most embarrasing thing you've done whilst riding

[Povi]

whats your story?



not sooo embarasssing but still quite so:
being stupid infront of my friends and my friends girlfriend (quite hot) and i decided to do a one handed stall. did it for about 30 seconds, then i was like "maybe you dont need hands to stall". as soon as i let go of the bike i stacked and got tangled up in the frame infront of all my friends in the middle of a really busy area. she laughed and so did everyone else. twas quite embarrased

[rush]

:rofl:

I hate going over the bars in front of people, it always looks like you were just being too smartass for your own good.

[Meteor]

Was biking outside with some friends, including some that had never seen me ride and didn't have an idea of how good i was
It was quite dark and i was cycling at top speed and didn't see curb...
flew over the bars, and hit my nuts on the toptube
Bet they got a nice first impression of my riding :gaybar:

[hophopsnap]

was riding wrong way with my friend on bmxs, on a street with a big center divider, had to be almost 2 feet, he bunnyhops up onto it and off, I go up and bunnyhop up but I jumped too late and clipped my rear wheel, rode a nose wheelie for about half of the lane and then went over. good thing one of the hottest/skankiest girls and her bf were walking and saw it all..I just layed there in the middle of the lane like ahhhh. finally got up and went into the mcdonalds were all the school kids were and my ex gf put a napkin on my wound cause I was bleeding all over the place.

[pav]

Wow it seems like I am the only one who hasn't done anything embarrasing riding infront of my girlfriend?
Probably because I dont often ride for her,
but I did do this...

Just 2 days ago, she was helping me put on some new tensile cranks and drivetrain and mag pedals and new forks and stuff, which she enjoys doing with me ( was her idea to do it ) and as I was tightening my cranks on, which were fucking impossible (has anyone else found this with tensiles) my hand slipped and my face fell onto the bashring and I snapped my tooth for the 3rd time!!

Not an easy thing to do as seeing the tooth I snapped was a metal reinforced porcelin venier, but I ripped off half the porcelain, the metal was ok.

Gotta keep off the drugs..

[Chris]

So the tensiles were as tight as your girlfriend? :momaru:

[KERNAL KLINK]

i was trying a handrail and i kept coming up short and hitting my down tube, finally i got some balls and gave it my all(first time doing a handrail) well i overshot it a bit and slipped off did some kind of circus of the stars improv move and hit the rail with my taint and i ended up peeing abit.....besides traring me a new ass it was quite uncomfortable.
the local spanger(spare changer) had a good hoo ha

[pav]

So the tensiles were as tight as your girlfriend? :momaru:

You better watch it, I will send her to attack you..then you will be in real trouble.

[Keith Courage]

.......I was tightening my cranks on, which were fucking impossible (has anyone else found this with tensiles) my hand slipped and my face fell onto the bashring and I snapped my tooth for the 3rd time!!

This is funny. Sorry.

I don't have a girlfriend to ride in front of so whatever.
BUT, the only time I feel embarassed is when I go over the bars on some dumb shit, like nose manuals down a curb cut.

[digby]

Riding downtown, riding on a 1 inch ledge/cement wall that was about 4 feet up. Dismount nicely, get a few 'wows', ride across the street and convieniently miss the curb in my way flipping the bike over and landing on my ass.

-Stay Classy.

[WhiteRavenKS]

this campus has emergency phones all over the place in this metal towers about 1 foot in diameter and maybe 8 feet tall... they are so you can call the cops directly if you're being raped or mugged or whatever. i was cruising along probably 20mph through campus shredding the gnar i guess, saw some amazing girl- my head turned and followed her for way too long. she was looking back at me. i was not looking where i was going. i nailed one of the emergency phone towers. it fucked me up pretty well, bent my bars and ruined a cable bent brake lever, etc. by the time i got myself off the ground that girl had walked out of sight. probably laughing her sweet ass off. was less embarassing than it should have been.

[Elan]

hahahaha

[chippy]

I was in vail co and I was riding the rocks on one of the fountains. I was setting up for a pedal up to this little rock(about a foot and a half high) and then a gap up to front over the water and on to the wall of the garden inside the fountain. Some guy and his girlfriend were sitting on a bench right there and he was like " hey those aren't for riding on, what are you trying to prove?" or something retarded like that and so I ignored him and started the move. The pedal up went fine and I knew I could make the next gap as I had done it before but my front wheel just slammed into the wall. I fell in the water with my bike and my pubic bone slammed into the stem and whatnot. He laughed and told his gf something to the effect of "I warned him". My already shriveled, fragile self esteem and I rode away defeated and I went back to my hotel and rubbed one off to his bitch girlfriend. I felt better after that.

[[BMF] Chris]

went back to my hotel and rubbed one off to his bitch girlfriend. I felt better after that.


:bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

[MIKE1968]

this campus has emergency phones all over the place in this metal towers about 1 foot in diameter and maybe 8 feet tall... they are so you can call the cops directly if you're being raped or mugged or whatever. i was cruising along probably 20mph through campus shredding the gnar i guess, saw some amazing girl- my head turned and followed her for way too long. she was looking back at me. i was not looking where i was going. i nailed one of the emergency phone towers. it fucked me up pretty well, bent my bars and ruined a cable bent brake lever, etc. by the time i got myself off the ground that girl had walked out of sight. probably laughing her sweet ass off. was less embarassing than it should have been.



reminds me of anohter boulder story...troy was just bombing down the hill going to half fast, talking to me looking to his left- he goes right into a pole and completely bends his brisa's head tube and breaks the frame :rofl:

[eturt9]

this campus has emergency phones all over the place in this metal towers .

Did you use the emergency phone to call for help?

[PXride]

this campus has emergency phones all over the place in this metal towers about 1 foot in diameter and maybe 8 feet tall... they are so you can call the cops directly if you're being raped or mugged or whatever. i was cruising along probably 20mph through campus shredding the gnar i guess, saw some amazing girl- my head turned and followed her for way too long. she was looking back at me. i was not looking where i was going. i nailed one of the emergency phone towers. it fucked me up pretty well, bent my bars and ruined a cable bent brake lever, etc. by the time i got myself off the ground that girl had walked out of sight. probably laughing her sweet ass off. was less embarassing than it should have been.

Haha, that sounds familiar.

When it happened to me I was going at a cruising speed though... luckily. She was walking by a few feet away. So I said hi as she walked by. I looked back and so did she then BAM, I hit that damn bright blue pole with an emergency light on top with the right side of my handlebar. She laughed then stopped herself and asked if I was OK. I told her it was her fault, she laughed and now she's in one of my classes.

[publicenemy245]

my pants fell down when i was biking,
i was bunny hopping a curb and they just fell down

[hopsalot]

Almost poked my own eye out with an alan wrench, darn thing slipped right off a chain ring bolt and into my face. I was quite sure I lost an eye, when I stood in front of a mirror and had a look there wasn't even a scratch.

[johnglazer]

having my camelbak mouthpiece swing up and hit me in the eye, (partially)causing me to screw up my move, causing my foot to land in a puddle of nasty James River water.

[Chader]

We were doing a BMX freestyle & trials demo at the big state summer games. I was doing my trials stuff and they other guys were airing out on a big box jump. One kid decided to drop his pants on approach (his jersey was covering his bare ass). Then he aired the launch and his jersey flew up he mooned the entire crowd of 3000 people (including the state governor). I have a pic somewhere. The announcer played if off like an accident saying it happened because of his "baggy" pants. They didn't realize he did it on purpose.

My worst moment was riding to class on campus in the best weather day of spring. Hundreds of people were in the commons area soaking up the sun. I was riding to class on my MTB and doing long wheelies and some stairs. I decided to roll down a set of 5 instead of wheelie droping because I had my back pack full of books. When I hit the last step my bag shifted forward and I stacked it over the bars right onto my face. I didn't even get my hands out. Everybody was laughing as I rode off to class bleeding.

[phillip_b9]

Was riding on my street one day. And of course there have to be cars parked on the side of the street and not in their driveways b/c people are retarded. So i was just riding enjoying myself and then my chain started to skip a bunch so i look down to see what's up. Do this for a while, then i started to slow down... so i decided to pedal faster to gain some speed so that i could coast longer. The dumb thing was that i did this without looking up. So then all of a sudden i find myself being sacked by my stem. Turned out that i had swirved to the right and ran into a parked car. This wouldn't have been that bad if no one was there....but i had perfect timing, i managed to hit the car right when the owners were walking outside. So they yelled at me and i booked it before they could find the dent... :wiggle:

[rush]

i was trying a handrail and i kept coming up short and hitting my down tube, finally i got some balls and gave it my all(first time doing a handrail) well i overshot it a bit and slipped off did some kind of circus of the stars improv move and hit the rail with my taint and i ended up peeing abit.....besides traring me a new ass it was quite uncomfortable.
the local spanger(spare changer) had a good hoo ha

:rofl:

[rush]

So the tensiles were as tight as your girlfriend? :momaru:


Serious, one swing with her massive boobers and youre out. :eek3:

Sorry Pav. :noes:

Edit: But its true.

[jonus]

I was tieing my bike onto my rack when the strap snapped and i punche myself in the face! Black eye and swollen nose.

[Shato]

One of my friends in high school: We're riding home on the street, three of us side by side, with him on the outside closest to traffic. We're approaching a parked car and he doesn't move over to give us room, so we both have to slow down not to hit it. I figured he was trying to pinch us off, but as we slow, I can see him looking back at us with a confused look on his face. "DUDE! Look out!" "Wha..?" interupted by *BAM* as he blind sided himself with the parked car, right over the trunk and onto the rear windshield with his bike parked neatly on top of himself, air hissing out of the front tire.

It's one of those times that you feel really sorry for the poor guy, but can't stop laughing long enough to catch your breath to even give him a hand. Nothing worse then having to walk your sorry broken ass bike home after you pwned yourself in front of an audience.

[stocktrials]

years ago i went to cross a busy main street in the city (George st) and pressed the front brake to bring the back wheel up a gutter and went over the bars. it was a busy weekend, middle of the day. that was embarassing


last Wednesday nite in the city (notice a theme?) it was dark and i landed a sidehop, came back down and rolled away to do an endo crankflip. got it, but then my foot only landed on the edge of the pedal and hit my shin. lots of blood. 2 girls sitting on the stairs. not fun.

[drtbiker620]

in the middle of the town square there is a fountain ring around the bottome and a smaller one on the top. ive been scouting the fountain for months waiting for the day they leave the water off so both rings are dry. finally they leave it off for a couple of weeks. i stuck it after a few tries landing rear wheal on botton ring the side hop to top ring landing on rear wheel across and down the other side. i was so siked. anyways so were the ppl around me then i went to put my foot down only to realize my pants got caught in the chainline and over i went kinda like when you foot gets stuck in a clippless pedal. ya it sucked.

[Gunner]

was fuckin aound doing a wheelie down my street at the start of a ride. Was falling back so i tap my brake. Overcomensated and began to pedal to get the front back up. My chain snaps...all my momentum was going forward. I go over the bars, hands and face smack pavement and my bike and feet proceed up and forward making for the most painful scorpian of my life.

Of course these two smokin chicks who live between me and campus who i walk by everyday were out hackin a butt. Im pretty sure they laughed everytime i passed for the rest of the year

[hophopsnap]

another one-I was building a sick Felt roadbike for a customer, well if you've built bikes before, you know that they come with this little plastic support that sits where a hub would sit in a front wheel. well the bike was up in the stand, and I was pushing down on the plastic piece to remove it, it didn't go at first, so I gave it a nice shove. of course it popped out instantly, and my neck went right into the steerer tube, it didn't have a stem on it yet, so it was like a mallet slamming into my adams apple. hurt like hell.

[WhiteRavenKS]

shop stories eh? helping some girl out with her bike, her chain looked like it had 40 bbq grillings on it so im wiping that down explaining maybe that's why her shit wont shift. im busy looking at her rack or something and the chain snags the rag while im backpedaling the cranks with my other hand, the rag hand gets pulled between the big ring and the stays and one of the teeth pushes through my thumbnail. starts bleeding really badly and she is freaking out and i say "so basically keep your chain clean and use some chain lube on a regular basis and you should be all set... im going to go take care of this thumb now."

[hophopsnap]

keke. I was putting a new tube in a 29er with floppy ass sidewall tires, I wasn't paying attention with the compressor and the sidewall pops off the rim, I can only think oh fu...BOOOM. best part was, there was 3 little kids watching me, about 2 feet away. scared the bejesus out of all of them.

edit-its also fun when you accidently drop/slam someones part/bike into a solid object, and they are standing right behind the counter.

[Shato]

...Of course these two smokin chicks...

There seems to be a repeating theme throughout many of these stories: Take any ordinary everyday accident, add at least one hot chick and you end up with a testicle threatening disaster. I'll have to watch out for that.

[ronan_zj]

hmmm.
gangs:" Wow, how must does ur bike cost??"
me:" hmm, about $1500..."
gangs:" WHAT??? you can down payment a car!!!"
me think:" SHIT".

[Cryo-Cube]

ahaha
you actually tell thugs how much your bike really cost?
Whenever some suspicious assholes come up to me and ask me how much my bike cots i tell them i bought it used for like 200€

[WhiteRavenKS]

There seems to be a repeating theme throughout many of these stories: Take any ordinary everyday accident, add at least one hot chick and you end up with a testicle threatening disaster. I'll have to watch out for that.


why would you be embarassed about wrecking in front of some dude-bros?

[jmkimmel]

I ended up falling in a goose-shit filled lake in the middle of San Francisco while on a big group ride - like 6-7 of us. It wouldn't have been bad if I was actually doing an interesting/hard move - I was just rolling along next to the water, and boom....in I went. 1 dead cell phone, and I stunk of goose shit for the rest of the ride.

[Macbeth]

I was out riding natural once, and for some reason had the feeling that I cracked my steerer tube..... So I pulled the stem off and slid the fork out a bit to check. The top race of my King headset popped off and feel down between some rocks.....

It took Peace, Simon and I about an hour of searching with a mobile phone flashlight and lifting some seriously heavy rocks to get it out..... But we did, and kept on riding.....

[Povi]

you lose everything when riding natty

hahahaha

[Sneaker]

i rode on a shit.i had to compete in my first comp later. a gave a good first impression to other riders.

[Mango]

my friend was riding with these hagard old jeans and he tried to give the bike a good kick. Right when he kicked his jeans got caught in the chain and bam jeans tore right off him. He had to ride half an hour home in boxers people gave us such rediculous faces

[THE MANGLER]

Just the other day, after building my new bike, i went for a test ride to set the rear hub (profiles must be "set") I took one good crank and the next thing I knew I was sailing head first through the air. I went over the bars, slammed into a railing and broke a spoke. When I stood up, my pinkie was at a 90d angle. All of this in front of a thousand witneses (rush hour traffic outside the bike shop).

[Alex_M]

Haha this is a combo... so im just riding down a street and while taking a short cut i was bunny hopped on my trials bike over a small curb and landed onto a hill (i was going fast) but i landed a bit sideways so my front wheel sliped away from under me, and i went over my bars in a weird way and i was tangled in my bike, lol plus i ripped my shorts in the middle. and two hot chicks were walking by.... lol jk there were no hot chicks only other riders, but still it was pretty bad

[spoke2570]

Popped open the QRs and brakes on my commuter at the coffee shop on the way home from work (for security). Forgot.

Had to shoulder check several displays as I rode through the beer store, unable to stop.

They still sold me a sixer.

pete b

[stewpend0us]

lol SHIT NO BREAKS...i've done that before only into some bushes not a store. No one was around to witness it either, except for the four smokin hot chicks that typically hang around my place.... so it was okay

[spoke2570]

Lucky my wheels didn't fall off...

pete b

[Keith Courage]

like 20 minutes ago I was giving this cute girl eyes while walking with my bike, holding a 20oz sprite, and throwing my shirt over my shoulder. Lost control of my bike and wound up tangled on the ground. Its cool because moments before I was impressing her with my gnarly flatland pedalkick skills.
:rofl:

[MontyBry]

not really embarrasing cause no one saw it but i was wiping down my front disc brake with a rag spinning it while holding the rag on the disc. well i go and spin it and something distracts me and i spun it alittle too quick. well my finger gets hung up in the disc and slices the top part of my middle finger wide open. pulled it out and was like shit it doesnt hurt...i fucked it up. so now i have no feeling in the top of my middle finger.

[dkoppric]

my fork snapped off at the steer-tube (clean off) at vail with a good number of onlookers and pretty much was face down on a rock.

[Mordax]

my back wheel fell outta the drop outs once. my friend had just fallen, so i pedalled real hard to go over and laugh at him. out came the wheel, jammed against the brakes, and i basically did a front flip off the bike. people all around me, and to someone who didn't know what happened, i musta looked pretty damn funny...riding as normal, then BAM, front flip. knocked all the wind outta me so when people came up to ask if i was ok i just sat there wheezing unable to say anything

[sethman]

like the day that i got my eno, i was out riding and i had just gotten to a spot and there was like a drum circle right next to me and i had just taken off my camel bak an i was just getting ready to take off and i went to grab my pedal with my foot and the eno spun really fast and i went to hop on and i fell and i handnt even rode a foot yet. i fell and every one laughed and then it was all better cuz i showed up those mutherfuckers with the beat they gave me. and then i rode away and i felt better and rode better cuz i had a brand new eno. whoa!!! did i just list a drawback of the eno?

[eturt9]

the other week i was riding to a different spot with my helmet off in the front of a pack of about a dozen riders. I had my helmet hanging off the left side of the bar, Some how i ended up getting caught on the helmet strap which caused it to pull the lever.. resulting in me flipping over the handlebars out of the blue. Not the most embarassing thing ever, but more hilarious.

[templarbond]

The seat front on my planet-x actually went through my shorts on a dodgy landing.

[zorak]

The seat front on my planet-x actually went through my shorts on a dodgy landing.

seats suck!

[spoke2570]

The sucking noise must have been from removal.

[Free-Ride-Junkie]

like the day that i got my eno, i was out riding and i had just gotten to a spot and there was like a drum circle right next to me and i had just taken off my camel bak an i was just getting ready to take off and i went to grab my pedal with my foot and the eno spun really fast and i went to hop on and i fell and i handnt even rode a foot yet. i fell and every one laughed and then it was all better cuz i showed up those mutherfuckers with the beat they gave me. and then i rode away and i felt better and rode better cuz i had a brand new eno. whoa!!! did i just list a drawback of the eno?


All freewheels spin fast due to no drivetrain drag. :run:

[stocktrials]

one time this chick friend asked me to bunnyhop her mate at this gathering. i had been drinking bourbon of course. (i had my bike there cos i dropped in after a ride)

friend lays on the grass (which was wet). i'd already dropped off the balcony brick wall which was shoulder height. so i come along the grass and go bunnyhop but the wet had slowed me down..










only *just* cleared the dude, tweaked it mid air and when i was pushing the back wheel down i thought "oh shit"

lucky. phew.

[Bikeme]

When I first started trialsin' around age 14, I had an old specialized hardrock which was slowly falling apart. I eventually got a bashguard put on it, and since I naturally now assumed I was the shit, I went off riding the main, very busy street of my town to pull some maaad pedalkicks and impress the hawt post-pubescent chicks with a few friends.

Unfortunately, my bashguard skillz were not yet honed, and my pants AND shoelace somehow managed to get wedged into the junction, rendering me unable to pedal. I realized this about 20 feet before the intersection..light changed red at a very busy corner, I panicked and just jammed on the brakes without fucking thinking about it at all. My natural survival instincts kicked in, and while I still had a bit of momentum, I put down my good foot to keep me upright, the one that happened to be attached to my bike.

I swerved hard to the right and ate a shitload of pavement in front of packed sidewalks and crosswalks of pedestrians. People on the crosswalk tried to help me up, and I had to explaint what was happening. I ended up half shuffling half getting dragged over to the sidewalk to try to untangle the shoelace.


I've also destroyed a few pairs of those sweet azz nylon or what-have-you shorts by being a douche and leaning back really far to show off my lack of a seat when I'm riding with friends, and burning the ass crack right off.

[Shorty2020]

One day i was out with a friend and we found this nice skinny made of concrete that sloped kinda of steep with a slight turn in it around the side of this building. So i hop up on the skinny and get a good kick in to get some momentum going. Being the first time i had ridden this skinny i was watching it and not where i was going. Just as i got around the corner there was a sign about head hieght and i smashed the top of my head into it and got closelied off my bike. Landed on my back on te skinny bruised two ribs then rolled off of it and smashed my knee into a concret parking block and cracked it. Normally not embarrasing except to me and my friend, and i dont care for his opinion, but the building was a cheer school, and my timing was greta just as a group of hot cheerleaders walked out is when i hit the sign. So i got up smiled at them then proceded to act casual and get on my bike and roll off, as soon as i was out of sight i fell to the ground in agony as there was a not on top of my kneecap the size of a golfball.

[stocktrials]

as mentioned, hot girls + trials riding are just not meant to be.

*sigh* :(

[afrobot]

>Age 4: rode down a 6 set on a tricycle. Recieved concussion.
>Age 6: in fit of anger rammed neighbors gate ,which was anchored. Received large gash on head.
>Age 12: Exited about my new Auburn race bike with profiles ,I tried to gap over two parking blocks for friends. Clipped rear tire to homebase slide, u-lock key stabs me in stomach. Teacher later directs me to office as puddles of blood form on carpet below.
> Age 15: After Two hits of acid ,1 period of biology, and a tennis class ending in 63,000,000,000 tennis balls appearing to come at me at once ,I rode home on April 16 the anniversary of Dr. Albert Hoffmans discovery of the drug. Forgetting how belligerated I was I did a large tranfer from a transitioned driveway curb over retaining wall as I landed, I raked the paint of a car all the way down..."too fucked up to deal with this now"
>Age 19: While bringing lunch back to the guys at the record shop, hands too full to utilize brakes, this woman cuts me off. Same paint disaster.When she got out I laughed at her bad driving . Burgers survive unscathed.
>Memory loss....
>Age 25 Having gotten good at both one handed wheelies and finishing a beer in one go I combined both. I was almost done with the beer, when I tilted my head back to get that most delicious last sip. I landed on my back but finished the beer.
>Age 28 Doing Trials demos for New Belgium Brewery. I attemted, albeit unrehearsed, that trick where you hop over the attractive bachelorette.
I got close enough to leave a small tire mark on her shirt. Yyyiiiikes!!!
No idea if we were insured.

[rush]

Best post so far.

[eturt9]

:bowrofl:

[publicenemy245]

age 15,and on acid

[trauma100]

I fucked a fat chick once

[Povi]

:bowrofl:

how embarrasing

[hophopsnap]

one time when I was little I fell down a bunch of stairs and wanged my head on a trainer. the old school road bike ones with fans. had to get like 3 stiches.

newest story-was riding my hip new track bike, got about 6 miles from my house when my front tubular decides to leave me at 20mph, so I slide for about 30 feet, while looking behind me and trying to stand up on clipless road shoes, I didn't want to get fucking hit. so I eventually get myself together and start calling one of my friends to pick me up, and I realize Im in Lil mexico and all these mexicans are like WHOAA R U AOK? in broken english. it was pretty good. and then some sketchy guy was squatting across the street just staring at me.

[MIKE1968]

I was raping this fat girl and this cop came around the corner and grabbed me and I was like FUCK and then it was my dad and he was so mad I was raping a fat chick :wtc:

[Weetbix]

2 days ago I was pedal-upping the stage at a local primary school and, I don't know exactly what happened because for some reason I usually cant remember my stacks, but my back wheel must have slipped off and I hugged the bike and my ass slid down and hit my tiny little seat like a fucking hammer.

My tailbone is bruised :'( and I feel violated. All I remember is thinking "Fuck better watch out for my balls".

There was no one else there though.

[Povi]

:rofl:
that happened to me on sunday
i know EXACTLY how you feel
funny thing was that there were people around

[publicenemy245]

a few days ago i was riding up stairs, and my back tire had a lot of air in it
it bounced off the bottem step went really high i did an endo in to the stairs right in front of a school

[Fat Pants]

Wizzing up to a group of riders i was about to ride with, in full view, foot came off the pedal (trying to go fast) and nearly died! Fuck me, that was embarrasing.

And then when i was incompetant at riding, i was sorta trying to pivot turn around and ended up falling over onto the floor just from that.

That was gay.

[hophopsnap]

trials bikes at speed=death

I was riding my pure down a big hill part of a downhill course and I thought I was going to die.

[Peace]

I once rode this bike that had a 1045mm wb, 74degree head angle and 0 bb rise.... MOST embarrasing time of my life.

Peace

[Povi]

stp?
i know riding that is the most embarasing moment of my life

[Weetbix]

:ugh:

http://observedtrials.net/vb/showthread.php?t=28511

[rush]

:rofl:

[Pat...]

Last time I was in Ojai to shoot Seth, he destroyed his freewheel 10min into riding. On the way into town, I got up a 1' tall ledge next to a street sign. I didn't even know the sign was there amd scraped my helmet on it. After he broke his bike, we went back and he got his dj bike. On the way back into town, I did a no-footer off the sloping part of a curb, slipped my pedal, smacked my shin, and landed on my gear on the rear wheel. I fell right over.

While, I did this, a bunch of kids were getting out of school and were on the sidewalk. They and people driving down the street loved it.:D I wish I had it on video.

[Monty99]

once i rode on a super-fast part of a cycle-road under a bridge...
all of you know how terribly loud a rear HS33 on one of our bikes is, if you are going really fast. i wasn't paying attention on anything but on the sound of my HS33. as supposed, it was loud as hell (+ the resonance of the bridge above me)...but i didn't recognized a nun going right beside me. and she was like "uuuuuhhh oooooohhhh! dear god"
well it was more funny than embarrassing

[montyboi219]

I once gave my friend a ride on my bike he stood on the toptube and i rode, we were flying down a steep hill when out of nowhere we hit a speed bump he must of gone 12 feet in the air he broke his hand and i knocked 3 teeth out and broke 4 toes also made me piss blood, and to make it worse we crashed right next to a busy bus stop crowded with lots of people, it was awful, i still have nightmares :wtc:
Can i get a hug?
Adam :(

[montyboi219]

:ugh:

http://observedtrials.net/vb/showthread.php?t=28511
:wtc:

[rush]

:rofl:

[Tanner]

My friend (a Cat pro/1/2 racer), my other friend Jamie and I went out for a good 40 miler the other day. We're coming home on a SUPER busy highway, and we were using the sidewalk because we enjoyed the use of our limbs. We get to one of the crosswalk islands, and the cars have the arrow, so I yell to the guys "Slow down everyone, they have the arrow." About 2 seconds after I say this, Jamie hits my back wheel and just falls over (still clipped in) infront of a good 40 cars stopped at the intersection. Ah man, good times.


Most embarrasing trials moment was when I was riding some natural and I fell off a rock and went straight into the water.

As for embarrasing shop stories, I think hophopsnap said it best when you smack the customers brand new all carbon frame into something hard and they're standing behind the counter. Smooth.

[TampaTrials]

This one time, when I was at band camp.....

[Povi]

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[AndyT]

embarassing shop stories...


in college i worked at a TINY shop, the campus shop..like 10x10 feet :rofl: a little bigger but still...


this STACKED hot mama gave her bike in, and after an hour one of the guys started to joke around and then sniffed the seat (as thats where her wet vagina sat most of the time)...and someone saw, on account of our stands were right next to the door you entered in.

[CriPPle]

OK doesn't apply to me but...

Beginner trials rider friend, who runs american-style brakes, jumps on my brother's old 20" Monty. Starts pedal-kicking, rear brake slips as he lands on the downslope of a little divot in the ground, and he grabs the wrong brake. Rear wheel loops out along the length of the divot, and bike and rider end up launching vertically. He landed neck-first, with both feet on pedals and both hands on the bars. Forever known as THE half-backflip - funniest crash I've ever seen.

I did have one where I up-gapped from a pile of concrete pillars onto one of those temporary wire fences they use at construction yards. Landed it and pedalled off OK, but helmet caught a tree branch on the way down and I landed on the back of my head. Couldn't hear a thing for about 15 seconds... :barf: Embarassing because that's exactly what the other riders said would happen if I tried that move.

There was one other bad crash, but I can't seem to remember it... :ugh:

[stb222]

One night I was manualing my bmx rig down a soap box derby course (same one seen in the flatland videos, Dorkin' in York) and about 25 feet from the bottom I thought I saw a faint outline of a gate at the bottom and with just a rear brake I didn't have a chance in hell of stopping. The steel gate hit me both wrist and flipped over the gate and ate shit. I can't believe I didn't break anything. Nutting yourself in front of people is great too...

[THEDEMOLITIONMAN]

It would have to be on my Gt mod bike, I was trying to show off to this amazing looking woman.I went to drop off a wall and as I landed, the entire bike split in half. Then part of the frame sheared my leg and I was left standing there, while she was laughing. I'll never forget this part,she told me "next time, a hello would have been a lot easier" and then she walked away with a smile. While I was left there with my mod frame hanging over my back, held together by the magura cable.




there more moments, this one always sticks in my mind..

THEDMAN

[desvio2000]

it was a hot day and i was zoned out and just coasting down the street and i ran right into a parked car. I have no idea how i didnt see it, it was red too.

[johnglazer]

I nearly ran into my truck the other day. I was riding my old New Jack Flash, looking down at my drivetrain because my chain was skipping (I forgot that I had taken off the chain tensioner to use on my Echo, before I got my Rennen) and luckily stopped about an inch from the rear driver side wheel.

[trauma100]

It would have to be on my Gt mod bike, I was trying to show off to this amazing looking woman.I went to drop off a wall and as I landed, the entire bike split in half. Then part of the frame sheared my leg and I was left standing there, while she was laughing. I'll never forget this part,she told me "next time, a hello would have been a lot easier" and then she walked away with a smile. While I was left there with my mod frame hanging over my back, held together by the magura cable.




there more moments, this one always sticks in my mind..

THEDMAN
Let's not forget about the Monica Lewinski incident :momaru:



EDIT: Me catching a pedal on a fountain spicket and falling 6-7' directly onto my head and breaking my helmet in front of 300 people waiting in line to get into church in downtown Boston. :riaa:

[lucky13]

ah fountains:

Cheif Stealth fountain nearly underneath the Space Needle by KOMO 4 news building; Cool rock with stepps and stuff where a little drinking spicket is mounted into the rock for kids. I go and do a little rear hop onto it making it squirt as I hop away, but when I rolled back by it I noticed a little bit of leakage near the base of it. So I figure it's just loose and twist it some,.. it helps,.. then I giver her a whack on the top to snug it down and POP: GYSER TIME!

Pete and I look at each other and look around,... "yup, time to go."

[THEDEMOLITIONMAN]

Let's not forget about the Monica Lewinski incident :momaru:



EDIT: Me catching a pedal on a fountain spicket and falling 6-7' directly onto my head and breaking my helmet in front of 300 people waiting in line to get into church in downtown Boston. :riaa:

I was there that day,back in a late December ride in 04', I remember your crash. I'll never forget Ed Gildea saying "rider down,rider down"..lol:eek:.The Copley fountain is a few inches below 6' and there were about 75-100 peeps in line at the most...lol

What counts is, you got back up and rode some more.

THEDMAN

[Stikman]

Crashed hard back when I was 17 while riding on my way to the bikeshop I worked in at the time. I jumped a driveway kicker but landed weird on my front wheel. Went over the bars onto my face, shoulder, hands etc and ragdolled down the road a bit. No helmet, and blood flowing freely, I had this cute chick from the school next door come up and ask if I was alright.
I said yeah, as you do and she replies, "your my hero".

No shit! Very embarrasing.

[Henri]

My jeans got stuck in my front freewheel while rideing down a skatepark quarter. I almost fell over, and had to take off my rear wheel, so i could take off the chain, to get my jeans out. A lot of skate and bmx noobs were watching too.