brothersbutler

...today, after having my bike for seven months. And of course, what type of fall was it? I didn't unclip when I stopped At least no one was around to see me.

Anyway, what was your first crash/fall on a new bike?

brothersbutler

And I don't mean brand new, since I don't consider my bike to be new. Just the first crash/fall on a specific bike

fishymamba

I fell down while taking my bike out of our car's trunk right after I bought it. Does that count?

JPChap

I did the same thing on one of the first few rides I got on my new road bike, dont feel bad. We all do it.

dayday82

I haven't crashed on my 3 month old Cervelo yet. That being said, I'll probably crash tonight.

Joe360

Ha Ha, I did the same thing. With me it happened when I first tried clipless pedals. I had just started and meet a fellow rider on the SGRT named David. I stoped at the end by the mountains and I forgot to un-clip. If you haven't fallen, you haven't fallen YET.

garciawork

Had my old tarmc 3 years before a car hit me, and that was my first fall. Haven't fallen yet on my new Tarmac.

Da Sherm

Mine was almost the same, I was going around a roundabout and I didn't know if the car had seen me so I slowed down, slowed a little too much and lost my balance, right in front of a nice young couple driving a Citroen, I'm sure they laughed about it later. I am glad I had gloves on, and wouldn't be caught dead riding without them now. I am still waiting for my bike crash at speed and consequent road rash question thread.

tortugaflats

stopped at a busy intersection with a buddy and unclipped left foot. a mosquito took the opportunity to bite my right leg around the ankle. without thinking i looked over to my right side to swat and then realized that i was going over. i'm sure all the cars passing at the time got a good kick out of it.

gundom66

How about showing off in front of 2 gorgeous chics trying to tackle a steep trail with lose gravel on a mtb? That would be me over 20 years ago! A buddy of mine brought 2 of his friends. One of them I met at a club that "supposedly" had the hots for me. We went mtb'ing and I saw this uphill knowingly that I can tackle it. We went, they stopped at the base, I kept going, I went halfway up, and I hit very lose gravel while standing on a pedal stroke, lost grip, lost grip again, lost momentum, legs were "noodled-out", I hit an angle, put my leg down but it felt really numb, fell on my side, rolled down the hill with the bike on top of me... heard laughing and it sounded like it was going on for years and years!

The girl who had the hots for me ran up to help me, asked if I was okay while laughing her heart out, took care of my gashes, and... well... "happy ending" at the end of the day.

Shuagster

Sand caused my first fall on my third ride with the CAAD. I was stopping to take a break and stopped at the beach, there was sand to the side of the road but I was used to riding over shallow sand with my MTB, but with 23mm tires I got stuck, failed to unclip and fell.

sijray21

First crashed on wet leaves in the shadows during a Sharp right-hand turn in November of '09.

Aside from that I've fallen a BUNCH of times on the mtn bike and during crits a couple times due to other people.

reshp1

I just did this on my MTB the other day. Stopped on top of a climb to wait for my friend and clipped out the wrong foot, had to make a small correction to avoid a rock, and went down on the unclipped side too quickly to do anything about it. First fall due to clipless (after about 2 years on road bike and 1 year on mtb). I guess the "yet" part is true

GBIAction

This spring I was heading up a long steep hill in New Jersey returning from a 30 mile ride, just sort of taking my time, and i hit a patch of wash sand from a recent rain. The rear wheel just kicked out and I was on my ass. First crash on the Felt I bought after my last bike was demolished last year when I was hit by someone timing a light. Luckily nothing hurt this time except my pride. And I agree with D Sherm above - i never ride without gloves

wrr1020

My first crash involved me running into a jogger on my very first group ride. My friend and i met up with a Sunday morning group and about a mile out it happened. My friend was about 10 feet behind me and called out my name to tell me something, i turned back for a second to see what he was saying and when i looked forward again there she was. I hit both brakes and slowed down a pretty good amount but still wasn't enough to not hit her. I grazed her leg and i ended up falling off the bike. We both came out unharmed but my bikes right seat stay came out scratched since the bike fell against a curb. She was running in the bike lane yet theirs a running path right next to the lane so i have no idea what she was doing there. We both kept apologizing to each other and went on our way.

ahsposo 

Well, I was 6 years old and Santa had brought me this nice Schwinn bike with a gas tank like thing and a big spring up front. My daddy helped me get on and pushed me down the driveway and I wobbled for a second or two but I fell over and hurt my self. I cried and never wanted to ride a bike ever again.

dstrong 

My most memorable was on the maiden voyage of my new-to-me Schwinn Moab. It was my first front-suspension MTB and I had just finished assembling it and couldn't wait to just ride once up and down the street. I spied a small traffic island, luckily with just grass and thought "I should jump the curb and ride across it!". As I approached the curb, I lifted the front end and basically unloaded the shock, leaving the tire still on the street. The front tire hit the curb, the shock socked up the momentum and I did a perfect endo, landing on my back on the grass, still clipped in to my pedals and my bike upside down above me. I rolled over, unclipped, looked around and sheepishly rode back to the house.

gundom66

I don't know if I should label this as funny or messed up. This was some time this year. I was at a stoplight and I saw a couple getting closer to the intersection going the opposite direction. She was trying to unclip as she was coming to a stop and never did! O.o So she fell. The guy with her didn't even get off his bike and started laughing hard at her. She was slow to get up and can hear her swearing up the storm. And I believe I heard her yell out, "I f***ed up my bike and I just bought this s**t!" The guy kept on laughing and all I saw was the girl kicking him hard on the shin and he fell on her bike. She was on the left side of him, he had his left foot on the ground, her bike was still laying on the ground, why does she have to kick him on his left shin? My light had already turned green as I saw him falling on top of her bike... and the guy is no stick either. I wonder how her bike was after that fall?

I just thought I'd share.

Paul Y.

Did she have and anchor tatoo?

StanSeven

I got back into cycling 20 years ago. I brought a Specialized Allez and on the first ride ran over a cat, got thrown over the bars, and had road rash all over my leg and arm. I didn't realize how much I was bleeding until I walked in the house nad my daughter asked what happened - the wind blew the blood back all over my white jersey

Chris516

My first crash on my new(when I bought it from a LBS in 2003) '03 Specialized Allez', was when I ran over a bad part of the road.

justkeepedaling

Had a near crash today by myself in front of two walkers Was riding up the hill and decided to start playing with gears for a good cadence. Got out of the saddle and hammered and the chain came off (first time ever on this bike) so I was stunned. I kind of wobbled quite a bit uphill and luckily stopped

alexvpaq

last year, I was going up a hill and the pedals unclipped and my calf met the BR.

Even made a thread about it back then.

anon`

I've fallen three times since I got back into cycling about a year ago. All three involved clipless pedals, but I never did the usual "Whoops, forgot to unclip!" routine.

I forget the details of the first fall, but it had something to do with traveling too slow and then leaning too far to the wrong side.

Second fall was on my CAAD (the first was on my Kona), perhaps, the best: I was explaining to the gf's brother how the first fall happened. I demonstrated all too well! I've fallen with the CAAD a second time, as well. After a group ride, back in the LBS parking lot. Unclipped the right foot like always, then for no particular reason leaned left. It was apparently a very graceful fall, however, and earned me some style points.

MrMorrill

My first fall on my bike was when it was only a few months old. I pull up on the crest of a hill and see a car accident, obviously like everyone else I rubberneck the crash. Well come to find out there is a decent size rock (bigger then a softball) in the road and I run right into it. I go over the bars cut my arm up and rip my bar tape. There was a ton of people who saw which was pretty embarrassing.