Talent Strike

Ransaka
Ransaka Posts: 474
edited April 2011 in The Crudcatcher
Riding home after work on some twisty singletrack and as I hit a corner I realise my foot is going to clip a thin tree as I go round it. Do I stop? No. Do I attempt to swerve out? No. I just think that somehow, magically, my foot will perhaps glance off it and all will be well with the world. Does this happen? No. End result, my foot gets jammed between the tree and the pedal and pivots me and the bike forward. End result is me, foot still wedged between tree and pedal, over the bars and into a tangled heap with the bike.
Utter fail, thankfully no witnesses.

So, recent talent strikes for everyone else?

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Did you get your foot back? Might scare a few walkers that one.
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    I washed out my front wheel on the freeride track at Cwmcarn.

    Spun me into a quick skiddy 180 deg turn, just in time to stop and wave at the lads riding behind me :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    supersonic wrote:
    Did you get your foot back? Might scare a few walkers that one.
    I lost all 3 feet once. I didn't notice till it stung like buggery in the shower the next morning.
    By that I mean, it hurt as much as "buggery-in-the-shower"
  • mak3m
    mak3m Posts: 1,394
    I face planted the farside of a ditch at Sherwood pines the other week, luckily there was only a mtb skills course of about 8 peeps who had all stopped to let me through
  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    a few weeks ago, we were doing a bit of a Reki ride, came down a hill, across a bridge with a steep hill the other side, so going across the bridge i wasnt watching where i was going i was picking out my line to get up the hill in front. Front wheel hit the side of the bridge, this catapulted me over the top of the bars into the stinking stream about 8ft below! luckily it was softish in the stinking mess at the bottom. bike landed next to me luckily and only a few buises.
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  • Kaise
    Kaise Posts: 2,498
    a couple of days ago, going througha section of flowing woods in ashton court, nothing too fast and someone put a tree in my way, nerve even noticed this tree before, including the hi-viz paint on it. I managed to swerve but only enough that my handle bars and the tree connected, with my hand jammed between them!

    i span round the tree and landed in a gauze bush

    to add insult two women we running along the trial that runs along side, both of them laughed!
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  • getonyourbike
    getonyourbike Posts: 2,648
    I clipped a root with my pedal going into a drop on the DH course, I rolled a couple of times but ended up on my feet. My knee's a mess but now I've got some pads.
  • Ransaka
    Ransaka Posts: 474
    supersonic wrote:
    Did you get your foot back? Might scare a few walkers that one.

    :D Foot fine and still attached to leg, getting home would have been interesting with only one foot. Dignity, not so in tact :)

    Wonder if you could get cleats fitted if you lost a foot? They make those curved feet for running so why not?
  • Kaise
    Kaise Posts: 2,498
    Check out Jody Cundy paralympic athlete, he has a range of legs with cleats!

    http://www.ossur.co.uk/Pages/11765?NewsID=2454
    :)Ragley Blue Pig
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