Bike Crashes

...You mean today?

Oh you said ever, yep lots of times some more spectaculat than others. Nothing life-threatening though. You want details?

Yep.

A couple weeks ago I decided too late to turn and did it too quickly. Some loose gravel quickly put me and my bike on our side for a nice little slide. Ouch! Elbow still looks pretty nasty.

This same ride I also joined the club of falling while stopped because I didn't unclip. I was passing a rider coming the other way when I realized he wanted to ask me something, so I again stopped a bit too quickly and didn't have a chance to unclip. Didn't go all the way over, but quite embarrassing nonetheless with another rider right there.

I'm sure there will be more.  I've only started riding this year.

In MTB-land, if you aren't crashing once in a while, you're riding too slow. Spend enouh time on a bike, and you'll have an incident/accident sooner or later. It's inevitable. You do have some control over how much risk you take, but cycling is a risky activity. It's just not as risky as sitting on the couch eating chips and drinking beer.

Yeah, it's when I come home from my ride that I really live on the edge.

Sign me up for TWO.  Once the first time I rode with the clipless, once about 6 months thereafter, sudden unexpected stop, loose gravel yada yada yada.....no injuries either time, so I was basically laughing my ass off.  Hey, what can I say, I find a 40 year old woman falling off her bike funny.

MTB, just endo'd on Saturday, and has kept me off the bike for several days because of it.

Off road, I always say that if you don't crash every now and then....your not trying had enough!

You know what they say - there are two types of riders:  Those who have crashed and those who are going to crash.

I've fallen a couple times, all of the more embarrassing kind like falling over while still clipped in, or trying to get going and foot slipping off the pedal, things like that.  Of course, there was that one time I had that endo mtn biking.  Fortunately into a soft patch of weeds.  No road rash but ripped my shorts all to he**.  Again fortunately, I was riding with a jacket, so I could get back to my car without flashing everyone.

Over the years from various crashes I've gotten a nice set of assorted scars on my elbows, one set of stitches in my hip, and a fractured collarbone.

One weekend I crashed on a Saturday in a group ride.  Wet roads, and I slid out on a turn.  On Sunday I went out with my husband and an old friend of his.  The friend and I went more miles, and all the way back we were riding side by side.  We hooked handlebars and down I went again.  The 2nd crash was worse then the first because I totally trashed my front wheel.  How I got back to my mother in law's house I have no idea.

Two types of cyclists:

Those who have crashed, and those who are going to crash.