Tell us all about your dorkiest stack....

LotteBum said:

Here's mine:

You're going to have to work harder than that, I'd say.

My best effort would've been head down, pedalling hard, keen to get
home. Look up, and see a parked car about two feet in front of me. No
room to swerve to miss it. All I could do was hit the brakes (and in
that distance, that does diddly squat).

I still have a scar on my chin from that little episode, and the old 10
speed racer still has definite cracking in the paintwork on the
headstem.

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Here's mine:

Riding along off road, I had to ride over approximately 4 little
branches (maybe 4cm in diameter) spaced about 20cm apart (some of you
might know - near the end of 'Second Coming', after the gravelly
section and between two short descents). I must have thought my bike
would just go straight over them, and didn't lift my front wheel and
went over the handlebars. The worst bit is that I managed to wedge my
legs under the handlebars somehow and the bike literally pinned me down
upside down (ie. seat was in the middle of my back, wheels in the air).
Lucky I was riding with a couple of friends and they were able to pull
the bike off me so I could get up. I sometimes wonder how I would have
managed to get up, had I been riding on my own. I probably would have
waited until someone rode past...

Of course, I've had a couple of stacks trying to trackstand at traffic
lights too, but I deal with that by kidding myself that it happens to
everyone.

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riding my old mtb on the road on my way to some dirt tracks..
went to bunnyhop up the gutter onto the footpath, the front wheel made it,
the back didnt🙂
the back slid along the gutter and i kinda went sideways/over the bars while
doing my best superman impersination🙂
luckily landing face down on the grass for a nice landing🙂
no one else was around to witness/laugh at my skillz

Probably more appropriate for aus.motorcycles but out in the middle of
nowhere I once stopped on the side of a road for a stretch and had the
mbike fall on top of me as I got off because the stand was on a stone. I
just lay there laughing but discovered that super human strength is
not just a by-product of fear. Embarrassment also allows you to lift
very heavy weights very quickly as I discovered when I heard a car
approaching.

DaveB "the only fall I've ever had and it wasn't even moving"

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Probably more appropriate for aus.motorcycles but out in the middle of
nowhere I once stopped on the side of a road for a stretch and had the
mbike fall on top of me as I got off because the stand was on a stone. I
just lay there laughing but discovered that super human strength is not
just a by-product of fear. Embarrassment also allows you to lift very
heavy weights very quickly as I discovered when I heard a car approaching.

DaveB "the only fall I've ever had and it wasn't even moving"

had a similar experience with a motorbike but it was while riding beside a
river in some soft sand..
bike tipped, i ended up under it and the exhaust pipe was across my leg just
above the ankle..
being in queensland, i had shorts on so the pipe was on bare skin🙂
managed to get the bike off pretty quick but it still left a nice scar for a
few months

Aaawwww, cmon, ask somethin harder 😄

we've all done it!

Stop at lights.
cant get out of 'clipless pedlas.
Fall sideways.
Usually slowly and ALWAYS with witnesses looking straight at you 🙄

F "Why do we 'clip' in and out of 'clipless' pedals 😕 😕 " Dutch

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Of course, I've had a couple of stacks trying to trackstand at traffic
lights too, but I deal with that by kidding myself that it happens to
everyone.

<raises hand, nods>

hippy

hippy said:

"LotteBum" <[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

Of course, I've had a couple of stacks trying to trackstand at traffic
lights too, but I deal with that by kidding myself that it happens to
everyone.

<raises hand, nods>

hippy

<points and laughs, and runs away>

T

Hippy said
<raises hand, nods>

Ha! This makes me feel good!

Lotte

LotteBum said:

Hippy said
<raises hand, nods>

Ha! This makes me feel good!

Lotte

At the risk of being a me too post...

Me Too - tipping over at lights, unable to unclip... so elegant.

Ritch.

PS. There was a dude riding a hybrid v. fast up Anzac Bridge this morning, I got a nice tow up the hill for once, but the naughty rider blew the first red light in Pyrmont (tut tut)

Yup Not unclipping at the lights..

BUT

On a recumbent, being filmed by ABC TV crew in Port Pirie (SA).

Oh! can anything be more dorky?!? Such embarressment so so so very dorky.

T
(who knows recumbency really does look silly🙂

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Hippy said
<raises hand, nods>

Ha! This makes me feel good!

That's me.. I just exude pure joy.. :-P

This one time..
I was riding my bmx (very drunk and in a lovely summer
thunderstorm) and went to wheelie up a curb near the
train station. I forgot that my bars are pretty loose. The
bars came towards me and the front wheel failed to lift
an inch!
I smacked into the curb and skidded on the wet concrete..
in front of the bunch of people sheltering under the station
roof.. It was a classic crash. They must have thought I
was.. well.. [censored]! :-)
Once I'd stopped laughing, I got back on and found more
beer, that _didn't_ require hopping curbs to get.

hippy
"when in doubt, do it in front of a crowd"

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"LotteBum" <[email hidden]

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Of course, I've had a couple of stacks trying to trackstand at traffic
lights too, but I deal with that by kidding myself that it happens to
everyone.

<raises hand, nods>

hippy

I've got a collection of funny stories here.
http://www.geo.net.au/~mart/funny_cycling_stories.htm
Marty

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Yup Not unclipping at the lights..

Hey mine was a "bag shifted while trackstanding, causing me
to overbalance to one side" fall.. of course with many cars
(and some drivers) looking on..

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On a recumbent, being filmed by ABC TV crew in Port Pirie (SA).

Oh! can anything be more dorky?!? Such embarressment so so so very
dorky.

T
(who knows recumbency really does look silly🙂

Hey.. I might've got myself into a 24hr recumbent race!!!

hippy
"uh oh"

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 at 05:31 GMT, hippy (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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"LotteBum" <[email hidden]

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Hippy said
<raises hand, nods>

Ha! This makes me feel good!

That's me.. I just exude pure joy.. :-P

You better clean that up, before someone falls over in it. What a
mess!

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This one time..
I was riding my bmx (very drunk and in a lovely summer
thunderstorm) and went to wheelie up a curb near the
train station. I forgot that my bars are pretty loose. The
bars came towards me and the front wheel failed to lift
an inch!

I'll sometimes try to weelie over the gutter in the wrong gear. It can
definitely hurt.

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I smacked into the curb and skidded on the wet concrete..
in front of the bunch of people sheltering under the station
roof.. It was a classic crash. They must have thought I
was.. well.. [censored]! :-)

I just remembered about the time I came back to uni after drinking all
night, and I rode my bike very cautiously, tire-on (not head-on) into
a no standing sign. I don't know how I managed to hit such a tiny
target. I managed to get it upstairs, and then the next day, when I
went to ride off, the brakes were all over the place, making it very
hard to wheel the thing at all. I don't know how I managed to get it
up the ramp and lift and across the coridoor.

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A week or so after I started cycling I was coasting along a footpath, watching the traffic and waiting for a gap so I could duck out onto the road. I didn't realise that I was drifting left. I rode into a fence, stopped dead and launched myself over the bars rather than get tangled up with the bike. Squashed my lunch which was in my backpack, but no injuries.

Dej said:

had a similar experience with a motorbike but it was while riding beside a
river in some soft sand..

Ever forgotten your front disklock before moving off? Did that several
times. Though, after telling my boss, he said he did one better.

He forgot the disklock, accelerated quite quickly, AND had his wife on the back.

We all laugh about it now, but she seemed the least pleased.
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Dej said:

had a similar experience with a motorbike but it was while riding beside

a

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river in some soft sand..

Ever forgotten your front disklock before moving off? Did that several
times. Though, after telling my boss, he said he did one better.

He forgot the disklock, accelerated quite quickly, AND had his wife on

the back.

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We all laugh about it now, but she seemed the least pleased.
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That reminds me of when we were doing a motorbike charity ride. We assembled
in a huge parking area, with hundreds , if not thousands, of other bikes. We
were starting and moving off in an orderly fashion, as your turn approached,
you'd start your bike, wait for a space and move off. One guy in the line
ahead of me, leathers, Harley, ape hanger bars and easy rider look,
girlfriend on the back, cooly leans foward and hits the starter button. The
bike, in gear, suddenly jumps foward, falling off the side stand and
severely injuring multiple egos.

Almost as bad as taking off at the lights and having your girlfirend fall
off the back!

Marty

Marty Wallace said:

Almost as bad as taking off at the lights and having your girlfirend fall
off the back!

That made those t-shirts popular: "If you can read this, she's fallen off".

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hippy said:

"LotteBum" <[email hidden]

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Of course, I've had a couple of stacks trying to trackstand at traffic
lights too, but I deal with that by kidding myself that it happens to
everyone.

<raises hand, nods>

hippy

I have to confess that happened to me a few weeks ago.

The first time in 7 years of clipless riding 🙁

Fortunately it was early in the morning and nobody was around. Second
ride on some new SPDs and the left one was a bit tight 🙂

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