I fell in the canal with my bike!

Glad to hear you are okay on the face of it - but my commiserations on all the Victorian diseases you will now definitely have.

Ugh is your phone ok? Worst nightmare ever to end up face first in a canal with horribly expensive electricals on you. Especially a laptop or camera.

i'm so childish, i just read this whole thread, but dropped the 'c' out of canal

makes for a much more interesting read

It's good idea to stop when you approach a bridge on the canal route. Use a bell, shout, whistle, anything really.
There are other clueless cyclists and joggers with headphones, so better be weary than sorry.

Ugh is your phone ok? Worst nightmare ever to end up face first in a canal with horribly expensive electricals on you. Especially a laptop or camera.

Ha ha! I have the cheapest phone ever! the stuff in my bag was pretty dry ... but I did chuck out my lunch. And boil washed all my stuff and myself.

It's good idea to stop when you approach a bridge on the canal route. Use a bell, shout, whistle, anything really.
There are other clueless cyclists and joggers with headphones, so better be weary than sorry.

yeah - I do all this and am terribly careful and considerate. It was my thoughtful stopping for a (non-ting-ting-ing) other cyclist that was my downfall. Or sideways fall.

I'm dreading it the most when towing a kiddie trailer.

one of our riders in our group fell off her bike into a pool of mud (mainly horsenuggets) one side of her body head to foot,she stank the restaurant out where we stopped lunch

I'm always very wary when approaching bridges on the canal paths around Leeds as a dip in all that murk would definitely put a crimp in my day.

During the recent cold snap there were plenty of tracks on the frozen canal, big skids possible on there I reckon.

boil washed myself.

Did you shrink?

I'm dreading it the most when towing a kiddie trailer.

We had a kiddy trailer and then the towing arm snapped when we were loading it into a removal van. Metal fatigue
that was definitely more scary than falling into a canal!

Did you shrink?

Stretched unfortunately, and gone a bit bobbly on the elbows

Had a cyclist yell at me and ring his bell behind me, almost brushed me off. Me being deaf, I almost fell in myself last sat whilst walking the dog.

Glad you're okay Splat!

not fallen in but been in many times with my old work (laburnum boat club).
if you are down by the canal and see the kids kayaking, look for any with a neoprene spray deck on and ask them to try and find your lock for you. they love going over once they learn how to roll.

i would return quickly to where you went in, because boats moving past will churn up the bottom as the larger ones are often scraping along the bottom anyways, and the lock can move. if you go down in the morning of a hot day (before any traffic) you will find the water MUCH clearer.

that is a funny story.

glad you are ok.

nice one.

a few years back i was riding up the canal tow path from hackney wick to leyton.

and i saw a pretty young lady in the canal.

i stopped to check wtf and all that.

she explained she had gone in after her dog.

dog and lady were both ok - but wet.

but she was not able to explain why dog had gone in.

a few years back i was riding up the canal tow path from hackney wick to leyton.

and i saw a pretty young lady in the canal.

i stopped to check wtf and all that.

she explained she had gone in after her dog.

dog and lady were both ok - but wet.

but she was not able to explain why dog had gone in.

dogs are stupid and will chase their reflection. i picked one up on the wrong side of the canal as it was barking like crazy at something, whilst its owner was going mental on the towpath side. turned out the dog saw a tennis ball in the water, ran across a wooden plank and was too scared to go back across once we retrieved the tennis ball for it. so we picked it up on our narrowboat and drove it back across.
daft thing

heh... yeah. stupid dogs.

I did this once when I was about 7. On the way to school and went the wrong way around a parked car and ran out of space. Went straight into the canal, but of course I chose one of the sections of the canal near where I lived that had been mostly filled in and landed in about 10 inches of water. Didn't have to wear school uniform that day which felt like a bit of a win though.

literally can't stop laughing. funniest thread ever.

my flatmates think I have a problem now... cackling in my room very loudly.

glad you're unharmed though!

"le poisson" bitches!

My girlfriend railed her front wheel in a gap between the big concrete slabs that pave the path's in places along the canal. Inevitably decked it but luckily in the opposite direction of the canal. She was avoiding a hyper dog. It was funny seeing the owners argue over the dog having to go an a lead as the woman went mental at her husband in typical, "I told you so" fashion but the bloke was having none of it.

Go to sleep Nelaii!!! haha feeling any better?.

Did yo swollow any water?

Sorry to laugh but that was funny, glad your fine may be time to put some oil in the frame and check the threads don't get rusty.

If I am thinking about it: Would I be given the choice between hitting the deck on solid tarmac, maybe with with glass splinters and gravel on it, and the somewhat softer canal, I know what I'd choose.

This guy is in my girlfriend's german class: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jul/31/bike-blog-canal