Stupid Things We Have Done

[LilBolt]

Yesterday...packed the pannier with clothes for the office, including my suede boots. Grabbed a perfectly ripe pear and tossed it in on the way out. Yikes! Picking pear pulp out of the suede was a nice distraction during a particularly long staff meeting.

[bmccasland]

Yesterday...packed the pannier with clothes for the office, including my suede boots. Grabbed a perfectly ripe pear and tossed it in on the way out. Yikes! Picking pear pulp out of the suede was a nice distraction during a particularly long staff meeting.

At least the pear pulp was on the outside of your boots!

[Miranda]

After getting home from a vet appointment in which the vet told me my dog had food allergies, or something worse, and would be on mega expensive dog food forever, I...

backed my SUV over my $250+ baby stroller AND the other kids little bike in the driveway. I was a bit distracted...

The bike kid says "MOM! Of all people! How could you kill my bike? (boo hoo hoo) ". (DH hates the bikes, btw)

That's being a bad bike mommy.

Dhrrrr....

[ClockworkOrange]

In the pre-TE days! My usual foot wear was only flip flip sandals, which was fine until I changed to DMR V12 pedals.



Then one day my foot slipped and somehow both sandals came off................aaaaaaaagh, trying to pedal with bare feet on these pedals was agony!

I am now a reformed person, yes, I wear trainers.

Clock

[ladyicon]

I guess this is what my DH does...When my husband and I ride I have a tendency to stop when I see something to pick up, or when I am in pain. One day he went to stop behind me and could not clip out, over he went. On a busy road in La Jolla during the golf thing at Torrey Pines. Lots of cars with windows rolled down, he has a tendency to get turretts syndrome (kidding) and curses up a storm. Every car that passed asked if he was alright. I had to apologize about the language and say that he was ok.

[Andrea]

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.

[lunacycles]

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.

This strikes me as wisdom, not stupidity.

[smilingcat]

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

smilingcat