[Closed] Whats your most embarrassing/Funny fall.

I dropped the saddle for a descent just on a bridleway near me. As I turned a corner there were two horses with two stunners riding them. I slowed down to snails pace to pass them, and sat on the fully lowered saddle. I rode into a small puddle which turned out to be miles deeper than I expected. I couldn't sort my balance and went half OTB, half sideways into the hedgerow.

Then acted tough like it didn't hurt.

Got myself some spd's, put pedals on, adjusted cleats, shoes on, leave back garden for a quick try up the road, all ok, back up side path of house, slow to almost stopped, bang, straight down against patio doors on the back of the house, dad & his god son sat at table nearly wet themselves crying.

Where do i begin, i ride downhill haha. Latest one was probably at Dunkeld SDA, stalled on a rock with my front wheel and almost went over the bars but didn't quite have enough speed so was kind of stuck on the end of the bars for a little while until i fell over haha. Also the proceeding monday to that i dislocated my finger falling off at innerliethan.
Here's the video for it [url= http://www.pinkbike.com/video/360299/ ]Pinkbike video clicky[/url]

First time riding clipless. I.forgot I was still attached to the pedal when I came to a stop.

Lmao, great thanks for your all reply's made me laugh already haha. Great video hazza haha I could almost see it coming, your speedy down them trails, I love DH also just cant afford a DH bike yet 🙁 Haha mint them reply's lol,

Hahah i think i will stick with flats , I don't think I could trust clips lol . Thanks for your reply 😛

Hmm its only fair if i share one for you to laugh at, altho I could write a book on my mishaps, the funniest one i have ever seen is the local village/drunk idiot. Hes a bloke in his 50's anyways about 2 years ago he was peddling on the way back from the shop with his tins of beans/whitestar and his Jesus sandals . He was coming over from a mini roundabout and their was a lorry coming round from the other way, Anyways he was pedalling along and even tho the lorry was turning to head to a completely different direction he hit his front brake, and did a slow mo matrix stoppie and then he did a front cartwheel lmao. All i saw was a tin of hinz fly past me. His sandels some how caught onto the pedals and he was still on the bike only upside down. Whole village was laughing lol, his wheel was still spinning to. LOL

In a similar vein, when I was a kid my mum used to work in the local pub, that had a few very loyal local regulars. One old boy who lived in the next village (2 miles away), I think had lost his driving license, so used to cycle to and from the pub. His bike was some real old bone shaker of a thing, with a car headlamp, home made dynamo, and a 12V car battery on the back rack.

Anyhow, he left the pub one night much the worse for wear, got about half way home & crashed into the ditch. Undeterred, he got back on and pedalled on home, or so he thought, got a fair shock when he stumbled in through the door to find he was in fact back in the pub!

Lmao, class made me chuckle thanks for sharing.

The final descent after a big day out on the south downs. It's a long bridleway descent with a gentle gradient that calls for you to whack it in the big ring and pedal like buggery. The bridleway widens into a farm track and then a road ending at a lovely carpark opposite a proper old pub.

So after a big day out with lots of hills climbed, and this final effort, as I slowed for the car park where I'd parked 6 hours earlier, I cramped massively in both thighs and couldn't unclip. As I wobbled to a halt, and then a cack track stand, I sensed all the old folk disgorging in the car park ready for an early evening ramble, and all the early evening drinkers in the pub garden thinking 'wtf is he doing, why doesn't he put his foot down?'

After a short interlude, I toppled over so slowly and gently, that the force of the fall didn't make me unclip, so now I'm lying in the car park still attached to my bike, still cramped up. After what seemed like an eternity, the cramp ebbed away and I was able to unclip, and wordlessly load the bike on the back of the car, climb in and drive away. With everyone still watching and thinking 'wtf? Did that just happen?'

Les Arcs crash on the steep loose trail at top of vallandry? The Bike stalled on roots and stopped momentarily but I kept going...up. Unclipped, grabbed onto an over hanging branch and appeared hanging nonchalantly over the banking at the fire road. Witnesses at the exit of the trail thought I had fallen from the sky. Bike carried on without me after I departed.

I failed to bunnyhop a too wide peaty puddle. The front wheel, forks and bars sunk knuckle deep into the bog, swiftly followed by me. It took two of us to haul my bike back out.

Most embarrassing was this: http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ye-gods-my-back-hurts-numpty-crash-content

It wasn't funny for anyone at the time but it did make Midweek Mini Movies!

Steep switchbacky thing in california that I'd never cleaned before (or even got half way up). The problem is that it's a "power" move but it's about 4 miles up a long climb and I'm always shagged. Failed it as usual but decided to have a short rest and another go. Looped right off the back of the bike and slid about 10 feet back down this sandy rocky slope on my head & shoulders

... just as 3 riders came round the corner behind me 😳

(would've been my only ever attempt at a wheelie while clipped in but there was nobody to see that one)

Lmao awesome reply's thanks for keeping me laughing an wow ouching video. That looks bad but funny now he is ok. LOL i remember years ago , when i was like 15 i hit a big DH drop off on an xc bike. It was like a mini but big DH trail that the locals made. Anyways I jumped the drop and hit a tree branch in mid air and nocked my self clean out, I woke up about 15 minutes later getting dragged up a hill , but with it been an xc bike if i landed it i probs would of snapped the frame and have a bit of tubing in my ass hahah.

lost the front and end went down like a sack of potatoes in full view of a packed double decker bus 😳

Probably yesterday...

Was dong. Teeny drop n a bomb hole; rolled up to it nonchalantly and probably a bit slow and binned it in front some lady runners nod binned it, hurting my shoulder in the process. I then had trouble pulling ip on the bars without making the bike go squirrely!

Later I hit a drop way too fast, flew off the new lip and binned it. I woke up being strapped to a spine board by the ambulance crew. I was more concerned where my bike was and tried to undo the straps so I could roll over on the board! I was Aldo very upset when the A&E crew cut my tech tee off in the hospital!

Oh no klunk lol not in front a buss lol , could of been worse it could of been a school bus i suppose lol. Oh hell mindmap , i take you were okay tho and imagine you got your bike back ok?

riding down into castleton towards the three roof's cafe

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As i got to the cafe just after the island i unclipped, or at least tried. I fell sideways into a table with 2 customers eating full English breakfasts, food and tea everywhere. A lorry screeches to a halt, the driver gets out, i say thanks for stopping to help me - stuck in my spd's. He pisses himself laughing and explains he has stopped as "it is so ****ing funny"

Most embarrassing was undoubtedly a few years ago. Two female MTBrs were sessioning one of Cannock's death-defying obstacles and they kindly stood to one side as yours truly approached.

I hit the small kicker as fast as possible and took one hand off the bars mid-air to adjust my sunglasses, as you do when you're a trail god

I landed crossed-up and the ladies just about managed to leap out of the way to avoid my cartwheeling bike and flailing body 😳

LMAO rob congratulations you have officially made my day hahah awsome. Hahaha creased i need an iron rocketman, Hahah awesome. you could of pretend that you needed aid and a nice cupa tea ;). Oh I have another funny one, again when i was a kid my brother bought a chopper i think it was a stingray. Anyways he bought of a kid and it did'nt have any breaks. A village closed to me is built upon a hill which leads down to mine and i decided to see how fast it will go. So i pushed it up the hill and about twenty minutes laster start flying down on the pavement, Must of hit about 30mph plus when it just occurred to me i had no breaks. So i'm flying down and trying to cram my foot in the back wheel, not paying much attention to were i am going i see a parked car on the pavement right in front of me and moved as much as i could. I took the mirror clean of and did manage not to hit the car head on but in doing so i hit a metal fence instead and shot about 8 foot into the air and splattered into a field.

Fearless; bit tender today so will give riding a miss until the weekend. The bike is ok though. Phew.

hahah as long as the bike and back is going the jobs a good un. lol Glad to hear ya alright , just more funny stories to share 🙂

My most recent was on a purbecks ride a few weeks ago. Tree branches over a boggy puddle, I wasn't carrying enough speed, hit a slight gap in branches and had a slow speed OTB. Couldn't quite get my weight back quick enough... No doubt I'll do it again before long!

[url= https://twitter.com/18bikes/status/468352467907137537/photo/1 ]This one on Saturday[/url]

In front of the entire finish line crowd.

Then my shorts fell down.

I've had a few spd related ones but the accident with the largest amount of spectators was..
Heading across a bus depot parking lot, notice that the bus is arriving in the exit I'm heading for so I get out of the saddle and sprint towards the pathway and (trying to) show off I bunny hop the high kerb and head for the gap between the two steel uprights that hold the bus companies sign.
Problem is, there's also a horizontal support post which I didn't notice and I hit it at speed with my forehead... The bike went on and I end up lying on my back doing my best Patrick starfish impression..
As the bus is passing I'm looking up at the whole right hand side of the bus looking down at me with that pursed lip "ooooooo that had to hurt look".
It bloody did too!

Not me directly but my shoes so it kinda works .Out in a group of four, one of whom is my mates brother in law. I have lent him my shoes as he wants to try spds .He says the shoes fit fine but they are loose, which means that when he turns his heels to step out of them there is a delay , no biggy I suppose, apart from the fact that he has just ridden on slippery cobbles by the canal in drinkwater park, ridden of the edga and is upright on his bike, still grinning as he slow tips over whilst frantically trying to disengage cleats- did it just in time and we got him out

First month of owning a road bike and first time riding clipless.

Getting pretty confident. Saw a big pothole coming up, and decided to try and bunnyhop it 🙄 Obviously failed big time and landed with my gooch on the tip of my saddle, the force being enough to bend it in half. At the time it hurt so much I seriously thought i'd lost my bum virginity.

To make it worse a white van full of builder types witnessed this from a side road and roared heartily with laughter while I was hopping around checking my bawbag was still attached.

* calling stevenmenmuir to the forum *

Think [url= https://twitter.com/pibishop/status/468381485813493760 ]this chap[/url] has his nomination sorted out

I rolled down a slope with a hole at the bottom, did that pause mid OTB thing where you seem to be on the front wheel for an age ... and just stayed there. My rear wheel was caught on a branch, so I slid down to standing on tiptoe with a bollock either side of the stem, the bars across my thighs holding me on, and the saddle against the back of my head.

Other half was nervous about a gulley full of a deep layer of autumn leaves. Looked over shoulder, told her to relax and let the bike do the work, went straight OTB. Put her right at ease, that did.

Getting on a modern, mini penny farthing, stood on the back-most pedal to spin the free wheel to get the pedal down, to stand on it and mount up. But of course the cranks are fixies, straight into the front wheel. An OTB while in "reverse" doing a "wheelie" on the wrong wheel. While watched by a clown. So that mickey taking lasted a while.

OTBs are great, aren't they?

The track-standing roadie who took down about half a dozen of his mates, outside this Café on the A6 at Cromford...he gets my vote.
Looked like a gang of dying flies, on their backs with bikes still attached. They all saw the funny side of it, likewise the car drivers who patiently waited through 3 traffic light cycles, whilst the carnage was cleared up.

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In the days (when i were younger) and thought that doing a BMX gate kind of power wheelie start was necessary everywhere... i was riding across at a set of lights pulling aforementioned 'stunt', when my 3-peice 'Bullseye' crank arm sheared off. The force through the cranks was enough to send me hurtling over bars and get dumped right in front of 3 lanes of traffic.

This was silly.... but far sillier still was seen when i stood up to make out like this happens all the time. The crank arm, and SPD pedal were still attached to my shoe and made it impossible to stand at all. Cue several more falls before i have to remove my shoe, to even pick myself and bike out of the road and hobble to the curb.

tragic.

2:45-ish...

You had a bit of a moment at about 2:00 too.

Chain was creaking so I was riding down town to get a new one. Trackstand at the front at traffic lights. Lights go green, put the power on and the chain decides to snap. Catapulted straight over the bars flat on my face.

I had to wait for a chap to gather up his dog when I was on an early morning ride, so when the trail was clear, I stomped on the pedals to make a quick get away.

My back wheel moved in the drop out, hit the frame, and over the bars I went. He had the good grace not to laugh, and asked if I was ok.

Riding along the south downs, beautiful day, on a flat section of bridleway admiring the view, turn to my mate and say "this is the life" about a second before I put the wheel straight into a rut and go directly over the bars.

Worst part was the bike followed me over as it was fully stuck in the hole and the rear wheel bashed my head into the ground for a second time.

Split lip, bloody chin, dented pride 🙂

there's also a horizontal support post which I didn't notice and I hit it at speed with my forehead.
Lmao ^^

I have just almost pist my self laughing at these responses and that video awesome. This thread is getting to be a hobby for me now lmao.

 

Awesome reply's everyone has creased me lol. I think we should all vote for the funniest one lol. That video tho haha the guy just disappeared lol. I thought the the remainder of the video was guna be you helping him up lol. Their is a good one on youtube doing the ''avalanche thing'', he starts flying down and gets caught up with about 5 guys and bikes , they just all get crafted together and slide down the mountain as one lol. Funny tho because they are all still on their bikes lol.

Getting chased by older boy running I turned round to face where I was going just in time to hit an empty life ring bracket on a lamp post with my face.

Cycling up Main Street in my home town, cool as **** with no hands. Car pulls out and I go over the bonnet. Folk laughing at me.

Lunchtime and all the school kids are in Main Street. New bike and first go on SPDs. Stopped outside shop and keeled over. Everyone laughing at me

I've had some belters. I seem to have them all the time actually

Lol, I remember when we were kids and loads of us were flying about riding around the city centre. I had my dads brand new kona Kikapu. We got chased by a security guard , we split up i flew down a 6 sets of steps, wrecked my dads wheels. Haven't been running around the city waiting for my mates to arrive i see my other mate flying down a bank in the city centre, he smashed into a phones 4 u sign and his bike wiped another one of mates of his bike causing him to face plant. We stiill got away tho lol:P

Doing a wheelie down Quality Steet on the fatbike in North Berwick a few summers ago, showing off in front of loads of day visitors,

Finger slipped off the rear brake-down the road on my arse, ripped the arse out my new singletrack shorts too! and a skinned right elbow 😳

Thankfully no camera filming or any mates to witness it!

PMSL class haha