How many times have you fallen?

[radacrider]

Don't really know my actual crash count - lol.

Most funny, memorable was when I was a kid and we decided to have a snowball fight on bikes. The first time I threw the momentum flipped the bike out from under me and I went down laughing.

The second most funny I was actually not riding, but was a passenger on the top tube of my friend's bike. We were riding around a parking lot, just for fun, and laughing about something and he was riding toward a parked car. Whatever we were laughing about must have shut down his brain because he could not decide which way to go around the car, so he crashed into it.

Now as an adult? Several.

A 30ish mph, downhiller - we suspect it was the new pavement overflow that left an angled 2" lip across the shoulder. Bike must have hit it and launched as the only thing I remember is going downhill, then waking up in a fetal position on the side of the road. Helmet was in 3 pieces.

One of the Seattle to Portland rides, 1st day, large group of riders and, fortunately, light traffic. My friends' group were passing a large group and I had someone on my left so I could not move left to avoid a rider on the right drifing left. She drifted into my front tire and down I went. Fortunately not a high speed and I only had a hip road rash (still have the souvenir mark, today).

A weird one where we had just done a long, hard training stretch and were going snail's pace to let everyone regroup. I reached for my water bottle and pooof, went down. Probably a lapse in concentration and the front tire hit something, though we never really figured it out.

Several silly ones like not wanting to unclip, reach for the power pole to lean against, but get tipping the other way ... plop. Going really, really slow and, again, tipping opposite the side I am unclipping on.

[sarahkonamojo]

On a road bike? Probably three times. One of them, I was nudged by DH and then he rode off! There have been some close calls.. i.e. after a short hike through some mud. Not a good idea.
On the mountain bike, too many times to count, and those clips are loose. I can only blame myself because i get nervous, slow down, and then tip over.
Bent the derailleur hanger a couple of times, too. My habit is to unclip the left foot first. So most falls are to the derailleur side. I would change that habit if I could.