What embarassing crashes have you had?

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  • spidan
    spidan Posts: 59
    Mattbot2 wrote:
    The numerous times i've found it fun to do a skid with my front wheel on icy paths.
    did that this morning. Just happend to be in front of a bus shelter with about eight people waiting in it.
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  • supertwisted
    supertwisted Posts: 565
    Hucking Fell wrote:
    Turns out my knob was bleeding so got my knob cleaned up and an elastoplast on it :oops:

    Arrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

    As a boy:
    Riding to school, noticed my front cantilever was wobbling around at a funny angle, so, while still in motion, tried to nudge it back into place with my foot....

    ...wheel immediately jack-knifes round 90 degrees and I Superman dive over the the bars as the bike goes into a cartwheel of death.

    Result - palms and a chin that look like they've been resting on an belt sander.

    As a man:
    Out for a ride through some country lanes with the wife. Large agricultural machine comes trundling down the road leaving no room for us. Wife stops. gets off bike and steps aside, I try and be all 'mad-skillz' and hop the bike onto a grass verge.

    Result - grass verge is in fact a ditch. Front wheel sinks down about 2 feet and I topple off sideways to get tangled in a barbed wire fence.
    Farmer in his big tractor stops to see if I'm alright as I bob around suspended in barbed wire, just as the horses in the field it borders come over to sniff my head.
    Much laughing from wife.
    Less internal organs, same supertwisted great taste.
  • Tempestas
    Tempestas Posts: 486
    This is not one for the squeamish, but a mate of mine was on a centre of excellence training ride and one guy thought he would try out a new descending technique by getting his back as flat as possible and gripping either side of the stem. So he got his stomach on the saddle and sort of laid on it, got as narrow as possible and tucked right down. My mate says he came past him a good 4-5 mph quicker and he was doing over 40mph, but then as he got about 20m’s past my mate he hit a bump and slipped off the back of the saddle and sat down on the rear wheel, well at that speed his chamois disappeared under the rear brake bridge along with his testicles....they stuffed what was left in a water bottle and the fastest guys chain ganged to the nearest village to ring for an ambulance....
  • dave_hill
    dave_hill Posts: 3,877
    Kirroughtree, August 2007.

    Just entered the section known as "The Rocky Road", rounded a corner at full pelt to be met by a family nd their dog walking in the opposite direction.

    Cue much grabbing of brakes and shouting, "bikes only, you shouldn't be on here, are you mad???" etc. Got past them and promptly rode into a rock which was hidden in the long grass at the side of the trail, straight over the bars.

    Now, you've seen The Simpsons where Homer disappears into a closet or whatever and justs starts shouting and swearing incoherently at no-one in particular? You get the picture...

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  • mygiantmtb
    mygiantmtb Posts: 57
    mtbikerboy
    lol i think so! i couldn't believe it! ive done it before with out crashing! lol
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  • Mattbot2
    Mattbot2 Posts: 384
    Tempestas wrote:
    This is not one for the squeamish, but a mate of mine was on a centre of excellence training ride and one guy thought he would try out a new descending technique by getting his back as flat as possible and gripping either side of the stem. So he got his stomach on the saddle and sort of laid on it, got as narrow as possible and tucked right down. My mate says he came past him a good 4-5 mph quicker and he was doing over 40mph, but then as he got about 20m’s past my mate he hit a bump and slipped off the back of the saddle and sat down on the rear wheel, well at that speed his chamois disappeared under the rear brake bridge along with his testicles....they stuffed what was left in a water bottle and the fastest guys chain ganged to the nearest village to ring for an ambulance....

    Hurts just reading it.
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  • madmax79
    madmax79 Posts: 24
    did follow the dog earlier this year, decided to try out my aggressor xcr on the boardwalk , and well this happened

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YIAAHmYItKQ

    My mate did it bout three months ago now and broke his neck!!!!!

    thankfully hes ok now.
    better late in this life than early for the next
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    See, I could do that if it was painted lines on the ground. But ask me to do it over water, and I'll fall in 100% of the time :oops:
    Uncompromising extremist
  • jws2mpo
    jws2mpo Posts: 20
    Years ago back in about 96 I was 15 and just got a new GT Tempest and was riding down the road and seen a little white sticker on the top tube, giving some safety instructions. The final one said do not read this while riding. Just as I finished reading it I looked up just as I crashed into the front of a parked car and hit my face off the bonnet, I quickly got back on my bike and road off with blood streaming down my nose before the owner came out.
  • zeroseven
    zeroseven Posts: 347
    Dropped my R1 with 200 miles on the clock outside a dealership.

    So far nothing on the MTB
  • Mattbot2
    Mattbot2 Posts: 384
    jws2mpo wrote:
    Years ago back in about 96 I was 15 and just got a new GT Tempest and was riding down the road and seen a little white sticker on the top tube, giving some safety instructions. The final one said do not read this while riding. Just as I finished reading it I looked up just as I crashed into the front of a parked car and hit my face off the bonnet, I quickly got back on my bike and road off with blood streaming down my nose before the owner came out.

    Epic :P
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  • snotty badger
    snotty badger Posts: 1,593
    A couple of offs that spring to mind-

    1) Think I must of been watching superbikes coz I tried lean my bike over way too much in town which dumped me on my side. Unfortunatly for my mate, my bike slide out and took him off mid-corner! :oops:

    2) I was about 15/16 riding past a bus stop with a diferent mate, my front wheel was just to the right of his rear wheel- when unexpectedly he decided to bank right!
    I took about 40mm circle of flesh off my elbow- worst of all the 6th form (about 20-odd of them) seen it happen! So embarassing. When I caught upto my mate he said he didn't even realise! :lol:
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  • mygiantmtb
    mygiantmtb Posts: 57
    me and my mates were messing around on a couple of jumps , and i tried a no footer and failed :oops: i landed on my balls very hard and lost control lol
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    mygiantmtb wrote:
    me and my mates were messing around on a couple of jumps , and i tried a no footer and failed :oops: i landed on my balls very hard and lost control lol

    Bike or bladder :oops:
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • KonaKurt
    KonaKurt Posts: 720
    My most embarrassing crash was also my worst, a serious knee injury when I stumbled and fell while stationary. It happened last year on top of the Malverns, and instead of offer me help, a large group of Chinese tourists all pointed cameras at me and took pictures of me, while I howled like a baby!

    It took me 6 months before I could walk again. Luckily no harm was done to my spicy pork balls...KK.

    Oh, I once nearly had a nasty accident, being chased across a field by a farmers doberman dog! I pedalled for my LIFE for what was the longest 2 miniutes of my life!!!! I just made it over a shallow river and through a steel mesh gate when they caught up!

    KK.
  • snotty badger
    snotty badger Posts: 1,593
    mygiantmtb wrote:
    me and my mates were messing around on a couple of jumps , and i tried a no footer and failed :oops: i landed on my balls very hard and lost control lol

    You were lucky- I read about a guy in the Navy that was kicked in the waah-waahs. Had a permenant erection for weeks! Think he got a good payout :lol:
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  • brownix
    brownix Posts: 115
    David Lund wrote:
    Possibly not truly embarrassing but it was a 'how the hell did that happen when it was going well' moment.
    So funny to watch over and over :lol: Straight into a tree stump!!

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... D=38867376

    Dave

    would you be able to tell me where that is
  • David Lund
    David Lund Posts: 602
    brownix wrote:
    David Lund wrote:
    Possibly not truly embarrassing but it was a 'how the hell did that happen when it was going well' moment.
    So funny to watch over and over :lol: Straight into a tree stump!!

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... D=38867376

    Dave

    would you be able to tell me where that is

    Dalby forest (north Yorkshire) on the unmarked balck downhill section.
    Dave
  • brownix
    brownix Posts: 115
    what is it right at the top of the red? that downhill?


    or is there a secret one
  • brownix
    brownix Posts: 115
    double post
  • David Lund
    David Lund Posts: 602
    Yes its the one in the far top right hand corner on part of the red route, it has got signs but as far as im aware its not on any of the trail maps.
    Dave

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