GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
and by way of illustration....
How many times have you fallen/been knocked off your bike?
- Thread starter potsy
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Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Once, a very graceful clipless moment into a bed of pricks (rosebush).
I have been commuting to work for a little over a year. Had one off due to a loss of grip on tram tracks. I've also had an SPD moment when I had lost a screw from one of my cleats and couldn't unclip and fell over in front of stationary traffic at lights as I leant over to loosen my shoe straps so I could take the shoe off. Driver of front car asked if I needed help which was embarrassing but it was nice of him to ask .
Knocked off my bike in the early 1980's used insurance money to learn to drive.
Took up cycling again in 2006. Bought a road bike in 2011 since then I have had two clipless falls no injuries but both with plenty of witnesses, really embarrassing. Came off my hack bike commuting home in the rain in March this year, don't know what happened front wheel shot away on my penultimate turn home, broke my ankle.
Peter
Took up cycling again in 2006. Bought a road bike in 2011 since then I have had two clipless falls no injuries but both with plenty of witnesses, really embarrassing. Came off my hack bike commuting home in the rain in March this year, don't know what happened front wheel shot away on my penultimate turn home, broke my ankle.
Peter
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
On my tourer, 3 times coming downhill too fast on sand / stones / broken tarmac, though never a problem on 'real' roads.
On road bikes : 3 more than 20 years ago :
1 fell asleep at traffic lights after a beer or two, woke up underneath bike
1 hit a pedestrian and both went tumbling. (He said he was fine, then literally ran off)
1 on ice, on busy roundabout - my worst cycling event and still worries me thinking about it
and more recently :
1 on a wet bend, no obvious reason - petrol on road?
1 stationary, took a photo while one foot still clipped in, twisted round on bike and tipped over - doh!
So not that many for the number of years and only one scary one
On road bikes : 3 more than 20 years ago :
1 fell asleep at traffic lights after a beer or two, woke up underneath bike
1 hit a pedestrian and both went tumbling. (He said he was fine, then literally ran off)
1 on ice, on busy roundabout - my worst cycling event and still worries me thinking about it
and more recently :
1 on a wet bend, no obvious reason - petrol on road?
1 stationary, took a photo while one foot still clipped in, twisted round on bike and tipped over - doh!
So not that many for the number of years and only one scary one
DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
hmmm
I reckon I've been on the deck 10 times in the last 4 years. 3 were due to ice, with 2 being on the same ride most of the others cos i ride like a c0ck.
One with daughter on a child seat and one with daughter in a trailer.
With that track record I think you should have ropes and red lamps around you when you go out
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
That's 5 or more times ever.
I've collided with a small child, stopped unexpectedly in deep gravel a few times, lost it while messing about a few times and skidded on snowy icey roads. Never been knocked off though.
I did once fall over outside a pub, when I got a bit tangled with the bike in a state of overwhelming refreshment.
I've collided with a small child, stopped unexpectedly in deep gravel a few times, lost it while messing about a few times and skidded on snowy icey roads. Never been knocked off though.
I did once fall over outside a pub, when I got a bit tangled with the bike in a state of overwhelming refreshment.
Thankyou.
oiljam
Active...ish Member
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Twice me. Once a woman pulled straight out of a junction in front of me and I went straight over her bonnet. Broad daylight aswell. I were fine but I needed a new frame and wheels...which she paid for.
Second time I were riding down a hill, a man cut through my path from the opposite side turning right. I didn't realise he'd bent my crank till we both left the scene. Had to pay myself for that one.
Both cars badly damaged, hope they learnt something.
Both were a while ago now as I've just recently started cycling again due to a knee running injury.
Second time I were riding down a hill, a man cut through my path from the opposite side turning right. I didn't realise he'd bent my crank till we both left the scene. Had to pay myself for that one.
Both cars badly damaged, hope they learnt something.
Both were a while ago now as I've just recently started cycling again due to a knee running injury.
Mattonsea
Über Member
- Location
- New Forest
I have had loads of near misses , but proper only two . First a deep pothole I was forced in to by a car on the wrong side of the road . Next was black ice on the bottom of the military road on the Isle of Wight. Both hurt but the old Dolan was not even scratched.
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
The poll doesn't allow for MTB 
In which case my last count was well over 5 times in one day 
And only once on the road.
In which case my last count was well over 5 times in one day And only once on the road.
oiljam
Active...ish Member
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Ahhh I didn't mention the fall offs....who knows, I'd rather not count 
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
5 or more times. I think it's actually 5, first into another cyclist on a bend, second in to a car (a year after the first), then a clipless moment, then Emsworth, then a week after that I hit a pedestrian, I think that's all of them (oh I fell over on LEL but I don't count that). But that's in 20 odd years of cycling, 18 of which have been commuting in London
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
3 good ones. Twice my own fault and once knocked of by a smidsy.
