LITERALLY "Hit the Wall"
06-26-19, 02:08 PM
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LITERALLY "Hit the Wall"
No, not me. I was out on the local MUP today and just a bit ahead of me was a woman riding across a bridge. One side (on her right) of the bridge has a concrete wall, probably around 3-1/2 ft. high. The other side has railing so you can view the creek below. Guess she was watching the creek and drifted into the wall. I didn't see it coming or would have warned her she was drifting. Stopped to make sure she was OK, she said she was and got up and back on the bike.
06-26-19, 02:51 PM
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When I bought my 72 Masi the downtube shifters had me take my eye off the road one minute...I bumped into a parked car...and then a police officer was giving me the stink eye, but he just said "oh glad yer okay, cars fine, yer fine, be careful"
06-26-19, 03:54 PM
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Years ago I was stopped at a light behind a couple of car. A Honda CX500 motorcycle pulled up beside me. Water-cooled V-twin, shaft-driven - somewhat of a unicorn at the time. The light turned, out of the corner of my eye I saw the car ahead move off. I stood on the pedals to move off, still intent on the CX, and not noticing that the car had stopped again. The front wheel hit the bumper - not hard, but enough for the bike to cant forward and for me to face-plant against the back of the car. No damage except for a blood stain on the paintwork from a nosebleed and bruised dignity. The CX was cool though 
06-26-19, 05:53 PM
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I bounced off a wall just the other day!
It's one of those "once you look at it" you're a goner.
Jersey sleeve got a bit ruffled.
More than walls, I used to worry about hooking my bar ends on poles and chainlink fences.
It's one of those "once you look at it" you're a goner.
Jersey sleeve got a bit ruffled.
More than walls, I used to worry about hooking my bar ends on poles and chainlink fences.
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I've drifted too close to the curb once or twice and that's a wakeup call.
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Back in the day, I used to joke that I was Frooming when I took hits off my albuterol inhaler for asthma.
Now Frooming means I have to run into walls at 35 mph. No, thanks.
Now Frooming means I have to run into walls at 35 mph. No, thanks.
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I was cranking up a hill and looked back at my rear brake as it seemed to be dragging... and ran right into a parked car. Over the bars face plant and nearly self administered a roadside vasectomy with the stem (which would have been awkward as I already had one).
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No, not me. I was out on the local MUP today and just a bit ahead of me was a woman riding across a bridge. One side (on her right) of the bridge has a concrete wall, probably around 3-1/2 ft. high. The other side has railing so you can view the creek below. Guess she was watching the creek and drifted into the wall. I didn't see it coming or would have warned her she was drifting. Stopped to make sure she was OK, she said she was and got up and back on the bike.
Almost two weeks ago, I got to the crest of a hill where the road turns left. As bad luck would have it, I 🤧 to the right with my 👀 closed which pulled me off course into the rocks and trees.
07-01-19, 02:39 AM
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I did once crash into a parked car, pretty nastily. I was heading over to my grandma's after work to continue refurbishing her place, it was raining hard so I had a hooded rain jacket on, but the hood was a bit too large and constantly slid forward to obstruct my view; at one point I pushed it back up again just to see a rear end of a car right in front of me (I could have sworn it wasn't there a few seconds ago). I was going at around 25 kph and went facefirst over the bars through the rear window. A small dent and broken rear window on the car; bent fork, broken spectacles, nosebleed and some facial cuts on my end. I reimbursed the car owner for the damage afterwards.
