Stupid Things We Have Done

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

*Installed tires backwards (I still do this in my less “present” moments—fortunately it is pretty obvious once you put the wheel back in the frame)

Maybe not quite as obvious as you think.

[maillotpois]

Rode several double centuries with (undiagnosed) pulmonary emboli, thinking the chest pain during the last one was just indigestion from a carnitas burrito the day before.

[Norse]

3 times I have failed to disengage my foot from the clipless pedal in time to prevent slowly and ungracefully (and always with someone watching) tipping over. Luckily, this has not happened for awhile now. I have probably just jinxed myself.

[GraysonKelly]

Stupidest thing I've ever done on or with a bike?
Met up with some gals on the rail trail, started chatting with them while we rode, ended up riding 40 + miles when I'd only been riding about 15 max up to that point (uphill I might add), and rode for about 10 of those miles with knee and hip pain that just about killed me before I had the good sense to ask them what might be causing it. Turns out it was my seat height that they helped me adjust. I could barely walk up the steps when i got home and couldn't walk very well the next day.
That hurt!
Gray