Ain't I the sh!t

I pulled up at a diner on the beach at Newport Beach, Ca. in front of five or six women and forgot
to take my feet out of the clips. I feel and the chain ring did a job on my leg (still have the
scares). I got up and locked up the bike and went in and got my food and set down. One of the women
came over and set with me, she old man if you don't let me take care of your leg you are going to
bleed to death. I looked down and my right foot was in a puddle of blood.

LIVE AND LEARN.
PS: I have also done a few of the stop light falls.

Burr

Raptor said:

I'm a bit out of practice doing wheel stands (balancing at a stop). But I gave it a go today. At a
stop light during rush hour, got tipped to the wrong side, the left one, the foot that doesn't
come out of the clips quite as easily as the other.

Witness count: approx 8 including a pedestrian. It was a skillful fall, no broken skin whatsoever,
just some road grime on the shorts. The pedestrian said, sagely, "Oh!" I replied brightly, "That's
what I get for showing off."

I unclipped the other foot, picked up the bike, bowed ellaborately to the chuckling driver at the
head of the waiting auto queue, remounted and rode off with the green light, laughing at myself.

No falls, no balls. Although my falls don't really get much worse than that anymore.

Heavy afternoon traffic, 2 lanes each way to witness. Did a really nice track stand and held it
perfectly. THEN...went to start & my left foot pulled out & I ended up almost doing a header over
the bars. Luckily I didn't go down, just looked incredibly clumsy. Seems those "Exus" cleats they
sold me at my LBS aren't the "perfect replacements for Looks" as they told me!
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Quoted message said:

I'm a bit out of practice doing wheel stands (balancing at a stop). But I gave it a go today. At a
stop light during rush hour, got tipped to the wrong side, the left one, the foot that doesn't
come out of the clips quite as easily as the other.

Witness count: approx 8 including a pedestrian. It was a skillful fall, no broken skin whatsoever,
just some road grime on the shorts. The pedestrian said, sagely, "Oh!" I replied brightly, "That's
what I get for showing off."

I unclipped the other foot, picked up the bike, bowed ellaborately to the chuckling driver at the
head of the waiting auto queue, remounted and rode off with the green light, laughing at myself.

No falls, no balls. Although my falls don't really get much worse than that anymore.

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Quoted message said:

I'm a bit out of practice doing wheel stands (balancing at a stop). But I gave it a go today. At a
stop light during rush hour, got tipped to the wrong side, the left one, the foot that doesn't
come out of the clips quite as easily as the other.

Witness count: approx 8 including a pedestrian. It was a skillful fall, ....

This isn't quite the same thing but it reminded me of an incident that happened to me more than 20
years ago. I was riding thru downtown San Diego on a Sunday morning and I made a very fast right
turn, leaned over too far while pedaling, struck my right foot on the ground and did an endo. I
skidded a few feet, my bike a few feet farther but I was ok.

I had been aware that there was no traffic but when I looked around to see who I had embarassed
myself in front of, there was no one in sight. It felt wierd, downtown San Diego, in the middle of
the morning, and completely empty of life. It felt like one of those "after the bomb" movies.

Tom

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:32:48 GMT, Burr <[email hidden]> penned:

Quoted message said:

I pulled up at a diner on the beach at Newport Beach, Ca. in front of five or six women and forgot
to take my feet out of the clips. I feel and the chain ring did a job on my leg (still have the
scares). I got up and locked up the bike and went in and got my food and set down. One of the
women came over and set with me, she old man if you don't let me take care of your leg you are
going to bleed to death. I looked down and my right foot was in a puddle of blood.

LIVE AND LEARN.
PS: I have also done a few of the stop light falls.

Burr

The lesson is that pain is temporary and chicks dig scars? =P

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Showing off for my girlfriend in the alley with riding tricks. Leaned the bike to the left (while
riding) and climbed over to the right side bracing my feet against the frame. Looked very cool for 3
seconds until half of the back spokes blew out and the bike folded with me layed out on my butt.
Girlfriend was very impressed, I could tell by the awe in her voice when she said "what an [censored]".

I hit my peddle one time and went about two feet sideways, scared the hell out of me and I had
pulled in front of cars.

Burr
PS: I didn't go down.

Thomas Reynolds said:

Quoted message said:

This isn't quite the same thing but it reminded me of an incident that happened to me more than 20
years ago. I was riding thru downtown San Diego on a Sunday morning and I made a very fast right
turn, leaned over too far while pedaling, struck my right foot on the ground and did an endo. I
skidded a few feet, my bike a few feet farther but I was ok.