Maddest thing you have done on a bike

[classic33]

I've lived a sheltered life so nothing really crazy, but I have done the naked bike ride a few times

Nowt crazy there, doesn't count.

 

[swee'pea99]

My friend suggested we stuff moss in my rear rim and it did a fairly good job until I went down a hill at 25mph

You went down a hill at 25, knowing your rear wheel was stuffed with moss. Wow, and I thought I was an idiot.






No offence.

 

[presta]

The daftest thing I did when I was a kid was trying to ride between the double yellow lines without touching them. As I rode along staring vertically down between my legs there was a sudden clonk, and I found myself on the roof of a parked car. Fortunately the occupants were as embarrassed at being parked on a yellow line as I was at being on the roof of their car.

Well I once found myself riding up a Motorway

A few years ago I was following the A548 to Chester using an old map that didn't show the new Dee bridge. At the summit of the bridge the new road appeared to head off across the Wirral to who-knows-where, so decided to turn back and find the old road through Connah's Quay along by the river that I had missed. That entailed standing in the fast lane and lifting a fully laden touring bike over the Armco into the fast lane of the other carriageway...........

seeing how far the bike would travel on its own

I tried that in the back garden when I was a kid. The answer is: far enough to go through the French window.................

 

[classic33]

Well I once found myself riding up a Motorway. My mate who spotted my mistake came after me. He was the one escorted off by the cops.

Also on another occasion I deliberately rode up the wrong side of the Motorway in the "fast" lane. (On this occasion the Motorway hadn't yet been opened)

Ended up on the A58(M) in Leeds. Entering the first tunnel I did put the rear light on. Police in a range rover headed out of Leeds saw me(I sort of knew what to expect at that point), turned at the roundabout and came after me, extending pole light in use.

Got escorted to the next turn off, where I'd been planning on getting off. Going through would have been quicker, but they said no.

 

[palinurus]

Ask at work, they'll tell you I rode there.

Real answer is towing 75 kg of soil on fixed

 

[jongooligan]

Rode through a busy town to the LBS with another bike slung over my shoulder.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I suppose that doing my first winter imperial century, on my modified BSO with snow stud tyres fitted might count as a bit mad. Report here for anyone interested.

On a trike rather than a bike it would be being stopped by the police for riding past a no entry sign with five drunk revellers aboard.

 

[numbnuts]

Nowt crazy there, doesn't count.

 

[classic33]

Now if you did it in December....

 

[classic33]

Rode through a busy town to the LBS with another bike slung over my shoulder.

Did Shipley to Halifax like that, only in reverse. Ellis Briggs to home

 

[petek]

Grand Trunk Road in India.
Bleddy Mad Max territory that is.
Never again!

 

[slowwww]

Convinced myself that I could generate sufficient speed and lift on my new mountain bike to jump across the stream carved into the top of a chalk hill favoured by hundreds of dog-walkers and hikers.

I couldn't, but what speed I did generate was sufficient to ensure that as I exited over the handlebars when the front wheel hit the far bank, my still clipped-in feet ensured the rest of the bike followed in at least 2 inelegantly executed head-over-heels and finished in a slidey dismount through a group of half a dozen terrified hikers.

 

[presta]

I think this guy wins first prize.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Probably topping 60MPH. dropping down East Chevin

On more than one occasion too.............. especially given the state of the road-surface & the 'concealed entrances'

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Les Gets World Cup Course. Tried three times to get down clean, third time put me hospital.