Originally Posted by
dwmckee
I read this thread when it started and thought to myself "What a bunch of boneheads to be so careless to have a bungee get caught in their spokes. I am way too careful for something like this to happen to me." Well, it happened to me about 2 weeks ago as a cord came loose on my front rack somehow and wrapped my front wheel a couple of turns before I could get stopped. This sort of thing really could happen to anyone...
My favorite bonehead maneuver was 33yrs ago when I bundled up a thin t-shirt under my saddle and strapped it against my spare tube with a toe strap . Heading out of town and down a hill towards the bridge the shirt got caught under the brake bridge locking the rear wheel at 25mph and I got launched over the curb and down an embankment about 50'. Didn't do that again.