First coker crash

as long as you didnt get hurt.

well with any luck it wont be the first of many.

what pedals are you using?

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munipsycho said:

Just a bit of advice: never vomit while wearing a full-face helmet.

irvinegr said:

haha i just thaught it was funny the title is "3th movie"

pixystix6 said:

oo give him and intising lap dance while he rubs pasteries all over you

kapoute said:

It just depend if you are gay or not...

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ya that's happened to me. I was trying to get my foot into place and
(call me stupid) I was hopping while doing this and my foot hit the
back part of the pedal and it came back and put some rakeage into my
shins. I ended up having to pull the pedal out of my shin.

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cathwood said:

I had my first coker crash today.

Here's the story:

I have recently learnt to freemount and had freemounted but landed with
my foot in an uncomfortable position. I have learned to move my foot by
wriggling it on the pedal pins. However, it seems that if the edge of
my foot is at the edge of the pedal then either due to the pattern on
the shoe or the pins being bigger on the edge, I find it difficult to
move my foot from this position. And I find it really annoying.

Anyway, there I was riding along with my foot at the edge of the pedal
and feeling uncomfortable because I wanted to move my foot outwards a
bit. I tried to ignore the feeling and then I tried to move my foot. I
fiddled around for a while then one moment I was fiddling with my foot
and the next minute I was on the floor. No warning. No feeling of
falling off and so having time to 'land' in some way. No. One minute I
was riding, the next minute I was on the floor.
....................

My elbow is just sore enough to make me think about wearing elbow pads
when riding, especially if I was only in a t shirt. But perhaps not.
Anyway it was not the slow decent that I always thought that falling
off the coker would be.

A few weeks back I has a very similar fall on the 29-er.

Just riding, not doing anything tricky, my left (non-mounting) foot
felt slightly off- I recall adjusting it, then the next thing I'm
-slammed- into the ground- it made a hell of a 'slapping' sound and
pretty much the whole pedestrianised bit I was on turned to look 🙂

Normally, the very few UPDs I have are easy to walk out of, the even
fewer that I had up on the ground are usually decent landings.

I think with this, one of my feet somehow got tangled in the cranks-
possibly the uni was going backwards at this time and this lead to the
'slamming' effect.

Although the injury was slight (skinned elbow) I felt that it could
have been a lot worse ie broken elbow if I'd been less lucky.

I've not ridden the 29-er since and have stuck to the 24x3- i will
doubtless go back to the 29-er, but only when I've developed a stategy
to mitigate against that kind of rare, but random, UPD.

It did occur to me to start wearing elbow pads, but, though I'm totally
happy to use helmet and wrist guards, I find elbow pads for just (non
trick) riding to be undesirable in terms of both comfort and looks.

I have become very much more aware when making foot adjustments on the
pedals- I've had other strange UPDs when doing this. I feel it's more
of a danger when it's my non-mounting foot as, due to the fact that, as
it goes on first it's generally well-placed and rarley need adjustment
whereas my right foot gets more practice as it often needs adjustment
immediately after mounting.

As a circus skills/arts/crafts tutor, I'm always very wary of things
that can damage wrists/elbows, so I did take this particular fall very
seriously.

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By all means wear the elbow pads! Very few things are more painful that
an elbow injury and it's so easily prevented. I always wear wrist and
elbow protection with my Coker. When it's cold out and I'm wearing
workout pants the kneepads just won't stay put. So if I'm wearing
shorts I also have on the kneepads. You never think about them until
until the exposed nerve endings are screaming "Why! Why! WHY!" and you
can only say "I dunno?" 🙄

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I long ago came to the realisation that if I UPD'd on the coker that I
was going to hurt myself - otherwise I would never have ridden any
faster than very slowly. I'm resistant to wearing elbow pads because I
neither like the restricted feeling that they give nor do I like the
time taken to get ready for a ride. It takes enough time already to get
the cycle shorts on, the camelpak ready, sort out my wrist guards
(which I landed on - probably would have had a broken wrist otherwise -
I always wear wrist guards), my helmet, mp3 player and mobile phone.
Since I have only had this kind of UPD on the coker once in the 6
months that I've had it and that my ears are the most important part of
my job, elbows don't come into it, I'm willing to risk it elbow padless
unless it happens again.

I was happy that I wasn't too afraid to get back on - freemounting as
well, although I wasn't very enthusiastic about moving my foot on the
pedal on the way home.

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gordito8me said:

ya that's happened to me. I was trying to get my foot into place and
(call me stupid) I was hopping while doing this and my foot hit the
back part of the pedal and it came back and put some rakeage into my
shins. I ended up having to pull the pedal out of my shin.

That sounds VERY PAINFUL.

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maximus unius said:

That sounds VERY PAINFUL.

It absolutely does. Much more painful than a banged elbow.

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i had to do that once too, remove the pedal off the shin.. the day i had
just fitted my brand new wellgo pedals, went with my trial biker
friends and we found a nice drop, about 0.8m or sommit (i didnt have a
trials uni at the time), and i jumped, and fell and the wheel came
right back into my shins (at the time no 661s) and straight into the
back of my leg... damn the back of legs are soft, the pins went through
and i ahd to physicslaly remove them... i still haev the marks of the
pins in the back of my leg... 4 of them went into my shin....

funnily enough on the moment it wasnt that bad, but afterwards it was
pissing pretty baddly and started being quite painfull...

anyways sorry to hear your coker fall, doesnt sound nice... if i ever
get enough money to get a distance uni, i think i'd go for the 29"....
36" looks kinda scary. lol

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Ow! Sorry to hear about your unfortunate fall Cathy, happens to
'everyone' (

) at some
point... Glad to hear you're ok tho, and it hasn't shaken you too
badly. I wear wrist, knee and head protection when cokering, but then
I've still got many miles to cover before I can consider myself as
competent on mine.

Loose.

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Since building my 29er, I've been really surprised when I fall too. You
mentioned that the fall was completely sudden, no moment of
realization, no time to react, and this has been my experience too.

I was riding to class, and right in the middle of the plaza (luckily I
was late to class, so there weren't many people out) I was riding at
like 11mph, and all of a sudden I was skidding on the ground. I usually
wear wrist protection, but I hadn't that day, cause I was just going to
class. I got big bruises on my wrists, and a bunch of "are you ok?"s.

I figure now what causes these most of the time (I don't know what
causes my falls right after they happen) is I'm used to road biking,
where my feet are clipped in, so I tend to want to "pull up" on the
pedals. This doesn't work on pinned pedals, though, so sometimes if I'm
pedaling fast enough, my foot lifts off the pedal breifly, and the
pedal spins under my foot. My foot then misses, and I upd.

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Welcome to the club Cathy!

I got my new nimbus framed coker (almost exactly like yours I believe)
about two weeks ago and had my first big wipeout in months while riding
it back from work last Friday night.

Riding in the dark on a poorly lit, bumpy cycle path with only LED
lights, after a couple of pints in the pub is more difficult than it
sounds 🙄 Luckily I managed to roll as I hit the ground and
only got a few scuffs on my wrist guards and a slightly grazed knee.

I always wear wrist guards and helmet on the Coker but find knee and
elbow pads uncomfortable for road riding. I know I'll get a grazed knee
every now and then but it's not so often that it worries me.

Having said that I was very glad to be wearing pads at the end of the
Unicon marathon as I dismounted in spectacular fashion at the finish
and ended up sliding on my knees while the Coker almost took out a
couple of spectators :eek:

Paul

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delighted to hear you got straight back on, and are ok. If you'd gone
back home it could've been a huge dent in your confidence.

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Hey Cathy, glad you survived relatively unscathed, but judging by the
number of times I fall off (perhaps not a fair comparison 😉 ) you have
done exceptionally well to last this long without a coker-tumble or
several. I usually know when I am about to fall and manage to either
run out or adopt the rag-doll fall all over the road position if
travelling too fast to run out. Only occasionally do I fall flat on my
ar5e without realising it was about to happen, but all one can do is
laugh it off - "Pick yourself up, Dust yourself off, And start all over
again ..." (luckily you can't hear my dreadful singing voice in this
medium 😉 )

Richard (Loose), that was a great vid clip; "Here they come - Ooooohhh
!"

Blue skies
Chris

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cathwood said:

I had my first coker crash today....One minute I was riding, the next
minute I was on the floor.

I had a similar speed-of-light crash once on my 29er, but have also
crashed pretty bad on my 36er. Like you, both of these, my two worst
crashes, are from foot/pedal loss of contact or foot shifting attempts.
For that matter, 9 out 10 of my crashes are foot-coming-off-the-pedal
issues.

Glad you're OK.

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munidobs said:

Hey Cathy, glad you survived relatively unscathed, but judging by the
number of times I fall off (perhaps not a fair comparison 😉 ) you have
done exceptionally well to last this long without a coker-tumble or
several. I usually know when I am about to fall and manage to either
run out or adopt the rag-doll fall all over the road position if
travelling too fast to run out. Only occasionally do I fall flat on my
ar5e without realising it was about to happen, but all one can do is
laugh it off - "Pick yourself up, Dust yourself off, And start all over
again ..." (luckily you can't hear my dreadful singing voice in this
medium 😉 )

Richard (Loose), that was a great vid clip; "Here they come - Ooooohhh
!"

Blue skies
Chris

Well I have had UPDs before but have landed on my feet so I haven't
counted them as crashing. One particularly memorable one was when it
was really windy (I hadn't realised how windy until I reached an
exposed part of the road). There was a cross wind and a gust blew the
unicyle sideways right from underneath me. I ended up standing on the
pavement and the coker was blown into the adgacent field.

That time I felt it probably wasn't a good idea to continue, so I went
home.

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cathwood said:

No warning. No feeling of falling off and so having time to 'land' in
some way. No. One minute I was riding, the next minute I was on the
floor.

Isn't it amazing how learning to unicycle teaches how to teleport that
way?😎 I've done it a time or two, also.

cathwood said:

That time I felt it probably wasn't a good idea to continue, so I went
home.

I hope you got the Coker out of the field first. 😉 🙄

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cathwood said:

My sense of shame is stronger than my sense of self-preservation so I
would probably say that I was OK even if my arm was hanging off.

Reminds me of that scene with the cyclist in one of the National
Lampoons films 🙂

Glad you weren't injured much.

I haven't fallen off my coker yet... still too chicken to ride faster
than about 15mph. I have visions of being mown down by the heavy
steam-rollering wheel as I skid along the gravel on my face :eek:
It's nice to be able to cruise easily at muni sprint speeds though (12
or 13mph ish).

I nearly always wear elbow pads because of the pointy rocks around here
- I've got boney elbows and really don't fancy an injury like what
happened to Dogbowl. They aren't very comfortable though, especially
on a hot day. If I'm racing I often won't wear them because of the
heat (certainly if it's not a stoney course). I think I'm a bit
paranoid on a unicycle though and tend to pad-up more than most people
- although I quite happily ride my bike to work at 50mph wearing no
safety kit at all apart from a helmet (and I've only just got into the
habit of wearing that on the road - never used to).

Keep safe - but don't worry too much 🙂

Rob

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Glad you're OK.

But Coker crashes can be interesting... I certainly have experience of
the sudden unexpected dismounts where you're on the floor in a
heartbeat...

I've found that that this don't happen so much these days. I think
with lots of riding it's possible to sense sudden UPDs earlier (and
sometimes avoid them). Last time one happened to me on the Coker, I
was going very fast (maybe 16 or 17 mph, not really sure) on a slight
downhill slope. I had enough time to decide that there was no way I'd
be able to run out, but wasn't really quick thinking enough to roll.
It hurt and I scraped up my arm badly - shame I didn't have elbow
pads...

The coker generally feels quite safe and stable these days, but it's
worth bearing in mind what can happen and leaving lots of margin for
error!

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Well, I'm still anticipating the arrival of my new Nimbus 36 (should be
tomorrow or the next day) and this thread is very though provoking. I'm
not looking forward to my first crash though I know it's inevitable. I
was on a nice long ride on my 29er last night and got to thinking about
just how comfortable I've become on it and how long it's been since
I've really injured myself in a UPD. It's been a full year since I had
a crash that required medical attention (badly sprained ankle) and I've
gotten quite good at anticipating any falls. I feel a bit cocky and
have that attitude that I can step-off/run-out of anything. In a way
that's good. Confidence is a wonderful thing and being too timid can
be detrimental to ones riding but one of these days the unicycling gods
are going to come along and slap me back down to earth. I'm very glad
to hear, Cathy, that you weren't seriously injured 🙂 .

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