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roadgator 03-04-08 03:35 PM


Originally Posted by ryansexton (Post 6278178)
Yeah, seriously. I am just hoping spring comes soon.

At your rate, it might not come soon enough.

Please tell me you have a helmet and brakes.

crushkilldstroy 03-04-08 03:36 PM

He doesn't need brakes. He just falls down to stop.

EDIT! I keed, I keed.

Marrock 03-04-08 03:41 PM


Originally Posted by ryansexton (Post 6278108)
I hate falling, but I seem to do it every single day. Damn this stupid weather!

Get a trike.

paulwwalters 03-04-08 03:55 PM


Originally Posted by ryansexton (Post 6278463)
They are mostly related to ice and not paying attention. I don't think its a matter of my skill. A lot were low speed, or me just ****ing around.

So go fast, pay attention, and don't **** around! :D

sp00ki 03-04-08 05:09 PM

anyone else think it's funny that he sucks as bad at riding as he does at the internet?

carbonjockey 03-04-08 05:17 PM

ha htis thread is too appropriate: i got cut off the gas budget (yes i am a teenager) so i rode my fixie to school for the first time today and what do you know... I pedal strike on a corner and totally biff it. only damage was torn up bar tape and some minor road rash but a major ego buster- luckily no one whose opinion i value saw it

ryansexton 03-04-08 09:41 PM


Originally Posted by sp00ki (Post 6279722)
anyone else think it's funny that he sucks as bad at riding as he does at the internet?

Considering most of my falls are when I'm riding on the shoulders of roads with 27C slicks and every time I have fallen has been the result of weather surroundings, I don't think I'm that bad. Are you going to pick on CX dudes because they fall?

This was more so to bring up how much I want it to be spring, so I don't have to ride in ****ty weather. It could be worse, I could be too big of a wuss to ride in the winters.

freeskihp 03-04-08 09:47 PM

I fell, once, when I was 2

Dumpstergrub@gm 03-04-08 09:51 PM


Originally Posted by freeskihp (Post 6281591)
I fell, once, when I was 2

my big wheel got ran over by a truck

kidtwisty 03-04-08 10:07 PM


Originally Posted by Dumpstergrub@gm (Post 6281614)
my big wheel got ran over by a truck

that would actually be insanely traumatizing for anyone to go through if on their bike, trike, etc.

brett jerk 03-04-08 10:10 PM

I've only fallen once since I started riding my fixed gear over the summer (new to clipless pedals and couldnt get both feet out, super awkward). Before that it was like every other week due to all sorts of **** on my mtb breaking, including a crank arm, a chain, a seat, handlebars, derailleur etc. tons of fun riding that beast but I used to eat it on the regular

Eric Hanus 03-04-08 10:11 PM

getting on my bike about a week ago, i slipping on some ice and fell on my keys. i still have a bruise on my hip today.

Dumpstergrub@gm 03-04-08 10:11 PM


Originally Posted by kidtwisty (Post 6281708)
that would actually be insanely traumatizing for anyone to go through if on their bike, trike, etc.

yea i was probably 3 or 4 and got pushed over by the truck as i got off the big wheel. wouldnt say it was traumatizing but then again i still remember it.

yumna2 03-04-08 10:32 PM

today while i was track standing/turning the wheel to balance..the front tire got stuck between the gap in my soma toe clips...then i fell over :(

BRANDUNE 03-04-08 10:54 PM

The only times I can remember recently would be last winter, which was my first in Seattle and I had never ridden in ice or snow before, so needless to say I ate the proverbial **** quite a bit.
Other than that, there was this one time I was leaving work at midnight, I had gotten about a block away and was making a right turn, as I was turning I stood up to mash up the hill and thats when my pedal snapped off the spindle. Now mind you this street I was turning on (the Pine st corridor) is where all the hipsters in Seattle converge on the weekends and the streets were packed. When I went down it was right in the midle of a crosswalk and as I tried to get back up, the pedal was still strapped to my foot and I slid out and landed right back on my ass and everyone walking around me was laughing at me:(

K_phomma 03-04-08 10:59 PM

Just today. I was riding with my friend to school, and right before the school zone I try to pull off a skid (which was stupid by the way), and so lunchbox swings toward front wheel (yet again, stupid) turns the bars to the right, get launched off bike , tuck and roll (arm first) and then get a fatty bruise on my right hip bone area, and scraped some skin off above the right elbow.

TL;DR: Skid = fall.

kemmer 03-05-08 01:12 AM

I had a week like that last winter. All of the following happened within about a week:

Fell on the ice on my way to work TWICE. (crazy ice/snow storm, I had to walk the last four blocks when the snow made it impossible to make it up the hill).
Tire got caught in a crack in my driveway and caused me to slip on some ice.
Tipped over after unclipping the wrong foot while carrying a frame on my shoulder.
Fell over trying to get off my bike while really drunk.

Last summer I had a flat tire week. Something like 9 flats in 7 days. Different bikes, different tubes, different kinds of flats.

Pennywize 03-05-08 01:54 AM

fell messing around... and sprained my wrist

vincentobrien 03-05-08 02:33 AM


Originally Posted by Dumpstergrub@gm (Post 6281735)
yea i was probably 3 or 4 and got pushed over by the truck as i got off the big wheel. wouldnt say it was traumatizing but then again i still remember it.

What about your major wipeout into the wall outside of the Vid?

Dumpstergrub@gm 03-05-08 02:41 AM


Originally Posted by vincentobrien (Post 6282593)
What about your major wipeout into the wall outside of the Vid?

that doesn't count... possible concussion, jacked my knee up, couldn't use my left hand for almost a week. that was just a little spill. Technically I never actually fell off the bike. I just collided head first with a window/ brickwall.

AHemp 03-05-08 02:48 AM


Originally Posted by Eric Hanus (Post 6281734)
getting on my bike about a week ago, i slipping on some ice and fell on my keys. i still have a bruise on my hip today.

I fell on my keys once while riding BMX and bent 3 of them, if I recall correctly. Had to bend back my car key to get home.

guerillaidiom 03-05-08 06:02 AM

I have the nastiest bruise on my left ass cheek from riding bmx at the skatepark like saturday or sunday. Trying luc-e stalls to tooth stalls on a small/way steep quarter, and just couldn't not slide out of the tooth stall, took a studded belt/coping to my left ass cheek a couple times too hard. Seriously, who waxes non pool coping?

Zombie Carl 03-05-08 08:32 AM


Originally Posted by guerillaidiom (Post 6282755)
Seriously, who waxes coping?

Kids that buy wax from CCS catalogs. But there's no excuse to wax pool coping either. Go faster.

zelah 03-05-08 09:20 AM

no seriously, i get that it was icy out, but if you are falling every day you are doing something very wrong. and what you are doing is being bad at bikes

Glynis27 03-05-08 12:00 PM


Originally Posted by ryansexton (Post 6281541)
Are you going to pick on CX dudes because they fall?

They are racing. This includes riding as hard as you can, pushing the limits of traction and doing things that might make you fall trying to win. Just trying to get around slowly should not include falling.


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