Does anyone remember there first crash?

[Pedrosanchezo]

Loads of crashes as i raced BMX but when i was 14 i tried to bunny hop 3 skateboards on a mountain bike (non suss) and clipped the front wheel on the top board. End result was a about a foot squared section of back with missing skin and yellow puss and a broken collar bone. The missing skin hurt more than the collar bone to begin with but my parents put me to bed without hospital attention saying that i was being dramatic. I spent the night wide awake and soaked the sheets in sweat. In the morning i went to hospital where they picked the gravel out of my back and put my arm in a sling. Sleeping didn't get much better for the next month.

I've broken most bones associated with sports. Oddly enough always on my left side.

 

[Piemaster]

My scar acquired at age 3 is on my forehead: a helmet would have made no difference.

I've got a forehead scar acquired at age 3 too! I'm told it was due to a head on crash a car, don't remember as it was a loooong time ago. The car was my pedal car and the corner of a brick wall.

Earliest bike crash when I was 10ish and on my 'racer'. A big step up from the Raleigh Shopper. The street was a close with a parking area at the bottom where there was plenty of room to turn (avoiding the Bond Bug). There is a limit to how fast you can corner in such a space. I found this out when the rear wheel broke away and left me grazed and bruised on the floor.

 

[the_mikey]

I remember my first crash.. (not including the time I braked a bit hard on a Raleigh Strika and flew over the handlebars and landed on my face)

Cycling along on a wet cycle path, and needed to slow down to negotiate a bend, however, the Vittoria Rubino tyres fitted on the rims had other plans. I applied the brakes and discovered that the Rubinos were rubbish in the wet as it was apparent that I was sliding towards a big tree... Smash ! Twisted handlebars, broken glasses, bent front wheel

 

[palinurus]

I've no idea, I fell off so much as a kid- damn, I'd crash deliberately sometimes. I've fallen off quite a bit as an adult too.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

details of my first crash are lost in the mists of time.

 

[Flying Dodo]

Girls are to blame for my first major crash. Aged 18, cycling into school, I turned to pass some admiring glances on some Lower 6th formers walking along, not noticing a car had decided to pull across and park in front of me. I went splat onto the windscreen. Ended up with a bruised forehead. The car owner started moaning about a minor dent in his front bumper. I was more upset about my Carlton, which was written off, as there was a massive bend in the top tube, the lovely stainless steel forks were bent back, and my front wheel now looked like a pizza with a large slice taken out.

 

[MrPie]

Yup, long hot summer of '76 - was a 5 year old nipper in the local public park and 'horsing' down a sandy / gravel path. Came off at speed and slid on my right thigh and arm - the road rash was impressive and painful. My folks thought it would be a good idea to cover up the road rash with dry cotton wool and a bandage.......new skin grew around the cotton wool and was a nightmare to remove.

 

[Drago]

Yes, the hill outside Great Chart in Kent, c.1975. Downhill flat out on a Chopper, major tankslapper, spits me off, breaks my leg and collarbone.

Once I recovered I decided freestyle downhilling was too dangerous so took up off roading on my Chopper instead.

 

[burndust]

Yup...think I was about 5yr old...not long off the stabilisers. ..downhill straight into the back of one of those old citreon estate cars

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Yep. I still have neck problems from the whiplash almost a year on

I remember this. All not well then?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I remember this. All not well then?

Just the odd neck twinge

 

[steveindenmark]

My first crash was when I was about 12 years old. I was riding along Holmpton cliffs in East Yorkshire after a morning of mushroom picking with my brother. I must have said something wrong because the next I knew he he kicked out and I was flying. I literally bounced down the face of the cliff and luckily avoided my bike.

He carried on without looking back and I had to carry my bike a mile to the next set of steps. It was a surprise that neither the bike or myself sustained any damage. But I still havnt forgotten my first crash.

Holmpton Cliffs



Steve

 

[JoeyB]

The only one I can remember is riding over a bridge with my younger brother on the crossbar when I was about 11/12. On the downward side of the bridge we were trundling along and somehow his foot ended up in the wheel, instantly locking up and sending us both flying over the bars. I remember putting my hands out but ultimately landing on my head! My brother was wearing some chunky sand boots (luckily) and it took a while to get his foot out of the spokes!! I seem to recall a neighbour coming out with his plumbing toolkit and cutting my spokes to pieces lol...its the only crash I can remember having.

 

[Coggy]

When I was about 11 (1981) I got a "racer" for my birthday. In reality looking back it was more of a tourer as although it had 5 gears and drop handlebars it also had dynamo lights and a pannier rack on the back and mudguards.

Anyway, I took part in a sponsored ride run by our youth club around a local American Airbase close to us. Friend of mine decided to show off his no hands trick to impress a girl crashed into me forcing my front brake on catapulting me over the handle bars face/shoulder first into the tarmac.

Broken collar bone, broken nose, two black eyes all the skin off my left shoulder and the left side of my face.

Other crashes include a broken arm coming off my BMX and a broken wrist also coming off my BMX.

I can remember them all very clearly.

 

[hatwell]

22nd June this year, about six weeks after I bought my bike. An item of clothing got tangled in my wheel and i flipped over and fractured my elbow. not my finest hour.

second crash: two weeks ago exactly. took a corner too fast and skidded into the road, taking quite a lot of skin off the outside of my right leg.