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Last winter, I was riding behind the S.O. when I saw some cows in a field. For some reason, I kept looking at them and ended up overlapping wheels. It would have been OK, except he decided that he wanted to pull through & did so into my front wheel. I still have a knee scar from that one.
Did you see me? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mickchick
This strikes me as wisdom, not stupidity.Quote:
I once got stuck in my pedals. New pedals, didn't test out the tension before I took out (a mistake made only once). Tried to unclip and both feet were firmly stuck. I stopped by a parked car, leaned against it, and took off was able to free myself.
Don't feel bad. I did something like that at Orange County Classic many mooons ago. It was a hot day, lots of nasty rollers, not small enough to be whoopdy dos but just long enough to be in a climbing mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrea
I didn't drink enough fluid and my calf and hamstring cramped up so got dropped. Well Eunice, what'ya going to do. I decided to look at the scenery and just try to enjoy my ride. in the open field I saw a pack of coyote, And I was just mesermized, and in the blue sky I could see red tail hawks riding the thermals. It was a very beautiful day. Except I was sitting upright hands free going nearly 30MPH (bit of downhill). And little did I realize but my bike drifted to the curve. I must have laid there for 1/2 hour it seemed before the paramedics arrive. "were you wearing a helmet?" Stupid question so I became irritated. So paramedics thought I had head injury. Shattered my right collar bone in about 3 pieces with smaller fragments around. When you are young you heal fast. Took only 3 long month before it was one piece and another 6 month before I could put any pressure or force on it. But I was riding in about 4.
Since then, I've shattered my left clavicle in another pretty good crash. I was only doing about 25MPH (don't know, remember nothing, no memory of the sheet time... I know NOTHING of the day!!) Only thing I do know is I have a matching bump on both my clavicle. :D
hmm other dumb thing?
signed up for a fun ride. little did I know that on the same day there was another fun ride and two rides crossed path. I did extra 20 miles that day.
almost a dumb thing?
I think it was breathless in agony FUN ride. came to an intersection. like a 5 way stop kind of thing. and three of the roads came in at like 60degrees apart. and instruction says take left. it didn't look right... Other riders came by and we all stopped. Finally some one came by and knew for sure. so we followed him and was saved.
track standing and waiting for light to turn green or traffic to clear. Forget you are track standing and go over. DUMB!! Latest variation was about two weeks ago. Again track standing and waiting for the traffic to clear. then my front wheel falls squarly into a crack. just wide enough to fall in. Frantically bonny hopped to get the wheel out. luckily managed to unclip so didn't go over. But must looked really funny.
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Cars that have stopped sometimes start moving.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickchick
I found out the hard way. Stopped at a red light that turned green (AFTER i began to stop), one foot unclipped, was beginning to lose balance but was next to a van, so stuck my arm out to regain balance by pushing against the van.
unfortunately, the van started to move off.. with my hand still resting on it .. I fell (slow motion) right into the path of the car behind me. fortunately he hadn't started moving off yet... extremely busy road, highly embarrassing...