Wiped out by my own water bottle....ugh!!!
06-03-11, 09:20 PM
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I haven't fallen over in a long time, but I am sure it will happen again.
I have moved away from alloy ones that dirty up the bottles to plastic ones, and yes, my CF frame has CF ones.
But, with the CF ones, I have to use bottles that are angled about 30 degrees from the vertical sides to the bottom so I can shoehorn them into the opening.
The cages are a tight fit, and bottles with a square angle from the sides to the bottom are a real bear to get in because I have to get a precise angle.
I have dropped the squarer bottles a couple of times.
I have moved away from alloy ones that dirty up the bottles to plastic ones, and yes, my CF frame has CF ones.
But, with the CF ones, I have to use bottles that are angled about 30 degrees from the vertical sides to the bottom so I can shoehorn them into the opening.
The cages are a tight fit, and bottles with a square angle from the sides to the bottom are a real bear to get in because I have to get a precise angle.
I have dropped the squarer bottles a couple of times.
06-03-11, 10:06 PM
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I've always worried about this happening to me. Sucks to think that eventually you're going down one way or another. 
06-03-11, 10:36 PM
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I was riding with a friend near Kernersville NC back in 2001 and some kids in a beater econobox passed us, shouting unintelligible insults and chucked a half-full 20oz bottle of water at us which bounced between my wheels. They of course then high-tailed it. There just happened to be a police cruiser sitting in an empty lot about 1/4mi up the road so I stopped and gave them the story but there wasn't much they could do since we failed to get the plate. Well a few minutes later when we rolled into my apartment complex to end the ride, there they were, chuckling as they slithered out of their car in front of their apartment. The looks on their faces as they ran around the back of the building, realizing I now knew where they lived was priceless. I tormented them for weeks, writing things in the film of dirt on their car's windows.
Sorry, it was unrelated but that's my "almost ran over a water bottle" story.
Sorry, it was unrelated but that's my "almost ran over a water bottle" story.
06-04-11, 08:48 AM
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OP - look at the bright side, you are in good company. Tom Boonen did this in Paris Roubaix this year.
06-04-11, 09:41 PM
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Years ago, a teammate of mine took himself out while discarding a water bottle. Instead of throwing it to the same side of the road as his throwing arm, he decided to throw it across his body (example, throwing to the left side with his right arm). He must have thrown it with gusto, because he also twisted his handlebars and took himself down. I didn't see it happen, but I can't imagine that he would have made that up.
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I was in a 9 man paceline during a team time trial event when one of the guys up front (3rd or 4th?) dropped a bottle. You should have seen us scatter! One guy clipped it with his rear, but not hard enough to take him down. Back 3 guys fell off and couldn't bridge up again.
06-05-11, 07:11 PM
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Posted elsewhere here on BF, but here it is in all it's patheticness...
I stopped to let a mother goose and goslings cross the road last year...so cute. Except the mama goose attacked me, honking, pecking at my bike, going for my legs. I dismounted and used the bike as a barrier, then it drove me away backwards and I tripped on the curb, going down, bike on top of me. I will tell you this, screaming loud four letter words at a mad mother goose does nothing but make them madder. Sadly, I was the laughing stock for all the backed up cars held up as well. I'm still waiting for the video to surface of me hoisting my CAAD9 and using it as a shield to fend off the deranged foul. ...quite embarrassing and I've avoided that route ever since.
06-08-11, 11:54 AM
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Posted elsewhere here on BF, but here it is in all it's patheticness...
I stopped to let a mother goose and goslings cross the road last year...so cute. Except the mama goose attacked me, honking, pecking at my bike, going for my legs. I dismounted and used the bike as a barrier, then it drove me away backwards and I tripped on the curb, going down, bike on top of me. I will tell you this, screaming loud four letter words at a mad mother goose does nothing but make them madder. Sadly, I was the laughing stock for all the backed up cars held up as well. I'm still waiting for the video to surface of me hoisting my CAAD9 and using it as a shield to fend off the deranged foul. ...quite embarrassing and I've avoided that route ever since.
Thanks for sharing that!
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06-08-11, 12:13 PM
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School buses are evil that way. I lost a brand new rear blinkie to one last year. Must not have clicked it in just right, heard it tumble after I went over a bump in the road, looked back - and could only watch as the bus delicately ground it into a thousand pieces.
06-08-11, 12:21 PM
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I got lucky... I dropped my bottle and blasted it with my rear wheel. Luckily it was a solid THUMP but I survived with no fall.
06-08-11, 12:29 PM
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That is pretty embarrassing, i fell over at a light when more of my weight leaned towards the foot that i was still clipped into, didn't have time to unclip and catch myself and tipped right over. Felt myself falling and couldn't do anything about it. Cars at the intersection and a lady walking her dog at the crosswalk saw the whole thing. I must have scared her dog cause it kept barking and growling at me.
D'oh.
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My biggest recent scar from cycling is due to trying to save my bike as it tipped the wrong way (I was still clipped in on my right foot and it fell right) while I was standing in the left turn lane of a heavily trafficked road. My bike was pretty heavily loaded so I couldn't save it, but the fall somehow caused my foot enough to twist free so that I didn't go down and at least the bike stayed in the turn lane and didn't fall into the lane next to me with traffic whizzing by. Picked the bike up, made my turn once the light changed and got to work only to notice my thigh and upper calf was all bloody from a 4 inch long scratch that I somehow managed to pick up. Apparently, I got some dirt or grease from the bike in there because it took like 2 weeks to fully heal and I still have a red angry scar like 2-3 months later.
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I was riding with a friend near Kernersville NC back in 2001 and some kids in a beater econobox passed us, shouting unintelligible insults and chucked a half-full 20oz bottle of water at us which bounced between my wheels. ......... The looks on their faces as they ran around the back of the building, realizing I now knew where they lived was priceless. I tormented them for weeks, writing things in the film of dirt on their car's windows.
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You aren't going to believe this. I read this post on 6-3. I wanted to reply that I haven't had any trouble while drinking and riding but I couldn't post due to a 30 day ban from the forum. Well I went out riding on the 5th and I was thinking about this thread as I took my first few drinks during the ride. At about mile 18 I reach down to get my water bottle and just as I pull it out of the cage my front tire blows out!!!!! with only one hand on the bars it was a near disaster, but some how I managed to regain control and come to a stop with out crashing!!!!!!!!! That was close!!!!!!!! While changing the tube I found a thread like wire had poked through my tire and was lodged there. talk about a most inoportune time for a blow out!!!
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