What is the most embarrassing crash you have ever had?

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  • bikingmadx
    bikingmadx Posts: 14
    On holiday in Kaprun last year (with wife) I hired full suspension bikes for a couple of days, I'd been looking forward to getting some decent riding in the montains with a good blast down and chairlift back up the mountain.

    Decided to give the downhill/cross country course a go, nothing too difficult and cleared the technical top section with no real worries....see me brimming with confidence. :D

    The bottom bit was a bit like a picture from 'The Sound of Music' open meadows, sun on my back and a relatively smooth run to a gate 2-300 meters away, full of confidence I blast past a bemused family of local walkers, they were giving me a good look as
    I charged down the singletrack at a fair pace (they must have been impressed with my pace or so I thought)............next minute I'm flying through the air over the handlebars bike does a 180 and I land squarely on my back!! :? :oops:

    Wind the clock back a few millieseconds I'm flying along at I'd say 20mph and see a meter deep drainage ditch ahead :shock: , confident I can bunny hop it I initiate a manual.... it suddenly dawns on me I've not got spd's (like on my bike at home) :shock: , too late there's me a few inches off the flatty pedals as I try to bunny hop and at the same time the front wheel drops and stops in said ditch.

    Thanks god for Camelbaks, it saved my back and as I dusted my self down realising I was okay, I couldn't help but burst out laughing :lol: , no wonder the local family were giving me the look and what a sight they got - my wife arrived a few seconds later telling how good the manouver was.

    Bike wasn't so good, front wheel was Pringled and the fork was blown but hey what a memorable day. :!:
  • bikingmadx
    bikingmadx Posts: 14
    ..first time riding a Raleigh Chopper nearly broke my neck.

    A good few years ago, no helmets, young and carefree, jumping dirt mounds on my BMX, some mates join in one who owned a Chopper. He wanted a go of the BMX and I fancied a try of the chopper.

    Not used to the looooong seat, I hid the jump and I'm sat way too far back, half way through a back flip now my face bites the dirt and the bike still in my hands is right on top of me.

    There's me totally winded and a bunch of mates all pi55ing themselves laughing as I struggle to draw breath half gasping half choking.

    How I got away with it I'll never know....I never really liked Choppers and this was the final nail!!
  • konahanky
    konahanky Posts: 24
    Hammering it down the highstreet in bangor north wales, dodging all the people with my mates, i slowed down a bit to let a car pass then i bunnyhopped a bit to early, front wheel hit a cerb, Wack straight onto my face in the middle of the highstreet, loads of old people laughing and asking if i was oka! Soo Embarassing haha
  • Aldo001
    Aldo001 Posts: 251
    Rob Mafia wrote:
    but worst of all I got the pi$$ taken out of me for the next 7 years, and it only stopped because I moved county LOL.
    :shock:
    I take it you didnt move county because of this. Just thst the pi55 taking stopped was an added bonus :lol:
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  • rob_mafia
    rob_mafia Posts: 136
    Aldo001 wrote:
    Rob Mafia wrote:
    but worst of all I got the pi$$ taken out of me for the next 7 years, and it only stopped because I moved county LOL.
    :shock:
    I take it you didnt move county because of this. Just thst the pi55 taking stopped was an added bonus :lol:


    Lol thats true, I moved because of my job, I can take a pi$$ taking or 2
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I once rode into a tram perving at a bird.
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  • GHill
    GHill Posts: 2,402
    supersonic wrote:
    I once rode into a tram perving at a bird.

    You pigeon fanciers are a damned nuisance. :lol:
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Certainly me who felt a tit ;-)
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  • Willrideforcake
    Willrideforcake Posts: 305
    Aside from from the obligatory classic slo-mo spd-stall crash, my most emabarrassing crash was probably on my kiteboard. There I was, cruising along the hardpacked beach at kiteboarding mecca Leucate, looking kinda cool 8) (thinks me) and impressing the heck out of the assembled mademoiselles (thinks me), when I decide to stop for a breather. So I turn upwind, allow the board to come to a stop, take one foot out of the binding, when a gust grabs the kite, pulling me forwards over board in a superman stylee, with my other foot still attached to the board. I eventually stop thirty yards later when the kite gets caught in a flinking great bushy thing. Needless to say, the mademoiselles are no longer looking quite so impressed... :oops:
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  • Hercule Q
    Hercule Q Posts: 2,655
    i remember it was a lovely summers day, i had just got a hope m4 with an 8 inch rotor fitted so i thought i'd go and try it out up the common. found a nice run and did it a couple of times and i thought one last go before i have my tea, so off i go down the hill with some pace and half way down i run a touch wide on a left hander and strike a petruding branch with my handlebars and brake lever BANG! i go soaring over the bars like an eagle bike carrers into a ditch i land with an almighty thump and for a week or so i had bruised fingers from the lever and felt like a prat, but as i have no friends that ride anymore noone was there to mock me but i have mocked myself ever since cos it was incredibly dumb but i would have loved to see it happen.
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  • Aldo001
    Aldo001 Posts: 251
    supersonic wrote:
    I once rode into a tram perving at a bird.
    Was there anyone inside the tram? That would have been hilarious to see from inside... somebody cycling into your tram! :lol:
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  • Dancake
    Dancake Posts: 47
    I was waved on by by a bus waiting at the junction. As I passed, my front wheel caught a big hole and I went straight over the bars. The bike ended up upside down with the back wheel leaning against the drivers window. He didnt look amused. The look on the passenger's faces was a picture, too.


    oh and my first SPD crash was outside my own house in Front of my neighbour...parked up, forgot I was wearing them fell off still attatched to the bike. Hit my head on my neighbour's wall while shouting sh*********t at 7.00AM after nights as she watched out of her kitchen window....
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,741
    I took part in the Hit The North back in February

    there was one bit of the course I stacked it on repeatedly ! always with another (different thankfully) rider in view. full superman over the bars jobby each time

    I blame it on the tyres not shedding the mud and therefore losing traction
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
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  • swampi101
    swampi101 Posts: 210
    out riding with a few mates. heard a crunching sound and a shout from behind, so i looked round to see what happened. looked back round and a tree appeared infront of me, and a low branch stabbed me in the ribs :lol:

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