Did something VERY stupid.....

[hackbike 666]

Natural mistake.

 

[rh100]

Just needed a couple of men crossing the road with a huge sheet of glass to complete the comedy effect.

And needless cardboard boxes....and chickens!


The ever practical Cycle Craft addresses this, hold the brakes whilst getting on the bike, keeps it steady and checks brakes at the same time. I reckon I'd fall on my arse if i didn't do that anyway

 

[fossyant]

I generally check the lot after removing wheels - from the days of racing, shoving wheels and bike in car, getting out, checking all back together - pads sitting correctly....etc....

Can see how it can happen though - easy enough to do.....

Had a gear cable snap on me on my MTB earlier this year (just before my new fixed arrived) - just a mile from work so didn't matter....... although...the day before I'd been doing some serious off roading in the Peaks - had it gone then, I'd have had a long walk home......and the wife would have no clue where I was.......

 

[Ashtrayhead]

Oooh, scary! I guess that's very easily done!!!

Goes to show how a quick brake check at the start of every ride is so important, and yet so easily forgotten.

Oops! Guilty here! Yesterday I dusted off one of my bikes that I hadn't used for a while, cleaned it up, greased and lubed the important bits, put the lights on it, and set off. Within a couple of miles one of the front
brake blocks had worked loose and fell off! Fortunately the rear brakes were ok!

 

[mister oy]

Don't the roads on the "Harringay Ladder" alternate one-way east/west ? So why were you going the wrong way.
Tut tut

That's right, it was actually the road on the next "rung" going the other way, so I got at least one thing right that morning!

If anyone has ever watched "Faces" (or is it "Face") a London gangster type film with Damon Albarn in it, there's a scene where a car in flames goes crashing down a road. That was filmed in one of these streets.

I should have set my self alight as well to reconstruct it.

 

[J4CKO]

Scary, but did make me think of Frank Spencer....

 

[dan_bo]

I did a similar thing at a CX race once. pillock.

 

[Mr Pig]

I've done that but thankfully only on the one wheel so I still had the back brake. It's easy done.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Yikes, scary!

I think it might have been on my Cycling Proficiency training when I was five that I was first told to put the brakes on when mounting a bike, as it's something I've mostly done habitually since, but your post made me realise I don't do it on the Brompton for some reason. Must get into the habit of doing it on that too.

 

[Davidc]

Now you know what it's like when it rains and you're on a bike with steel rims!!!!

 

[GrasB]

Yet another reason to ride fixed

 

[benborp]

Though you do then have to remember something else...

 

[WeeE]

But good show for owning up to it - maybe someone else will learn by your mistake without having to have your experience.

Glad you're OK.

Like me, for instance. The kind of person who set off three times with the kick-stand still down.

 

[Kaid]

Thanks for sharing and giving us all a timely reminder.