Idiot cyclist hits bollard and cuts chin

[mustang1]

Not too long ago I was riding my bike without clipless shoes. As I approached a kerb to hop onto the sidewalk, I wanted to pull the right pedal up so I can pull a wheelie to hop onto the sidewalk.

Of course, I couldn't pull the pedal up because I wasn't wearing clipless at the time and ended up hitting the kerb and falling over.

The really funny bit was the shriek sound I made when I realised what was about to happen.

 

[Stephen C]

This is my greatest idiot moment: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-ground-wasnt-as-solid-as-i-thought.158470/

 

[robjh]

This is my greatest idiot moment: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-ground-wasnt-as-solid-as-i-thought.158470/

Brilliant. I somehow missed that thread the first time round.

 

[Harry_Palmer79]

Well, I was once cycling on a cycle path last January which was ice free right up to the point I gently squeezed the brake and the bike disappeared from under me... I smacked my chin hard on the ground and ended up with six stitches and a scar (apparently the bone was visible through the wound but I was too busy holding the flap of flesh up to my face to notice!)

 

[jonny jeez]

Bollards...........!!


these three in Sarf London confuse me...they serve no purpose and jup out of the kerb on a bend as you approach parked cars on the opposite side.

 

[snorri]

Crashed due to vision impaired by shadows robjh.
In Germany they would have had a road sign warning you of 'shaded area with possibility of concealed hazards' in that sort of situation (strassen schaden...spg?), so blame it on the UK signing policy rather than yourself.

 

[Stephen C]

Brilliant. I somehow missed that thread the first time round.

Thankfully it was a soft landing for me, but the bike landing on it's rear mech was a little more fatal/expensive...

 

[MichaelW2]

I hate those little gaps for cyclists - they are always full of detritus.

That is no way to talk about an esteemed member of cyclechat

 

[postman]

Yes i do.This year i rode off a perfectly flat road,nobody about,onto a grass banking.

 

[simon the viking]

I tried to bump up a low kerb to get out the way of an ambulance..... yeah... the kerb wasn't as low as I thought.... the ambulance then slowed to see if I was okay... kind of defeated my original thinking and some irony involved as well.....

 

[Drago]

They took those traffic calming bottle necks out again in Milton Keynes after they caused the accident rate to skyrocket. All they did was turn a speeding issue into a head-on-collision issue.

 

[jefmcg]

Those bendy bollards are great. They deter vehicles, but don't maim cyclists. You aren't the only cyclist to hit one and live to tell the tale.

DAMHIKT

 

[Lonestar]

I can trump the lot of you (ooer) The straps on my bag got caught in a van (last week) and I went flying over 100+ yards up the road at somehwere near 30 MPH.My bike had the good sense to stay behind.

 

[robjh]

I can trump the lot of you (ooer) The straps on my bag got caught in a van (last week) and I went flying over 100+ yards up the road at somehwere near 30 MPH.My bike had the good sense to stay behind.

Oof, sounds painful.
Did anyone get a video?

 

[Lonestar]

Oof, sounds painful.
Did anyone get a video?

Haven't heard a bean about my little trick.I've cut offending straps off now.Perhaps I had it done up wrong.No video but if there had been one it would have been of low flying aircraft.