Xtreme Biker

Funniest Wreck / Wipe-out (No BS allowed....)

I once wrecked going down a creek bank when I flipped over the bars. I landed face down in the water, the bike sailed up in the air. When all was over, my bike stood completely upside down on a sandbar in the middle of the creek, on its bar and seat, with both wheels up in the air spinning in perfect unison. I couldn't have stood it up like that any straighter if I'd tried.

Needless to say, most wrecks probably just aren't that funny, huh? I guess you'd just have to be there at the time....

One other time a friend of mine stepped off his bike on the wrong side. You see we were on a very narrow singletrack trail, with real steep sides (up on right, down on left). Well, he stepped off to the left, and down he fell about 30' before he finally came to a stop in a pile of leaves under the laurels. Unfortunately his bike got its toptube bent from the fall when it smashed into a tree just before going into the 4' deep river. He was alittle shaken, but not too stirred.

Maelstrom 

Funniest wreck was me trying to do a wheelie. I put so much power into it I pedalled layed flat out in mid air and landed on my back with the bike still attached...I almost did a flatland blackflip

KleinMp99

I also have bit it while wheeling. Winter time.....had my big winter gloves on. Went to wheelie and then tried to grab the brake with 2 fingers, those 2 fingers pulled the lever into the other 2 fingers because the glove got in the way and I landed right on my ass. All of my other crashes werent funny.....they might have been totally stupid but when you get hurt its not really humorous.

cryptid01

The funniest and most embarassing usually involve wheelies (or attempts at them, anyway).

I cruised fast into the trailhead parking lot, all jacked up from a good ride, and I pulled the loongest nicest manual I ever did in front of a crowd of folks. . .then looped it out, as if in super slo-mo, and skidded quite a ways on my back.

I hopped up, got right back on my bike and took off back into the woods before the laughter started.

Xtreme Biker

FacePlant....

bg4533

I endoed into my roomate last time I was out, my helmet ended up going dead center into his back. He got hung up and stopped after a root/ledge and while trying to quickly stop before hitting him I just hit the root and went over the handlebars. No one was hurt, so I thought it was pretty funny.

dirtbikedude

Funniest wreck. Check the pic. It is not photoshopped. It is a real pic. The rider is know for hard and strange crashes. I am not sure what caused him to crash but his head was buried in the berm.

seely

I think my favorite was on an extremely steep descent...

I was going down braking b/c the trail dumps into a multiuse section, so I am looking right and left and all the sudden something very sharp snags my upper lip and peels it back. So I immediately stop, on an incline that felt nearly vertical and try to basically trackstand since I can't get this branch off my lip.

I try to release the front brake to free my hand since releasing the rear is a sure fire endo, and the bike starts to roll forward, so now my lip is peeled ALL the way back! I am now standing up on the bike to alleviate some of the pressure, shaking my head side to side, trying to use my extremely short tongue to push the branch out, but it won't reach. I'm losing my trackstand and roll forward a few inches, balanced in part by the branch thats stuck to my lip. I stood there waiting for one of the 100's of other trail users to pass to assist me, but of course no one was out that day. Finally I just said screw it, gritted my teeth and rolled forward, and nearly ripped a hole through my upper lip, as the branch then hit me in the face repeatedly, and nearly pulled me off the bike by my helmet as it snapped back.

My lip was swollen for a day and bled for the rest of the ride a bit... it still hurts just to think about it.

catatonic

My fave was back in high school...

We found this natural ramp in a trail...it was rather shrot but steep grade that was good for getting some nice air...but there were roots ont eh right side.

I got distracted by my GF at the time who was sucessfully distracting me about 5 seconds before hitting the ramp (she was off to the left while we were futzing around)...needless to say i hit the root, end result was one nasty faceplant. Everyone was making this groaning sound, and as I started to lift myself up i asked where my bike was...BAM handlebar in my back...turnsout the bike got stuck in part of the tree i barely missed...and fell square between my shoulderblades.

for the next month, I was getting crap from all of them...mostly about how I should get masured for a coffin before the next ride...very rare when someone gets two faceplants from one crash...

Dannihilator

I really don't find crashes too funny. But to each his own.

a2psyklnut

Oh, back in the days....My buddies and I were riding a new trail and came across a dirt jump some kids had made. We scoped it out and it looked easy and fun, so I went for it. The landing was soft, WAY soft! When I touched down, the bike sunk into the mud all the way to the hubs, and I got catapaulted off the front and landed on my back! My bike remained vertical in the mud and all my buddies were on the ground with laughter.

L8R

Rambler

Hmm, nothing extremely funny or wicked, was just going down a steep descent and was riding the back tire. It was so muddy it just kept caking on until eventually I was pretty much covered... the bike then flew out from under me, slammed into a tree with me rolling with it also into the tree. Since I bent the crap out of some gears and the derailer, I had to pretty much walk the bike home... which was a good three km through the trail, and then another 10 km along the road side. That sucked a lot. Not to mention I was bleeding as well.

JasBike

It was raining, and I was riding some wooden plank skinnies solo. The skinnies lead to a bridge, thats about 6" or so, maybe a bit less, above the skinnies. The bridge has a little bench-like wooden dealie built into the left side. I poped up onto the bridge, and as I transitioned the rear tire up, I didn't land it very straight, and it completely lost traction (wood is slippery when wet!) The rear wheel slipped out to my right, I went down over the left side of the bridge about 18" down into the stream, while the bike managed to hook its handlebar+stem onto the little bench-dealie.

Anyway, the bike fell flat while I tipped off into the stream, but my cleat didn't disengage and I was in too awkward a position to twist out. I sat around for a bit stuck down in the river figuring how to get out, but a family taking a walk came by and helped me twist out.

Was my last solo ride,

Rambler

Yes, solo riding is one hell of a good way to get yourself into lots of trouble :/

morbid_fiend

mine would have to be more stupid then anything eles. i was out night riding in the city, after about 4 hours of solid riding me and my mates needed food after we ate we got our stuff hopped on our bikes and headed off well i got my bike went to hop on it while it was moving. well i missed my pedals and landed on my frame and if thats not enough i swerved into a ditch and fliped off my bike and down the other side of the ditch which was about 1m down. i layed there for about 1 minute i heard alot of laughter i thought it was just my friends i looked up from my ditch and saw about 6 girls laughing there heads of i still haven't lived it down.

hanshananigan

A couple times I came to stoplights, forgot to clip out fast enough, and just fell over in the street. Embarrassing!

GT_ATB32

The most humerous wreck I had was at a park I went to with my uncle, his friends, and my friends. It was my first time going to a cool trail. I had nailed this awesome jump. I was excited about coming around the next time. When we got near the jump the second time I accelerated and must have hit a slick root, b/c my back tire lost all traction. My friend who was right behind me slamed into me and went sliding with me. I slid right into some thorns with him pushing me farther. Once I stodd up i felt fine. Later on the ride my uncle's friend Jeff was trying to go over am massive log. He got over the log, but the incline made his bike flip, with him still in the pedals. I didn't see him hit the ground, he was all of the sudden droped. It was so funny. Then I tried it and had to jump off my bike to keep it from hitting me in the head. It almost fell right on me. That was probably the most fun time, because all of us had old crapy bikes that didn't work as well as we wanted them to. Still it was alot of fun and I didn't hurt myself when I wrecked.

GT_ATB32

Darn clipless pedals falling into the street sucks and it is so Embarrassing!

iamlucky13

The mini-bike crash:

My roommate built a miniture (12" tires, ~ 8"-9" frame size, ~12" top tube) single pivot full-suspension ride. Just to ride it you had to be standing or have your knees way out to the side. It's the most fun bike ever. You can hop curbs, ride down steps, etc. I was out on it one night and decided to roll down a set of about 5 steps, which was the biggest set me or my roomate had successfully taken. I'd done it twice before but this time I approached a little to fast, so I was braking on the approach. I hit the steps a little far forward. When I hit the bottom, I endoed hard, but the bike was short enough I just stepped over the bars. Too much momentum! Stumbled a bit then went down hard handsfirst on the concrete. Only witnesses were my brother-in-law and a random passer-by.

BeTheChange

When I was in highschool I was biking home and was dodging some trash. As I looked back at the trash while I passed it, to make sure that I didn't catch on any of it, I hit a mailbox. It caught my arm and put a huge gash about 6 inches long. I didn't even know I'd been cut untill I looked down at my arm to see why I was sweating so much. My parents were out of town for a few weeks and I didn't get stitches. Now I have a scar on my left arm about 6 inches long and I'm 20 and it hasn't faded. God I wish I had a better story for that one. I usually tell people I hit some barbwire biking

KleinMp99

I thought the title of the thread said no bs allowed. Why say it isnt photoshopped when it obviously is?

Heartattaq

Not really funny, but embarrasing as heck. I was out for a ride around 1230 am on the streets of my city. The city was doing work on water pipes in this one area, so they had ran oversized garden hoses from the fire hydrants to all the houses so they had running water. Well I was riding down the street and one of these now damp hoses was running not quite perpendicular to my line, and my front tire caught and proceeded to slide sideways while I bailed the other way. It was pitch black and as I looked down it looked like our nice soft green grass meridian between the sidewalk and street that I was going to land on, I was shocked into reality when I went shoulder first into a rough cut asphalt driveway. I had road rash on my shoulder back, palms and knees, not to mention the hose put a nice little warp in front tire, and somehow from the tork of the bike and me falling bent the back one as well.

Wasn't pleasent

Another time my sub got the brunt of the abuse. I had rode to subway because I was craving a southwest steak and cheese sub. It was my last eight bucks so I head over around midnight, pick up the sub and start heading home. On the way home the bottome of my bag clipped my spokes, tore the bottom of the bag out and my sub rolled down the street, I lucked out the somehow it stayed in the innder wrapper. I thought I was gonna cry as I watched it roll down the street lol.

cryptid01

It looks like a real, non-pshop pic of someone pile driving someone else into a pile of dirt.

wipeout

Well, after a good ride today I have another one to add to the books. It was my first extended ride clipless, and I'm tearin along feeling quite proud of myself. I'm rippin through the trail and leave my buddy in the dust. Directly after negotiating a sharp left turn, there is a "bridge" (board) about 8" wide that crosses a small creek. I am approaching the creek and I start to psych myself out, thinking this could be bad if I don't hit it right. Well, I hesitate. Fall off the left side of the bridge and into the water, still clipped in. Nothin hurt but my pride and my front disc. My friend did find it quite amusing when he came from behind and rode over the bridge. He didn't see me down there until after he passed. I bet it was pretty funny, seeing a guy about 4 ft down in a creek with his bike still attached to him.

Much

Not really a crash, but stupid:

Cattle grid (you have those over there?), not noticed by this rider, who went into it front-wheel first, tipped forwards onto face, with feet still stuck in those stupid old-style clips, and hands stuck under the handlebars so unable to remove them.

Couple of walkers tried to navigate the grid to help while I was wriggling free, and one got their foot stuck too.