Recumbent bloopers that you've learn't from
Obviously this would be something that you must have survived. Just curious as to what others have learnt the hard way, perhaps looking for a bit of wisdom on the cheap, someone else doing all the work.
Here's my contribution:
There's a section of pathway on my regular commute that involves hooning down a hill, turning onto another path at speed, hitting the anchors soon after and doing a sharp righthand turn into an dark underpass. You could top out at 50km/h down there, easy. One day I was doing this on my Greenspeed trike when I hit a bump as I came off the hill onto the path that feeds into the sharp turn. The chain dropped off the front chainring and being that I have a 63T ring up there a lot of chain slack happened, enough that it hit the ground in front of my rear tyre, got run over and tangled up around the wheel. Instead of a controlled brake I had a wild skid, skidding on a metal chain that is, heading towards a brick wall. Stopped just short but that was because I got my feet onto the ground to act as brakes. Took me half an hour to ease the chain off the wheel and untwist it all.
Moral of the story: always have a front derailleur or some chain keeper up front. It has saved me from some many other chain drop hiccups since.
What's yours?