"Oh Shit" moments...

Ouch. Looks like the guy behind you rides straight into your back, did that not hurt at all?

Glad you're alright, and you got a nice hug and a good video out of it.

That was a spanner from my jersey pocket.

Spanner. :)

Worth embedding properly:

Keep Calm and Ride On - YouTube

Came out of the Red Bull event last night and unlocked my bike and realised someone tried to steal from front spoke! Oh the joys of hackney!

The minidrome thing seemed to have been a massive theft-fest from what I'm hearing. Shame.

Well the suprising thing is that my spoke was D-locked...

A very important spoke, what about the other 27/31/35?

other 4...

Came out of the Red Bull event last night and unlocked my bike and realised someone tried to steal from front spoke! Oh the joys of hackney!

Bethnal Green. Tower Hamlets. :)

Isn't the "New Mini" actually called "MINI"?

^ proper oh shit moment.

Cycling around and around Tulse hill for several hours with a seized drive side crank and loosened crank bolt in the desperate hope that I could somehow manage to work the crank free...

only for the bloody pedal to drop off...

Cycling around and around Tulse hill for several hours with a seized drive side crank and loosened crank bolt in the desperate hope that I could somehow manage to work the crank free...

only for the bloody pedal to drop off...

Had something similar hitting a road gap jump in Scotland a few years back, pedal drops mid jump. A rather uncomfortable landing.

I arrived home the other day on my station/pub bike and went to hop off and the crank spun and promptly FELL off. On CLOSER inspection it's sheared off luckily this didnt happen on my way home.

Fail section
After removing all broken bits without the correct tools to get it roadworthy I now need forks (twisted last year), headset (forgot to remove half when disposing of the forks) BB (see pic), cranks (wrong tools) and new rear hub as the thing is threaded. FML

1st post...

1. Stupidly driving with a plastic bag in my left hand, which then got caught in my front wheel. As the bag started hitting my front wheel, I was thinking "oh, shit", but by then it was too late. This resulted in me flying over the bars and landing an elegant belly flop in the middle of the street. Luckily no cars were nearby.

2. Looking for my friends in the park, I was driving over the grass and failed to spot a huge hole right in front of me, which then catapulted me over the bars. Did almost a full front flip and emerged unscathed, although it was fairly embarassing with lots of people around. To add to the embarassment, I then had to meet with people (I didn't really know everyone) with my left pant leg ripped to pieces near "the crouchal region", awesome.

3. Trying to get off my bike in front of a green grocer. My left foot got stuck in the strap, I then toppled over, knocking down a box of oranges in the process, which were rolling all over the place. As I was lying on my back on the street amidst the oranges, some guy was walking by looking down at me. He didn't even smile, laugh or say anything, just looked at me like "wtf are you doing?!". I think this finally confirmed to me that germans have no humor :).

This all happened on my singlespeed and was entirely my own fault. I can only image what will happen when I finish my fixed gear one of these days...

I can only image what will happen when I finish my fixed gear one of these days...

It sounds like you might fall off it a lot.

remember to forget to pedal

Yeah... thanks... for that.

Pic's in the link below if you dare - it's a bit gory.

Ooof, that looks sore. What's the story?

http://spokemagazine.com/2010/04/07/hand-brake/

Cycling cyborg.
Reminds me why all motorbike levers have a ball end.

For fuck's sake - Link to gore pictures, don't fucking display them.

Fair point, edited.

Riding indoors on my rollers and watching DDV on TV, I'm doing intervals on my track bike with a big gear and really going for it. I start to drift slightly to the right and suddenly my pedal strikes the coffee table. "Oh Shit", bike momentarily airborne with the force of impact. Then it landed and I carried on. I have no idea how i didn't fall off into the TV but luck had a lot to do with it.

Lesson leaned, don't use rollers in confined spaces just to get a better view of the TV.

Snapped a drive side spoke at 33mph descending this afternoon. Ting - flap - fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Very scary.

Literal 'Oh, SHIT!' moment today, followed shortly by 'FUCKING PIGEON!'

Bastard thing, all down my arm :(