I rarely go down myself, what's weird is in 10 years of racing I never had a crash in a race, I've only had 3 crashes, one on a training ride when my front tire blew going around a downhill mountain curve doing about 35, that one I just slid on my **** got some road burn; the other two both happened commuting to work, and the last of those two was really strange.
That last one a lady turned in front of me and went through her rear side window breaking it and then i was tossed onto the pavement dislocating my shoulder, and tearing up my suit I was wearing to go to job interview for a better position in a place I already worked at. I get taken to the hospital and released about 3 1/2 hours later, my wife takes me to work which by now is almost 5 pm and the manager of the place I was to have the interview with leaves then. So I walk in to his office with my arm in a sling, my clothes tore up, I ask him we need to do the interview and apologize for being late for obvious reasons. The manager starts yelling at me saying I'm 3 hours late for the interview, and he's going home, and that I have some nerve coming in looking like that and think I'm going to get hired. Then he says, if I got the nerve to come in like that then I would do great in this job and I was hired with no further interview necessary you start Monday!!! he shook my hand and went to the bar which he always did after 5, leaving me a bit stunned. I was 26 at the time,in college full time, and working full time so I was thankful I got the job, I was the best paid student at the college after getting that job; had a lot of job interviews over the years but none like that one.
I've had couple stall type of accidents due to not getting out the toe clips fast enough after I lost my balance doing a track stand, but I don't count those.
Speaking of weird job interviews, not sure why I got off on this but it is funny! I was interviewing for job after I moved to Indiana in 2003 from California and I was 53 at the time. So I talked to the manager and he likes me but he's 60ish and we get along great, so he sends me to the department manager, this guy was about 35 and right from the get go he doesn't like, probably because I had 20 years more experience then he has so he might be fearing for his job. He keeps saying that I won't be able to handle the hours hinting at my age as being an issue, really? I ask, I'm use to working 60 to 70 hours a week running my own business, how many do you work? he says 45 to 50, that's nothing I said to him, but he keeps hounding a way the age and hour thing and how I won't be able to handle it, and I'm staying politically correct as one is to do in an interview...but I finally got ******! So I said to the guy: "Tell you what, you get on your bicycle and I'll get on mine, lets go for a 50 mile race and lets find out who the real old man here is!" He was kind of taken back and mumbled: "well we don't have to do that", and I said: "darn right because you would lose badly." Needless to say I didn't get the job, but the direction the interview was going I wasn't going to get it anyways so I decided to snap his head off.
