How was your first Crash !

bianchi bates

Two weeks ago riding to work i was coming over the m180 near Brigg/wrawby and decided to cut the corner and use the cycle path the wrong way. Guns and Roses blasting on the ipod and i cranked it up to about 25mph. It was 2am and pitch black
as i tried to cut the corner to maintain speed my back wheel struck a concrete divider.
I became completely airborne for about 3 meters sideways on, clipped in and going down.
There was no in flight movie or duty free, my flight lasted about 3 seconds then i crashed landed. anything not bolted on was scattered about and i sh*t you not i saw a bright light and a bearded man shouting follow me to heaven. The light went out and i staggered about picking up my lights bottles and a large qty of my skin of the road. By tea time i had a scabs the size of Africa on my thigh / hip / calve / arm / shoulder.

How was you first real Crash.

Ps. for sale bib tight and jacket for sale large holes on outer arm of jacket and hip of tights. Buyer stitches up.

rake

you sound like an idiot . ipod? 2am dark? cutting corner? hit concrete bollard? there is no emoticons for removing your hat and shaking head from side to side.

iGlaswegian

A ha ha - epic. OP - your post was really fun to read lol. Well written.

My only crash, so far, is going up hill (8pm)... on the main road, cycle lane... was looking down (bad mistake) and then....................... wait for it........................ *B0oM*. Straight into the back of a stationary car lol. Luckily no damage to my bike, slight scratch to the car but the people inside it were pretty kind/chilled out.

bianchi bates

The sad thing as i hobble road the last 12 miles to work smirking thinking that's what it must be like to be a proper racer and it never really started hurting till
2 days later any how !

bianchi bates

iGlaswegian wrote:

A ha ha - epic. OP - your post was really fun to read lol. Well written.

My only crash, so far, is going up hill (8pm)... on the main road, cycle lane... was looking down (bad mistake) and then....................... wait for it........................ *B0oM*. Straight into the back of a stationary car lol. Luckily no damage to my bike, slight scratch to the car but the people inside it were pretty kind/chilled out.

I hit the back of a car once, the girl driving looked in her mirror. I just stared back and shouted move, and she did, she just drove off, brill i thought as i road home with a slightly buckled front wheel. ha ha !

kettrinboy

had my only crash last year, tried to bunny hop the front wheel over a wet fire hose lying across the road, failed and the front wheel landed on it slipped sideways and down i went, landed on my hip which hurt like f**k and skinned my elbow,i,m just glad there was nobody around that saw me do it as i felt like right t**t lying in a heap in the road, so a lesson learnt the hard way

gregster10217

Happened a long time ago (over 20years anyway) as I've not crashed since getting back last year. I was cycling a rural route from my Dad's to my Mum's and saw a hill that I thought I could get to the magical 50mph on! All was going well and I could see the corner at the bottom, and was preparing for it. What I couldn't see was the pea shingle drive to a farm, which had become spread over the road at the drive entrance on the corner's apex. I slowed for the corner, but not enough, and slid on the pea shingle, went down and still attached to the bike (toe clips back then!!!) just sliding under a barbed wire fence, coming to rest in a field of cows who looked at me quite strangely!!!!!!!!! I picked myself and the bike up, saw that there was nothing major wrong with either of us, except that the toe strap had disintegrated and I'd got major road rash on my right side, and walked said pea shingle drive to the farm to get some water to wash the streaming blood from my leg. When the farmer's wife saw me, she wouldn't let me go any further and insisted I go inside, before taking me home!!! Not happened again, and I never did make 50mph, and just don't seem to have the bollo**s for it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John C.

Oh sh-t you sods really know how to make me feel old . I can't remember my first crash it was so long ago.
Forget the first just learn from the last. I learnt we have a bloody good National Health Service who insisted on plastic surgery on my face even for a wrinkly non model like myself, oh, and don't wear your glasses inside you helmet straps as they get pushed into your cheek bone when you come off.

marcthehammer

I had my first off yesyerday. Just coming to the end of my first 50 mile ride this year so feeling good.
Came to the last down hill i thought "right lets go for it" doing bout 35ish came up behind this car so slowed a little. The car slowed even more and started to turn left so i swung out to overtake as no cars coming the other way.My front wheel either hit a pot hole or something sharp and BANG the tyre just went,I hit the brakes but lost the foot wheel sideways.I skidded on my side for a bit and ended up on the pavement.Im a bit the worse for wear but the bike is ok so thats the main thing.

bianchi bates

John C. wrote:

Oh sh-t you sods really know how to make me feel old . I can't remember my first crash it was so long ago.
Forget the first just learn from the last. I learnt we have a bloody good National Health Service who insisted on plastic surgery on my face even for a wrinkly non model like myself, oh, and don't wear your glasses inside you helmet straps as they get pushed into your cheek bone when you come off.

Well lads Johns inched into the lead, although we a bereft of the details of his crash he needed the services of the NHS and had plastic surgery to his wrinkly old face.
Smart one ! Come on we need a contender for the crash crown.

There is a quarry near my house, i reckon i can jump it on my bianchi and maybe live or at least take my crown to the grave. bring it on.....

Rich Hcp

I slid off on the ice on New Years Day

A bit battered and grazed, but lucky

John C.

bianchi bates wrote:

John C. wrote:

Oh sh-t you sods really know how to make me feel old . I can't remember my first crash it was so long ago.
Forget the first just learn from the last. I learnt we have a bloody good National Health Service who insisted on plastic surgery on my face even for a wrinkly non model like myself, oh, and don't wear your glasses inside you helmet straps as they get pushed into your cheek bone when you come off.

Well lads Johns inched into the lead, although we a bereft of the details of his crash he needed the services of the NHS and had plastic surgery to his wrinkly old face.
Smart one ! Come on we need a contender for the crash crown.

There is a quarry near my house, i reckon i can jump it on my bianchi and maybe live or at least take my crown to the grave. bring it on.....

Not racing or sportive just riding home from work last summer, a strong tail wind, a gentle downhill put me too fast for a left hander and the front end went at about 20mph. my PPE did it's job, my mitts saved my palms but my finger tips were a mess as was my arm knees and shoulder, but worst was the hammering the area of my left temple that the helmet took. My left eyesight was just red and I panicked as I had no idea if this was coming from my eye or the surrounding area, a passer by stopped and checked me over assuring me the blood was not from my eye but above and below where my skeletal glasses had cut into my skin, she advised a trip to casualty ( I then rode the 5 miles home), My wife took one look at me and said that needs a stitch. I finally ended up at James Cook hospital where i received the plastic surgery. The scar I have is nearly invisible and looks just like another fold in the skin around my already creased face.

redvision

about 8 years ago i got my first road bike. it was just a cheap thing, but i was so proud of it and just desperate to take it for a ride. prior to this i had done a fair amount of biking (mainly on back roads) using a mountain bike and had created my own little timetrial route which was just over an hour, but i was only using the bike in an attempt to get fit before i headed to uni.

anyway, first time out on the road bike doing the same route and everything going really well. im gliding down the roads (bare in mind these are all back roads in mid wales, so cr'p surfaces and the occasional lose sheep to avoid), and marvelling to myself about how fit i must be as i was hammering my previous best (set on the mountain bike) - of course i didnt take in to consideration the difference between a mountain and road bike, back then i knew nothing about bikes apart from the fact that they had wheels and pedals.

so i come to the top of the final climb and was starting the descent. the descent is about a mile long, with the average gradient about 15% but the steepest part is the final section where its about 25%.
so im motoring down this hill which i had done so many times on the mountain bike and was doing about 50. anyway, at the bottom of the hill there is a 90' right turn. for some reason i assumed that cos i was now a pro on a road bike i wouldnt have to slow. just before i make the turn i hear a loud noise coming from around the corner...PANIC, clean pair of shorts please! it was a tractor which had just come out of a field, luckily the farmer was shutting the gate so the tractor was stationary. anyway, i saw it and snatched the brakes. this pushed me a little bit wider than i had planned and i hit about 2 grains of gravel and went down...hard. i slid along the floor with the bike still attached to my toe clips, and bounced off the tractors front wheel.

helmet smashed, elbow broken, skin on right side of body gone, blood everywhere, clothes torn, and the bike in a right state, i hurt. this farmer then appears and says 'if youve damaged my tra'or youre paying for it'.

bianchi bates

All right John polish the crown for a moment I will regain it.

I have built the ramp out of a bit of chip board and a milk crate, i have projected my angles and deduced at best my quarry jump will be kill me instantly.

Here I GOoooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!! whooosh. look wendy i can fffffffffly !! urg.

John C.

bianchi bates wrote:

All right John polish the crown for a moment I will regain it.

I have built the ramp out of a bit of chip board and a milk crate, i have projected my angles and deduced at best my quarry jump will be kill me instantly.

Here I GOoooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!! whooosh. look wendy i can fffffffffly !! urg.

I can recomend James Cook Hosp and the trip in the air ambulance........................, it lands right out side their main door ,

bianchi bates

redvision wrote:

about 8 years ago i got my first road bike. it was just a cheap thing, but i was so proud of it and just desperate to take it for a ride. prior to this i had done a fair amount of biking (mainly on back roads) using a mountain bike and had created my own little timetrial route which was just over an hour, but i was only using the bike in an attempt to get fit before i headed to uni.

anyway, first time out on the road bike doing the same route and everything going really well. im gliding down the roads (bare in mind these are all back roads in mid wales, so cr'p surfaces and the occasional lose sheep to avoid), and marvelling to myself about how fit i must be as i was hammering my previous best (set on the mountain bike) - of course i didn't take in to consideration the difference between a mountain and road bike, back then i knew nothing about bikes apart from the fact that they had wheels and pedals.

so i come to the top of the final climb and was starting the descent. the descent is about a mile long, with the average gradient about 15% but the steepest part is the final section where its about 25%.
so im motoring down this hill which i had done so many times on the mountain bike and was doing about 50. anyway, at the bottom of the hill there is a 90' right turn. for some reason i assumed that cos i was now a pro on a road bike i wouldn't have to slow. just before i make the turn i hear a loud noise coming from around the corner...PANIC, clean pair of shorts please! it was a tractor which had just come out of a field, luckily the farmer was shutting the gate so the tractor was stationary. anyway, i saw it and snatched the brakes. this pushed me a little bit wider than i had planned and i hit about 2 grains of gravel and went down...hard. i slid along the floor with the bike still attached to my toe clips, and bounced off the tractors front wheel.

helmet smashed, elbow broken, skin on right side of body gone, blood everywhere, clothes torn, and the bike in a right state, i hurt. this farmer then appears and says 'if youve damaged my tra'or youre paying for it'.

I have had the joys of mid wales lanes in my 44t Ar-tic, you take your life into your hands down your way, if the log lorries don't kill you the locals will pop you inside a wicker monument and burn you !!!!! ha ah !!!

bianchi bates

John C. wrote:

bianchi bates wrote:

All right John polish the crown for a moment I will regain it.

I have built the ramp out of a bit of chip board and a milk crate, i have projected my angles and deduced at best my quarry jump will be kill me instantly.

Here I GOoooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!! whooosh. look wendy i can fffffffffly !! urg.

I can recomend James Cook Hosp and the trip in the air ambulance........................, it lands right out side their main door ,

You get the use of a helicopter that could whisk you to some of the best midical facilities and you choose middlesborough, you need to make the most of free flights and go sight seeing. "oh thats right your eye had popped out and you were bleeding to death"

John C.

bianchi bates wrote:

John C. wrote:

bianchi bates wrote:

All right John polish the crown for a moment I will regain it.

I have built the ramp out of a bit of chip board and a milk crate, i have projected my angles and deduced at best my quarry jump will be kill me instantly.

Here I GOoooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!! whooosh. look wendy i can fffffffffly !! urg.

I can recomend James Cook Hosp and the trip in the air ambulance........................, it lands right out side their main door ,

You get the use of a helicopter that could whisk you to some of the best midical facilities and you choose middlesborough, you need to make the most of free flights and go sight seeing. "oh thats right your eye had popped out and you were bleeding to death"

Just south of Middlesborough is some of the best scenery in Britain the NY Moors. Oh and did I mention the severed limb

grpics

Had my first real crash this year when my front wheel flipped sideways on ice at about 18mph. The impact was shared between my right knee and my nose, luckily I was wearing a lid which took most of the impact away from my face. After the pain and bloodloss subsided I managed to cycle very slowly home where the numbness in my knee faded and started to hurt like hell!
I spent the next 3 days going upstairs to the toilet on my arse, dragging my right leg behind me.
After much rest and gentle pedalling my knee seems perfectly OK, just bearing a large pink patch where the scab was.

starlet_gt

My first crash was on Xmas day 2009, doing about 25mph, I hit some black ice and the front wheel went, I smacked my head on the floor (was wearing a helmet) slit my left eyelid open which was bleeding rather badly. As I was getting up a car drove past, stopped, looked at me then carried on. Which was nice.

Ended up waiting 5 hours in A&E.

bianchi bates

starlet_gt wrote:

My first crash was on Xmas day 2009, doing about 25mph, I hit some black ice and the front wheel went, I smacked my head on the floor (was wearing a helmet) slit my left eyelid open which was bleeding rather badly. As I was getting up a car drove past, stopped, looked at me then carried on. Which was nice.


Ended up waiting 5 hours in A&E.

Merry Christmas to you ! Not very good they did not help but lets face it the choice was taking you to A&E or eating their Dinner on time with their family. That's a tough one, "can i have more turkey please !!!!!!" as they laugh about the boy who fell of his chrismass prezzy. brill!!!

brin

My first crash was result of a RTA, but since the thread is leaning towards riders fault... i was belting down a road, come to a L/H junction no traffic apparent, rode into it, turned on the gas again, and a bloody big bird flew from the hedgerow straight at me, startled i put my hands up...............OUCH!!

Agent57

The first crash I remember was in 1974. I was doing circles of the back lawn, went a bit too fast, so the pedals caught on the ground; fell off and hurt my knee.

bobtbuilder

My first crash that was my own fault, rather than that of an idiot in a car was around 18 months ago.

Going downhill FAST (last look at speedo showed 43mph), turned front wheel on some loose gravel, jack-knifed the bike, I went over the handlebars and only 1 cleat disengaged.

Landed on my shoulder and arm, lost about a foot of skin from my left forearm. Worst bit - top tube of bike hit me between the legs. Ruptured right testicle and internal bleeding.

crumbschief

Ouch,that made me pull a face reading that one bobtbuilder,i hope they fixed it.

Lancslad

7ish years old, short steep hillchip board ramp on three house bricks, mate goes over it breaking my distance record and the ramp. not to be put of I assess that the chipboard 'plank' will slot together so I do that and turn it over for added strength and proceed down the hill at top speed hit the ramp which collapses, the front wheel hits the bricks and I break my distance record superman style. Damn I wish I healed like that now all I got was missing skin on my chest and hands.

Second crash I was 14/15 on my 'racer' took corner hit a pothole, smashed a tooth and removed a large amount of skin from the back of my hands as the bike slid out.

bianchi bates

bobtbuilder wrote:

My first crash that was my own fault, rather than that of an idiot in a car was around 18 months ago.

Going downhill FAST (last look at speedo showed 43mph), turned front wheel on some loose gravel, jack-knifed the bike, I went over the handlebars and only 1 cleat disengaged.

Landed on my shoulder and arm, lost about a foot of skin from my left forearm. Worst bit - top tube of bike hit me between the legs. Ruptured right testicle and internal bleeding.

Gentlemen we have a new contender and near winner, a burst bollock has catapulted you into the lead bob, cany any one better that.

Pross

I can't remember my first proper crash, it was probably when I lost it on gravel coming down a mountain road in Donegal about 25 years ago. My worst two were one during a time trial, I was having a bad day and my international level clubmate who was riding in his usual head down style (having only just come back from nearly killing himself riding into the back of a van the same way) ploughed straight into the back of me. As he'd just caught me for 5 minutes in the space of 15 miles it gives an idea of how much quicker than me he was going! We both hit the deck on a concrete dual carriageway and it took me a few second to clear my head enough to realise we had trucks passing us by inches and dragged my mate and bikes off the road before a trip in the ambulance. The second was doing a road race in the Forest of Dean, coming down a steep descent near Speech House when a lamb walked into the peloton causing a pile up, I was just congratulating myself on my handling skills as I went around the carnage on the verge only to hit a drainage channel and fly down a 3m high embankment, head hit a tree splitting my helmet in two and I ended up with a large twig stuck in my buttock :oops: Another trip in an ambulance followed along with rumours that I'd broken my neck!

macondo01

First crash... Yellow Chipper bike. 'Hey Andy!'. Look round - straight into a lamp post. Fat lip.

desweller

First proper crash was at university in Sheffield about 10 years ago. I was convinced that I could make the corner at the bottom of the hill approaching the halls of residence without touching the brakes on my BSO.

Unfortunately I failed to take into account the two feet of wet autumn leaves on the exit of the corner. Whisked down the hill, leaned in, apexed the corner perfectly, then slid along on the ice-rink-like surface into a brick wall on my ar5e at 20-odd mph.

So much adrenalin running that I just stood up, located my glasses, bag and bike and trotted off to the bike shed without realising that there were rivers of blood running down my head, left arm and left leg.

Needless to say, no helmet. Somehow got away with just bruises and skin removal.

BenWatson89

First major crash was three years ago. Was going down the Snake Pass (about three miles from my house) towards Glossop in the mid 50's (bit of a tailwind). Started to brake for a corner and the rear started slipping on some gravel, so came off the brakes to stop the skid. I then went back to braking but alas was too late. My last memory was my left quad hitting the metal barriers (the big ones meant to stop cars going off the road). The next memory is waking up on the road.

Luckily i was fine, the people in the car ahead said i got flipped and my head hit the barrier and then skidded across to the other side of the road. They stopped, took me to the side of the road after I decided to stand up and walk off home and called an ambulance which then took me to hospital. Luckily i was fine.

The result of the accident = Two buckled wheels, 1 knackered 105 shifter, my dads new Australia cycling top and a helmet. Oh and lots of road rash.

Moral of the story. WEAR A HELMET. If I wasn't i probably wouldn't be here today.