I've had some pretty embarrassing ones and was wondering about any of yours.

Too many to bother writing about them. None have been because I happened to be on a fixed gear.



edit- I guess my best one was crashing at ~20-30mph descending a tight steep curvy road. I as trying to brake real hard before a sharp turn and I guess I accidentally also pulled on the rear brake. The rear wheel locked, which is all too easy going downhill, and I ended up losing my line and going into the ditch. Steered the bike into a sign post, flipped over the bar and landed on my back. I got up, I was fine, the bike was fine, and the group rode past laughing at me. Covered in dirt, I got on the bike and finished the mountain

All of mine were on fixed gear (excluding childhood) and mostly because of my drop downs interfering with my pedaling while in straps.

ive had all the crashes

Wut.

I've been hit by cars three times, another cyclist once, and crashed because of my own silly mistakes a couple times as well.

got doored a few months ago by some idiot woman who barely seemed to care i couldve been killed by what she had just done
still finished my 65+ mile ride though in spite of it

then last week i was playing cyclocross with my fg on slick tires and high psi and had a ~1mph crash trying to turn around on loose gravel
landed in some marsh grass and laughed at myself and then continued on my merry way

Solely basing off your avatar, that's probably because your seat is slammed meaning incorrect sizing. Just saying
And seeing as you too are from socal I notice a ton of people calling drop bars "drop downs", interesting...

Rear-ended by a drunk F-250 a few weeks back

Too many accidents, too many injuries. Over the course of my life (I rode BMX for a while when I was a kid), I've broken a few fingers, a few ribs, a collarbone, dislocated both shoulders, put my head through a car window or two, and have had terrible road rash. Oh, and I've broken a couple helmets too. The stupidest one was trying to whip-skid in SPD's while drunk in the rain. There are very few things in that sentence that aren't stupid.

I read that as F50 and thought "No way, you got hit by a Ferrari!? COOL." Also, that truck must have been drinking a lot.

Jeez that sucks how fast was the driver going? And thanks IvyCap i'll have to adjust that now.

lots of random ones, alot of drunken crashes and a crash where a cat bolted in front of me while i was sprinting out of a downward slope. Front tire went airborn and i crashed smashing all sorts of things.

I hope that stupid cat died, ****ed my knee up for weeks.

Many crashes but the worse was during a mtb cross country race. It was late in the race and I was very tired and fatigued. I was coming down a steep downhill section and didn't have my body weight back far enough. The next thing I new the back end of the bike was coming over my head and I endo'd one complete revolution in the air before hitting the ground and rolling the rest of the way down the section through many rocks and roots. A spectator taking pictures said he thought I was dead. Luckily I was able to jump back on the bike and finish the race. Nothing broke but felt like I was hit by a truck later that night. I was on a Gary Fisher OCLV bike that race which was fine... amazingly.

Black ice in a corner -- by the time it registered, I was already slamming into the ground: "Hey, that looks like..." *sudden pain, humiliation, anger...*

Most ignorant crash happened when I wasn't used to riding fixed, riding a conversion with a low bb/long crank combo and wide pedals, took a corner a bit too sharp and fast, pedal struck, lifted the rear tire off the ground, mconlonx get's introduced to 00-grade sandpaper, aka the road.

On the topic of mtb crashes, I recall I was at my local bluffs when I decided to have some fun and go off jumps. (As you can see it's not going very well so far)
I was gaining speed and went off the first jump in the trail. While I was just leaving the ground my foot slipped off the pedal and my leg got stuck between the frame and cranks. It caused me to get off balance and flop on my side from a three foot drop. It knocked the wind out of me and bruised my legs pretty bad. I had an indent in my shin for a couple of weeks. It was also embarrassing because I had to sit for a minute trying to get my leg out while all the other people in the vicinity giggled and stared.

The few recent ones have been animal related. I was riding through a blind curve with heavy bushes and trees along it. As I was going about 25 through it, a cat jumps out and casuses me to slam and slide out. Got some bad road rash, but nothing broken. DIdn't hit the cat. Damn thing

Another time a squirrel jump out and tried to run out in front of me. They tell you to hold your line but I was going to fast for the poor guy and I hit him head on. It bucked me. Road rash again but nothing bad.

Both of these on the roadie. Nothing wrong with that bike, but I have lots of gashes in my (at the time) brand new selle italia flite.

Also have had some really close calls with a couple car doors.

best crash I ever had: I was a youngster trying to ride my coaster brake down a mellow mtb trail, hit a root and got bucked off the pedals. I bombed that hill for a solid 20 feet straddling the toptube with my feet going wild before I got fully bucked off. good times. I then asked santa for a BMX bike with a brake soon after.

Black ice sux. That is all.

Worse one was when I was 12. My hands got stuck on the handlebars of my bmx for some reason and fell going about 15mph. Scraped both arms, whole face, broke tooth and scraped chest lol. My dad was not to happy with me that day.

I am currently on the mend form 3 broken ribs and a bruised hip form a recent accident. I was on the SS when some dude walked right out in front of me and I had no time to react other than slam on the brakes and hit his cooler. I did a front flip off the bars , landed on my ribs and hip and then bounced, landed again and hit my head in the process. Hardest part about it is not being able to ride for a while.

Damn those cats. I swear they know what the hell they are doing.


I was about to say I've never crashed before, but damn me if I forgot about this scar on my face that I've had since I was 5 or 6. I was riding home, literally two blocks from my house when I thought I heard someone shout out hi to me. So I turned back while riding and looked, for a little too long, and next thing I know I'm on the ground after crashing into a pothole caution sign.

I snuck into the bathroom, why, I don't know, but after I saw myself in the mirror, my mom and bro said they heard me screaming. Went to the hospital and got something like 8 stitches. School sucked because we were all very young kids, and the stitches scared a lot of people. To this day, the scar is always a good story, but it's so weird that people that I've known for a while will all of a sudden ask "Hey, what happened to your face? When did you get that scar???" as if they had never seen it before.

-Grade 6 ac separation and broke my collar bone in half. Required reconstructive shoulder surgery 4 years back. I'll have 70% range of motion for the rest of my life. Also sprained my neck and got concussed on that crash. Off the bike for 5 months. I still have half a collar bone on my right side.
- 2 cracked ribs when I hit a curb and went sailing onto the pavement...was wearing a cable lock around my neck/shoulder and the lock was against my ribs. Landed right on it.
- broke my nose when I endo'd into a rock garden on some gnar gnar xc trail. My glasses hit the bridge of my nose. Still have a dent in it.
-riding across a college campus at 11pm one night and they've got the sprinklers on. I was on one of those aggregate walkway things...next thing I knew I was on the ground and my buddy was launching off of me. I was wearing a helmet luckily (it broke) but I hit my head so hard, I had a strawberry burn thing on my forehead and temple for a week afterward from the styrofoam in my helmet. Another concussion.
-the inevitable road rash.

Earliest serious crash was from riding around a roundabout (rotary), no-handed, on a mountain bike, with a kid's trailer attached to the back. Was gravel on top of rough pavement, front wheel slipped on the rocks, and my elbow got skinned to the bone. I learned that elbows grow gnarly scars.

Recently, riding the roadie through town, I was overtaking a slower rider in the bike lane, got out of the saddle to accelerate, and my left SPD came unclipped at the top of the pedal stroke. My foot kicked the tire, wedged into the downtube/headtube/seat and I went up and over. Dislocated my shoulder posterially (it popped out the side), ended up taking the doctors 2 days to realize it was actually dislocated.

Also, this:


Yeah, that blackness all over my arms (and face), endo'd into a filthy, festering pile of stagnant mud. On the plus side, there was a river close by to jump into.

12 years old (BMX bike): Hit some sort of short-ish utility pole and flew over the handlebars. Wasn't hurt.

14 years old (BMX bike): Rounded a blind corner going pretty fast, and slammed into a guy on his townie. We both ended up on the ground pretty disoriented. His front wheel was bent -- my bike was unscathed. He was justifiably pretty angry -- it was completely my fault and I still feel bad about it. :| We both weren't hurt.

26 years old (Fixed gear): Took a tight right turn going way too fast and after that I'm still not completely sure how it happened but I ended up going over the handlebars, landing on my stomach and sliding a short distance. Sprained my left wrist, broke the strap of my beloved Knog Blinder front light and a part of my cotton bar tape is a little worse for wear.