Who was unlucky enough to have crashes in 2009 ?

JimmyK

My story is a really boring one :oops: , I couldnt get my feet out of my pedals quickly enough and I went over like a tree being felled, kinda shameful when i think back about it.

Are your crash stories any more varied and interesting ?

Jimmy

Pokerface

Ah....... wait for NapD to show up. <rubs hands together>

holmeboy

Fell off on MTB on very icy road just the other day, first time for a while. Me 60 year old mate fell off (ice again I think) the day before but he does'nt remember much about it. say's it rebruised his ribs that he hurt a coupla months ago falling off down the Borders.

redddraggon

Only the one caused by a snapped chain while out of the saddle.

whyamihere

Not on road.

On the MTB, I crash pretty much every time I get it out. Most memorable was at Dusk to Dawn when my front wheel went into a pothole, I was flung forward and put my entire weight on the stem through my bollocks.

That one smarted a bit...

nolf

This year- various crashes have written off some handlebars, a wheel, some brake levers, a headset, 2 pairs of handlebar tape, 2 pairs of shorts and a s/s jersey now has a stylish large hole in the left shoulder.

It's been a fun year.

mattbarnes

The best/most comical crash I has last year was on my road bike in the hills of Northumberland.

I hit a sheep.

I saw the big wooly bastard at the side of the road and as it as spotted me it did the usual panic-and-run-blindly-in-any-random-direction but managed to get to the opposite side of the road and into the grass. Thinking I was safe, I picked up speed again but soon reached that point of no return as it ran back out onto the tarmac straight in front of me. Needless to say I hit the stupid animal square-on catapulting me over the bars and over it landing on the road on my back. The results? A few minor flesh wounds, damaged bar tape and seat but a massive dent in my pride.

Man on Bike 0 - 1 Sheep

pugwashcp

Just one crash........for details see reddragon's post........I was right behind him and he took me out big style.

freehub

I was lucky enough to only have a near miss, if I never noticed it might have been nasty, some retard clearly seen me coming but kept on going despite it was clear he had to give way, so I swerved into the midle of the road, car still coming into the side, my foot hit his bumper but I managed to stay on the bike. I just started shouting at him, then on my way, he was going the same way but very slowly untill I turned off.

SCR Pedro

I only had one crash, and it was my own stupid fault. I got away lightly.

I don't even want to think about the near-misses, though!

Pedro

JimmyK

i cycle to and from work, and without being chauvinistic, the amount of women drivers who have opened car doors without looking or pulled out straight in front of me just beggars belief :shock:

i pay a lot of attention to drivers on the road and try to anticipate stupid manoeuvres that may be made. :roll:

jimmy

andy162

I tumbled off in the Summer. Banging along on the drops at a fair old lick...the rest is somewhat a mystery.

Top & bottom is I hit a tree at 25mph+. I bashed my head fairly hard & was KO'd for over 30 minutes. I got a haematoma ( severe bleed into soft tissue) on my left leg. This was almost opened up to relieve the pressure & stop the bleeding. Next up was a cracked sternum, 3 cracked ribs, 2 deep lacerations to my right leg & a twig poking out of my right arm!

I ended up in a head injuries unit for a couple of days, then it was home, crutches & lots of physio( very, very painfull). A month off work etc. Lots of gym work on the duff leg, single leg presses etc to get the strength back. The muscle turned to mush.

I was on the turbo after week 2, it was easier to pedal than walk. Training proper started about 2 weeks after that. All told I was buggered til September & didn't race at all after the smash... here's to next year!

I did some Sportives in July/Aug & was 12th fastest on the 115mile Ryedale Rumble so form was something like.

I'm looking forward to properly stuck in this year but i've still not got full movement back in my neck.

sicknote

I came off my road bike not long after getting it on the road by going round a bend to fast on a wet road and the back wheel, wanted to go straight on as a car had just gone passed me a little to close and was giving chase.

I was lucky I had not got to the bend any sooner as me and bike almost went under a car going the other way. :shock:

Try not to take bends so quick in the wet now and had road rash for a few weeks as well on my hip but no holes in my kit.

TheStone

4 for me. Bad year.

- one on ice in Feb
- one when someone jumped out in the road in summer
- two caused by bad road / poor handling later in the year.

No bones broken, but still some pain from each crash.
Had to change/fix something on the bike each time.

bompington

One WVM pulled out in front of me, no damage done but outstanding for the sheer amount of effort that must have gone into not seeing me.
Plus 4 on ice on my last commute before christmas.

Overall not too bad a year. I'm still working on getting the personal injury damages from my 2007 smash...

Limburger

Must have had at least 6 crashes this year.

3 ice/snow grip v. gravity affairs
1 low speed turning cos we went the wrong way topple
1 passing out on a monster long hill in too much heat, after too much cycling, with too little water it would seem.
1 almighty airborne adventure and subsequent landing/rag-dolling/helmet cracking/whiplash inducing mystery. The bike ended up pretty much unscathed on a verge. I ended up splatted across the tarmac. Must have hit one of those invisible elephants or something.

takethehighroad

I hit a small child whilst riding in France, they stepped out from behind a car, and I was down before I realised what was going on.

Net result? Collarbone broken, separated by an inch and a half, very nearly a compound fracture. I now beep when I go through airport security due to a 6 inch metal plate and 6 screws.

antfly

I think I cracked a rib in the summer when I came off my MTB on a sharp bend with a load of gravel. It only hurt when I breathed in so I took painkillers for a few days and the pain went after a couple of weeks. I also got hit by a car at a roundabout but somehow just got pushed around and along without coming off.

Flash 72

I ended up having 3 n total
1. I thought I would for a quick ride after school at the beggining of April so I came out of my street and rode rode about 50 metres down the main road and rode across a junction at about 17mph as I did so a car pulls straight out into the sde of I lay in the middle of the road for a few minutes and then the driver called the police and an ambulance I was checked over in the back and then they let me go so I walked home with basically just my boxers on and a 3month old boardman pretty much destroyed. 2 weks off

2. Quite boring really I was at the velodrome on the 9th May (My birthday) a Saturday morning It was my 3rd week there and it was coming to the end of the session and it was an unknown distance mock race but the bell rang after the first lap and so alot of the good lads had been sitting at the back and so started to come through the pack as we were all sprinting round the last corner (I was about halfway up the banking) I just felt a rider fall on top of me and that was it 4 of us ended up coming off I was covered in wood and had quite a few burns I still have a big scare now on my left hip and one on my left arm where (it was the shower which was the killer) 1 week off

3.Same as number one I went out for a quick ride on a Monday evening this time in June, this time though I manged to get a mile away from my house, I was coming down a very small hill maybe about 3 - 4% I was doing about 18-20mph when I saw a car in the middle of road waiting to turn my left her right ( she was facing oppisite me) as I got about 10 meteres away from her I Ilooked her right in the eye to make sure she had seen me ( something I had always done since my first acciedent) then before I knew it she turned right onto my path and I went straight into the passenger door and ended on top of the roof in the middle of the road with about 20 people just staring at me blankley at me I got got down off the car and walked to the side of the road fine and felt hardly any pain I rang my Mum who nearly started crying again then I went to stand up and I felt one of the worst pains ever in my hip and then just passed out I woke up in the back of an ambulance I got to hospital were they X - rayed my hip and it wasn't broken so I was just on crutches for a few days but ended having to spend 5 weeks of the bike because I wrote off my focus izalco so that my racing season over by June. o top it all this was my ever year with a road bike so if that hasn't put me off I'am not sure what will.

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NWLondoner

Not sure whether i should tempt fate or not but thankfully NO crashes

A couple of near misses and almost had a clipless moment but saved at last second.

deptfordmarmoset

No crashes if you mean collisions but one rather humiliating off - because it was a rear wheel skid and I'd always managed to control those since I was a teenager - more injury to pride than anything else. The feeling that it was due to now having slower reactions than I used to was a bit of a shock though. Damn this ageing process!

tlw1

Main crash is all my fault :oops:

Had done 70 miles of the 75 to the sister in laws & realised I was going to be very early. So stopped got my hair cut, some food, etc. Then set off again with my jacket folded up into a bum bag type thing wrapped round my bars (it was annoying me around my waist).

Not sure what happened, but going down a slight hill & remember swerving and then not a lot! Basically the jacket fell into the wheel & snapped both forks - sending me over the top.

Four months off cycling due to bad neck, ear stiched back on at the top (very painfull)! But a new bike

Below is a pic - the hair did grow back!

http://www.pbase.com/bentleyboys/image/118088479

essexian

Been off four times this year: no injuries apart from a bad nagging from her in doors over the fact that I don't wear a helmet.

The first two were caused by my stupidity: trying to do things which the bike was not capable of like cycling on wet grass on a road bike with 23 mm tyres. The last; a week ago, was caused by ice.

My "best" accident was caused by me being a kind old soul.... I was cycling back from Birmingham to Stafford along the canals when I came up behind an old man with two walking sticks. Of course, he took up most of the path so I could either wait for him to move out of the way, or I could go around him on the grass. What I didn't know when choosing to use the grass was that I would hit a patch of mud; fly over the handle bars and land face down in a deep puddle. Not bad for a 20 stone bloke that flying!

Give the old chap his dues, he did come over and help me up and said it was kind of me to try to go around him. Oh how we laughed when I started ringing water out of my kit and when I explained I had a further 10 miles to ride in the cold and wet.

The Chingford Skinhead

Pedestrian ran out from in front of a bus in a lay-by to get across the road. He looked left with his eyes and right with his ears and ran straight into the front of my front wheel. The bus meant I didn't see him coming (as I'd got very adept at spotting likely strayers). Low speed but I got flipped and separated my AC joint in my left shoulder. That was back in March and it has put a bit of a damper on my cycling since - esp since the "commuting ban" had to be agreed at home to avoid a total ban!!!

fossyant

Nothing major in 2009, but got offed just before Xmas 2008, which is still causing major issues with my left shoulder - £2k of physio and the shoulder needs decompressing but not getting anywhere with the NHS - useless...driver admitted liability.........trying to get it done privately as I have full movement, but it's an SIS (pre STI = indexed) shoulder and hurts.

Slight off on the Track at a training session - burnt jersey...bugger.

beverick

Only one unscheduled dismount in 2009 - on 14 Feb. The wheels went from under me at slow speed on a very slippery bend. Severe bruise to the left thigh, cut on the right shin, left eyebrow, bruised left shoulder and two black eyes.

Bob

Al_38

Only 2 of note for me:

1.) wrote my hack bike off in a collision with a car. The drivers fault - i was going quite quickly down a contra flow bike lane on a one way street - driver didn't check the bike lane and pulled out when i was about 2 metres away. Managed to almost get round the front of the car rather than go over the bonnet. Ripped most of the spokes out the front rim, bent frame and forks, took the bumper off the car too. Walked (limped) away with only some bruising / impressive swelling to legs / hips. Wasn't wearing a helmet at the time :shock:

2.) Slightly over-ambitious speed around a wet roundabout, both wheels slid straight out. Still have the scars from using my elbow as an emergency brake

Lazarus

One crash caused by a daydreaming driver, He made a mess of the bike but somehow I managed to walk into the ambulance when it arrived so i got off pretty lightly.

The silver lining of the whole event is I no longer have to worry where the money is coming from for the next bike and paying for the France trip in July