burnthesheep

1. I doth have donned my skinsuit, TT helmet, and race wheels and set forth upon my TT steed to play "robin hood" upon the kingdoms of those on Strava.

2. I doth have committed the grave sin of departing for a grand fondo journey without self sufficient tools (by accident). Upon departure, I had left my pump and tube on the top of my car. I flatted. For my sin, I paid the price of losing the draft of the big main group and had to ride solo for 45 miles after a kind SAG soul gave me a tube and pump.

3. When I was but a wee newcomer to the group ride, I committed the sin of attempting to "win" the group ride.

AlmostTrick

While waiting several minutes at a crossing in the cold rain for a completely stopped freight train, I found the car with the most ground clearance and was quickly on my way. Not dangerous in my opinion, (it takes a freight train much longer to start moving than it takes me to pass under) but definitely illegal.

Ghazmh

today while approaching a yield sign where 2 single lane roads merge together to form one 2 lane road I looked over my shoulder to check for cars before getting into the left lane. I was suddenly startled to find a grey silent rider sucking my wheel. Much to my surprise that grey rider was actually my shadow.

Seattle Forrest

​​​​​​There's more to it than that. National Parks ask people to pee on rocks not plants because the goats lick it up and will kill the plants. If it was blanket illegal to pee anywhere outside they wouldn't have those signs, or let people camp anywhere without a toilet. On that note, official backcountry toilets don't have walls.

I think what we're all doing, using common sense and being respectful, probably isn't illegal, at least in western states.

Bah Humbug

Better than my previous answer:

I have been swimming in the deeper portion of the roped-off swimming area of a public lake, and my swimming is so ugly the lifeguard yelled at me because he thought I was clearly too bad a swimmer to be in the deeper portion.

Even though I had swum two miles in that lake two days previously.

Triathlete swimming.

StrikeLite

There are at least 3 newer bikes in attic storage that my wife doesn't know about. Otherwise I am a saint...

berner

Whatever y'll are confessing to, I didn't do it and more importantly, nobody saw me do it!

one4smoke

So, after you crashed while kissing the girl, how did you explain the abrasions to your wife when you got home?!?

This truly will be a confessional!

big john

Or "The water's cold". "Yeah, and it's deep, too".

goenrdoug

I spit on the windows of cars who park in (even partially in) the bike lane.

Bassmanbob

OK. See my next post here.

Bassmanbob

Oh my! No! No! No! The girl I kissed with the subsequent crash was my first girlfriend, my first love in high school. I met my wife eight years later.
And the story isn't such a big deal. We were riding our bicycles, we kissed while riding, the handlebars "lip-locked" too and we went down. I remember feeling guilty because she had all the scrapes and bruises.

bpcyclist

The things we do for love.

Amt0571

I kissed my first girlfriend when riding on a bike too. But we didn't fall hahahaha.

No way to convince my wife to try though. She has only ridden a bike a couple of times in the last 10 years

Succhia Ruota

Occasionally used "dropped chain" as an excuse after getting dropped.

Anything else you've heard are merely allegations and can't be proven in a court of law.

dmanthree

Not that I can see. But I do feel better about myself. ;-)

bampilot06

1. stop signs are a suggestion
2. when I started cycling I wore sandles. The first 250 miles of the trek century challenge I wore sandles.
3. I wear a mountain bike helmet to cycle in.
4. Currently only own one jersey not sure when it gets washed
5. My bike is 4 cm to small
6. I didn’t know what cadence meant so for the first 6 months I was a pedal masher
7. I wear head phones
8. In group rides I suck at pointing out obstacles.
9. I never bring water or food

woodcraft

I saw a hot girl on a fancy bike,

and I checked out the bike more than the girl.

Kimmo 

Not all scofflaws are created equal...

******bags like Trump and Joe Arpaio need to have the book thrown at em so hard it takes their head off.

Folks determined to reclaim their birthrights from corrupt legislators in thrall to the car lobby are another matter.

Sojodave

I passed someone and didn't yell "ON YOUR LEFT!!!"

Jim from Boston

Quote:

Originally Posted by datlas

…This experience made me consider all my cycling sins/transgressions. And although I am neither Catholic nor religious, I do expect confession is good for the soul. So here goes my cycling confessions…

May I suggest that trespasses against cars are Mortal Sins, and against pedestrians and other cyclists are Venial Sins (in the Catholic Tradition). My thusfar not reported Mortal Sin is riding the wrong way on one-way streets.

I have gained plenary indulgences for wearing mirrors, taking the lane as appropriate, and waving.

sanmateoclimber

I have suddenly let out a really weird, disgusted "ugh!" just as some poor confused guy was overtaking me on the steepest Old La Honda hairpin yesterday. I had no idea you were back there, and I was actually reacting to the fact that I lost traction for a couple of standing strokes, not the fact that I was being passed. He must've thought I was super weird haha.

CyclingBK

“I once brought a jack@ss and a honeycomb into a brothel”

steve_o_b

I have ridden over a bridge on a highway. Twice. (Highway 19 from Laval to Montreal QC.)
I have ridden while intoxicated
I've been ticketed for riding with no brakes, headphones on and no reflectors (all at the same time). Since I was ticketed, I guess they don't count as confessions...

Toadmeister

I used up all the last of the TP at a busy crapper/port a potty with several others waiting in line to go.

I felt guilty. So I made up for it leaving a package of wet-wipes at another empty one later that week.