brain fade and decided to steer to the side for a quick breather.
Suddenly I'm playing twister jammed between the cattle grid and my bike in the pitch black.
Took about 5 minutes to untangle myself enough to stand up and remove my bike from the depths of the cattle grid.
Luckily the only damage was to my pride and a massive bruise either side of my thigh from bring jammed between the handlebars and top tube.
Still shake my head every time I think about it.

A few weeks ago I was pootling locally, had the binocs in my jersey pocket & thought I saw a Little Owl on a post in a field. Pulled up, unclipped & put my left foot down into a 2ft void.

Nettles.
& It was a pigeon at a funny angle.

Honking up the steepest bend (30%) on a lane behind my house, to my horror I have an audience of local parents and kids from daughters school on a walk. They're all cheering me on and my chain decides to explode right in front of them. Smash, crash, bang I'm in a heap with a broken wrist. The kids laugh, I'm not, it's early June and that's me out for one of the driest summers for years.

Pro tip, never try to hop over a curb after a 6 hour ride at a silly angle.

Especially if it's outside a pub beer garden full of people ready to applause your unceremonious landing!

Not me by the way, just passing on some advice I read about.

On a recent skills course, end of the day, bit tired we're all doing wheelie and manual practice up and down a fire road, over cooked a wheelie, failed utterly to either brake or unclip and went down mega hard on my arse. Had to run/squat/shuffle up and down the hill holding my arse wimpering and howling. Luckily just bruising but had to drive back (2hrs) on a pile of the softest materials available from the boot of the car. Work colleagues had much amusement that week.

Got off a train on my way to a bmx race with all my gear in a backpack. Bunny hopped a chain fence outside the station and performed 3/4s of a front flip when my bag hit me on the back of the head, mid-hop. Don't think too many saw what caused the 'accident' but plenty saw me in a heap on the ground. Broke my pride in 3 places 😀

Not so much innate stupidity as monumental embarrassment:

A few years back I went on my first and to date only ride-out with a few STWers; Binners, Grum, and a few others I can't even remember now. I was hopelessly outskilled by the lot of them (even Binners 🙂 ).

Piling down a descent from Rivi Pike (at the back of the pack), I managed to locate a rut that was the exact dimensions of just less than half of a front wheel. The bike stopped dead, I went OTB in spectacular fashion, 270'+ with some big air and landed flat on my back with the bike on top of me.

Grassy landing, no real damage bar my pride, my rucksack acted as an airbag essentially. So I scraped myself up and minced down the rest of the descent. By the time I'd got to the bottom the guys were heading back up again looking for me.

Got to the fire road at the bottom and regrouped, yes yes, I'm fine, thanks for your concern but please don't make a fuss, I'm fine, I'm fine. We all set off again , I moved forwards about a foot and then my front wheel washed out from under me on the gravel. I hit the ground and tore rashes out of my arms, knees and elbows like I'd landed on a cheese grater. Spent the rest of the ride with legs like Elvis, confidence totally shot.

I'm pretty good generally at walking away from death-defying stunts and then following it up by picking up wounds from tripping over a blade of grass, but that really wasn't my proudest moment. I've never felt so much of a useless **** in all my life.

Hope you heal soon OP. We all have that kind of experience.