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02-06.-2005, 02:39 PM
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Re: How often do you crash?
All the time, mostly MTBing though.
5 incidents with cars (only one leading to significant injury), maybe about 6-10 self-inflicted on-road crashes (some alcohol influenced  )(one leading to injury other than cuts & scrapes), and too many to count off-road (I think only once causing real injury though) |
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02-07.-2005, 08:31 PM
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Re: How often do you crash?
I'm almost 50 years old. I had one minor crash when I was about 8 years old. I took a curve to fast. Hit some loose gravel and slid down. Luckily I didn't get hurt. I got back up, and got on the bicycle and went home.
I continued to ride a bike until I was about 15 with no accidents. When I was about 23 I purchased a road bike and rode it for about 3 months with no accidents or crashes. I sold the roadbike after about 3 months because I was working so many hours, I didn't have any time to ride. I started cycling again in december of 2003. I purchased a mongoose xr-100 mountain bike. I rode it until august of 2004 with no crashes or accidents. I rode this bike on the road only. No downhill racing or nothing like that. In august 2004 I purchased a trek 7100 hybrid. I'm still riding this bike, and have had no crashes or accidents. To sum it up I've had one crash in my entire life. I ride my bike like I drive my car. I obey the traffic laws. I'm always expect the unexpected. I don't swerve in and out of traffic. I don't get inside the door zones. Most importantly I stay at speeds where I can stop immediately. I usually cruise around 12 - 15 mph. Bicycle accidents like car accidents are 99% driver error. Simply put, I just use common sence. I watch out for the other guy. And keep a sharp lookout at all intersections, driveways, anywhere a car or child could pull or run out in front of me. I look out for curbs, loose gravel, rocks, and drive appropiately when encountering situations. I'm just a recreational cyclist. However, I'm about to purchase a roadbike. I will probably crash on it.  |
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03-07.-2005, 02:17 PM
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Re: How often do you crash?
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I almost never fall over! I hesitate to say "crash", because these very rare instances were all "horizontal track stands" when I was unable to get out of the pedals fast enough and/or caught myslef on the bike and/or its cargo. So far...knock on wood!...a true crash, at speed, has just NOT happened. Yet. Your story is similar to mine, and the reason we both avoid crashes is the same: Thinking ahead and staying within the limits of what one can do. Even on a road bike! 
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14-09.-2005, 02:30 PM
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Re: How often do you crash?
I don't crash often, but when I do, it's usually spectacular.
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16-09.-2005, 01:37 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
Well, for a while my nickname was "Crash".
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18-09.-2005, 07:10 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
Never if I can help it. In 42 years of cycling I have had 4 crashes/tumbles/falls. The first when I was 14, I think it was heat exhaustion.
Resulted in an arm injury. 2 other slow motion tumbles from riding a road bike over unsuitable terrain. The 4th-last fall. Foggy night, fogged up glasses, unfamiliar path, low branch. I have been wearing helmets since I first heard abouth them in 1997-"don't leave home without it." |
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29-10.-2005, 02:45 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
I was just reading this yesterday and hadnt crashed in 3 months. Then that afternoon i was hopping a sidewalk and the bikes rear wheel came over me and i went over the handle bars
ironic isnt it
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29-10.-2005, 11:29 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
I'll get back to you in about 6 months.....that should suffice in making my answer less laughable (I would hope)...
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29-10.-2005, 11:45 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
I have had a few crashes/falls in my time. None serious just the odd case of road rash. I just bought spd pedals for my MTB so I suspect I will have some more tomorrow as I get used to uncliping my feet. It's pretty much inevitable since I just painted over the scrapes on the frame from a minor spill this summer, and some chips caused by my lock.
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29-10.-2005, 10:11 PM
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Re: How often do you crash?
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Pretty good ride this morning, just a bit cold (-3 C) and I didn't cover the shoes, toes got rather numb. Still I love the pedals and the shoes, just need to get used to spinning properly. I managed to stay upright and get my feet uncliped in time, except for one of the last lights on the way home. I rolled up to the red light unclipped my left foot and promptly fell to the right. Right foot came uncliped just a moment before I lay on the curb.Note to self: Next item to learn, track stands. |
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14-11.-2005, 09:57 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
Once was enough for me. Lost control downhill going through some S curves at around 25 MPH. Broke a hip and separated an AC joint.
This year was less eventful. Fell sideways while fully stopped with both feet unclipped -- talk about embarassing, and I scarred the poor lady who stopped behind me half to death. Then another morning around dawn fell sideways while making a left turn too slowly to avoid the newpaper delivery car. he backed up to apoligze and for weeks after, would wave hello. If you crashed, be sure to check your helmut and not just your bike. The helmuts are designed for only 1 impact, so if you hit your head, get a new helmut just to be safe. Quote:
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14-11.-2005, 09:57 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
Once was enough for me. Lost control downhill going through some S curves at around 25 MPH. Broke a hip and separated an AC joint.
This year was less eventful. Fell sideways while fully stopped with both feet unclipped -- talk about embarassing, and I scarred the poor lady who stopped behind me half to death. Then another morning around dawn fell sideways while making a left turn too slowly to avoid the newpaper delivery car. he backed up to apoligze and for weeks after, would wave hello. If you crashed, be sure to check your helmut and not just your bike. The helmuts are designed for only 1 impact, so if you hit your head, get a new helmut just to be safe. Quote:
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15-11.-2005, 11:09 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
I've yet to crash on my new bike the Trek 7300 FX...bless it all....but we shall see how long this good luck prevails......I am doing much better each time I ride, so I won't be splaying open my knees, I hope, anymore, or so much....
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18-11.-2005, 10:26 AM
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Re: How often do you crash?
I was a 45km door prise a month ago. (Dual fault)
Occasionally I slip on a wet streetcar track once/twice a winter....footdown not crashing. I have been on my bike virtually everyday for the past 15 years though. When I MTN bike I expect to crash just like I do when I skied and skated and snowboarded, as I'm pushing myself not pokin along. You don't crash, you don't learn. Whe I was a messenger I had a few good ones but factoring in the miles and hours in the saddle nothing earth shattering. Yes you gotta laugh it off. Get back in the saddle and do it again. Don't let fear wreck it for you. Besides once you got the front wheel slide dialed in you are golden...I can surf across wet manholes while turning now without panicing. Not that I LOOK for it mind you. lol
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20-11.-2005, 03:35 PM
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Re: How often do you crash?
It definitely feels like I'm tempting fate to even talk about this. But I would say in the past 4 months (about 2400 miles/3863k) I have had one fall/crash when cycling (commuting) on a bike path and crossing at an intersection with a road when a car took a right on red without stopping. I, fortunately, was not going fast, anticipated the driver's move and just hit the brakes a little harder than necessary and went not quite "over the handlebars" but close to it. I was fine but pissed off- mostly at my overreaction to his turn, failure to even more properly anticipate the idiotic driver and the driver's speeding away when he saw me fall.
I'm in the Northeast of the US and winter means wet leaves and ice both of which have brought me down on a pretty yearly basis. I have not included mountain bike crashes because they more less go with the territory and unless I hit the ground really hard I don't think about them all that much. On the road I keep my head up and stay alert for road hazards ie. crazy drivers, pedestrians, opening car doors, other cyclists, little kids, drunks, squirrels, dogs, cats, Canadian geese, wild turkeys, deer, fallen branches, sticks, glass, potholes, sewer gratings, metal plates, metal grates, cans, bottles, roadkill, hubcaps, trashcans, pieces of wood, puddles, sand, gravel, nails, tacks, curbs, traffic islands, unexpected chains across roads... In other words, "I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I ride the line."- by the late great Johnny Crash.  |
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