most embarrassing public bike moment [Archive]

scotty beefs

13-05-2003, 09:57 PM

Just wondering if anyone has had anything go pear shape on them in public and just totally been ashamed...

mine has got to be riding to work down moggill road, traffic everywhere a wheelie bin lying over footpath, so I went sweet and got ready to bunnyhop it, usually do easy, but not usually at like 30 k's at the bottom of a hill, launched bout 2metres to late not accounting properly for speed, front wheel makes it, back wheel careers into bin, I end up sprawled over footpath in front of traffic...

brother also had a good one, after school swimming carnival all kids out front of school, we take off down hill, he slips a pedal bunnyhopping A GUTTER, hits gutter and goes A over T in front of his whole year! :oops: :oops:

adam

13-05-2003, 10:07 PM

high speed, over the back, no brake wheelie on a on a highway, it would have looked funny as as hell as i fell off the back. Also fell off bunny hopping up a gutter, i laughed my ass off.

Adam

Stinky

13-05-2003, 10:20 PM

1. during a parade through a small country town in CQ where the whole town stops for the weekend for mtb racing I pulled an endo and went straight over the bars.

2. Same race weekend, trying to line dance with the country folk on my bike.

3. Practicing rear wheel hops at a set of lights and fell onto a taxi that was waiting at the lights

SquarkyD

13-05-2003, 10:23 PM

doin some trials off a picnic table, was on the edge and ran outta push at the wrong moment and nosed it bad.

also loosing the chain after landing a massive flatty, not realising and going to pedal HARD for the next jump, threw myself A over T into the launch of the next jump.

i still get crap from the locals about those :lol:

nathan

13-05-2003, 10:31 PM

Well not really embarising for me but for the people that i busted.

I was up at Lefty(DH track) one day (Friday Lunch) minding my own business doing runs, when i got back to the top after my last run their was a van parked on the side of the road near the entrace to Lefty. I thought oh yeh just someone looking around. I was just waiting around catching my breath for the ride home when 2 people got out of the van and put a rug down. Oh righto they were just having a picnic, i thought. How wrong was I. The woman and man proceded to take their clothes off and had a Farkin good time. (you know what i mean).

Meanwhile i was over at the track entrance about 50m away in clear daylinght just sitting there on my bike not beleiving my eyes. How they didnt see me there i dont know? The only way out was to ride straight past them. After about 15 min of them doing it i couldnt wait around any longer because i had to get to work. So i thought stuff it. I rode stright past them and yelled out "Get into it" for good measure. I scared the shit out of em. They jumped up with quicker than jack flash.

Something that you dont see every day anyway.

notb4dinner

13-05-2003, 11:08 PM

ROFL :D :twisted: !

Definetly can't beat that (although there was a empty tube of lube and condom packet found at the top of our local club track once).

Mine has to be *attempted* nose wheelie down a short set of stairs in the middle of a crowded park...

josh

13-05-2003, 11:16 PM

hahahaahhaahahahahahahah nathan hahahahaahhaah

perfor8r

14-05-2003, 07:27 AM

I borrowed my friend's bike one day to get to TAFE, she had cantilever brakes on 'em. I go cruising down the road past a whole bunch of traffic that has come to a standstill. A cross an intersection and up onto the sidewalk since there was no room to get past the traffic when all of a sudden...BOOM, I'm flying over the handlebars. Hit the ground landing on my knee, splitting it open. I look up, and there's four girls in a convertible completely laughing thier arses off. They didn't even bother to check I was okay, just kept laughing. :oops:

Turns out the front canitlever somehow released itself into the spokes, the bike was a piece of crap anyways, thrashing the a bunch of the spokes.
And to make matters worse it was the first class, so I had to show up with a bloddy knee...oh well! :(

Gutty

14-05-2003, 08:07 AM

Last December at the Thredbo nationals. Got there late on friday and didn't want to pay $40 for 2 practice runs so i decide to show my South African mate(Gravityfreak) around thredbo village on our bikes. He spots a pretty big set of stairs and asks if he can try my bike down em as i'd just had the Avalanche fitted. So we swap bikes, off he goes down the stairs pretty fast, i follow him........get to about 5 stairs from the bottom and i go for a handful of rear brake only to find out that in South Africa they run their brakes opposite to us.......grabbed a handful of 8" Hope FRONT and went flying OTB and ended up with a very smashed up wrist. Split the TCC cartlige in my wrist. Still can't ride for a few more months.

Only a few people saw this but i had to post it as it is the most stupid thing i've done on a bike recently.

14-05-2003, 08:16 AM

Riding along pulling a wheelie the day I first got clips.... you can guess the rest.

toodles

14-05-2003, 08:27 AM

1) 1st ride with SPDs. Stop at crowded intersection. Fall over sideways cos I couldn't get feet out fast enough.

2) Trying to show off in front of girls when I was 12 by doing a 1 handed wheelie. Goofed it and broke my arm. Actually worked out better than the wheely though cos after they stopped laughing at my clumsy butt I got to milk sympathy for awhile.

14-05-2003, 08:32 AM

I was riding at the local skate park with my mate about 7 in the morning so we had it to ourselfs or so we though.. we ride into the skate park and do this drop thats there and as we look back theres this chick going down on this dood. It was sooooooo funny the look on her face was :o mixed with :shock:

My mate also rolled down a curb and broke his ankle:D

Techno Destructo

14-05-2003, 08:41 AM

Gutty, that's how you did your wrist?!? Nooooo!!! It wasn't even your fault! Those are the WORST injuries!

Mine were:
1. Same as Toodles, that ol' chestnut - not getting out of the clipless pedals in time when a trackstand goes wrong.

2. That manual I was doing down a hill at 35 - 40 kph and lost it on, all over the pavement. Nasty.

nhd

14-05-2003, 08:56 AM

just got a new rear slick on my gt, also the brakes had been tightened a lot, went around a corner on oily looking bricks, bit too fast breaked and the back of course slid from under me. Legs tangled in the frame this guy in a van asks if im ok and i crawl to the footpath with the frame tangled around my legs.

kalem

14-05-2003, 08:59 AM

man i think i'm due for something bad... my stuff is nowhere near as bad as your stuff. I've had a few spd mishaps, nothing too bad just me looking like a goof. My dad had a big goofy off trying to trackstand his brand new bianchi at the traffic lights, first day on clipless too...

gutty that sucks! i didn't know how you did it either, switched up brakes suck..

Ryan

14-05-2003, 09:31 AM

Backwards brakes are un-Australian! Gutty mate that sucks balls, get well soon :)

Gutty

14-05-2003, 10:03 AM

14-05-2003, 10:14 AM

Riding along pulling a wheelie the day I first got clips.... you can guess the rest.

Laughing just thinking about it. Sorry mate, but i've seen it done before an it was absolutely hilarious.
http://helmies.org.uk/Lol.gif

I know, had it happened to anyone else I would have been laughing too.

Gutty

14-05-2003, 10:29 AM

Cheers for the sympathy guys, with any luck i'll have some good news from the doc in a couple of weeks, doubt he'll allow me to start DH or MX again just yet but fingers crossed.
And you should all feel free to bag tha shit outta gravityfreak if ever he logs on here again, i do all the time ;)
Whats weird is he's an MXer too so in theory you'd think he'd use his right hand for the front and left for back........

chuckrockswell

14-05-2003, 10:30 AM

if anyone know the newcastle brewery, then this story holds significance. basically pulled a huge manual through the walkway between the brewery and beergarden on a saturday night, the place was packed full of drunken punters. i go over the back - no worries i'll just touch down with my feet. not the case as the ground is pebblecrete cover in water, beer and other swill. i must have slid about 10 metres still holding onto the handlebars, promptly ending up on my arse. the few hundred punters thought this very amusing. :oops:

14-05-2003, 10:34 AM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA AAA

14-05-2003, 10:35 AM

after weiners crash on coot-tha, i rode his bike down off the trail (we should of been riding inside the MZ1 on mt coot-tha) i was like "sweet factory M1 to ride" so i nutted down this fire road only to discover backwards brakes, luckly i figgured it out before i tryed to do anything serious (i was also carrying a digital camera and digial video camera so it could of been an expensive fall)

perfor8r

14-05-2003, 11:55 AM

svenk

14-05-2003, 06:57 PM

1. few weeks after getting my first " real " bmx .. im thinking im shit hot and bunnyhopping this curb in front of my friends.
we all started leaving and i speed off to do one last hop, im pumping it hard and as i get to the curb i pull up as hard as i can.. the front went high.. the back stayed on the ground.. apparently when i hit my ass went into the air with me still holding the handle bars.. rolled for a few meters then hit and slid along the dirt for another few meters... everytime this story is brought up my friends laught for at least 15 mins.... wish there was a camera :D

2. just after i got my FS bike im doing some doubles testing out settings etc.. i go off and do a set that hasnt been used in a while, a nice big branch had cracked and was hanging right in the jump path... my bike finished the jump but i landed in the middle hahah

shmity

14-05-2003, 08:49 PM

hmm, mine musta been about a month ago, after doing some runs at mt beauty, i was on my way to the bakery to meet the olds for food, comming round a corner, there was a construction site with sand all over the road needles to say i slipped off and dislocated my knee. Spent the next 10 seconds swearing at it and bashing it back in.

josh

14-05-2003, 09:07 PM

Riding down a fairly steep street, pedalling my guts out at it, cause that was the cool thing to do, try and catch up to cars and the like. Anyways there was a car parked on the side of the road, so i bunnyhopped the gutter, onto a gravelly type path, hit it with too much speed, lost control of the bike, BAM into a bus stop sign, using my foot as the main impact point. Yeah well broke my foot, no-one bothered to stop in their car, but two pedestrians came running up to me and asked if i needed an ambulance...i put on the brave face, picked myself up, said nah, and rode home one foot on the pedal style. Its probably a good 5-6km ride home. I always wondered why one leg is much stronger than the other, heheh :)

This morning I also crashed pretty damn stupidly in front of one of the fellow toowoomba guys/farkin member nathan. There is all the stairs lined up in a row, 5 stairs to each set, probably 12 sets all together spaced 10 meters apart. You can hit this thing flat out and gap each set of stairs easy. Only problem being I didnt realise what was at the end. Two big ass poles side by side (not even handlebar length apart) to stop cars getting into this area. It was far to late when i saw them, hoped for a miracle, hit the poles, crushed my fingers bad and supermanned way over the handelbars! That sucked hard :/ Was pretty damn humiliating! lol

Sucks about ur injury gutty, get well soon mate

curtisrider

14-05-2003, 09:17 PM

about 3 months ago i was riding along the road to see a truck coming along be hind me, i must have been going about 30 km/h, anyway i saw the truck coming and because it was a norrowish road i decided to hop up the curb and on to the pavement anyway on my way to landing on the pavement my front wheel got lodged between the nature strip and the pavement where someone had just squared of their grass, i ended up going over the handlebars and into a brick wall. luckily no injuries only a few scratches on the bike :oops:

curtisrider

14-05-2003, 09:18 PM

about 3 months ago i was riding along the road to see a truck coming along behind me, i must have been going about 30 km/h, anyway i saw the truck coming and because it was a narrowish road i decided to hop up the curb and on to the pavement, anyway on my way to landing on the pavement my front wheel got lodged between the nature strip and the pavement where someone had just squared of their grass, i ended up going over the handlebars and into a brick wall. luckily no injuries only a few scratches on the bike :oops:

duncan^kona

14-05-2003, 09:29 PM

out riding with a mate, we were coming up to traffic lights (us being on the footpath) and i was looking across the road at some chick, i didnt notice he had stopped and i ran straight into his back wheel, went flying over the handlebars and collected him on the way, not nice :oops: :oops: :oops:

Adi

14-05-2003, 10:57 PM

Sweet! You guys are good! :lol:

My most embarrasing one is yet to come...

But so far its prolly been trying to ride down a street with my feet on the hanglebars while sitting down :lol: I went for about 5 metres and fell over and cut open my knee, got 5 nice stitches and a awesome smiley kinda lifetime scarr :lol:

Adin

15-05-2003, 08:44 AM

You were tryna do what that dood does on kranked four at the start of the quebec section where their standing on the seat and stuff and one giuys doing wat u were:P

fastrider_ben

15-05-2003, 04:02 PM

anything to do with trying trials in public
always a sore way of makin a dick of yourself

15-05-2003, 04:56 PM

me and my mate were riding one time and we saw this drop and hit it. We had done it several times when i see my ex gf with her new bf so i look over and she points at me all when im rolling ya see. the front wheel rolls off the edge and i go ass over :roll:

creepyjoe

15-05-2003, 04:59 PM

Not the type of bike you guys are talking about but embarrasing all the same.

On my way to Uni one morning, on a Suzuki Across (250cc road bike) I decided to be a smart ass and dodge the traffic by traveling down the grass shoulder of the road up to a round-a-bout.

All was going well and I was looking for a spot to cut in when the slippery morning grass slanted away from the bank a bit suddenly, which consequently sent my front wheel sliding sideways into the drainage ditch beside the road and sent my bike onto it's side and threw me into the mud.

This is with a whole bus full of people + a traffic jam full of cars right beside me.

lol

It was a bitch to get the bike out of the ditch too. Much wheel spinning involved.

I have a simaler story about going too fast and ending up on a footpath the wrong side of a road barrier, but I'll save that for next story time.

=)

15-05-2003, 05:12 PM

How fast were you going??
Did you get hurt??

Adi

15-05-2003, 06:17 PM

Yep, that was from kranked 4 Fuzzy ;)

Oh the stupidity..... :lol:

15-05-2003, 06:19 PM

Thought sooooo
have you tryed it since?

Adi

15-05-2003, 06:35 PM

Hahaha, nah, I don't know why either...... :?

Never thought about it :)

15-05-2003, 06:37 PM

If you fall of the horse get straight back on :roll:

creepyjoe

15-05-2003, 07:37 PM

umm.. not very.. 20-30ish i guess.. wasn't hurt

15-05-2003, 07:45 PM

Thats good to hear

hardtail free rider

16-05-2003, 04:04 PM

hey socket u might remember this lol. i was going riding in the city with some friends on the train. well i was sitting on my bike when we came to flinders station and the train jerked and fell side ways right on top as socket (and getting tangled in his bike)

CHEWY

16-05-2003, 05:11 PM

not to do wit pushys but on a bike. on my old YZ80 i was riding back from a mates holding a 5 litre jerry can with my right hand. my ex-girlfriend, or was it girlfriend to be i cant remember, was standing in the middle of the road, anyway i was probably doin about 60 coming up to a corner in the road and the jerry can get stuck between my knee and the handle bars, so my foots stuck to the peg, cant brake try and take the corner going waaay to fast and ending up eating absolute crap and getting the worst gravel rash ive ever seen, right in front of my gf and her friend. jerry can got crushed like a coke can and i had to push my bike a k home. still makes me cringe when i think about it :oops:

Bonnet

16-05-2003, 09:52 PM

its not really an embarassing moment, but it'll be with me for the rest of my life. about 8 years ago i was riding along casually (this is before i had really started riding) and we were riding on a footpath, and the guy next to me thought it would be funny to steer into me, so to avoid him i just steer of to the side, suddenly he turns sharply into me and i respond by turning away quickly, RIGHT INTO A WOODEN POLE. this is where the pain starts, i had a bike bell on the goose neck/handle bar stem and my bike stopped, and me, following the laws of momentum carried straight on into the bell. i managed to completly crush a working bicycle bell with my testicles, so it did not work at all afterwards...to this day i have a two scars 'down there'.

Unimployed

18-05-2003, 05:38 PM

bonnet that is wrong......

Adi

18-05-2003, 06:06 PM

Wow, Bonnet, that is one story to tell.... :shock:

Bonnet

18-05-2003, 06:16 PM

hahaha, yeh, but how many scars do you can 'grow' when you get really excited...hahaha, thats quite gross actually. Its kinda awkard to explain it though.

peep

06-06-2003, 08:16 PM

lucky chicks dig scars hey? :D
Mines less hurty, more funny. I was late for uni one day so nutting down the footpath of a street concentrating on crossing over when *splooooch* i ride several meters into a foot of fresh laid cement. The minute i stop, about 5 workmen appear from nowhere and say really useful things like 'gee-we-should-have-marked-that' and 'boy-thats-gonna-take-some-cleaning'.

Needless to say i didn't make it to uni on time...it was back up the hill to wash the poor bike off.

wombat

06-06-2003, 08:42 PM

Mine, quite innocent really. After consuming just enough alcohol to completely root my timing, the boys asked if I could bunnyhop a sulo bin. No worries I said, first time sweet, second time, knicked the bin with the back wheel (should've thought to stop that time) third time, one more for the ladies....BANG!!! back wheel could not have hit any harder, face first into the grass, like literally face first, didn't get my hand off the bars.
One of my mates picks me up, takes off my now busted helmet, and goes "Mate I hope you're alrite coz there's no phone, and we're all to pissed to drive!" Light concussion was about the extent of it, didn't find out till later that i had a muscle pinched in my rotator cuff. I did get a very nice massage for my trouble though :) .

AirDog

07-06-2003, 06:43 PM

This morning I also crashed pretty damn stupidly in front of one of the fellow toowoomba guys/farkin member nathan. There is all the stairs lined up in a row, 5 stairs to each set, probably 12 sets all together spaced 10 meters apart. You can hit this thing flat out and gap each set of stairs easy. Only problem being I didnt realise what was at the end. Two big ass poles side by side (not even handlebar length apart) to stop cars getting into this area. It was far to late when i saw them, hoped for a miracle, hit the poles, crushed my fingers bad and supermanned way over the handelbars! That sucked hard :/ Was pretty damn humiliating! lol

hehe i done the same thing hey ... damm ppl "hit it fast you'll be right"

zac

08-06-2003, 09:43 AM

going into a driveway at too shallow an angle, catching rear tire on lip, going otb, gouging elbow and was asked are you ok miss (before i cut my ponytail off. NOT HAPPY.

felix

21-06-2003, 06:02 PM

on my brand new bike in canada figured i would learn to use the north american style of brakes (majority rules rite?) was goin down a series of flight of stairs and to slow down to get around the corner hit what i thought was my back brake, wrong front brake! flew right over into the rail and hit the concrete screwed up the muscles in my right shoulder and provided lots of laughter for my friends, my brakes are now 'skippy' style

21-06-2003, 06:04 PM

21-06-2003, 06:13 PM

grovesy

21-06-2003, 06:40 PM

Ok I'd just got my first squishy, ridin down a stretch of footpath that connects my house to the local national park (just cruisin home after a bit of freeridin in da bush).When I spy an unmarked police car comin my way real slow like.So like any unhelmetted,dog tired and slightly stoned mtber would,I made a bolt for my driveway.Only to discover my normally unlatched 4 foot cyclone double gates well and truly locked.Otb's over the gates and on my back starin up at two smilin(obviously amused) members of the finest police force in Australia.What followed was a classic good cop bad cop lecture regarding the helmet laws in W.A.

I now wear a lid.

stinky5.

bazza

23-06-2003, 08:04 PM

worst would have to be my little endo after just clearing an 8 step gap sure everyone was looking then of course. go to put the front brakes on and roll along a bit. only problem was it was on an upwards slope. DO NOT DO ENDOS ON UPWARDS SLOPES!! over the handlebars and chest planted
that hurts i can tell you that much. lots. had a nice sit on the side while i got my breath back. had a purple chest as well. not good.

Keith

24-06-2003, 09:05 AM

Riding a roady on a bike path slip streaming behind my brother and not really paying attention when he suddenly vers off to the right. I look up can't see anything then I am suddenly looking at the concrete. I hit one of those post that sit about 1m high and 5" diameter. Luckily for me I hit it square in the middle and went straight over the top because otherwise I would have hit it with my knee which would have smashed it. The fellows off in the park and my brother thought it was hilarious and after my brother stopped rolling around on the ground from laughing he helped me pull the forks back out to where they should be as the tyre was rubbing on the frame.

wombat

24-06-2003, 06:39 PM

One bad one I had was on my old bike on the trail with a couple of mates, not really public I know. Anyway, we were riding Strom's old dh track (now reallllly nasty) and we were about half way down and on this steep section when I hear this snap and bang! I've got no front brakes, uh oh....
So I'm tearing down this track, across the hillside and I come to a corner, I could either turn up (right) into some bushes and stop, or turn downhill and continue along the track. The thought process went something like this:
Brain: "right, turn uphill and stop."
Body: "ok!"
I then proceeded to turn downhill. I then careered of a 4 foot drop (not part of the track) and headfirst into a tree, smashing my backwheel on a boulder in the process.
In fact, the back wheel was so bent that to allow it to just rotate at all we layed the bike on it's side and my mate stood on the frame while i jumped on the wheel, not pretty, but i got home (with no brakes mind you).