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 2013-06-26 7:16 AM |
Master  2504   Southwest Iowa |  Subject: Stupid bicycle wrecksI have only gone down a few times while riding my bike and most of them were stupid on my part. We all have the not getting clipped out tip-over, but I crashed hard on Sunday coming off of a paved trail into a parking lot. I hit really soft ground and was going too fast. I broke the front brake on the right side with my right knee and cut it pretty bad, but no stitches. Also, I must have had the seat run into the back of my left knee, as it is bruised about the size of a softball. Let's hear your stories..... |
| 2013-06-26 9:17 AM in reply to: flip18436572 |
Master 1946   Memphis, TN | Subject: RE: Stupid bicycle wrecks In some of my group rides, people want to go hard on a particular Strava segment and overlap the wheel in front of them and boom. We keep stressing safety and not drafting so close. You don't need to be 2 inches from the wheel you can be 1-2 feet back and get the benefit. When sprinting and going hard it's easy to try to draft but if the guy in front of runs out of gas in his legs and stops pedaling for a few seconds and you don't anticipate overlapping can happen and it's usually the one who overlapped that goes down. We've had a ton of crashes this year that were bike to bike contact like a group riding side by side and somebody tries to cut between them and runs someone off the road. Many of these are newer cyclist that have good legs and want to go fast but haven't learned the habits of safety on a group ride. I'm going to start rolling with the A group rather than taking it easy on our B group. If I'm hanging on for my life with the A group at least they all ride fast together and safe unlike our B group that seems to ride like they have something to prove. It's not the speed that causes the accident it's the difference in speed. The delta causes crashes Sorry no funny accident stories but this is recent and VERY on my mind. |
| 2013-06-26 9:48 AM in reply to: Jtiger |
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | Subject: RE: Stupid bicycle wrecks I was on a detour back to the house during my first year of riding, when I realized the low water crossing had a couple inches of water flowing across. I was pretty sure of the answer to the question "can I make it?", but decided to try anyway. It was as my front wheel entered the water that I saw the beautiful shade of green on the concrete road. About half way across, my bike ever so gracefully slipped out from beneath me. Since the low water crossing was one-lane and sits with blind curves on both sides, I quickly scampered out of the water on the other side. In hindsight, I probably should have turned around...but then again, if the road was not covered with algae, I might have made it. |
| 2013-06-26 11:57 AM in reply to: flip18436572 |
Champion 10668 Tacoma, Washington | Subject: RE: Stupid bicycle wrecks Several years ago, on a MTB ride on Tiger Mountain with a buddy, we were on our way down the highway side road (dirt, the short, steeper side). My buddy outweighs me by a bit, so gravity is his friend on downhills. Anyway, I come around a corner and see him standing in the road and pointing, then gets going again. As I near where he was standing, I see a hole. No problem, at this speed I can just hop it. As I get closer, I see it's a BIG hole. Okay, slow down and roll through it. I hit the brakes, slow way down... And as my front wheel is tipping over the edge of the hole, I see the tire tracks in the mud. About a foot below the surface of the water, and they're deep. My front wheel buries itself past the hub, stops rolling, and I do an awesome front-wheel stand for about half a second. And then tip over sideways. My buddy came back up the hill to see what was taking so long, in time to see me swimming my way out of the mud hole dragging my bike. He asked if I was okay... I could hardly breathe I was laughing so hard. |
| 2013-06-26 12:17 PM in reply to: flip18436572 |
Master 1996 Woodbridge , Virginia | Subject: RE: Stupid bicycle wrecks Several years ago I was trucking through an intersection about 27 mph.. the intersection had a slight grade. There was a divet in the road on the right so i tracked left to avoid.. That proved to be a mistake. I only remember seeing my bike fly over me. I guess i black out from impact. I opened my eyes, I was laid out in the middle of the intersection, my bike was 25 ft away from me, almost on the sidewalk. I quickly got up because i realized i had crashed and was in the middle of the road. grabbed my bike. surveyed my bike for damage. I was bleeding cuts all over. A tear on the seat and a scratch on the left rear stay. I debated to continue riding, I grabbed the back of my helmet. It wasn't there.. so i went home. I whacked my head the corner of a manhole.. split my helmet right down the middle and broke the left rear quadrant of my helmet off. I actually saw the missing piece of helmet beside manhole.. it didn't dawn on me at first. bruised ribs, left shoulder, and hip, massive headache.. |
| 2013-06-26 4:08 PM in reply to: flip18436572 |
Expert 1215 Austin, TX | Subject: RE: Stupid bicycle wrecks Many years ago when mountain bikes only had rigid forks, I was out bunny hopping obstacles. Kansas was board flat and this was the only way for me to have some fun on the mtb. On the way back home from riding, I am on a sidewalk as my apartment was on a very busy street. I do one more bunny hop before getting home. This time my front wheel does not come up with me. The fork augured in followed by my knuckles and then my chin. I stopped 4 lanes of traffic. 20+ years later I ALWAYS test the front wheel to make sure it is firmly attached. |
| 2013-06-26 7:40 PM in reply to: Hugh in TX |
Master 2380 Beijing | Subject: RE: Stupid bicycle wrecks I had just finished a particularly difficult MTB climb in a local state park. I was riding alone, and knew I didn't have time to ride back on the trails (my wife was expecting me home) so I took the road back to the trailhead. As I was riding I heard/felt something amiss with my front derailleur. I looked down to see what could be the problem. In that instant, I must have drifted too close to the shoulder of the road. My front wheel slid sideways off the 8" ridge from the pavement to the grass of the shoulder. I INSTANTLY hit the ground. This was on a downhill, I figure I was going about 20mph. I slid for a LONG way on my left shoulder and forearm. I cracked a rib. I knocked the air out of myself. I stood on the side of the road GROANING while trying to catch my breath. I must have sounded like I was dying. A runner came up from the other direction and asked me if I was OK. I just nodded and groaned. Finally picked up my bike and rode the couple miles back to the trailhead, and my car. I'm glad I was driving a MINI cooper, because getting my bike on top of anything else might have been too painful. |
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