The Stupidest Thing I have ever done on a bike!

[Jenkins]

The modern generation would upload such a contraption to youtube.

This was pre-Sinclair ZX81 let alone YouTube (I need an "old git" smiley)

 

[Profpointy]

I offer two examples:

1) setting out on a 20 mile bike ride, including an extremely steep descent with only the front brake operational. "It'll be alright" I thought, at least until there was a "ping" and one on of the remaining brake blocks bouncing up the road. Both feet down and still gaining speed ! Hedge now, or ride it out ?. I went for the hedge and returned home mildly scratched by safe and certainly wiser.

2) Carrying a saucepan of curry in one hand through a chicane in a no-cycling alleyway late on evening. Although I did crash to the floor I was unhurt, and more importantly the curry wasn't spilt. It is possibly no surprise to my diligent readers that drink had indeed been taken.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Aged about 14 sprinting as hard as I could, head down ... straight into the back of a parked Vauxhall Chevette. Went right over the top of it. Front wheel mangled, forks bent, down tube broken. Car hatch door written off. I got away with bruises and a torn leg muscle. And a sharp drop in my popularity at home.

 

[Saluki]

Stuck a firework down my handlebar and rode along with Sparks and flames shooting out as I sang Tom Hark. Brian Avenue, Norwich, 1983.

That was you? My Dad told me about that.

 

[Mr_Kipling]

When I was a teenager. Holding a bag of chips on my right hand and needing to change up gears, so I thought it would be a good idea to use my left hand to change up gear on the right side handlebar grip shift..... The parked Saab 900 Turbo I hit seemed to be ok. Chips all over the road. I got up and made a quick getaway.

 

[runner]

I offer two examples:

1) setting out on a 20 mile bike ride, including an extremely steep descent with only the front brake operational. "It'll be alright" I thought, at least until there was a "ping" and one on of the remaining brake blocks bouncing up the road. Both feet down and still gaining speed ! Hedge now, or ride it out ?. I went for the hedge and returned home mildly scratched by safe and certainly wiser.

2) Carrying a saucepan of curry in one hand through a chicane in a no-cycling alleyway late on evening. Although I did crash to the floor I was unhurt, and more importantly the curry wasn't spilt. It is possibly no surprise to my diligent readers that drink had indeed been taken.

I would have gone for the hedge as well

 

[ColinJ]

This is a subject we have done a few times, but no matter how many times we cover it, nobody who is still capable of posting on here will have done anything on a bike as stupid as a Norwegian I met at university ...

 

[summerdays]

I don't remember reading that one before!