Seems like lots of "when I was a kid" stories. Mine was when I was about 10. We'd clip playing cards to the fork with clothespins, and enjoyed the motorcycle noise. When the cards got knocked away from the wheel, we'd just reach down with our foot and kick them back into place. As I was doing this, I was looking at the bike & not where I was going. On a one lane, dirt road, a neighbor comes around the corner. I heard a horn honk, & looked up to see a stopped car in front of me. My newsboy Schwinn only had a coaster brake which of course I slammed on. Being on dirt, I instantly went down, which was a good thing as I went under the front of the car. The poor old guy hops out of his car, thinking he must have killed me. I crawled out from under the car & retrieved my bike. No serious damage but I was going to have to explain the scrapes to my parents. Don't recall what I said but I'm sure the neighbor checked with them to make sure I was OK.
Another time, I was around 14, and riding my first 10 speed (a double with 5 in the back in those days), a steel monster with steel everything (wheels, cranks, etc). Climbing up the hill toward home, I was hunkered over the bars, grinding away, not looking where I was going (recurring theme?), when I rear ended a parked car. After picking myself off the trunk, I checked out the bike and found the front wheel "taco'd". When I rolled it back a bit, BOING!, the wheel sprang back to round (more or less). I rode the bike that way for years & never noticed any problem. Plenty of other dumb stories but two is enough soul bearing. There was the cowboy leading the horse, crossing the highway, but I didn't hit them. dougP On Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 3:40:10 PM UTC-7, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > On a recent thread, we veered off topic things that might cause crashes. > Stories began pouring in, and they were fascinating and useful. I think we > should have a new thread here where you can contribute your experiences and > the rest of us can learn a thing or two. For instance, I didn’t know a > fender unsecured at the seat stay could cause a crash and now I do. I’ll be > fixing mine forthwith! > > I feel fortunate not to have any stories to contribute here, but please > share yours with us. Some of them might even be funny. (We’ll be laughing > WITH you.) > Leah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/29fb2ea0-b776-49e7-9852-b57f1656a29b%40googlegroups.com.
