KiddSisko

40+ mph canyon descent with steep drop offs and no guard rails, overshooting my lane on a bend, the sharpness of which I underestimated. Managed to keep from flying off the road by a hair.

mihlbach

Darwin turned 200 this year. This year's Darwin award will be highly sought after. You guys need to try harder.

Flatballer

I did dirt jumps on my XC bike without dropping the saddle down.

I ate dirt and tore my lip away from my face, 6 stitches.

nazzo

Last year: nearly getting hit by a car making a left turn while I was riding my mountain bike on the left hand sidewalk while trying to go home. I flipped over the bars and planted my chin into the pavement. Needless to say I got ****ed up by Sir Issac Newton.
This year: (note this is something stupidly dangerous that happened to me all of an hour ago on my ride today). I was booking it up a slight incline (22mph+) with a strong tailwind near the Fraternity Village area next to WMU's campus. I was minding my own business by staying in the bike lane and playing nice with stoplights and all that legal whatnot. I was feeling good and focused on continuing to hall ass when all of a sudden I see a ghetto green grand-am driving straight at me. At this point I **** my pants, figuratively, and hit my brifters as hard as I can. I realize the car is making a left turn after being stopped in the turn lane of the 5 lane street I'm on. My back wheel locks up as both me and the car are on a collision course and this causes my bike to fishtail from under me to the right to a near parallel and I'm in a silent and slowed down dream-scape, I'm most positively going to get killed and the world just sort of disappears around me as I focus everything on just how freaking close the car's rear bumper is to me. I somehow managed to escape by about an inch as my heart is in my mouth, I'm speechless. I take the next turn trying to find this car again, I run into someone who saw the ordeal and they tipped me off to where the driver went so I started the chase. No longer then 30 seconds later I see the car coming at me and the lady driving just simply stuck her head out the window and shouted a half hearted 'sorry'. Well at least she said something to acknowledged what just happened...
Drivers suck.

LorenzoNF

Got stuck behind a car descending Mount Tamalpais and decided to pass it. Made it past fine, but carried too much speed into the 150* corner right afterwards. Headbutted a guardrail post at 20 mph and totaled my helmet. My neck still hurts and that was 2 months ago.

urbanknight

Which road were you on?

caloso

Tried to make up ground in the final lap of a four corner crit by trying to pass half the field on the outside gutter between corners 3 and 4. Got ridden right into the curb, endoed at 30mph, and landed on my back.

[This actually happened in Aug. '08, but it was so stupid and dangerous that it counts for this year too.]

Randochap

Hey. Don't let that stop ya. I've dodged it twice now. A few scars and irritants but still going.

Pickup trucks. That's what I consider the biggest threat to life and limb these days.

Good luck, mate. Kick the crab to the curb.

CrimsonKarter21

Raced down the side of a gigantic hill, paved with chip and seal, with no brakes, and shoulder-to shoulder with two riders.
Twice.

nickbubblehead

Just got home from a bike ride and had my bike up on the Thule roof racks. I hit the remote garage door opener and proceeded to drive into my garage when I heard big thunk! That of course was my Trek with a new frame geometry....

The Weak Link

I called botto a Republican.

ElJamoquio

Was checking the lanes behind me - I needed to get from the 'bike lane' to the left lane.

Looked in front, everything was clear. Except there was now a red light. Oops.

Faceplanted, overnight stay in hospital, and still can't open my mouth fully or chew 'well'.

jdon

Rode a double century on a very hot and humid summer day. I was completely dehydrated and suffering heat exhaustion at the 185 mile mark. Nearly delerious, I rode through a busy intersection without stopping or looking and straight into the front end of an oncoming Jeep. Fortunately, he was nearly stopped.

Heat exhaustion is a dangerous thing..

531Aussie

I crashed kinda heavily last week coz my pedal hit the road in around a corner! If hitting the ground with a pedal isn't dumb enough, I did it on a corner right near my house that I round around every day!!

The injuries weren't too bad: just mildly bruised ribs, arse, hip and shoulder, and I lost a little skin. And how the hell did I strain my hip flexors? Is that getting ripped out of the pedals, or wrenched over the bike?

531Aussie

Yes! That's nothing! One time, I was so delerious that when i decided my tyres were too hard and uncomfortable for the last 10km home, I started reaching down to let air out of the front while I was still riding. I snapped out of it when my hand was approaching the fork crown

botto 

that was indeed idiotic. then again, that comes naturally to you.

bretgross

I stopped at a stop sign. (Not sure if that's dumb or just dangerous.)
At a 'T' intersection.
Waited for cross traffic to clear before starting my right turn.
Got rear-ended by a pickup truck before I'd gone 10 feet.

It totaled my bike, but hey -- I just got a check from the insurance company for a new one!

CyciumX

Dumbest thing I did was race behind a Light Rail Train in Downtown San Jose since I was late and it was clearing all the lights for me (only lasted a few minutes). I'm talking San Fernando all the way past Julian going about 26 while dodging all the folks who are just crossing the tracks and intersections...

Dumbest thing to happen to me that was kinda my fault only because I trusted someone to know how to drive... I was again trailing a car at about 26 or 27 and we were both approaching a right turn. This right turn (I used to go down this route every day) has a dedicated turn arrow associated with it and I knew from the timing of the lights and the order they hit that me and the car would be good to go without stopping. True to my assumption the right turn light turned green and the "thru" lights turned yellow. The car hit its brakes since it only sees yellow and doesn't even realize she has a green light for the turn and I slam my breaks. The back slide out and I ended up stopping inches from her car sideways and actually used my hand on the trunk to keep balance...

...But the most F'd thing was last Monday when I took a turn at 25 going to work and slipped out... that hurt and so is my infected elbow.

hairnet

I built a fixed gear.

Tundra_Man 

I commuted to work one day on my TT bike, and rode through thick stop and go rush hour traffic trying to move my hands back and forth between my shifters which are on my aero bars, and my brakes which are on the bullhorns. After 11 mentally exhausting miles I decided that this bike was not designed for commuting.

Oregon Southpaw

I forgot about mine - courtesy AVA death stem- it was dumb to be riding a u08 that had not been tuned-up since '74...

PeddlingPilgrim

this thread needs more blood....

ch3n207

I was on my track bike in the Manhattan and all of a sudden a football comes flying at me, I attempt to catch it with one hand and end up crashing. Hip was sore for several days.

jabantik00

truckee to lassen to shasta to klamath falls leg of my summer tour was rather dangerous. bad weather, worse drivers, little to no shoulder.

rydaddy

I entered my first Cat 5 race with one real group ride under my belt.