Stupid mountain bike crash!

elscorcho

I went mountain biking on Friday the 13th! :shock: I had to get off my bike and push it across a section of boardwalk after I braked hard to stop me going off the edge! I was pushing my bike and I slipped on some ice and fell off the boardwalk to the left and then my bike fell on me and hit my knee! :roll: I lay there for a few minutes experiencing a little pain and struggling to get to my feet as my bike was on top of me!

When I got home I was putting all my gear away and I noticed a dent on my helmet and when I had a closer look I noiced the foam inside had gotten split! The damage to my helmet is on the left side so it must have happened from my slipping on the ice on the boardwalk! :evil:

The previous time I crashed was into a bin and I quickly found myself lying on the pavement! I seem to be making a habit of crashing in a stupid way!

I am sure I can't be alone in having stupid bike crashes!?! :P

Steve Kish

I am sure I can't be alone in having stupid bike crashes!?!

Possibly, but you may be alone to fessing up to one!

littleandy0410

You are alone. I have NEVER fallen off my bike in a stupid way

...and I've definitely never done a backwards roll going up a steep bank in too high a gear due to not being able to unclip my Crank Bros pedals, landing on my back with my bike on top of me. That's definitely never happened. EVER.

P-Jay

I'd never fall off on an icy boardwalk ever!

Especially not on boxing day 1995 on the one that runs around the edge of my local nature lake reserve landing in the freezing water wearing jeans with my day-old old-school pager clipped to them and having to ride 5 miles home shivvering to tell my mum my very expensive back-in-the-day pager was dead.

That's just silly

nevinkeville

I decided on Friday to go for a pootle around my local spot (Ashton
Court) whilst the missus went shopping with her Nan. Well after about 5
mins of riding me and the bike were absolutely mired in mud anyway I
persevered and did one lap with only a couple of minor mishaps
(slipping of the trail and through random foliage, nudging a few trees
etc.) I got back to the car and had a quick coffee whilst I called the
wife to see if she was ready to be picked up, but alas she wasn't so I
had to kill another hour or so. Back on with the cold wet helmet and
off again only this time after 5 mins my front wheel went so deep into
a rut it brought me very quickly to a halt, only my lightning reflexes
stopped me going over the bars once, I regained composure and thought
to myself that was close I dabbed a foot down ready to set off again.
But no the mud hadn't quite finished with me yet. My foot went sliding,
at great speed away from me and only a quick correction stopped me
doing allsorts of damage to my family jewels, but this was an over correction
and I managed to then send my foot the other way (not sure how) and
landed face first tangled up in my bike in the middle of the biggest
muddiest pile of s**t ever. After checking there was no one around to
witness my monumental fail, I got up, wiped myself down only to find I
had bent my rear hanger. :oops:

Moral = know when to quit.

tlw1

a few of us went out in Edale yesterday, as it is mostly snow - we all had MANY crashes normally by walkers!

I had a big one and a walker came up & said "I hope your balls are in better shape than your seat" I look round to see a twisted seat!

Also many years ago I was showing off my "skills" to a mate & tried to jump across a fire road & had a massive wipe out. No damage to me or the bike so got back on & clipped in then fell straight over and smashed by knee & arm

pdid

I managed to catch my bars on a tree at Whinlatter friday, on a climb so not going fast, unclipped my right and fell to the right, only problem was that it was where the trail is cut into the hill. So as i tried to shuffle and unclip the left the ground on the right gave way under me, que a 12ft slide down the banking then bike landing on top. Suprisingly it didn`t hurt at the time just dented my pride a little, much to the amusement of the other 4 onlooking bikers.

Had a few drinks the following evening and woke up at 4 in the morning in pain. Strained muscles in my shoulder and groins, not pleasent but i`ll live

MarcBC

Not offroad but the happened to a "friend" of mine

Riding in between two cars in a traffic jam. Realising the gap was too narrow, he hit the front brake too hard and the bike flipped up onto the front wheel. The embarassing thing was the bike was stuck on one of the cars in this position with my friend still clipped to the bike.

Oh how we laughed :oops:

The Northern Monkey

Thaaattsss nothing!! a least you had a good excuse to fall off a boardwalk!!

I was fuuuukin shattered on my 1st ever trip round Grizedale, last section of boardwalk and I just kind of gave up. Realised I was heading towards the edge and didn't try to stop myself.
Only then did I realise it was a good 2-3ft drop into trees/bushes, my front wheel went over and I got smacked in the nuts by my seat.

Woke me up tho

zaris

The funniest stupid crash i've had was a 1ft dropp off....that i took thinking its ok no problems.

The crash in detail was....mistimed it like a prat, went over my bars, legs were caught in teh bike and went face first on the mudd....came back home looking like Mr Hankey from south park xD

Banned!

pffft!

try choosing the higher line to miss the wet and slippery boardwalk altogether, only to have your front wheel slide on a root, causing the back wheel to swing round and hit the boardwalk in any case, bringing you and the bike down at a stupidly steep angle, tumbling you over with the bike on top of you while you get stuck between a tree and a rut.

that didnt happen to me today by the way, thats just an example of how things can go wrong if youre an idiot.

Torres

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Thaaattsss nothing!! a least you had a good excuse to fall off a boardwalk!!

I was fuuuukin shattered on my 1st ever trip round Grizedale, last section of boardwalk and I just kind of gave up. Realised I was heading towards the edge and didn't try to stop myself.
Only then did I realise it was a good 2-3ft drop into trees/bushes, my front wheel went over and I got smacked in the nuts by my seat.

Woke me up tho

Is that the board walk on an angle at the end of the north face Ben?

Northwind

My finest hour was just a few months ago... Just got a new bike, getting back into cycling, doing better than expected and generally pleased with myself... Went for a play in the skate park, all going well, some wee jumps etc, no problem. Then, for no reason at all, completely failed at a small drop-off and just rode straight off the edge, no speed, no loft on the bars, no weight backwards, just rolled off it like it wasn't there. Boooom! Straight over the bars, whacked both knees on the shifters so I couldn't walk right for a fortnight, ripped my arm open, dented my helmet... Dinged the bike up something rotten too. Still no idea what happened there really, I do bigger drops on my commute

OwenB

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Thaaattsss nothing!! a least you had a good excuse to fall off a boardwalk!!

I was fuuuukin shattered on my 1st ever trip round Grizedale, last section of boardwalk and I just kind of gave up. Realised I was heading towards the edge and didn't try to stop myself.
Only then did I realise it was a good 2-3ft drop into trees/bushes, my front wheel went over and I got smacked in the nuts by my seat.

Woke me up tho

Similar thing happened to me on the same piece of boardwalk on my first trip round the NFT. Except I reached out to put my hand on a tree to steady myself and missed the tree by about 6 inches went a right cropper

Nodnol

On an icey and wet winter afternoon, I was riding the skinny at Cannock Chase when my bike decided to slip one way, and my body went the other. I headbutted the skinny, broke me nose, then fell into the freezing cold and stinky mud.

For as long as I've been going to Cannock, and ever since FTD was built, I've ridden the skinny, and this was the first time I'd fallen off. At beast there was some blood, made it sort of worth it. :twisted:

The Northern Monkey

Torres wrote:

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Thaaattsss nothing!! a least you had a good excuse to fall off a boardwalk!!

I was fuuuukin shattered on my 1st ever trip round Grizedale, last section of boardwalk and I just kind of gave up. Realised I was heading towards the edge and didn't try to stop myself.
Only then did I realise it was a good 2-3ft drop into trees/bushes, my front wheel went over and I got smacked in the nuts by my seat.

Woke me up tho

Is that the board walk on an angle at the end of the north face Ben?

Yarp thats the one. Sounds like its had a few people

tom_majski

Not so much a stupid crash but a stupid injury. This was the last time i rode, about a month ago doing a DH race. Fell off on some slippy roots i was negotiating at about walking speed, ended up with a deep bl00dy gash in my leg that still hasn't healed and has had me off the bike for weeks.
Yes i've bought some shin pads!

(sorry for pic quality, was a capture from a vid)