Riding thru the parking lot this morning and had a normal right hand turn. Didn't even think about it, just noticed there was no cross traffic. The next thing I know my rear wheel is off the payment and I'm riding on my pedal. Very strange. Recovered well, but spooky as think back about it. I've never laid into a turn that much before that I've had a pedal strike.

A co-worker was riding a fixie this weekend and he had trouble with turns as he expected to
coast and not pedal thru turns.

And now, what's your interesting story?

Walking a pedal is not fun at all. That's all there is to my story.

One evening on the way home from work (in my car), I happened to be following an older gentleman on a hybrid bike coasting down a very steep hill. He was going pretty fast, and it was a winding road, so I made no effort to pass and just hung behind him at a safe distance. I noticed that he was coasting with one pedal up and the other down, and when he leaned into turns toward the down pedal I noticed that his pedal was almost grounding.

At the bottom of the hill the road teed into another road at a stop sign. I planned to try to pull alongside and mention to him that he should try to level his cranks, at least, or to switch the inside pedal up, but he blew the stop sign turning left and kept going. I was turning right, so never had the opportunity to speak to him.

So, is the old saying "Live and Learn", or is it "Learn If you Live"?

Had a stick get stuck in the spokes of my front wheel. I didn't want to loosen toe strap (before clip less) to remove my foot from the pedal, so I tried to remove the stick while still riding. I reached under the bars for the stick and immediately got my hand stuck between the fork and the wheel, I then proceeded to slowly pedal myself right over the bars onto my back in the middle of a parking lot.

My story is similar to gear (above) but it was trying to gently tap the computer pick-up on my fork closer to the wheel magnet.

Unfortunately, I tapped a tad too much, caught my fingers in the spokes, and as the wheel came around, jammed my hand into the spokes, then into the fork, which flipped the bike, landing me on my head/back (Bell V-1 Pro helmet, remember those?).

I was commuting to work, so once I got back up, used the QR to release the front wheel (and my hand), proceeded to ride for a couple of blocks in the wrong direction (guess I hit my head harder than I realized!), then continued to work. Lost a bunch of skin, but no broken bones!

The other story happened to a customer of ours while I worked at the bike shop. Riding on the river-side bike path, a rat had tried to run across in front of her but had been skewered by the chainring and battered by the pedals (how many times I don't know).

My clever remark, "You know that wouldn't have happened if you didn't have rat-trap pedals!" was not appreciated by said customer. In fact, she went into a bit of a rage about it, complained to my boss, etc. Lesson: "Sometimes I should keep smart remarks to myself!"

Rick / OCRR

Once, longer ago than I care to admit, on my way to work I was playing "crit racer" in a large parking lot. Caught a pedal hard enough to skip the rear wheel out about a foot. Some fancy gymnastics and brute-force yanking on the 'bar kept me upright. But all of a sudden I was getting a "whomp-whomp-whomp" out of the rear wheel. S**T! Trashed the rim! Work was only a couple miles, so I just kept going. Got to the shop, hopped off, and inspected the rear wheel. The rim was fine, but I'd peeled a 9" stretch of the wire-bead rear tire off the rim. Just enuf that it didn't blow out. Let the air out, reseated the tire and pumped it back up, and everything was fine. Never seen that happen before or since.

SP
Bend, OR

I tacoed a front rim, that's a crazy as I've ever done. Learned not to play slalom with a bike just like I'd not try to ski on the highway. But then, I was only 16.