Your dumbest crash

[Bat Man]

I stole this idea off another mtb forum, some of the funniest stories on there!

So ive had my share of dumb crashes and thought that there would be some good stories here, so post up your dumbest crash.

Back when i first started riding i thought it would be gnarly to ride down these steep stairs at my house and basicly i rolled up to them and tried to stop but my front wheel went down the first stair, then i tried to put my feet down and stop but that failed and i some how steped/jump down the stairs with one hand off the handle bars looking like i was rodeoing on a bull and landed with wheel turned 90 degrees and me heading staight for the bar end. I didnt hurt myself but i was left with a big hole in my ego, luckily enough nobody saw me do it. :P

Also this one time i was with a friend on these train tracks and i tried to turn around by rolling back and turning but as i did that i over ballanced and landed flat on my back laughing. Was very embarrasing

While im at it i my aswell post up my friends dumb stack. also back when we first started riding, he had just bought a new bike and he tried this extreme 1 n a half foot drop to flat, came up to it too slow and just went straight over the bars and scratched up his new bike. I thought it was quite funny

[mtnrider]

Picture speaks for itself.

Pull up! Pull up!

http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/groups/g_8424394/.HomePage/__sr_/a132.jpg?gr72gXEBaemLhbmF

[Roasted]

Last year when I broke my ribs was my dumbest crash. It was on a blue trail (the name slips my mind) and there is this convenient hump in the ground you can catch some air off of. I did in fact catch air but somehow hipped it. Well it is not a big enough hump to hip so I couldn't pull the bike back basically landing sideways. Flipped over the bars, cracked my helmet, some ribs and knocked myself silly

[Mr Ripper]

I have had sooo many I don't even know where to start. It always seems to be the "small" things that get me, it is never that 20ft gap, always the stupid root or rock :stupid:

[DaveM]

XC ride, didn't make the little hill with the wife coming up behind me. Went to get off my bike to get out of the way, put my foot down on a loose rock, tumbled down the bank about 20 feet. The first "pop" was a torn ACL and sprained MCL, the second pop was complete elbow dislocation. My brother had to pull me up the bank by my hydration pack, and then had a 20 minute hike out with my elbow in a makeshift sling and my bad knee pressed against my good knee so it wouldn't give out. With both injuries on the same side I couldn't put my arm around him or use a crutch/cane.

Beat that for a dumb crash.

[Farmer]

I was riding up thermal drive, in coquitlam, and got to the super steep part and had clipless pedals on and still wasnt used to cliping/uncliping quickly. I got to the point that I just couldnt go any more and went to put my foot down, but it was stuck to my pedal. I fell over and got road rash on my elbow and knee:cry: :cry: :cry:

[cameron]

I was riding up thermal drive, in coquitlam, and got to the super steep part and had clipless pedals on and still wasnt used to cliping/uncliping quickly. I got to the point that I just couldnt go any more and went to put my foot down, but it was stuck to my pedal. I fell over and got road rash on my elbow and knee:cry: :cry: :cry:

thermal can be a bitch. shit my old vdub probably couldnt make it up there!

luckly i've never ridden up it.

[atb]

well yesterday i managed to crash on the very first ladder bridge on cbc, my front wheel just kinda fell off one side, then i landed face first on the wood. and all i had on was my half shell. my face looks pritty nice today.

[atb]

thermal can be a bitch. shit my old vdub probably couldnt make it up there!

luckly i've never ridden up it.


what about your crash involving a curb and a broken chain.

[Smoke]

I got my shoelace caught in my chain in my back yard 2 days ago and fell over in front of a bunch of carpenters (that I happened to go to school with).

[Lady Gravity]

went off a 3-4ft drop, blacked out for a millisecond, front wheel dropped and i went assoverteakettle and landed on a stump. same ride, went off another 3ft drop to flat, overcompensated and zinged my ass on my back tire and fell off the back of the bike. both crashes completely witnessed :cry: but luckily nothing on tape. eagle always takes a chunk out of me.

i could really go on for hours about my crashes but those are likely the most classic.

[.243racer]

riding on the sidewalk: pedaling up this big hill, hammering pretty hard, rode RIGHT into a lamp post! right infront of a bus stop full of people.

:lol:

[strahan]

trail testing. (http://web.uvic.ca/~sloken/mobius_research_4.mpg) :lol:

[Furious]

Dumbest crash...

I was 6 years old and a bunch of us on the same street had bikes... started off with dares.. who could ride one-handed, who could ride no-handed.. of course I had to be the best and was convinced I could ride with my eyes closed..

Next thing I know I went face-first into the back end of a late 70's camaro
That would be the first tooth I lost riding...

After healing up I built a jump on the sidewalk, tried to hit it at warp speed, ended up crashing (ever seen Pedro do his jump in "Napoleon Dynamite"?)
And that's the second tooth I lost riding...

[Chunk]

dont know if id call it a "crash" but when i got my first set of clipless pedals a few years back. I was in front of a starbucks talking to a firned of mine. One foot is unclipped and im leaning on it. The other is cliped in. For some reason i shift me weight to the foot thats clipped in and i cant unclip in time to put that foot down. SO it pretty much looked like i cant even stand up-right.

I dont have any funny or gnarly crash storieds on the trail. THey are mostly becasue i get in over my head and just get out of control.

[henry11106]

my dumbest mishap could've been on I think my 4th time on eagle. I was riding solo down dentist, and when I got to the tech section after the long gap I sorta lost it, bar turned sideways and went THROUGH the crotch in my pants, then I flipped and got tangled in my '02 4by.

riding all the way home without groin coverage while not showing it was not much fun:fruit:

PS: I had to ride up thermal. just like every ride:P

[SteveV]

yesterday i finally learned no foot cans. My friends all told me to stop and catch my breath and slow down a little....i was to stoked to stop and ran back up the hill to try again. When i did the jump i din't pull up enough and started to nose dive but still took my feet offf and didn't even get close to a nfc.I couldn't get the feet back on the pedals and landed hard on my seat....the impact bent my seat backwards and my balls got sucked between my bent back seat and my tire (agonizing pain and a swollen right ball). Fortunately before i left for home ii got up the courage to try it again and succeeded ( never leave a session on a bad note)

got no pics of the bail but heres a pic of when i actually got it

[rewoga]

Dumbest crash ever? The first time I tried a teeter totter at "Boy Scout Ranch" in Marin County California. I tried it a couple of times, but ollied off the uphill side. So, my brother-in-law gets the video camera going and I try it again - and my wheel goes off the downhill side and my head lands on the side of the board - and ALL ON FILM - even the guys laughing at me!! All I broke were my $300 prescription sunglasses!!! (got Lasik shortly after that!!):lol:

[Mr.Peanut]

i was on cypress and i was going down this rooty part, tht goes into a turn but i dident turn and hit a stump and just stopped and my stem went into my chest and i fell over laughing

[Jeff M]

There's been some pretty good ones posted here. 243 racer's is my favourite so far :lol: especially because I've almost done the same thing.

My dumbest crash would have to be in the whistler parking lot a couple years ago. So I get my bike off the rack first and start riding around the parking lot while my buddies are unloading (ya, jerk move but I was so excited to ride). I'm not in my riding gear at this point. Anyways, karma kicks in and while I'm trying to drift around a corner the bike gets away from me. I go down at a pretty good clip, ripping my shorts and scrapping the crap out of my knee and also cutting up my hand and elbow. Man I felt stupid.
The best part was going to first aid at the bottom of the mountain to get some bandages before I had done a single run. Classic.

[Fluid]

My dumbest crash is very similar to 243 racer's - it was 14 years ago, I was on my brother's 10 speed from Woolco trying to keep up with my best friend (now husband), his brother and their buddy except that they were all on proper mtn bikes jumping on and off all the curbs. In paying too much attention to what they were doing, I ended up riding right into a bus stop pole! Wrapped the handle bars around it, too. Smooooooth!

[antihero19]

two come to mind, when i was a kid ~10yo i was riding down the street on my bmx which was making a strange noise around the BB.so here I am riding along looking down and WHAM! i ride into the back of a parked car. funny part is it must of taken me 10min to get that wheel unwedged from the car bumper. then today i was riding down platinum and my back disk starts leaking fluid, no big deal i still have the front. so i continue down at a much slower pace. slowly speeding up thinking i don''t even need a back brake. after a bit i see a small gap coming up crank once or twice not thinking what is beyond it. clear the gap realize i have much to much speed to make the wood berm. grab both brakes and panic as the rear lever comes right to the bar with no resistance. i remember thinking how stupid am I as I go over the bars and into the bush.

[fitchy]

my dumbest crash is soo funny i think. i was about 8years old and i was riding an adult 3wheel cruiser bike in a florida trailer park. since i was young i was used to pedal brakes not lever brakes. so i was just riding down the alley and i went to pedal brake it and it was stopping because there were NO pedal brakes so i went straight into the side of a trailer and cracked the guys window and bent the front wheel. i was just shooken up cause i was little but when i think about it, it musta been pretty funny to watch.

[dudski]

flipped back in the midst of my first-ever five pedal wheelie...and of course i had toeclips....so all my wheight was on the back of my wrist and my arm snapped in half.

[Hack On Wheels]

Hmm, not sure if it was my dumbest crash, but it was fairly dumb. I was having fun a few years ago manualing down a longish set of stairs, and I was doing it at a nice speed. So I was going into it a little quick, pulled up a little much and did a nice flip out, flew off, parted ways with my bike somewhere along the flight, to land past the bottom of the stairs flat on my back. I got the wind knocked out of me, scraped myself up a bunch, but luckily I was wearing my Camelbak with a bunch of water inside so I had a bit of a cushion, without it I could have gotten quite messed up. It was dumb, I don't know what I was thinking trying it. Shockingly enough I have not tried it again.

[leggatt]

Dumbest crash...

I was 6 years old and a bunch of us on the same street had bikes... started off with dares.. who could ride one-handed, who could ride no-handed.. of course I had to be the best and was convinced I could ride with my eyes closed..

Next thing I know I went face-first into the back end of a late 70's camaro
That would be the first tooth I lost riding...

After healing up I built a jump on the sidewalk, tried to hit it at warp speed, ended up crashing (ever seen Pedro do his jump in "Napoleon Dynamite"?)
And that's the second tooth I lost riding...

If we can go back that far then my dumbest crash is as follows:

When I was about the same age as the quoted poster my friends and I built jumps on the street using 2x4 block and sheets of plywood or similar discarded building materials. Generally to make the jump higher, more blocks were simply added one on top of the other and the ramp tetered precariously on top.

Well one day my friends dared me to do a jump and I one upped them, I said I would jump my dad's pick up - lengthwise. We built the jump one block ontop of the other and set the ramp. Then I pedalled at it as fast as I could. This is where the plan fell apart. When I hit the jump it disintigrated and I careened into the bumper of the parked truck face first.

My mom tells me should could see the white of my skull the gash on my head was so big and it required lots and lots of stitches to close up.

[redsdisease]

A few years back I crashed into the back of a parked truck.

I also was riding this year while caring a flannel shirt and it somehow wedged itself between my fork crown and tire, sending me straight over the handle bars. It took half of an hour to get the shirt out of there too!

[freerider888]

I nose cased a 15x30 foot roadgap. And I thought I could do it, and when I went up I knew I wasn't going fast enough but I went anyways. Then the road came really fast and I jumped off the front and landed on my chest on the tranny. And All I got was this crummy broken nose and three stitches.

[Chuck D. Railer]

I got my shoelace caught in my chain in my back yard 2 days ago and fell over in front of a bunch of carpenters (that I happened to go to school with).

...and as you know, the carpenter is the most sarcastic and bastardly type of person to sabotoge yourself infront of! ahahaha

[aShogunNamedMarcus]

First year racing Bear mtn. Just having some fun on the upper part of the trail after the first major left turn and that little rocky section, my friend was video taping. So being the man I am, I rip by him BUT when just before I pass him, I decide I'd say "hey Scott'.. next thing you know I'm a projectile sans bike and eat it. All on tape back in the day. Luckily for me, I borrowed the same friends fullface which I later cracked in my race run on that turtle shell rock.

On a different note, Bear Mtn owns me in retrospect.

[skimtb1]

im riding around the park and a friend of mine decides to throw his football at me. He throws a perfect spiral, wedging itself between the back of the front tire and the down tube.i came to an endo and faceplanted.

[uriedog]

click the link to dumbest crash I have had.. little river gap I have hit 100 times.... should have known better then to ride on mud and ice. Oh well i survived
http://www.vidilife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=BF8A1288-6466-43D1-81D4-C

[Trini-dad72]

In the Delta Watershed. I was riding the old Norco Bomber and had just cleaned the jumps on the the old creek bed trail, I get into the babyhead rocks of the creek, and start ping ponging around like, well, a pinball. I hit the edge of the creek, and hug a tree. to add insult to injury, I fell backwards into the creek bed, and stared at the sky for a while. The good thing was that the bed was dry, and all I had hit was the visor of my helmet.

[cameron]

what about your crash involving a curb and a broken chain.

so, i rode up a curb, chain snapped, i flipped, and broke both bones in my arm clean inhalf.

end of story.

:lol:

:cuffs:

[Coop]

Just the other day we were testing out a new section on a freshly built trail where you come whipping around a berm, over a small gap into a downhill section about 20 feet long and then you have to hop over a creek kind of laterally at speed and that lines you up for a berm.

Well the lower berm is backed by a bigass log, and riding it in the half-light of about 930, the log pretty much glowed white. After taking 2 trys at the lateral creek hop, I decided to try the whole thing, berm to gap to lateral hop to berm, reminding myself to look where I want to go, and not at the glowing white log...

The funny part is even after watching me eat it into the log at full clip, and having me tell him "DONT LOOK AT THE LOG! LOOK WHERE YOU WANT TO GO", my friend Cory smoked it pretty good too...

[bunny]

all mine have been pretty dumb.
there is no such a thing as an intelligent crash.

[Biking Fiend]

was farting around down by the beach and nose cased a little step up that was maybe a foot up and landed face first on the ground and sacked myself with my stem

[made in canada]

was on my trail, tried to push the speed on this step-down i have i shot a good 20 feet farther then normal, not enouph time to slow down, caught my bar on the edge of a tree, got chucked down the hill into a bunch of shrubs. i was fine, bike was fine, so it was pritty funny

[mzx]

Garbanzo 2 years ago - coming down Expressway, at fairly good speed, just looking around, admiring the scenery (what could happen on EW, right?) - my front wheel just hit a baby-head sized rock so perfectly, that the wheel turned perpendicular to the direction I was travelling and my bike ejected me with extreme prejudice. A few sommersaults later, the bike landed on top of me.

[mattj]

This thread is painful to read.

Bunny, that's true but that's why the OP asks for your dumbest crash. Not just a dumb crash...

My dumbest crash was Friday last week: 10th day straight day of riding, after a long week of work too, was out guinea pig-ing a new drop. Frist TWO runs successful, TWO successful hits, then decided it would be a good idea to do it with a helmet cam on, having never worn one before. Well that third run I cased the landing, got bucked, landed on my side a few feet down the hill, full-body sore, whiplash from the weight of the helmet cam, and I am very afraid I may have compromised the fake ACL I got October 2005. There's something definitely funky with that operated knee...

The reason why this is the dumbest crash is because it's the most recent. Every crash I take something and learn from it. With this one, there's nothing new to learn. Why did I think it was a good idea to hit a NEW jump with a NEW setup (heavy helmet cam) after 10 days of riding and after a big week of work? My brain must have not been working and I think I just paid the price... I find out about the knee next Monday when I go and see my surgeon for some tests.


-m

[frmstreetrider]

so there was this curb and a garbage can on the sidewalk. so i wanted to see how close i could get to the garbage can before hitting it while going of the curb. (one of those boring rainy days at home) well i hit the garbage can landned with my front tired sideways flipped over the bars and landed on my face. chin basicly swelled up like a baseball



2) no hander off a curb. riding wth no hands my bars my wheel got twisted up. fell over the bars landed on my elbow and cracked my elbow

both sucked and i could go on for many many more lol

[Troup]

On a logride on a hill, my fingers slipped off my front brake lever and although I quickly grabbed it again, I was loose on the hill. About 15 feet from where I started one side of my bar hit a tree and I fell, I felt kind of numb after that.

[patrolskid]

well , two actually . . . .

first one was beginning of last season when i tried to ride a front slow leak off the mountain and wound up on the ground with a broken bone in my hand . . . .

and the second was actually me and another guy playing on little wheel bikes ( 20" ers ) . i didn't actually know we were playing ( never heard of a game where the bikes are used as offensive weapons ) but there i was again on the ground , this time with a separated shoulder .

but hey , i learn quick , and i won't do either of those things again .

[Knnn]

Sorry not biking biking but close. Buddy wants to try out my motorbike, so I said I would follow him on his bike and sidecar. Before this he's never riden a solo motobike. Arrive at the first set of traffic lights and he crashes to the ground like a felled tree, feet still on the peddles.....forgot to put his feet down....me i nearly pissed myself laughing.

[smoochy]

when i was fourteen, i went riding with my bro in penticton.

along the railway tracks en route to Jerry Mountain, i got some knapweed stuck in my front spokes.

i didn't want to stop, so i just leaned over the handlebars and tried to pull it out while the wheel was turning - that'll be a good idea!

got my fingers caught in the spokes, flipped over, landed right on my left elbow on a rough 1/2 gravel, 1/2 ashphalt patch of road.

my bro had to ride up the hill to get my friend's mom (we were across town from our home and this was before cell phones).

she drove me to the hospital where they put me in surgery right away to clean all the crap and sand out of the elbow (surgeon said he'd never seen so much material in that joint). i had to stay three days in hospital to keep an eye on for infections.

i have a 3" by 1/2" purple-pink scar there, and to this day, i have to resist the urge to "just pull it out of the spokes" while i'm riding.

[kadmille]

i also have 2 that comes to mind...

1) first time ever to try racing. no shocks, era of the deathly bar ends, out of shape... so i'm riding this trail trying not to make a fool of myself and actually finish the race. i come around this turn and there are the people working for the race to make sure every person is following the rules. i take one quick look at him and bam! my bar ends catch a tree, whip me around, i smack my head super hard into it and fall over.

2) this was pretty recent and it makes for an even worse crash. i was riding UP hill, yes up, sad, and i come to this root that you have to pull up to make it over while on an incline. for some reason, as i'm pulling up i decide to hit the brakes. (wtf???) well, that totally throws me into a balancing act on my bike and finally i start falling backwards. mind you, i'm on top of this ridge that basically goes straight down on the sides.

so i end up falling backwards off my bike and luckily falling against a log. next thing i know the log dislodges itself from my weight and i see my bike coming after me. i fall about 20 ft down and my bike smacks me in the face. so there i am, laying in a pile of forest debree with my heavy bike owning me. that was my ride for the day.

i didn't even get any downhill down because my pride was crushed.

[Carbuncle]

I was hauling ass down Pike street when I was a messenger, coming off the hill. I bomb under the Convention Center at full speed (probably 35 or 40mph), and come out hot onto Union St just in time to see the lights on 6th, one block ahead, flashing the "Don't Walk" signal. I sprint hard, making mid-block at the yellow and crossing under the red all the while not noticing a Metro bus that came off the Union St highway exit behind me and has been catching up on me aiming for the bus stop just over 6th on the right side (the same side I am sprinting on). We clear the light at the same time, bus cuts hard right and goes straight to the curb so I hop the curb at full speed. As he slams on his brakes at the curb he simultaneously opens the door of the bus and a 5' 6" 280 pound guy waddles off the bus right into my path. All things being equal, I have just bunnyhopped a curb doing roughly 30mph, spent about 6 feet of my available braking space in the air, and see a large, unmoving object right in front of me about three quarters the length of an articulated Metro bus away: I drop my ass almost to the wheel, hit brakes HARD while pushing down with my legs and still chubby is coming closer cloSER CLOSER and finally a couple feet away from him and his dead-eyed deer-in-the-headlights stare I unclip and slam my feet down, skidding to a dead stop. I had started to put my arms out right before I hit him, so when my I stopped literally an inch from the guy my bike was on it's front wheel, top tube embedded in my junk and I was awkwardly hugging the guy, face to face. All I could manage to get out was a lame "Uh, sorry!" And then I rode away on the sidewalk, quickly and very shakily. Dumbest...thing...ever.

[CreamyCanuck]

Last month I decided to mix it up "old school" so I took out the hardtail and headed up Fromme. I decided to take Pipeline down and really use the hardtail as an educational experience and brush up on my riding skills.

All was well until I headed off a knarly 1 footer to root section ;). As the bike hits the root section it literally flys out infront of me leaving me in the air in a full seated position. The result...my ass (tailbone) crashing down onto a rock with my entire body weight using my tailbone as the suspension I usually rely on to get me down the trail.

It's been a month and my tailbone still hurts. No more "old school" trips downhill for me.

[Geologyboy]

Riding the skinny beside the jump park at teh base of Panorama. Front wheel went to the left of the skinny, but the back wheel went to the right first. So instead of falling on my side I fell backwards and teh bike went straight down, high centering itself on the skinny. As I fell backwards to my right my left front foot came up under the handle abrs and I wedged my toes between my break handle and grip. The Bike somehow managed to wedge itself onto the skinny.

So I was stuck with one foot wedged in the handle bar and my shoulders just barely touching the ground in a form that could only be described as the most retarded handstand known to man. I was stuck like that for about ten seonds until the wieght of my body slowly bent the brake lever until my foot came free. Of course I am wiggleing like a mad man trying not to bend the lever. Flailing like a fish in a boat.

I ended up bending the lever almost a complete 90 degrees becuase my buddy was laughing to hard to help my in any way whatsoever.

[XXX_er]

riding my HT in calgary with slicks,slid down a dirt entrance to the river trail and hit a fence.Fortunatley it had already been hit so many times the post was broke and it had alot of give

[bmor]

I got my shoelace stuck on my pedal while attempting to negotiate the first skinny on Salvation. so I went to bail to my right but my shoe was stuck, fell into a log, struck my helmet on it and got whiplash. Fortunately there were no witnesses.

[SysCo.]

i was riding up the fire road on fromme, tried some bunnyhop up a little rock.
slipped sacked myself, lay there crying as cyclists rode by

[fitchy]

my dumbest crash would have to be on freight train. it was really foggy and rainy and i did this little ladder drop and my hands slipped off and i went over the berm and ended up hangin by a tree

[gnof]

happened couple days ago, just riding along the street, stood up to manual, my shirt caught my brake lever as i sat down, BAM, torn t shirt and messed up chest.

[Neo]

dumb dirtjump crash back in 02 =

http://members.shaw.ca/blaine_louis/fun/side_view.jpg

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[MknZ1BikR]

I was bootin' er down this road at night last fall, dark, no streetilights, only dim light from the houses, BAM!!! I hit a parked car. Dumb as fuck.

[biggles604]

My last crash was pretty bad. Caught my pedal on a rock on the flat section between DM and a-line at Whistler, I just fell over, shattered ulna...

First broken bone is arguable worse though, I got my bike off the car in the car park, threw my leg over the seat, missed the pedal, fell off the other side and fractured my wrist.

[SubPlop]

Wow Biggles, that second one is brutal! You must have terrible luck or something...

Austin

[leggatt]

Today. Sunglasses fogged up really bad and the guy infront stopped on a bridge. I slowed to a stop on the bridge and put my foot down. Much to my suprise I wasn't even cose to touching the bridge, over the edge I went!

[biggles604]

Wow Biggles, that second one is brutal! You must have terrible luck or something...

Austin

Yeah, really bad luck. I haven't had any good injury tales to tell.
The list of my serious injuries is.

Age ~5: Fell out of bunk bed, disclocated hip.
Age ~9: Fell over inside moving VW camper, 3 stitches in back of head, first concussion.
24: Broken wrist in car park.
27: Major concussion while sleeping (Hit head on nightstand) 2 weeks off work.
28: Broken hand because of windfall debris in drivetrain coming off a jump.
30: Broke three teeth and bit through my tongue because the landing site of a drop was obstructed.
30: Stick to face at whistler, nice cut (Not serious, except it was on my anniversary)
31: Slipped on a bridge deck in Seymour demo forest and landed on metal grating taking a huge chunk out of my knee and shin.
31: Slipped on wet bridge deck on trans canada trail (along Barnet Hwy), have permanent nerve damage in my shin.
32: Broke my arm on DM/A-Line, shattered ulna, compound fracture and now have a plate and ten screws.

Still waiting for a good story with a crash.
:(

[rustyfromUK]

dumbest ever for me... very sketchily made it through a 6pack, riding back to my mates to tell the tail of how I 'pulled out of that one!' and saved my skin!
just as I got to them put foot down to what I thought was the ground, (not really concentrating due to close call on the pack)... but oh no, big rabbit hole!! man I looked stupid !
survived a moody attempt at 6 pack to get taken out by a rabbit hole!!!

[Gimp Pimp]

27: Major concussion while sleeping (Hit head on nightstand) 2 weeks off work.


How??:S

[seand]

My alltime favorite...

I did a bazillion (probably 4) run-ins into this drop. Finally just went for it. To my surprise I landed it and rode out of it. I came to a stop and took my helmet off to catch my breath. Once the helmet was off, my front wheel turned under the bike, I went over the bars, and I managed to draw blood from my forehead when it made contact with a rock. I actually gave myself a nice concussion from it.

Lesson learned? Always have a fullface on; even when standing perfectly still :lol:

[biggles604]

How??:S

Tossed in my sleep, my nightstand was too close to the bed apparently. Je suis un idiot.

[Bryce]

forgot (???) to pull up for the Ned's natural drop on Saturday, still oozing blood today

[BrockAnderson]

first day riding since getting a concussion casing a 35 gap
..so i decided to goto woodlot with my new 66rcs, i hit the 6 pack on platinum and on the second jump got nose heavy and swerved, took off the 3ed into the tree to the left, taco'd my atomlab and bucked over the side of my bike and rode shotgun to the botom with a majorly bent rim

[darce_b]

first time riding salvation, i didn't look at the wallride before i hit it, i thought the roller thing in front was a jump, needless to say i "tried" to air off it, and basically lost my bike and slammed straight into the wall...somehow my bike ended up going over top of the wallride and i was crumpled in a heap at the bottom

[drummer_dil]

i was on this trail called DNA and theres a jump with a berm right after it, as soon as i landed one of my brakes disconected cant remember what one, but anyway i flew off the berm, ditched my bike in the air, my bike nailed a tree, the tree fell over and i landed in dog shit. they was shit all over me and my jeans were completley ripped open in the croch area.

[freerider2008]

well mine is really stupid .About a month ago i was riding down the sidewalk on this hill on my fully and i decide to j-hop the curb well i hop too early and wam i case the curb with my back wheel and i go flying off the sidewalk onto the road where i smash my lip in the ground after that i found out i had a bloody lip and loads of road rash

[newgirl]

I once slammed my own head in a car door..

[uriedog]

I did an endo off a 15' x 35' step up off a moto x style kicker last fall... landed on my head, some how cam out with only 2 sprained wrists, and one sprained ankle... broken helmet, and a sore neck for a few weeks

[DUDEONABIKE]

up in vedder, i forget what the trail is called, there was a little 2 footer with i nice steepish section after it and a hard left corner after that. my friend goes off the two footer with the proper amount of speed, takes nice speed down the steep part then corners nicely. i book off the drop, dont even touch the brakes in the steep part, dont even attempt to make the corner, instead i jump over the handle bar sorta like doing a heel clicker on the ground but i let go and went between two trees about 4 feet apart, i tried to grab one of the trees to stop but it did jack shit. I hit the ground rolled once and threw the horns. I was uninjured from this spectical.

ps. this is how my friend told me what i did.

[dudski]

followed someone into a step down to step up line..first time hitting it and was told not to touch my brakes, over shot the step down by 15 feet then as i went through the compression of the wooden lip my 300 pound spring dived hard and stopped my back wheel as my front wheel went off the lip....that was followed by a front flip to limp body gap to back drop in rocks and roots and little stumps. soo is ecchymoses the right word for a pool of blood on my back the size of a computer screen? theres a cracked rib fo sho but thatts a weekly thing right?
i've broken my ankle and both my arms which were all dumb crashes too...........buut this one i had a dream about before which is really fucked up. and it was sorta fun i'd have to admit....buit thats cause i am not a parapalegic..pictures in a bit.

[$$Chris*Ko$$]

single speeds are evil. once, i was booking to get home and i tried to jump over the sidewalk between driveways, the one that looks like a mini table? just as i started cranking into it ( it was a double ) my chain decides to skip and i scorpion from 30k to 0 on my face. hurt my pride and my head. the other time was the same sort of deal at a skatepark and my chain snapped, sending me over the bars straight onto my face on a bank and knocked me sensless.

[rowdy01]

Several years ago i was just riding along Broadway practicing catwalks. I found it was good practice if i tried to wheelie across the street up onto curbs (it used to seem difficult and a little scary), well, on one bad day as i was just about to reach the curb, my brain shut down, along with my front end. Right into the curb.....OUCH, full endo and i`m on my back in front of several cars.......boy did i feel cool!

Another time i was practicing wheelies up Cambie.....this was before i developed my current respect for my rear brake, all was going well `till i went a little to far back.......this quickly became way to far back.....and BANG. I jump to my feet as quick as i can as if nothing happened. Two guys in a car ask if i`m OK, I "of course" say yeh, i`m fine...........as i slowly walk around the corner to wince in pain in peace and slightly less shame, out of the veiw of my fans. Bruised the bone in both elbows on that one. If you`ve ever bruised an elbow then you know how long that hurts for....around 6-8 weeks of not being able to put your elbows on the table!

[dudski]

heres where getting zesty will get you.....

[Tom]

Dumb stuff usually happens to me while walking my bike. I once smashed my shin so hard on my pedal while walking up my driveway after riding, I could barely walk.

[49-cent]

The first year that Whistler opened the small GLC drop (2001?) I was up ripping around on my XC rig with 4 inches of plushness up front. I decided that hauling ass off the drop was too scary so I would go for a Trials style wheelie drop.

I'm not saying that it can't be done, but it would take a far better rider than me to make it happen. I pulled the front end up too early so it was already coming down just as it passed the lip of the takeoff. I did almost exactly half a front-flip and landed on the top of my head and back of shoulders.

After the smashing and clattering had stopped I realized my leg was stuck through my front wheel up to my knee and was stuck in all the snapped off spokes. One of the spokes had sliced sideways about two inches into my leg pad and stopped just short of doing the same thing to my leg. Someone had to come from the GLC patio to help get my leg out of my destroyed wheel.

Lesson learned, If in doubt, carry a little extra speed to see you through.

[~mike*bodnaruk~]

riding on the sidewalk: pedaling up this big hill, hammering pretty hard, rode RIGHT into a lamp post! right infront of a bus stop full of people.

:lol:


Ive been there too. On a similar note tho, I was riding on a side walk (which is flat), and was coming up on the same post i hit, so i decided to go around it, somehow, sliped out and went straight into a prickle bush, manageing to elbow my self in the groin at the same time.

[Tom]

September 23, 2006 - Mexican Ninja @ Vedder

Riding a 12-18" diameter log ride on the ground and the guy riding in front of me had to stop. I was kind of tired at that point, so instead of properly dismounting (jumping off my bike) I decided I'd just lean over to the right and prop myself against an embankment.

As I did, I heard a cracking noise. "I hope that's just my knuckle cracking" I thought to myself. Turns out I broke a bone in my hand. The initial prognosis was a cast for 4 weeks. After the cast was removed, I was sent for an X-ray, and they called me back in to have another cast put on. It's been 7 weeks now, one week to go. I will still have to take it easy for a few weeks after the cast comes off.

So I'm missing almost 3 months of riding because I didn't jump off my bike properly a foot off the ground. I can't believe it!

[RossputiN]

After a few years of XC, decided to get into shore/freeriding. Bought my first burly bike in June of '03 and was at Whistler for the first time 2 months later. You know how much of a confidence builder Whistler can be after only a few hours? well, decided that the big box in the Boneyard (it was green that year, I remember) needed to be added to my list of accomplishments for the day.

didn't pop enough and caught my rear wheel on the corner of the box
+front wheel manualed across the whole box (to my utter dismay)
+came off the end of the box on my bike but landed in a heap on the tranny

= 11 stitches to right arm (cut right through elbow pad...still don't know what or how)+a week off work

[DrLeah]

dumbest b/c it hurt a friend of mine too: at Whistler a few years ago in the Olympic learning centre, following my friend Rob over some of the skinnies that are on the ground. He headed for the teeter-totter and I wasn't really paying attention - I was close enough behind him that the TT [I]just[I] started to break as my front wheel hit the planks. My wheel spun and my foreward momentum kept me moving so I ended up slamming into the now horizontal end of the TT, and my actions caused the TT to stop horizontally which caused poor Rob to endo right off the far end. He's lying in a crumpled heap on the ground, I'm now pinned between my end of the TT and my bike.

He was - rightly so! - pretty pissed and let me suffer for a few extra minutes before he bothered to get me untangled from the wreckage. No physical damage to either of us or the bikes, just an awful lot of bruised pride.

[*Pepe*]

10 years ago i was riding xc in bellingham with a few mates, leading it out until my chain dropped. my crew passed me so to keep from losing them i continued to pedal and look down at my chainring trying to get the chain into the big ring.

i was pretty pleased with myself because it only took a few seconds, and when i lifted my head and stood up to mash the big ring, there was a log across the trail around head-height about an inch from my face. i didn't even have time to take my hands off my bars and only had time to close my eyes.

i took the hit in the face, got completely flipped over (think: closelined). broke my nose, loosened up a few front teeth, lacerations to my face, and got a stick stuck in my leg....

... it gets worse.

after driving back to white rock to get stitched up, my leg started to go red by the hour. thought i should revisit the hospital and they immediately shuttled me to royal columbian to see an orthopedic surgeon. they feared i had contracted a flesh eating disease from the puncture in my leg.

a few hours of panic later, it turned out to be a nasty infection that required me to go to the hospital for ten days, twice-a-day, for IV antibiotics to kill what ever was inside me.

on or around day 14, there was something funny poking out of my wound. went to the hospital and there they discovered a pencil-sized piece of wood about an inch long working it's way out.

still have it in my tickle trunk somewhere. one day i'm making a necklace out of it.

[.Robinson]

nose case a drop to landed straight on my head.........

[M13]

1- tried to tuck and ride under the closing garage door- hit the visor on the garage, bike slid in sideways, i got locked out with a headache. My neighbour was watching -I lost the respect of a 8yr old.

2- riding down dentist, tech part, I endo-ed for some reason and landed on a boulder on my quads. hurt like a bitch.

3- same day, same trail, exiting the dentist, I clipped a bigger boulder= about 2ft X 2ft X 2ft, it started chasing me down the trail and I pedalled liek crazy then ran into a tree.

[Idun]

http://www.snowpics.net/view_single.php?medid=14961

[Knnn]

http://www.snowpics.net/view_single.php?medid=14961

wince

[biggles604]

wince
I'll second that. That was a total pancake.
OUCH

[Lady Gravity]

http://www.snowpics.net/view_single.php?medid=14961

oh geez..thanks a lot, i've been thinking about riding that, now i'm not so sure

[Dantes Inferno]

Not my crash, but i was riding right beside buddy who did it.

Heading down perth rd. in squam after rocking some alice lake and just got outa roller coaster. Me and two buddies were riding in a parallel line of three. I was in the middle.

We were probably going about 40km.hour not too fast but fast enough. Friend on right side of me is messing around with his feet in the air and shit. All of a sudder he disapears and just as quick as he disapeared he shout out in front of us minus his bike. He had stuck is foot in his front spokes and when it came around and hit the fork acted like a scatapult and launched the poor kid. Broken foot and road rash, and a bit of humilliation.


My stupidest crashed involved rollerblades and stairs. I dont want to get into the rest.

[Col. Kurtz]

This spring, I was riding Seymour with a couple of friends when buddy up ahead stopped on a long skinny a couple feet above a stump-filled swamp. I coasted up behind and stopped on the foot-wide skinny too, but when I tried to slide forward off my seat (in the high position), my old baggy shorts got caught. Oh oh.

Unable to get my feet down on the skinny, I simply fell over in a graceless arc and crashed hard onto a stump. As I lay there in pain, I tried to tell my buds about my *!%$#@ shorts, but they were laughing too hard to hear me.

Even worse was trying to explain the huge bruise to my wife. "You must have been riding really fast to get hurt like that." Uh, yeah, real fast.

Suffice to say, I bought new shorts. Live and learn.