Tom B
Guru
- Location
- Lancashire
Which one.would be my answer...
The one where I lost teeth was caused by my cousin jumping out intending to jump back in but slipped in a dog turd and I hit him... All on a 1in 5 decent on a brand new bike.
The one where I ended up unconscious before waking up and riding home with a spilt eye lid requiring 5 stitches. I later found that whilst unconscious some teenage girls found me and ran off to fetch help and whilst they was away I got up and rode off Prompting a search op by emergency services. That was over confidence on a regular route and too much speed / running out of skill.
I went through someone's waneylap fence once after carrying too much speed into a tightening s on s bend. The road was damp poor condition and Slippery too much speed insufficient talent. Whilst spectacular injury was limited to a graze and torn tights, the old bloke wasn't even bothered about the fence as he had a new one coming the following day.
Another was when again on a new bike a wheel rim split wedged in the frame. I did well and kept hold of the sudden locking of the pedals, the big wobble and skidding wheel only to clip a wall as I slowed and ending up under the bike.
Most embarrassing was going over the bars outside the doors to A&E due to a pothole. Closely followed by a belly flop on the tram lines in Manchester for which I was roundly admonished by a tramp - not for the fall but for showing a lack of gratitude to the screaming panicking passerby. That removed quite a bit of skin.
Another spectacular and painful crash was during a night ride in the wet, I was cracking along on a pitch black path when I hit a peice of rail stuck up vertical in the Pathhead bike stopped dead and I shot over the bars into nettles, thistles and hawthorns hedge. My mate who was following smashed straight into the back of me. I don't know which bit hurt the most. The daft thing is that we both new the rail as there. I so enjoyed that one I did it again on my own in the opposite direction some years later. (the rail was reported to the council after the first incident who did feck all)
The one where I lost teeth was caused by my cousin jumping out intending to jump back in but slipped in a dog turd and I hit him... All on a 1in 5 decent on a brand new bike.
The one where I ended up unconscious before waking up and riding home with a spilt eye lid requiring 5 stitches. I later found that whilst unconscious some teenage girls found me and ran off to fetch help and whilst they was away I got up and rode off Prompting a search op by emergency services. That was over confidence on a regular route and too much speed / running out of skill.
I went through someone's waneylap fence once after carrying too much speed into a tightening s on s bend. The road was damp poor condition and Slippery too much speed insufficient talent. Whilst spectacular injury was limited to a graze and torn tights, the old bloke wasn't even bothered about the fence as he had a new one coming the following day.
Another was when again on a new bike a wheel rim split wedged in the frame. I did well and kept hold of the sudden locking of the pedals, the big wobble and skidding wheel only to clip a wall as I slowed and ending up under the bike.
Most embarrassing was going over the bars outside the doors to A&E due to a pothole. Closely followed by a belly flop on the tram lines in Manchester for which I was roundly admonished by a tramp - not for the fall but for showing a lack of gratitude to the screaming panicking passerby. That removed quite a bit of skin.
Another spectacular and painful crash was during a night ride in the wet, I was cracking along on a pitch black path when I hit a peice of rail stuck up vertical in the Pathhead bike stopped dead and I shot over the bars into nettles, thistles and hawthorns hedge. My mate who was following smashed straight into the back of me. I don't know which bit hurt the most. The daft thing is that we both new the rail as there. I so enjoyed that one I did it again on my own in the opposite direction some years later. (the rail was reported to the council after the first incident who did feck all)
