Stupid mountain bike crash!
elscorcho
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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
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
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Possibly, but you may be alone to fessing up to one!
...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.
Spesh FSR XC Expert '08
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
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.
Boardman Team 08
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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
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
Rock Lobster
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:
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
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
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.
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
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:
Yarp thats the one. Sounds like its had a few people
Yes i've bought some shin pads!
(sorry for pic quality, was a capture from a vid)