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    In the spirit of Halloween, what are some of your horror stories since you have been riding?
    • CommentAuthorgreg
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2009
     
    Went OTB last night on my Bianchi BUSS on a patch of wet leaves. Bell Alercha helmet kept my skull from being split in two as my seat came around and hit the back of my head and pushed me down into the pavement quicker than I was going.

    I've been hobbling around today, I'll be back to speed tomorrow for spin class I think
    • CommentAuthorlatron
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2009
     
    This from another thread: "Why helmets are so great."
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    I almost ate shit twice yesterday, the second time I thought to myself "Wet leaves, it must be Fall!"

    Like black ice, but it's warm out.


    (my wife is bugging me to find something in the basement, so I didn't have time to find a completely appropriate picture.)
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    Whenever I think one of my bikes may have been stolen.

    I don’t think I have ever lost one that way, but that copper taste is always the same...
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    Boosting a hip at the local skate park, landed funny, then I looked up. Heading at a strategically placed light pole, grabbed a ton of brake and slid sideways into the pole, bashing up a new Seshin Megatron frame.

    Riding my old dirt lip in the woods by my house, I began to rotate forward in the air way to fast, landed on the front wheel which obviously washed out from underneath me. I was picking rocks out of my arms and face in the shower.


    I hate that feeling in your stomach when this shit is going down. Hurts just thinking of it.....
    • CommentAuthoralexbet813
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2009
     
    when i destroyed my bike eddy i was finishing my ride home and i was making the last turn while pumping and the stem bolt snapped and the wheel turned resulting in me flying over the bars almost slamming into a parked van luckily i was able to roll and took the entire fall on my shoulder and side instead of my head
    • CommentAuthorveggie
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2009
     
    I left my friends house and she said, "Don't fall on your way home". Sure enough I hit a random mass of concrete only like a mile away and went OTB. She thought i was joking till I leaned forward and showed her my head.
    • CommentAuthorAlia
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2009
     
    Posted By: gregWent OTB last night on myBianchi BUSSon a patch of wet leaves. Bell Alercha helmet kept my skull from being split in two as my seat came around and hit the back of my head and pushed me down into the pavement quicker than I was going.

    I've been hobbling around today, I'll be back to speed tomorrow for spin class I think


    Hey Greg - remember when you were showing off your wheelie skills and the front tire of that rescued bike rolled off down the road?
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    Posted By: gregPop Wheelies and Quick Release Wheels

    to recap:

    I was riding a beater today on a bike path through some parks here in Chicago. It was a great day, 70 degrees, lots of sun, just tooling around on a mixte with a quick release front wheel.

    I was getting a good 4-6" of lift on some pop-ups, leaning way back, enjoying the ride.

    I popped-up about an hour into the ride and my front wheel detached and kept rolling. The wheel rolled on down the path by it self at least 100' from where I crashed. I saw the wheel come out and when I looked down just before I crashed I saw an empty fork. I went over the bars after the fork came down. No injuries besides for some road rash on my left hand and a scraped up knee. I was going pretty slow and my head didn't touch the ground. The beater is going in the trash heap from where it came.

    Lesson of the day: check the tightness of your quick release wheels before every ride!
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    Last year while I was working for a courier service in the city, I was delivering a Fed-Ex package to some one in Bayview.

    I was probably about six, seven blocks away from their apartment building when I got cut off by, of course, a taxi. I swerved to get around him, but as I did, a woman's yellow lab ran out in front of me and I hit it going about 10 mph.

    Thankfully the dog was okay (which was what I was most worried about!) and he ran up to me after I had gotten up from my fall seemingly in order to make sure I was okay, and his owner was most apologetic as well.

    However I went over my handlebars and got three small pieces of glass lodged in my palm along with a bunch of dirt and asphalt. The package however, remained pretty intact, except for the stains of the blood from my palms. The dog's owner offered to take me to the hospital, but I rode myself to St. Mary's after my shift was over.
    • CommentAuthorDelnuggets
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2009
     

    Make sure to lube your chain properly. Dont wrap a rag around your finger. And make sure when youre getting off the excess lube from your chain, that your rag doesnt get caught in between your cog and chain. Or your finger might look like mine. D: haha
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    Today I was riding into denver and hit some black ice while coming up to an intersection. My bike flew out from under me and I went head first into the pavement. I realized I wasn't hurt and immediately started freaking out in fear of my brand new d2 super pista being smashed.
    Luckily, I was wearing a helmet so my noggin is still in tact, and my bike amazingly doesn't even have a scratch on it except on part of my bars.
    The bike gods were on my side this morning at broadway and mississippi.
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    Posted By: proudxvxyouth
    Luckily, I was wearing a helmet so my noggin is still in tact, and my bike amazingly doesn't even have a scratch on it except on part of my bars.
    The bike gods were on my side this morning at broadway and mississippi.


    Bravo, sir! If I were you I think I wouldn't be able to pull it together enough to tell that story if I had dented that brand new frame.

    But you didn't! And from the way that you told it, it seems as though you're physically intact enough too, so that's always a plus.
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    Posted By: LuvCumsInSpurts
    Posted By: proudxvxyouth
    Luckily, I was wearing a helmet so my noggin is still in tact, and my bike amazingly doesn't even have a scratch on it except on part of my bars.
    The bike gods were on my side this morning at broadway and mississippi.


    Bravo, sir! If I were you I think I wouldn't be able to pull it together enough to tell that story if I had dented that brand new frame.

    But you didn't! And from the way that you told it, it seems as though you're physically intact enough too, so that's always a plus.

    Haha I would be so upset if I had dented it during my first real ride on the thing. That would have made this a true horror story.

    Yeah, my right hip and left wrist are a bit torn up and my left thumb isn't moving as well as it should, but overall I'm fine.
    My helmet was totally annihilated though. I'm so glad I had it on. It had a couple of small cracks and some good sized dents. That could have been my cranium.
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    Ask your manufacturer about a replacement! Trek's been most kind to me in that regard.
    • CommentAuthorsfbee
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009
     
    About 8 years ago I was riding on a side walk with a friend to avoid some dense traffic. I noticed a bush protruding over the sidewalk up ahead, leaving a tight squeeze to pass through. It looked harmless enough to brush up against in passing... wrong. My shoulder hit the bush, sending me flying off my bike, rolling to a stop with my upper-body partially beneath a suburban in the road. I was pretty out of it, but managed to recover quickly enough to roll back on to the sidewalk before the suburban (who apparently had no clue what just happened) rolled forward.

    A few minutes later I was t-boned by a woman rolling a stop sign in a jeep... Initially she took off, but then turned back around to check if I was ok. Fortunately neither myself or the bike I was riding suffered any damage, so I shook it off and rode away.
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    it seems like getting hit by cars or comming close is a right of passage for cyclists
    • CommentAuthorfixedpuch
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009
     
    Ian, why would you ride a new d2 today? its SHITTY out........do smart things with your purdy bike....
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    Posted By: fixedpuchIan, why would you ride a new d2 today? its SHITTY out........do smart things with your purdy bike....


    Dude shitty ain't even the word. I do wish I had my winter bike ready though. This woulda been a PERFECT day for a test ride.


    Man you chicks fall off your bikes too easily. Maybe I'm just like naturally amazing and am part kitty cat but ten years takin this shit seriously and I haven't eaten HALF the amount of pavement in all my riding some of you do in a month! Crazy.
    Anyways, on to spooky stories. Here's my most recent.

    So I'm riding down 15th street through downtown on my way home. It's busy, it's rush hour, it's a little downhill (nothing to sweat), and it's a kinda beat up road but it's totally rideable. So I'm getting close to the one decent bit of hill on the street which dips under an overpass and sends you flyin' for a good 10 seconds. It's not much of a thrill but it is kinda fun to bomb down that section as fast as your legs can spin. Just as I'm about to hit the intersection before said hill I hit a goddamn pothole and my chain comes off (this is on a brakeless trackbike mind you). I'm like 50 feet from the intersection and my light goes red. Having a nice, but oddly calm, "oh shit" moment of clarity I take the ol' sneaker out of the right pedal and ted shred myself to a stop. I was riding with a friend of mine and when she realized I'd stopped she came back and the first thing that popped out of my mouth was "yah know, the dudes on the internet are DEAD right. We're fucking morons for riding brakeless track bikes in the middle of traffic". We both chuckled and I fixed my problem (jive ass chain tension) and continue to ride a brakeless track bike through traffic. *shrug* I also texted Ian (proudxvxyouth) and jinxed his ass because I think the exact same thing happened to him like the next day.
    On my winter bike I'll be rollin with a brake AND a helmet though. As much as I don't plan on falling I think father winter's got other plans for me this year. Especially since I just made fun of all you monkeys for bustin ass so much :)
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    Man you chicks fall off your bikes too easily. Maybe I'm just like naturally amazing and am part kitty cat but ten years takin this shit seriously and I haven't eaten HALF the amount of pavement in all my riding some of you do in a month! Crazy.


    I dunno, man. 20 years, three accidents*. It's just that two were within six months of each other.

    * OK, there have been a couple of spills here and there. I was sideswiped by a car on my way to school once, I hit a railroad track on my way across New England once. But they had no effect on the wellbeing of my body or bike.
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    Dude, I think you were right when you said it had something to do with your bar positioning. I can't look at it without feeling sympathy pains!

    I've never had an accident which has resulted in any worse than a dinged rim and a rim out of true. Both at the same time once when I was 15, riding home at dusk from a bike shop tune up. Thought a curb was a ramp and went straight into it. Hobbled back to the shop and had them fix it all over again. I think I called my mom collect. She was not amused.

    I've hit and been hit by cars and other cyclists at least five notable times, but I've never been injured or damaged my bike. I'm probably a lot more cautious than most of you death monkeys. Have more brakes, too.
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    Posted By: Joshua A.C. Newman
    Man you chicks fall off your bikes too easily. Maybe I'm just like naturally amazing and am part kitty cat but ten years takin this shit seriously and I haven't eaten HALF the amount of pavement in all my riding some of you do in a month! Crazy.


    I dunno, man. 20 years, three accidents*. It's just that two were within six months of each other.

    * OK, there have been a couple of spills here and there. I was sideswiped by a car on my way to school once, I hit a railroad track on my way across New England once. But they had no effect on the wellbeing of my body or bike.


    Haha I kid of course. If you never wipe out you're probably not riding much. I just wanted an excuse to call you guys "chicks". :)
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    Touche, IJ.
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    Posted By: fixedpuchIan, why would you ride a new d2 today? its SHITTY out........do smart things with your purdy bike....

    Haha this was monday. It was fairly nice out that day! Sunny and 99% not snowy and icy
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    Posted By: iron jaidenI also texted Ian (proudxvxyouth) and jinxed his ass because I think the exact same thing happened to him like the next day.

    Haha yeah, that sucked. I have a giant groove in the bottom of my shoe from that now.
    Who would have thought that a ted shred would grind through the hard plastic soles of clipless road shoes?

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