[Closed] When was the last time you fell off?

8 weeks ago in Morzine, I don't remember much of how it happened but know I hit a pile of big rocks. I sustained a small fracture to the Patella plus other bruised and swollen bits, had to ride about 15 Km back to the chalet and went OTB again on way back.

For me the worst thing about the whole incident is that I scratched my stanchions!!!!!

Nothing for ages then 3 offs in as many rides: one high speed pedal clip to flip and roll on the last skyline descent (feeling your stanchion pain TTW) trying to push a new shock, one lower speed steep switchback OTB being a muppet, and a higher speed wash out on unfamiliar tyres in a muddy forest. I guess I ride at 95% on the downs and 40% on the ups.

This was just over 4 months ago now. Left me with a herniated disc in my neck which is pressing on a nerve or two and making my right arm practically useless at the minute. I've only managed a few rides since.

A couple of minor offs during my week in Morzine for the PPDS

The most embarrasing though, was after Morzine, i travelled to Zermatt and done some riding by myself

Rode down from Gornergrat, found the WC Donwhill Course, rode that fine, then came of the track, onto a road, then went down some steps and straight over the bars

I think i've found my comfortable 'quick DH' speed and don't like to push it much past that because i don't bounce as well as i used to!! 😀

All the family have had a few offs over the last two weeks whilst in Les Arcs and Verbier

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Abigales bike needs some TLC now

Last big off was when I hit a kerb (wasn't looking) and combined an OTB with a nice forward roll. The pack took the brunt. Last comedy off was when I tried to get a bit smart negotiating a stile without dismounting/unclipping. Timing was so naff that the bars hit the stile head on and I fell sideways. Nothing more embarrassing than a 0 mph off.

Couple of weeks ago on a Tarmac cycle path - taking in the scenery and caught my bars on a lamp post 😳 fortunately a soft landing, winded, but intact..

Last week, trying to bunnyhop a speedbump in the car park after my ride 😳

Bruised hip, grazed elbow and re-injured shoulder...what a tool

About three weeks ago, used myby head and a tree to rapidly slow my progress...

Stanmer Park, Brighton at the weekend. Managed to put together a loop including about 2.5k ft of climbing so I was bit tired, even so I didn't expect to land a jump and have one of Tarzan's old vines hanging from a tree and snag my bars.

Not that bit down the bottom of Hole In The Wall? I got a vine round my neck there a few months back and got hauled to a halt painfully quickly!

Saturday: front wheel washed out when it went over a smooth rock at Cannock. Bruised hip from falling on another rock. Son2 falls off most rides. Son1 has all the skillz.

on Sunday at the KAL mtb challenge heading down a bit of packhorse trail, couldn't get my front wheel out of a rut when trying to change line and washed out.

Worst/best one was bombing down a farm track at 25mph and lost it on some gravel on an off-camber corner went flying and headbutted a dry stone wall. Split my helmet in half, but lucky to not break anything and only get concussed. (You can see the trace from runkeeper where the line veers right, hits the wall, then gets back on track alot slower than before)

A month ago. Proper dinged up wrist. Tonight is my first go back on the bike.....

Four weeks ago. Despite my considerable bulk the oak tree didn't move one bit. I now have a second rib which pokes up just underneath my collarbone joint and that's where it has to stay according to the docs 🙁

Considering how insanely easily I bruise, I really should take up an armchair sport like knitting or chess 🙄

Last off was on my most recent ride out about 3 weeks ago now - rode all of the likes of Devil's Elbow at a fair rate of knots and didn't come a cropper (few twitchy heart-in-mouth moments though!), however Imanaged to do a comedy over the bars dismount at an almost standstill at Stanage and get three mahoosive rock-induced bruised lumps on my shin. Leg has been a lovely shade of black, purple, blue and green ever since! Nice.

(I actually won body armour too from MBR some years back for my photographic efforts in their rogues gallery of injuries and bruises - perhaps I should actually wear it!?)

None for ages, then two last weekend.
#1 Coming off the end of a boardwalk, 2ft drop onto the flat. Dropped the back too much and manualled for 3 metres before going off the back whilst the bike went sideways, causing involuntary splits! Injuries - none!
#2 Same ride, down the side of a set of wooden steps, couldnt see the line due to overgrown grass, caught the side of the steps and hit one of the securing posts, OTB imminent, but managed to drop the bike and leap over the front of it. No injuries, but broke my bell!
No bikes were harmed during this display of ineptness. 😳

2 weeks ago, coming from the link from Cragg to Lee Quarry just coming into Lee at some speed round the corner which i overshot straight into the rocky dyke running on the left hand side.

Reasonably unscathed luckily bike took a few battle scars though and i felt a tit!

Last week, turns out a CX bike on a wet wooden bridge has no traction when you try to take the "sketchy in the dry line" at full pelt..... Ripped bar tape and saddle and stem pointing in different directions.......rear brake locked on only discovered at the top of the next climb when I thought I was going to die from lactic acid and lack of oxygen... 😳

Great ride though!!

2 weeks ago in France. Red run down into chatel bike park...came into a tabletop too quick (I don't do air!)and landed funny on the other side. Shoulder went into earth mound with all the force of my hefty 17 stone....PING!
Broken humerus and a strained ligament in my ankle. Managed to walk off the mountain, though. 😕
My face would have been a mess too, if I hadnt been wearing a full face....scraped along the ground for a couple of yards....

May 29th ,checking out my bike for GT7 ,on a trail I know like the back of my hand.
As I was wearing gloves and couldn't see my hand,I had a solid pedal strike in to a cunning stump hidden in the grass.
OTB spectacular ( so I was told ),landing my back on another cunningly hidden object and smashed my hand in to the ground ,somewhere during the roll/somersault move.
Nothing bust,but I thought that I would have to cancel GT7.
Ended up that my recovery (for an old bloke ) was better than I expected ,and I even managed 6 laps.
No offs since,so I now blame it all on Tuesday nights ,and refuse to go off road if there is a 9 in the date 🙂

2 weeks ago, commuting home on the second ride on my new cx bike, went through a ford which was not much more than a trickle across the road. Turns out 25c gatorskins and wet concrete aren't a good mix, cue both wheels sliding out and me slowing myself from close to 20mph using my hands and left side shoulder, elbow and hip. Bent the bars and spun the saddle round (good excuse for a couple of upgrades 😀 ) luckily I didn't get more than grazes and bruises.

3 offs on the 4th August 2012 at the Fort William DH course... am still in the process of allowing my auld body to heal....ain't been out on any bikes since that fateful day... 🙁

Today just back from Dartmoor ride...caught pedal,put left foot down and down it went into bog while I followed bum first.
No bruises etc just felt silly 😀

Two weeks ago at GT , OTB at speed and split my helmet (on my head 😆 ) and tore some ligaments. I was shitting myself I had broke my plated collarbone again after 3 months.
Also loads of comedy very slow topple overs not being able to unclip quick enough from getting used to SPD's.

last week I wanted to see how much I was really leaning the bike and what my body position was like. Was feeling good so went in a bit faster on the crash.

The most damage was done trapping my Thigh between the top tube and the bars. Still have a big black bruise now. Looks really tame but it is faster and tighter than it looks - honest 🙂

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Fell off the shore on the fort William red yesterday. Quite big drop into as soft bog. Only slight bruising when my bike landed on top of me 🙂

I have slow speed pratfalls all the time.

Last funny crash was coming off the Fatcrobat log ride too quick not realising how boggy the mud on the ground was.. front wheel just sank into it and i stopped then tipped sideways into the bog 😆

Last proper crash - came off on a narrow twisty bit of a DH track going quite fast, smashed into a tree with the side of my head. Sort of quite enjoyed it in a weird way as it didn't hurt too much. 🙂

Last night about three times. All stupid unclippy things. Didn't have one proper off just comical low speed falls usually to the left.

I normally come back off a ride with some kind of injury like slipping off the pedals or getting stung.

My legs used to be nice not scarred.

Last year had a couple of stupid accidents, one at Whinlatter falling sideways landing on my elbow and bruising my ribs, and adjusting the preload whilst moving, I bounced the front to check the rebound and stupidly yanked the front brake on really hard 😳 sent me OTB.

I normally come back off a ride with some kind of injury like...getting stung.

Last offs were on the Peak Pootle, one loop at the end of Chapel Gate which reminded me of my old RD400E - badly bruised ego, and the other OTB on the bottom of Rushup - more serious as I broke a bar end. Nothing since other tha an OTB into a nettlebed last week.

Over the handlebars on Sunday!! Got some lovely bruises on my thighs from my handlebars!! Oh well, all partof the fun isn't it!! 😀

On the road bike a couple of months ago. Coming out of a junction my front wheel goes into a slot shaped pothole, straight over the handle bars into the South Deeside Road during rush hour. Lucky to be here!
On the MTB. most significant was Laggan coming down the red at the end of a long but pretty successful day on the black. Exit front again. Don't know how but must have been too tired and going too fast.

About 4 months ago and before that it was 04 in the alps. Not pushing hard enough?

Most recent was an off at speed on a small wooden bridge just before the Les Gets bike park bit on PPDS. Was on the Sunday afternoon during the rain and I hit it at much too sharp an angle and the front wheel just shot out. I still have a very enlarged knuckle and find it painful to hold a pen for long. Not that I need to these days.

Before that was the finish of Bikefest on that blasted jump. Grade 2 shoulder separation three weeks before PPDS....

My last uncontrolled crash was about 18 months ago when I rode straight into a tree. I was probably doing about 15mph and it brought me to a dead stop, bending my handlebars in the process, the bruising on my legs was still appearing 4 weeks later!
I sold my DH bike shortly afterwards.
I still crash but I'm generally in control of it and come away unharmed.

Yesterday at Dalby of all places. Going quite quick and stupidly misjudged a small jump, not paying attention really. Got some funny looks in the cafe eating me lunch when I'd finished riding, what with me bloody knee, but looked much worse than it was. I come off properly a maybe once a month, but numerous prat falls, almost always due to lack of concentration

Yesterday at Ham Hill. Missed the braking on a corner and went down a ditch.

Megavalanche qualifying race. Handlebars hit by another rider on a fast fire road section. Sore. Main race was a bit sore too. Turns out I was yelping like a little girl because I had broken my shoulder. Still beat my brother.

If I fall off in the woods and there's no-one around do I make a noise?

About 3 weeks ago after 6 pints of various Enville Ales in the Cat.

One night ride last winter - cutting across the old disused American Adventure car park after dropping off the back of the group, popped my front wheel up over a kerb, front wheel just went out from under me, landed helmet first.

Slight headache, and decided to replace the helmet as it was the second time I'd landed on that one!

Went over the bars in super slow mo two weekends back, only 2nd off road ride since breaking my right wrist into little pieces and having a forced 5 month sabbatical ,

Hurt a bit but realised it was due to being a little scared, put the fear behind me last weekend wasn't easy but felt much better and apart from clipping a tree with my bars during a rooty decent I got home in one bit a lot happier 🙂

SITS. On that freaking off-camber bit about half an hour after the thunderstorm had turned it into custard! 😐