things not ro do on a bike

[cylegoddess]

ride past the marshes, on the last leg of your run, breathing heavily thru your mouth( spot the happy cyclist by the gnats on her teeth!)mmmn, protein!

genital piercings. I leave it at that.

Drink while riding uphill, and inhaling.

[SheFly]

Ride with flip flops.

Foot slipped off pedal, flip flop caught in wheel, entire bottom of foot sliced off by spokes . I shudder everytime I see anyone riding in flip flops!

SheFly

[OakLeaf]

entire bottom of foot sliced off by spokes .

ow ow ow, how long did it take for that to heal?

[Christopher]

Another couple:
don't try and be so vain to try difficult climbs on a MTB without stopping when you're spent but carry on instead, fall off and cut your knee open on the rocks. Twice.

& don't just bolt lights onto tapered front forks... the lamp slid down the forks and went into the spokes which ripped it to pieces (didn't crash though). Bits of plastic everywhere...

[bmccasland]

Thinking i could clean off the spoke mounted portion of my bike computer, while rolling slowly.

[SheFly]

ow ow ow, how long did it take for that to heal?

I don't remember exactly - it was a long time ago (I was in the 6th grade). I do remember that the worst part was that they had to get all of the gravel and dirt out of the bottom of my foot.... YOUCH!

SheFly

[Trekhawk]

Ride with flip flops.

Foot slipped off pedal, flip flop caught in wheel, entire bottom of foot sliced off by spokes . I shudder everytime I see anyone riding in flip flops!

SheFly

Yikes!
I will read this to my son who had a crash on the weekend while cycling and ended up with a quick trip to the hospital and thirteen stitches in his little foot. Yep things not to do on your bike - ride with Crocs on after Mum and Dad said not to.

[SheFly]

Yikes!
I will read this to my son who had a crash on the weekend while cycling and ended up with a quick trip to the hospital and thirteen stitches in his little foot. Yep things not to do on your bike - ride with Crocs on after Mum and Dad said not to.

Trek - tell him I can relate! Hope he heals quick, and no more Crocs on the bike!

SheFly

[Biciclista]

I actually tried that two years ago (the flip flops) I got halfway down the block when i realized what a terrible idea it was. Lucky for me, I figured it out before
something horrible happened!

[sundial]

Catch a bee in your mouth will speeding down a hill at 45 mph.

[OakLeaf]

Catch a bee in your mouth will speeding down a hill at 45 mph.

To which I'll add:

Catch a bee on your thigh while CLIMBING a steep hill at < 10 mph, and have to stop and take the stinger out.

[IvonaDestroi]

Ride with flip flops.

Foot slipped off pedal, flip flop caught in wheel, entire bottom of foot sliced off by spokes . I shudder everytime I see anyone riding in flip flops!

SheFly

Owwwwch!!!

[IvonaDestroi]

1) Assume that you can make it over that same railroad track the second time around, directly after landing on your face the first time...

2) Ride too closely to the car mirrors along the side of the road

3) Assume that person standing in the middle of the road will not jump out in front of you when you try to go around them
-this one was a close call... this lady had her car parked dead center in the middle of the street, between a row of parked cars on each side. She was standing by her open door chit chatting, and there was maybe 2 feet of room between her, her car, and the parked cars. Another cyclist was coming at her opposite of me (about equal distance as I was), and we just about all ended up on the ground right where she was standing!

[Tuckervill]

Don't try to jump the curb like you've seen your brothers do, going too slow, and have the bars ripped out of your hands, and let the end of the bar with the missing grip strike you centered on your tiny little nipple on the front of your baby-flat chest.

I can still remember the shape of the bruise. I was 8.

Karen

[sundial]

Tuck--LOL!!!

Don't try to ride barefooted like your big brother and leave your pedal down as you take the curb and skin the hide off your big toe.