Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - guy who crashed last nite on manhattn brdg

i was biking home around 10:30 and saw a really ****ed up guy, bleeding all over, teeth broken. there were a bunch of people already calling and after checking if needed help, went home. anybody know what happened? is he ok? the blood was still all over the manhattan bridge this morning. god it must suck to get into an accident in the *middle* -- how do they get to you?

lwl - doubt he got hit by a car in the middle of the bridge, and cl dude was a week earlier. or are you saying he did it again lol?

but how do you eat **** that badly in the middle of a bridge?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/TheRealEdwin/crack_pipe.jpg

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the worst story I heard was about a guy going down the Williamsburg Bridge. He tried to lift up his front end (wheelie-style) to avoid an expansion joint but didn't know that his front wheel quick release wasn't secure (i.e. completely loose) his wheel came right out and his face when into the ground . Dude got up with no teeth or some such. I didn't see this. It was relayed to me by someone else. but i definitely always cringe when i think about it.

Point being, that's one way that someone might eat it in the middle of a bridge.

the manhattan bridge has a few big expansion joints near the middle. i actually catch air on them. maybe he crashed on those??

A year (two?) ago I saw a guy go down mid-bridge in the middle of the night - he was all messed up on glue or something, and panicked so badly at a shadow that he bailed out at high speed. Pretty scary stuff - barely avoided going down myself, because he was only 10 or 15 feet ahead of me (but I'd been keeping my distance - he was talking to himself REALLY LOUDLY in a way that made me uncomfortable). Luckily there was a work crew on the bridge that night, so I wasn't alone with creepshow for very long...

Any chance the guy last night suffered a blowout? There have been lots of broken bottles mid-bridge this week, seems to me...

That Williamsburg bridge incident En La Calle mentions involved a friend of mine -- he recovered and is perfectly well now, but he was a bloody mess at the time, and a swollen bandaged mess for a good while following. Glad they've swapped out those damned joints; but yeah, I'd long suspected something similar might happen at the top of the Manhattan.

yeah you're right, as you approach the tunnel through the stantions there are some hellafied plates.

talking of catching air, you reminded me—back when the billburg bridge ended in stairs on the manhattan side some guys i used to gap the sets on bmw tmxs. it's do-able but real tight cause if you recall those stairs were narrow. well my friend maya took off and kind of drifted. the ends of the tube handrail were open and exposed, and he gouged a 1" deep sample out of the entire side of his thigh. said the next day when he went back past there he could see his own leg-meat ground in the end of the tube.

sheesh you people are as sick as skateboarders
enough with the leg meat already

i saw some dude do exactly that quick-release oops thing on the williamsburg one day. he managed not to hit his head, but i think his hand was broken. i asked him a few questions and he seemed okay... it really hurt to watch, though.

p.s. here's how they get to you: someone rolls up on one of the sides of the bridge, they park their vehicles and walk up to you. how do i know it? bridge battle. i lost.

lwl - doubt he got hit by a car in the middle of the bridge, and cl dude was a week earlier. or are you saying he did it again lol?

but how do you eat **** that badly in the middle of a bridge?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/TheRealEdwin/crack_pipe.jpg


obviously you've never tried to cross a metal-grate bridge in Chicago when it's even raining, not to mention icy. Bridges will f*ck your ***** up dawg.

God damn, who doesn't know how to put their wheel on? I guess maybe some person coming by may have maliciously undid their QR, but sheesh, you'd think it'd be obvious.

God damn, who doesn't know how to put their wheel on? I guess maybe some person coming by may have maliciously undid their QR, but sheesh, you'd think it'd be obvious.
the other day I was leaving the grocery store and I saw that the bike next to me was locked to the rack by it's front wheel and it DIDN'T HAVE A QR!!!! There was just a hole. When the person came out to unlock I explained that their wheel was not attached to their bike and they said that it wasn't theirs and they would tell the owner. He also seemed to be under the impression that because there were Security Guards there that the bike would be safe locked up by the front wheel.

Another guy who was unlocking his Flite 100 said he had noticed the same thing and it made him really nervous too.

Dammnnnn.. how many times are you gonna post about the leg meat??

I was 14, bought a mountain bike, decided to take it off some sweet jumps at my local dirt vert place. My QR wasn't on right and my wheel came out while i was about 2 feet of the ground. I tried to pull back and run out of it, ended up forking down and tumbling head over heals. I thought I was just gonna come to a halt in the grass but someone had decided to dump their exccess cement in this grass field, my face happened to find that 3 by 3 section of prairie grass. 32 stitches in my face between my Eye and my temple, and 16 in my ear.

yeah

My good friend, Dave, was the EMT at the accident a few nights ago on the Mahattan bridge. The man was extremely intoxicated and somehow managed to shatter his front grill on the ground. Lots and lots of blood. The bike, although a piece of junk, was fine.
-brad
www.trackstarnyc.com

Friend: "You're too drunk to ride home. Give me your keys. Let me call you a party bike."

Broken Grill Face: "Shut sup! Yous don't know meh." (storms out)

<The next day Broken Grill Face vaguely remembers spitting teeth shards into the East River>


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Dammnnnn.. how many times are you gonna post about the leg meat??

Removed the extra copies of leg meat, and also extra copies about the shattered front grill. Enjoy! :eek:

--J, a Forum Mod

God damn, who doesn't know how to put their wheel on? I guess maybe some person coming by may have maliciously undid their QR, but sheesh, you'd think it'd be obvious.

When I picked up my *gasp* Yeti 575 at REI the salesperson told me to make sure I check/secure the QRs before each ride. I thought that was pretty funny.