Mountain Biking - Fell off!!!

Had my 43 years young birthday yesterday and as a treat went out for ride near home (Keighley, West Yorkshire - England). Excellent 2.5 hour ride - cold, wet, sunny and challenging. Felt 18 again.....

Fell off because i had fitted new pedals and didn't adjust the release tension!!! Doh!!! Stuck on the ground and couldn't get my feet out for laughing.....:lol:

Any body else done the same - or is it just me!!!

Might as well ask has anybody with clipless not fallen off.

As another poster said in another thread, there are two kinds of clipless riders, those who have crashed already, and those who are going to crash.

I have never done this, so you must just be an idiot.
I'm going to do the Chel thing here and sure you realize that I'm joking
Idiot

^ Do the people with whom you ride know you're about to crash?

I've never fallen.

+1. Not even once.

i fall, it's fun. i slid out on the ice last week riding in a snow storm. i laughed, then crossed the road to pick my girlfriend up from work.

i fall, it's fun.

Must be pretty minor falls if it's fun.

Must be pretty minor falls if it's fun.

Yeah, seperated shoulders aren't fun.:(

as long as i can walk away, and laugh about it later it's fun. it may hurt like hell at the time, but thinking back, i always get a laugh about it. this particular incident, i just slid out while i was barley moving so it wasn't bad at all. banged my hip on the ice, but oh well. one that i always laugh about, it was a while ago, but i was coming down a rocky trail and i ran dead on into two rocks inbeded in the ground like a V. they stopped me dead and i went right over the bars, landed flat on my back, on more rocks, slide for a while. after i got untangled from my bike limped to the side to grab some water, i rod away. thinking of how i must have looked flying through the air then sliding like a turtle on my back down the trail. it must have look funny as hell to my friend that was with me. and i laugh about it every time i think about it.
I've eaten a lot of ****, mostly from skateboarding, but if you can't laugh about it later on you'll never get back on the horse. i find riding, and skating fun. getting hurt is part of it. so that makes it fun to.

Had my 43 years young birthday yesterday and as a treat went out for ride near home (Keighley, West Yorkshire - England). Excellent 2.5 hour ride - cold, wet, sunny and challenging. Felt 18 again.....

Fell off because i had fitted new pedals and didn't adjust the release tension!!! Doh!!! Stuck on the ground and couldn't get my feet out for laughing.....:lol:

Any body else done the same - or is it just me!!!

I've pinned myself on the ground a couple times in ways that it was extremely difficult to get out of the pedals. Once, it was with straps and that took me quite a long time to get out of.

I have fallen, but never because of clipless pedals.

I've never fallen. I have, however, crashed, slammed, highsided, lowsided, endoed, looped out, lawn darted, stuffed it, racked it, stacked it, flailed, bailed, biffed, and totally eaten sht.

Speaking strictly metaphorically of the last, btw.

Never biffed it huh? That's too bad Gastro... i think you might be missing out on something.

I've never fallen. I have, however, crashed, slammed, highsided, lowsided, endoed, looped out, lawn darted, stuffed it, racked it, stacked it, flailed, bailed, biffed, and totally eaten sht.And despite all of that, you are "OK."

^ Do the people with whom you ride know you're about to crash?

You have no idea :)

Never biffed it huh? That's too bad Gastro... i think you might be missing out on something.

I figured "biffed" was close enough. Am I missing some subtle distinction?

i havent fallen, but i have tipped over, lol. once....wait no, twice :(

Everyone I know with clipless has tipped over at least once. I think I go over the bars more than I fall over now...ever notice how there are two completely different ways to over the bars? The olympic hurdler way when you're kind of expecting it and then the face-in-the-dirt way?

/\ you're forgetting the handstand, land on your back way.

i fall, it's fun. i slid out on the ice last week riding in a snow storm. i laughed, then crossed the road to pick my girlfriend up from work.

Did she ride on the handlebars or your pegs?

Theres always tomorrow...........................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97pQiVChhZw&feature=related

I figured "biffed" was close enough. Am I missing some subtle distinction?

no... i'm just an idiot and got lost in exspanse of your falling down vocab and missed it. i e-biffed, i guess. thank you for your time and patience.

Did she ride on the handlebars or your pegs?

put the bike in the back seat and drove her car.

put the bike in the back seat and drove her car.

Sooo, she picked you up...

Sooo, she picked you up...


you can say that, nudge nudge.

edit: hmmmm I guess I should have said I put the bike in the back seat and then I drove her car home. but either way a few mixed drinks when we got home to warm up from the cold, and well.....

I bought a new bike a week or so ago and put SPD pedals on. Clipped in and rode up a steep grassy hill by my office. Went to turn both feet and nothing happened. Pedal tension was set all the way high.

I fell over. Worst part was at least 10 people saw me do it and I'm a 46 year old civilian on a US Military base in Japan. One of the guys ran over as fast as he could probably thinking the old man was dead or something.

There I was laying on the ground floundering around still firmly attached to the bike.

It happens. Usually in front of witnesses but it happens.

John

Shucks, guess i must be an idiot then!!!!! Thanks for all the replies....

Didn't fall of yesterday though..... And a great really technical ride....

It happens.

I bought a new bike a week or so ago and put SPD pedals on. Clipped in and rode up a steep grassy hill by my office. Went to turn both feet and nothing happened. Pedal tension was set all the way high.

I fell over. Worst part was at least 10 people saw me do it and I'm a 46 year old civilian on a US Military base in Japan. One of the guys ran over as fast as he could probably thinking the old man was dead or something.

There I was laying on the ground floundering around still firmly attached to the bike.

It happens. Usually in front of witnesses but it happens.

John

That reminds of a fall I had back in 06. I had been doing some long training rides all spring for the Flint hills death ride. I was in a little better shape than the guy I was riding with so I was in front. I came down a Hill into a rock garden and stack up on the left side of the trail. There were some small saplings that broke my fall, and laid me down very easy. Well, I figure my friend would be along any second, so I just laid there( though he'd get a laugh when he saw me in the saplings). After a while I went ahead and got up. Pulled my bike back on the trail, and swung a leg over. About that time he came over the hill and said "hey thanks for waiting on me man". He He I said well the trail forks just up ahead and I didn't want you to wonder which fork I took. We pedaled off and I never told him I fell.:thumb:

I have fallen with clip, clipless and free style pedals maybe I am just clumsy or try too much hard things like track stands for one.

ive done that! Took it into the bike shop and they lossened my clips. Bunny hopped and flipped over the bars.

I have fallen with clip, clipless and free style pedals maybe I am just clumsy or try too much hard things like track stands for one.

Just go as slow as you can, this will build the balance you need for low speed maneuvering. This especially comes in handy on climbs when you stall.

Last time I fell...I was riding on a HOT and HUMID day. It was about 2-3 miles into the ride, so I was still plenty fresh. I was pissing and moaning about all the spiderwebs and inhabitants though. All the sudden, I came up to this short/small incline, so I pushed into it and threw my weight kinda upward/forward...I ran over what I thought was a clump of leafy/grassy stuff, but there was a tiny stump in it.

I went over the handlebars like a dork.


B2B laughed at me and made fun of me...called me names. And then all the other kids made fun of me too.


Then I made fun of myself like usual and went on my pissing/moaning, merry little way.

I've tipped over once due to not being able to get out of my new clip less pedals in time, and landed on my snow blower in the garage. It was funny and the pain left in a day. On 1/4/08 I went sailing over my bars when the front wheel hit something under the leaves on the trail that I didn't see. 7 days in the hospital over 2 different stays, 4 broken ribs, a collapsed lung and minor chest infection later I'm still hurting. THAT fall wasn't fun at all.

Bruce

ive done that! Took it into the bike shop and they lossened my clips.....


Whaa......noooooo way!