0 Mph Drop

Twice in a row for me. The guy behind me must have thought I was a right wanker.

Far too many times... most recently on my MTB nr Peaslake - fell off a knife-edge ridge at 0mph. On the way down I came unclipped, but somehow managed to get my shoelace looped over the brake lever. Ended up with my bike stuck in the branches of the dense undergrowth, with me dangling helplessly upside down. Had to be rescued by two mates... not very clever.

Just as well I wasn't alone really

it's amazing how when riding clipless and this happens your feet almost always release as soon as you hit the road.

thank god a few people on here done it lol . . .
jus need to learn how to track stand but dont want all the attention on the road . . .
its bad enough i got a loud bike . . . i mean colour way

i've done it a couple of times recently in my tricky-to-get-out-of-sometimes double straps and a few times riding DX SPDs on a mountain bike back in the day. it's horrible and embarassing. you just have to laugh and not try to look cool. i did in in the middle of camden a couple of months ago on a saturday afternoon. there were so many people around and i felt like such a tool that i just lay there for a few seconds taking in the moment.

i've done it on a tricycle.

that's a good one!

Yep, fell twice when I first started riding clipless. Once was at an ASL box, narrowly avoided causing a domino effect with some other riders. Second time was just outside a pub on the London to Southend ride... the pub had a garden out front, full of tipsy spectators who applauded me.

ha! I went to Greenwich with asm to practice trackstands, first time ever really and in my new spds. Changed to vans to practice. Much later that nigth spent a bit of time practicing by myself in quiet on spds, gobbed it a couple of times. Next day went for a ride with Hillbilly, practiced trackstands on South Bank, vans. Said goodbye and rode over waterloo bridge, stopped at lights, decided to try my new talent.. epic Omph buy in front of coach of tourists and concerned mother with her kid. "enitrely my own fault, madam, no harm done," I wheezed, hobbling off to the kerbside to regroup.

You win.

What's the prize?

First Prize..

Hahahahahaha. Thanks

One of my most embarassing 0mph stumbles, Pasted from this "tuck your shoelaces in thread"

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread3452-2.html

Last night I managed to get my brother to come on a quick bike ride with me, he thinks of himself as having had grown out of bikes. Also I sort of have a reputation in my family of having silly bike/skateboard related accidents and getting more injured than normally possible.

It was a very short ride, and my brother thinks the idea of fixed wheels, strapped in feet and road bikes in general are ridiculous and dangerous.

So im keen to make a good impression.

It was all going quite well, the about 15metres before we get home,

I stop for a moment as I got a bit ahead of him,

as he goes past I quickly flip a pedal and clip my foot in, which happens to be the trailing crank arm.

My bike is pretty high geared and its a hill, so I basically dont budge, its a flustered moment, car approaching, night time, bike at a funny angle, foot completley LOCKED in !

I wobble about, and roll over spectaculary into my elbow without even setting off and land eventually on my back.

A little sore I try to get up before getting run over, and I hear a rawkus of hysterical laughter.

Theres a group of black teenagers on the street corner, in absolute uncontrollable hysterics!

there shouting out franitcally, "oh my days, oh my.. he even had a flashing light! hahahHAAAHAA!"

seriously their in tears, like 6 of them.

I shout fuck off, in an attempt to reclaim some dignity, but quielty enough that they dont knife me.

My first ride on a new road bike, had some kind of Crank Bros pedals but I was used to SPDs. I pull out of the end of my road, do a couple of hundred yards to the first set of lights on my way to spin a couple of laps of Richmond Park.

A hot blonde on a carbon roadie pulls up alongside me as I'm slowing down. As I look up she gives me a super cute smile. As I open my mouth to say something witty and charming I find the pedals don't have the same twist relaese I'm used to and I slow-mo fell sideways onto the pavement. Very red face, pathetic attempt to explain about the new pedals. She looks down at me. All she says:"Your chain's fallen off" Then she rode off to meet her friends 100m further on - they are all hosing themselves.

To make matters worse, she was riding the opposite way round the park to me so I had to deal with the shouts of abuse every time I passed her and her friends. Not smoove...