Smashes and crashes.

[sara]

In celebration of the fairly-stupid bike accident I had this morning (I'm fine, though my left brake hood will need adjusting, and my left elbow is a lot more colors than usual): what's the most exciting bike smash you've ever had?

I've gone down in front of moving cars three times...and I've mostly been lucky enough that the driver was able to stop (most recently, she even offered me her cell phone so I could call someone to come haul me home). Once I had a driver roll over my front wheel, which was never quite the same after; I was mostly glad she hadn't rolled over my leg, though, so the wheel seemed a comparatively small sacrifice.

You?

Comments

[davidcook]

Most embarassing accident - I had just picked up my new bike from the guy who used to build bikes at the club I was a member of. I was stopped at traffic lights on the way home. The lights turned green, I had both feet clipped in the pedals, and put down the power ... which all went into tightening the rear cluster and not moving me forward. I rolled forward a few metres, then gracefully tipped over ... in front of all the other traffic that had been stopped at the lights, including a couple of guys on motorbikes.

Most spectacular was probably the car that got just in front of me, then turned left cutting across my path - I went right over the back end of the car, bike still attached.

Most painful was probably the one where I was on a training ride, and started to stand on the pedals to accelerate for a sprint - my chain slipped off the outside of the front chainring, and all my force went straight down, shortly followed by the rest of me :-)
Lots of bruises in odd places from that one, and plenty of grazes ...

[sara]

Oh, yeah, the top of the front chainring isn't what you want to be dropping the chain off...owww! And I've done something a lot like your first one, which...yes, thud, right in the middle of the intersection.

Tuesday morning, and I am still finding bruises from Sunday.