Funny bike stories
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These can be anything. Funny or embarissing. That you have done. I will start off.So going past the local tesco metro in full view of everybody shopping in there, when i go flying past and ram the front brake (back one is broken) to avoid a person and go flying over the handlebars, much to the amusement of everybody else, as me, a spotty, red- faced teenager stands up and finds everyone staring at me. Not good, but managed to laugh it off.Now you.
cycling into the trail centre in Grizedale in 1998 or thereabouts, my brother tries a rolling endo to impress the crowds, touches the front brakes a little too hard, goes over the bars, then somehow manages to end up sat with his back against the wall, his bike at his feet, a look on his facethat says "yeah i meant to do that" and all the visitors suitably impressed leaving just me and two mates aware that he balls'd the whole thing up and was the luckiest man in cumbria....
About 6 weeks ago, I was cycling in to work. It was a bit windy, so I had my head down......I looked up just in time to see a parked British Gas van appear in front of me. I hit it at about 20mph, with my chin. Leaving a large face shaped dent in the back door, a cut in my chin which needed 3 stiches(it felt like I'd been punched by a gorilla) and a written off bike - the forks and front wheel were fine, but I managed to put a bend in the top tube and the downtube of the frame so that the wheel was folded underneath.
To add to me feeling like a bit of a tit, the guy got out the van and asked "Did you not see the big flashing orange light on the top of the van?"
To add to me feeling like a bit of a tit, the guy got out the van and asked "Did you not see the big flashing orange light on the top of the van?"
Many years ago I was driving to the local trails with my bike on a rack at the back of the Metro. I got onto one of my favourite driving roads and totally forgot about the £2K bike hanging off the back of the car. I entered a bend at around 50mph and heard this loud “pinging” sound, checking my rear view mirror I could see my bike and rack bouncing down the road. The only damage was a melted tube and tyre and one of the reservoir caps for the disk brakes had been ripped out. 20 minutes later I was making the same journey very carefully with a new tube and tyre fitted.
blinkythefish said:
About 6 weeks ago, I was cycling in to work. It was a bit windy, so I had my head down......I looked up just in time to see a parked British Gas van appear in front of me. I hit it at about 20mph, with my chin. Leaving a large face shaped dent in the back door, a cut in my chin which needed 3 stiches(it felt like I'd been punched by a gorilla) and a written off bike - the forks and front wheel were fine, but I managed to put a bend in the top tube and the downtube of the frame so that the wheel was folded underneath.
To add to me feeling like a bit of a tit, the guy got out the van and asked "Did you not see the big flashing orange light on the top of the van?"
Along the same lines, a couple of months ago I had just got my new road bike and fitted SPDs ... first venture out to a quiet road near my house, practising start/stopping clipping in & out etc ...To add to me feeling like a bit of a tit, the guy got out the van and asked "Did you not see the big flashing orange light on the top of the van?"
So, I've stopped at the side of the road and unclipped - all good. I set off again, right foot clipped in, and start pedalling ... trying to get my left foot clipped in - won't go. So, I'm looking down trying get my left foot clipped in, and eventually get it, only to look back up just as I ride straight into a parked car. I was going very slowly, so no damage to the car, but I'm now clipped in and in the panic, falling slowly over and can't get clipped out.
Fortunately, no-one around to witness it, so a grazed elbow, slighty scuffed handlebars & brake levers on my new bike
but mainly embarrased!Nearly came a cropper this morning.. filtering past traffic, zooming along, ducked onto a cycleway and thought 'this is a bit easy today, have I forgotten to stick my pannier on?'
glance over right shoulder.. no pannier.. glance over left 'ah there it is', look front.. parked car!
Typically a whole bunch of schoolkids were in attendance, but I managed to save it with a heroic endo, a 'whoops' and a speedy unclip. - not often I manage that with 6-7 kilos of stuff on the back!
glance over right shoulder.. no pannier.. glance over left 'ah there it is', look front.. parked car!
Typically a whole bunch of schoolkids were in attendance, but I managed to save it with a heroic endo, a 'whoops' and a speedy unclip. - not often I manage that with 6-7 kilos of stuff on the back!
Many years ago I was on a two week cycling holiday in Ireland (which was brilliant). Bike had front and rear pannier bags and tent & sleeping bag across the top of the rear panniers. I had toe clips on and needed to stop, sadly I had tightened up the clips too well so was still trying to get my foot out when I came to a stop. I slowly keeled over until the tent stopped me before I actually hit the ground still with my feet in the clips and my hands on the handlebars. I then had to extracate myself from under the well laden bike. That was fun. No witnesses apart from the OH who was laughing at me.
Edited by Project C on Tuesday 21st September 20:26
I recall getting a speedo for my bike when i was around 12. Naturally first thing i did was fit it and see how fast i could ride up the road - you can see where this is going, head down pedalling like crazy and went straight into the back of a parked car.
Another occassion me and a friend did some modifications to his bike and fitted an adapter from threaded steerer tube to threadless so a better variety of stems could be used. We forgot to do the bolt that holds the stem adapter to the steering tube up.... my friend had a steep drive with a kurb at the bottom, he rode off down the drive lifted the front wheel up as he went off the kurb and the stem came off so he was left holding the bars whilst the front wheel wobbled all over the place sending him across the road into the opposite kurb over the handlebars and into a neighbours hedge.
The funniest bit was his parents watching from the living room window and rather than ask if he was Ok, just pointing and laughing along with me.
dave
Another occassion me and a friend did some modifications to his bike and fitted an adapter from threaded steerer tube to threadless so a better variety of stems could be used. We forgot to do the bolt that holds the stem adapter to the steering tube up.... my friend had a steep drive with a kurb at the bottom, he rode off down the drive lifted the front wheel up as he went off the kurb and the stem came off so he was left holding the bars whilst the front wheel wobbled all over the place sending him across the road into the opposite kurb over the handlebars and into a neighbours hedge.
The funniest bit was his parents watching from the living room window and rather than ask if he was Ok, just pointing and laughing along with me.
dave
When I first started work in the late 70's my bike had tub tyres glued on to the rim and an old spare was under the saddle, eventually one winter I got a puncture and pulled off the tyre and rolled on the other tub thinking I'll glue that on properly later.
Cue 10 days later on my way home it had just got dark and my Never ready lights were piss poor and front had failed a copper in an old Austin Panda car [Pale blue and white] shouted at me for no lights. I was almost home and he was going the other way down a narrow road so I shouted something and arse up head down shot off home.
Blow me how he turned round so quick I don't know so I threw caution to the wind and went faster leaning the bike right over at the sharp turn at the end it all went pear shaped.
The rear tub [not yet glued] rolled off the rim, I skidded across the road hit the kerb and got high sided into a hedgerow
The copper couldn't stop laughing as he helped me up and said "see son if you had some lights you would have seen that"
My wheel was buckled with the tyre wrapped around it so as I had to walk now anyway so he just sent me off with a stern talking too about lights.
Cue 10 days later on my way home it had just got dark and my Never ready lights were piss poor and front had failed a copper in an old Austin Panda car [Pale blue and white] shouted at me for no lights. I was almost home and he was going the other way down a narrow road so I shouted something and arse up head down shot off home.
Blow me how he turned round so quick I don't know so I threw caution to the wind and went faster leaning the bike right over at the sharp turn at the end it all went pear shaped.
The rear tub [not yet glued] rolled off the rim, I skidded across the road hit the kerb and got high sided into a hedgerow
The copper couldn't stop laughing as he helped me up and said "see son if you had some lights you would have seen that"
My wheel was buckled with the tyre wrapped around it so as I had to walk now anyway so he just sent me off with a stern talking too about lights.
In my younger (much much younger) BMX days, we used to ride the local skatepark in St.Evenage quite frequently.
One of the biggest jumps was riding into the "cloverleaf" (3 bowls different depths) where you took a run-up, shot in round the lip of one then down and out another. One of my friends was acting the clown on the exit, where we used to stack bricks to see how high we could get.
While mucking around, he failed to hear the warning of a bike approaching and was tap dancing when he turned round to see the bottom bracket of my bike clear his head by an inch!
From the same era, though I dont condone it but it was funny...
Local Halfrauds frequently had parts borrowed, one guy walked out with a set of Tange forks in his trousers...
One of the biggest jumps was riding into the "cloverleaf" (3 bowls different depths) where you took a run-up, shot in round the lip of one then down and out another. One of my friends was acting the clown on the exit, where we used to stack bricks to see how high we could get.
While mucking around, he failed to hear the warning of a bike approaching and was tap dancing when he turned round to see the bottom bracket of my bike clear his head by an inch!
From the same era, though I dont condone it but it was funny...
Local Halfrauds frequently had parts borrowed, one guy walked out with a set of Tange forks in his trousers...
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