How about some embarrassing moments? Any stories?

[BikePimp]

Here's some of mine:

Riding down a hill, huge rocks, hard to stop, then the tip of the bike seat catches the back of my shorts and pulls them half way down as I raise up, in front of a couple hot girls that were going hiking, needless to say it was about 50 feet down before I could stop. Yeah riding baggies w/ spandex & no underwear.

Been taken down a time or two (grrr....maybe more) by bar ends catching branches and swinging me around and I take out my buddies behind me.

Went down a huge boulder on a hike & bike trail. Several people waiting at the bottom, making room for me. I've made this before countless times, but this time at the very end there was about a 3 inch rock out of nowhere in the smack middle of my path. Too steep an incline to stop so I endo....they start clapping.

Racing some out of town guys down a very rocky and slippery trail. One guy tries to pass on the worst section where you can't really pass safely, when he realizes the sharp turns ahead, he slams the brakes, his front wheel rubs mine and takes both of us out. I head straight for a tree, hit it with my front wheel and I endo till the point that my helmet hits the tree trunk and then I come straight back down on both wheels...he was less fortunate as he fell down 20 feet off a ledge.

Been riding mountain bikes since 1989 (BMX before that), so sooner or later things happen.

 

[FairfaxPat]

embarrasing moment

On a ride with Charlie Kelly one day, we stopped in the left turn lane to wait for the light. Trying to be cool, we did our best imitations of a track stand so we wouldn't have to unclip and put our feet down. Shortly after we started our track stands, a police car pulled in behind us to also wait for the light. Well, the light changed and I fell over, while Charlie rode through. By the time I got unclipped and stood up and remounted, the light had changed back to red, and Charlie across the intersection plus the cops behind me were roaring with laughter.

 

[orange71]

too many to mention over the years...but one thing you can always guarantee, you'll be on your bike all day and not see a soul, but the one time you make a pratfall there are spectators :roll:

 

[cherrybomb]

I think running into the back of a stationary car in a busy street in central Liverpool 'cos I 'went' when the traffic lights turned green and he didn't.

Earned about ten stitches for that one; a small price to pay for my dignity! :roll:

 

[Bike Hoarder]

Well here's mine for all your amusement......

Late for work, as usual, stopped at the traffic lights, just up the road from the shop. Lights are red, doing my usual track stand. It's going really well, i'm balancing good. When the lights change, if i'm quick enough, i'll catch the next set on green then i'm there. The lights change, i'm in a big gear for the sprint. Left foot push to power away with the right, bring the right foot over to power down....... F***ing freewheel slips, i crunch straight down onto the top tube, and collapse in a heap on the floor. Rush hour traffic, amd i'm lying in the middle of the road!!!!

I can feel the embarrasment still....

 

[Pickle]

Being 'Daddy Cool' in front of my kids on the green outside our old house. Pulled a huuuuge wheelie, one handed, ohhh yeeaaa, I'm cool. My kids and various onlookers are impressed.......and then I fall off the back. Hero to zero

An SPD moment in front of lots of people halfway round the Retro Ale Wobble. I'd just cleared a fairly tricky section, went to unclip and couldn't, SPDs clogged with mud. I went down like a sack of spuds. I would have normally laughed, but I was in pain because I'd landed on some rocks Ouch!

 

[stevet1]

One that springs to mind is out trying to improve my skills on a BMX riding street. Its dusk, low light, lots of groups of youths hanging around this particular area so I decide to head off somewhere quieter. Wanting to make a flashy exit I sprint at a short slope leading up to the main road hoping to catch a bit of air as I leave.
About .1 seconds before I hit it, when all my weight is over the front wheel pushing into the lip for maximum boost, I realise its a set of steps...

 

[velomaniac]

Built my own recumbent from shopper bike and lengths of wood.
Riding around my home town feeling very pleased with myself and waving to people as they grinned and made apreciative comments.
Everything snapped and came to a sudden halt in front of a bus stop full of the local jeering teenage youth.
Had to unpick myself from the wreckage, scoop up the bits and drag my peice of modern contemporary sculpture back home with the teens laughs and taunts ringing in my ears !!!!!!

That did not teach me, as I still try and create Frankenstein bikes but I test them only in the depths of night just in case !

Cheers

 

[Hilts]

spd timbeeeerrrrssss - Too many to mention
Crashes - Too many to mention (see sig)

However, at an adventure race with mixed teams I tried to be a smart ar*e and overtake this woman by jumping onto the higher line which was parallel to the main trail, just as I tried the jump my chainset slammed into a tree stump that was inbetween the two lines, i cartwheeled over with the bike on me and went bloody flying...it hurt so bad i couldn't move for ages, there were lots of people riding past asking if i was ok, all i could do was wave as i fought to get some air back in my lungs... Worst riding moment ....

 

[FRED101]

Just coming out of a singletrack in the woods onto a highly frenquented highway. Just between me and and the road a concrete wall about 3 feet high and in front of me on the other side of the road, a long line of cars waiting for the red light to become green. So i come out the woods and take right to climb a bit along the highway and pop a wheelie, something i don't master at all, i lift the wheel too high and and i make the turtle : in this case it means disapearing behind the small wall, with the car drivers only seeing my wheels standing up right as i stayed cliped to my pedals. so you can imagine the following trying to unclip and go on with my route not looking at my amused public and back to the woods and loved singletrack. I've never had so much public for such a bad move.
i don't mention going on a ride before having a shit and coming back without a t shirt left on the way in the bin.