What's the most interesting/hilarious bicycle wreck you ever had?

Question

When I was 12, I rode to the store on my 10-speed to get a loaf of bread for my mom. When I was riding back, a friend challenged me to a race down my street. Somehow, the loaf of bread managed to get tangled in the spokes of my front wheel, and I wiped out.

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Answer 1

Not bicycle, but I was downtown a big city at noon on a motorcycle. At a red light I put my foot down on a recessed manhole cover and fell over. There must have been a thousand people laughing.

Answer 2

I was riding my bike to college one spring morning and around the soccer field, which I had to cross, every morning, there was a cable stretched about 3 1/2 feet about the ground between wooden posts. Well, it was foggy and you can probably see where this is going....I hit the cable going downhill FAST, it caught right above the front tire, between the cross bar and launched me like a catapult. I landed about 20 yards away and just layed there for a while...catching my breath and trying to calm down when I realized that not only were my clothes getting soaked from the morning dew AND the soccer field's sprinklers, but I had landed in a MASSIVE fire ant bed and they were in my hair and ears and going down my shirt. Thankfully, there was a water faucet nearby so I could wash them out.

Basically, I showed up to class in a tshirt and boxer shorts. It's a good thing I was an art major. Just goes to show, when it rains, it really pours sometimes!

Answer 3

We go camping every April and my son and I went on a bike ride on one of the walking trails. There was a part on the trail where you go down on a pretty steep decline (not a problem if you are walking down), and right next to the end of the downward path, there is about a 10 foot bank with a creek below. I told my son to walk his bike down it so he wouldn't get hurt, and me being the daredevil I am, I chose to ride down it.

Well, it was steeper than I thought, and I caught some speed...then he stopped to turn around...and me going faster than I thought I would, had to put the brakes on, and never really stopped. Instead, I went over the bank and into the creek, hitting every shrub/ tree root growing out of the side of it.

Then as I was in the creek, next to the bank, I saw snake holes right about eye level to where I stopped falling. I got so scared that I grabbed anything I could and climbed within seconds back up the bank and onto the walking trail where my son was still standing with this priceless look of shock and confusion. I happened to be riding HIS bike. When he finally spoke, he asked "what about my bike?" We both looked down at his bike in the creek, leaning against the snake hole bank...and I did what any good mother would do...I went back down...I should have just bought him a new one.

Answer 4

while you're a bike proprietor, there'll continuously be a next crash. you in basic terms don't be attentive to whilst it particularly is going to likely be. i'm fifty 5, and the final severe crash I had replaced into whilst i replaced into 40 two years previous, whilst an oncoming pickup became in front of me. I broadsided it at 22 mph. The bike replaced into totaled, i replaced into uninjured. i replaced into on a recumbent, so I hit ft first and easily dropped to the floor. If I have been on an upright bike, i could have been catapulted into the jumble of trash interior the the mattress and particular could have broken a bone or 2. quite some smaller crashes on account that then.

Answer 5

When I was probably 10ish I was riding bike and carrying a volleyball net. I was a wreck waiting to happen and it did. The net of course got tangled in the spokes and I wiped out hard. Still have the scar on my knee to prove it. Not to mention that just about my entire family was watching.

Answer 6

I did a jump on my bike once, and in mid-air the handle bars came all the way out of the neck. When I landed, I had no control and crashed.

In a separate incident, a friend of mine decided to ride is bike in the emergency lane on a freeway, and he crashed into a boat. The vehicle towing the boat had pulled over, and my friend was
watching the ground below him instead of ahead of him.

This one's the funniest...Another aquaintance of mine was riding with a group of his friends, and was busy talking to them, so he too was not looking where he was going. The group of bicyclers crossed a bridge, and he, not even seeing the bridge, rode on the wrong side of the guard-rail and down into the ravine, where he crashed.

Answer 7

OK well I was not in the wreck but when I was about 11 or 12 about 35 years ago ten speed bikes were a big thing and sort of a status thing. My school was about 3 miles from my house and would always ride my bike to school. This kid in my class who was slightly over weight always wanted to race me to school. So we raced. About a half mile from school, he wiped out and ruined his bike. I continued to school to get there on time. That kid never talked to me again. I think they moved about two years later.

Answer 8

Going downhill in Austin hill country I discovered I had no brakes. "Well, that's ok," I thought, "I'll just pull a Fred Flintstone." Then I discovered that I was picking up speed as I went DOWNhill and I looked down at the busy fast traffic I was going to slam into from the side. I had to jump off the bike in front of some college students that were standing outside their dorm. HOW EMBARRASSING! I had to walk it downhill like a dork!

Answer 9

I was riding around in the neighborhood circle and I was flying pretty fast. I coasted very speedily up the small slope of the Jensens driveway and couldnt turn fast enough to get onto the sidewalk, so I went straight into their yard and hit their fireplugand bouced up over the handlebars, (but not high enough to clear them and the plug)....So, it was a big pile of fireplug, bike and girl.

Answer 10

I was riding down the street minding my own business when I saw a good looking guy on a Harley stopped across the street . I was watching him bend over and ..... SMACK right into a telephone pole ! Everything hurt for 2 days !