Shades of Jennifer Lopez in Angel Eyes. Now you have to find the cop and stalk her.

Stew

Hmmm... I don't seem to have had my crash for this year. (Fingers crossed, gripping wood tightly!!)

Last year's was entirely my own stupid fault. I was riding to a football practice (sorry, soccer) and had my boot bag hooked on the handle bars. Naturally they got dragged into the front wheel and through the forks, which stopped the wheel and I went flying! No damage to the bike, a hole in the bootbag, gravel rash and a very bruised right palm, and a bruise from the frame on the outside of my thigh. Don't ask me how, but I must have tried to get off as I was flying over the handlebars, and the bike landed on me! Oh, and acute embarassment, because I was in the middle of a tourist area in Cambridge.

Made it to the football practice, but the hand was too bruised to play hockey for a week or two.

It must have caused quite a spectical Ellie!!!

Ouch!

Rich

Well... I'm up to two.

On Monday, I was riding with my GF. She was drafting me, but I thought she was further behind -- we'd just crested a hill and she's not QUITE as good a climber as me. Sun gets in my eyes and I signal a stop... but I didn't call it. Big mistake. Some part of my brain failed to register that, if the sun was in my eyes, the sun would be in her eyes, too...

She did a magnificent job of braking, but we still hit. We had a slow motion fallover. I was absolutely horrified that my idiocy had hurt her (I didn't) or her bike (I didn't). I did, however, manage to taco another wheel. Those slo-mo applications of lateral force are a killer!

Yep. Something to be said for a spare set of wheels.

Now why does this never happen on my crashes?

I hope this thread isn't acting as a jinx! :eek:

Last year...ah, the year I spent enough money on repairs to have just bought a whole new bike. Last year was the year I rode my bike right into the back of a parked car. The year some old lady learning to ride a bike rode right into the back of my parked bike (I wasn't on it at the time). The year my DH drove the car into a low clearance parking garage with the bike on the roof rack. Not to mention that my tire slipped and I fell off the bike in the rain a couple of times.

I managed that a few months ago without any crashes in the process :eek: . I think I documented that in an achy-breaky bike thread here somewhere.

The worst crash I had was last year, on a long weekend in May. I was on a bikepath, cycling with my BF and turned off onto a gravelly little road (it's paved now). I wasn't going fast, but all of a sudden it was like I was on ice, and the next thing OOF! I was on my side with the bike on top of me. The funny thing is I was on my mountain bike. Landing on that gravel was not fun- bloody knee and elbow, and I tore my gloves! I had to get new ones anyways.

After that, however, we made sure that we always take one of those road-rash kits with us.

only ever crashed 'badly' once. it was during a race. we were racing along at a fair pace, the bunch strung out in a long line. up ahead a nice easy 's' bend that could be taken virtually in a straight line. but no, someone couldn't manage it and there were wheels touching, then the sound of scraping metal and skin on the road. my turn to go down, not good. got up, half my arse was missing, but no broken bones. i was more pissed that it was the end of the race for me than anything else. bike was unrideable, and it was all over. but i couldn't help laughing at the time as there was one of the riders in the field next to the road, nothing unusual in this excpet that there was a 6 foot hedge between the road and the field, with no 'crashing cyclist hole' in it. he must have flown like a good'un. he was caked in mud and his front wheel was 's' shaped. after that incident i couldn't walk properly for 2 weeks and lots of sticking to the bedsheets occured during that period too! ahhhhh the fun of bike racing, character building stuff - as people older than yourself always say in those situations!

cabledonut.

I did break my jaw in a crash I had on my first bike. Then I knocked out my tooth a few years ago when I looked back and rode right into a car.

Has anybody else noticed that as the slow motion effect takes over as you first recognise the fact that you are about to fall off you always seem to notice exactly what speed is displayed on your speedo? The highest figure I've seen was 38mph.

My only crash this year was during the winter. I was rushing to work on my bike (only about 1mile away) I went speeding off down my street - in a state of comatose due to having only left my bed 5 minutes earlier - when suddenly I noticed a car coming towards me with right of way past some parked cars. I slammed on the brakes but as I did I looked at the ground and realised I was actually on top of a sheet of ice.....no guessing what happened :( No damage and only minor bruising.

This past year only one crash. My front wheel went out from under me on an icy rutted street, and I broke my collar bone for the third time. I'd have been OK if I'd been going a little faster.

Ride better than me
Pa

This past year, only one. The year before another stupid one!

This years: Out for a road ride with a buddy and we were trying to outride the rain, didn't happen. Caught in a downpour with only 8 miles left in the ride. Had to cross a busy street, made it to the median, saw a break in traffic, stood up to accelerate and turn into traffic flow as well. That was the last time I'll do that again. The front tire washed out immediately and BAM! I was on the ground, kicking my bike to try to release out of my clipless as a huge brown UPS truck was skidding to a stop. No major injury, a bit of road rash and some bruises. The worst was having to walk home and explain to the wife the brown spot in my shorts.

The year before: I was selling a bike to a neighbor and just replaced the front derailleur cable. He took a test ride and said he couldn't shift it. I hopped on took off down my cul-de-sac non-busy neighborhood road and was adjusting the barrel adjuster while riding. I was looking down at the cranks while making the adjustments. I don't even remember hitting the parked van! DOOH! I was dazed and confused and tasting blood immediately! I had to sit down until I got my bearings. Broken nose, bruised cheek, sore neck, cuts on my eyebrow and nose. Not to mention my bruised ego. The best part was the neighbor bought the bike anyways!
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