Most rubbish cycle accident ?

[brixtonvilla]

A very gentle (drunken) dismount going round a corner in Camberwell. Tried to slow down (wasn't actually going that fast), and just... gently... folded over the left-hand curb. Thankfully I was wearing a helmet and there was nobody there to see. Haven't ridden that drunk since.

 

[axomoxia]

Yoiks.

My two.

Riding along, handlebars come off in my hand. Cue sudden lowside....Felt really wierd, like dropping a motorcycle....

Riding along, front mudguard dissasembles itself and becomes intimatly attached to the front wheel. I do a rather stylish double front sumasault (with tuck _and_ pike) and find myself flat on my back staring at the oncoming post office truck thinking "I hope he stops in time".

Duke of Edinburgs expedition, cycling down a steep hill, loose control of bike, bike goes into ditch, front wheel goes sideways, cue sumasault through light hedgerow, and into someones back garden.....

Hmm.... I think I should stick to motorcycles, I've lobbed my pushbike down the road more often!

Andy

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Not me, but I was involved, sat in a line of traffic at some traffic lights, notice a cyclist weaving about all over the road behind me just before getting a lovely view of him squished against my rear windscreen.

I was nice though and made sure he was ok, think he was so embarrassed though so he disappeared sharpish

 

[bi0boy]

I used to have a mountain bike that had one of those handle bars with a dip in the middle i.e. not straight.

I came to a stop slowly at some traffic lights and just as I went to put a foot on the ground, the handlebars rotated in the headset, which caused me to tumble over them and land on my head. I wasn't even moving at the time

 

[Dubversion]

when I was a kid i used to build tracker bikes (before wanky little BMXs came along and ruined it all).

I made a kind of chopper out of old bits, cowhorn handlebars and high-backed saddle. Was going down a very steep one-way hill in Parkstone (people from round there will know where I mean). Handlebars weren't tightened properly and they actually came out of the stem in my hands. So I've the handlebars which I'm trying to ram back into the stem, but they wouldb't have been able to steer anyway. I had a saddle which made it hard to jump sideways and I couldn't jump off the back because there was a car behind me. ANd i couldn't use the brakes because I couldn't use the handlebars to control the bike's movement when I did

There was also a sharp curve at the bottom of the hill. I just basically had to wait till I crashed full speed into the hedge at the bottom.

 

[david dissadent]

For sheer silliness, I was comming of the pavement onto the road about a year ago when I went over a storm drain at just the perfect angle for my wheel to slip into it a storm drain cover and bring me to a juddering halt at a luckily low speed.

My most sickening was many many years ago I must have knocked the quick release loose getting my bike out the shool bike shed. On an awesome down hill at full pelt I hit a small bump in the road.
At those speed the sight of your wheel leaving the bike is one that gets ingrained into the memory. My forks front fork hit the tar and litteraly dug in, I have amoung others a two and a half inch scar on my elbow from that meeting with mother earth.

 

[maomao]

Falling over at Angel lights in front of about 40 pedestrians crossing the road because I forgot I was wearing clips.

Weaving round all the cars on a completely jammed and not moving Shaftesbury Avenue (ie. round the left of one car, round the right of the next) without caring that it was raining and my tyres were worn. Ended up on my arse in the middle of the road holding up half a dozen motorbikes.

Testing my new brake pads by slamming my brakes on as hard as I could while going down a little steep back street in the city. This accident also holds my record for the accident resulting in the greatest distance between me and my bike (I actually had to walk back to my bike).

Sometimes people ask why I don't cycle anymore.

 

[mauvais]

Testing my new brake pads by slamming my brakes on as hard as I could while going down a little steep back street in the city. This accident also holds my record for the accident resulting in the greatest distance between me and my bike (I actually had to walk back to my bike).

Hahahaha!!

Sorry, but that's fucking funny. Like that a real life version of that penguin flash game. Funnier than me politely riding into a ditch anyway.

 

[DJ Squelch]

I came out of my house in a hurry, tripped over my neighbours daughters Barbie tricycle and broke a bone in my foot. Does that count?

 

[scifisam]

Two-year-old-daughter on back of bike in bike seat, me pedalling furiously up a very steep hill. Car suddenly pulls out of a drive in front of us - no indicators. I brake.

Due to the slope and the back-loaded weight, daughter, bike and I slooowly topple straight backwards. We end up with her on the floor the bike completely vertical, with the wheels still shunting my legs around.

We were fine, so the memory of that oh-so-slow backwards topple amuses me.

 

[keybored]

Best one - Aged about 12 going fishing with my rod held width-ways over the handlebars. A strap from the rod bag came undone and was hanging down by the front wheel. Instead of stopping the bike I leaned forward and tried to retrieve the strap from the spokes, resulting in my hand and arm being dragged into the spokes and getting jammed between the wheel and forks, throwing me suddenly over the handlebars.

Suffered facial injuries and much loss of skin from back of hand and forearm.

I then had to walk home in agony with the bike stuck to my arm so I could remove the wheel with a spanner and be free.

6 years ago loads of spills for the first few weeks after getting clip-less pedals but most of those were just funny

 

[gaijingirl]

I haven't had one since I was about 8 and braked too hard going down hill - straight over the handlebars and a trip to the hospital with hysterical parents..

..but my friend forgot to tighten the bolt in the middle of her Brompton properly and only realised when going down a very steep and very busy hill that her bike was folding itself back up! She had to throw herself off before she got to the bottom where she would have had to break and crumple into the queue of waiting cars!!

 

[dylanredefined]

Very drunk got on bike claiming I was fine .Promptly fell over and according to onlookers thought i was still cycling .Fortunatly they took pity on me and got me home .

 

[dervish]

Just remembered another one.

Flying down a very steep hill with a right turn at the bottom. Going way too fast for the corner and as I reached it hit the curb sending me flying over the pavement and someones low garden wall. I skidded across their garden and ended up upside down against their front door, which the owner opened to be confronted by my arse with my feet waving in the air.

Cool as anything she said "you rang?"

I didn't really know what to say, except ouch.

 

[swampy]

 

[Orang Utan]

I fell off and skinned my knee checking out a fine posterior - is that rubbish?

 

[gaijingirl]

I fell off and skinned my knee checking out a fine posterior - is that rubbish?

No not rubbish at all - I was quite flattered actually!

 

[WWWeed]

worse one for me was when I was about 16-17. I was riding through Watford town centre at some silly speed when it was very icy. To cut a long story short I rid over some black ice, and the back wheel slid out which I was unable to control because of the ice. So I fell sideways and started to slide with the bike still between my legs. I carried on sliding until I hit a old women and took her down!
After helping her up and checking she was not too badly hurt I did apologize and rid off with a great feeling of embarrassment!

 

[Dman]

I took myself off my bike by going round a corner, leaning into the bend and having my inside pedal at the bottom of the revolution. It hits the ground and I go completely arse over tit, bend my bike, hole in knee etc etc.

Only bonus was the classic "fit man helps me put my chain back on" scenario

Done something similar when I was a kid only I was trying to be streethawk and leaned so far into the corner that there was no tyre tread on the ground - hence I fell and got scraped up. Didn't have a safety helmet on though. That was when kids were kids.

 

[Orang Utan]

Are kids not kids anymore?

 

[Dman]

Well, I meant to say when boys were boys. I gather it's all about safety these days, but I was proper tough. Thanks for pointing out my error, however.

 

[Orang Utan]

Surely boys were men then?

 

[gentlegreen]

Shortly after I bought my current (mountain-type) bike, I accidentally grabbed on the front disc brake to hard about 10 feet from where I was going to park it, the knobbly front tyre dug in, the bike assumed a perpendicular aspect and I flew gracefully over the handlebars. Completely tacoed the brand new front wheel.

 

[WWWeed]

I swear disc brakes should be banned from being on the front only!

What kind of cunt thought that one up?

 

[Dman]

Surely boys were men then?

Haven't they just got back together? Great song that was. "Although we've come, the the end of the road, da da daa da da."

 

[Orang Utan]

Haven't they just got back together? Great song that was. "Although we've come, the the end of the road, ding ding ding ding ding dong."

Better

 

[moonbeaver]

A few years ago, I was whizzing along a narrow path between two rice paddies in rural Japan, when the front brake fell off and went between the spokes of the front wheel, bringing the bike to an instant halt, and sending me flying head first into the path. Had to have several stitches in my forehead.

I saw an embarrassing one on Westminster bridge early one morning: a bloke was cycling along with his head down, and didn't notice the police van parked in his path - he cycled straight into the back of it.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

I rode down a particularly muddy path, when I reached the road I stuck my foot against the front wheel to scrape the mud off(I dont know why I did this). unfortunately my foot went in the spokes & I went over the handlebars.