FabSwingers.com forum: Did you fall off your bike when you were young?

By *ohnaron OP Man
over a year ago

london

In my case it explains a lot.

How about you?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Yes, I did. It explains why I never learnt to ride a bike with my eyes closed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yup, I still do in fact

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep, I fell off it a lot.

Also rode it into various walls too....

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Pushbike or motorbike?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not many times that I recall. I was quite a competent cyclist. I used to ride my Chopper to school.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes i went over my handlebars. Twas the only time i managed a somersault, my PE teacher would have been impressed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah - and I still fall off it today!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Still got scars from it well hidden amongst horse riding, motorcycling, sky diving and other causes of more scars now though...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes i went over my handlebars. Twas the only time i managed a somersault, my PE teacher would have been impressed

Been over the handlebars too, used my face as a brake. Have also squished my nuts on the crossbar and wrecked my then best pair of trousers during a long slide after taking a bend too fast.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I once tried going under a low bridge on a Penny Farthing with disastrous consequences

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes I did. Brakes went so I intentionally rode straight into the street lamp because else I would of gone into the main rd.

It hurt a lot but was better than the thought of being hit by a car. Was only 8....surprised I had the maturity to think of going into the lamppost

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport

Not fall off but I managed to destroy several bikes under me. The most impressive was a mountain bike crash which I hobbled away from with no major injuries despite having folded the front forks back about 30° into the frame after an especially badly judged landing.

Unfortunately somewhere along the line I lost the ability to bounce so well as I have had a couple of somewhat more serious scooter crashes since.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes I did. Brakes went so I intentionally rode straight into the street lamp because else I would of gone into the main rd.

It hurt a lot but was better than the thought of being hit by a car. Was only 8....surprised I had the maturity to think of going into the lamppost

Admit it you were aiming for the softer pedestrians and the lamp post jumped in front of you

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

Yes I did, I still fall off it now if I end up riding over grass verges

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

Yes, but as they say to airline pilots - any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. If they can reuse the plane it's a brilliant landing.

Don't ever, ever accept a lift from me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I did yes into a stinging nettle bush

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By *essandpatCouple
over a year ago

chester

I had a bike that had the big bar in the middle when I was younger, I had gone down a pot hole the bike jurked me forward off the seat and I hit my pubic bone x jess

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chopper or grifter which was the best

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By *irestorm 500Couple
over a year ago

coventry

Yes when I was 12 , hit my head I am now 53 and I still cannot remember hours of that day how it happened how I got home or how I got to hospital x Storm x

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

I never had a bike

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Once I went over my handlebars because I only used one handbrake to stop and it turned out to be the front wheel. Luckily a really good friend of mine was in front of me and he literally caught me in his arms, so I was fine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not many times that I recall. I was quite a competent cyclist. I used to ride my Chopper to school."

I'm sure you did!

Fuzz

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Once I went over my handlebars because I only used one handbrake to stop and it turned out to be the front wheel. Luckily a really good friend of mine was in front of me and he literally caught me in his arms, so I was fine.

When I was in Ohio, I rode a bike that had no brakes on the handlebars. You had to pedal backwards to stop the bike, that was kinda weird

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I once tried going under a low bridge on a Penny Farthing with disastrous consequences

Did you damage your top hat and monocle too?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I was in Ohio, I rode a bike that had no brakes on the handlebars. You had to pedal backwards to stop the bike, that was kinda weird

Was it a kid's bike? Most people I know in the U.S. learned to ride a bike on one with a pedal break, not handbrakes. Is it not the same here?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not many times that I recall. I was quite a competent cyclist. I used to ride my Chopper to school.

I'm sure you did!

Fuzz"

It's a bike, honest

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not many times that I recall. I was quite a competent cyclist. I used to ride my Chopper to school.

I'm sure you did!

Fuzz

It's a bike, honest

I know, my brother had one and I had a tomahawk. Although we both really wanted Grifters.

Fuzz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes I did. Brakes went so I intentionally rode straight into the street lamp because else I would of gone into the main rd.

It hurt a lot but was better than the thought of being hit by a car. Was only 8....surprised I had the maturity to think of going into the lamppost

Admit it you were aiming for the softer pedestrians and the lamp post jumped in front of you

I was only 8. Not that cold blooded and calculated haha.

I can actually remember thinking " I'm gonna head for the lamppost "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No Imy family cared to much about my safety to buy me a bike. Well that's what they said. But lyed as they were just tight and didn't want me to have one

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

I fell off fairly regularly. Made me the man I am today.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me and my brother were always on our bikes. One time we were making ramps from pallet wood and bricks, my brother said 'don't go on it yet, it's not finished'. Thinking I knew better (and wanting to be first for once) I went ahead. One scrapped up face elbow and smashed up knee later, and I started to listen to big Bruv again

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

When I was in Ohio, I rode a bike that had no brakes on the handlebars. You had to pedal backwards to stop the bike, that was kinda weird

Was it a kid's bike? Most people I know in the U.S. learned to ride a bike on one with a pedal break, not handbrakes. Is it not the same here?"

Well I was 25 at the time, so I assumed it was an adult bike. Whether there had been a brake pedal on others that we used I'm not sure now, but pedaling backwards was the only method of stopping on the one that I rode

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By *etanreadyCouple
over a year ago

dover

went over the handle bars when I was 12, lost my front tooth and still have a big scare on my elbow to this day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Push bike and motor bike. Never any broken bones but plenty of concussions.

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

"I never had a bike

Excuse me can I have a bit more sympathy please,the lack of feelings on here is terrible!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah I nearly got run over falling on a road.

Last time I fell i was d*unk though, I landed in a bush though so it was ok!

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Merton

Nope but got underneath my palm foot stuck between the chain and cog which rip a bit of my skin off

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Only once, the morning before a big dance show and I had big gravel grazes over both knees

My mum went mental and scrubbed my knees with neat dettol on a dry flannel!! That's how we rolled in the 70's, proper hard

Peach x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Push bike, down hill, summer evening, age 9ish, shorts and vest top.

Very painful experience resulting in me going over the handle bars and literally skidding the length of the hill on my tummy. Legs, face and hands badly mashed up.

But happy to report all healed and I've only tiny scars remaining.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I spent more time falling off than actually riding. I still can't ride a bike. I won't bore you with the health/medical reasons.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I never had a bike

Excuse me can I have a bit more sympathy please,the lack of feelings on here is terrible!

Aww you poor thing, I couldn't imagine a child growing up without a pushbike.

Here is a sympathetic and completely unprovoked sad face because there isn't a hug emoji

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Can't remember ever coming off my pushbike? Came off my BSA when it slid from under me on a roundabout where all the lorries spill oil, coppers just drove past me lying in the road like a dead ant!!

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By *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

On Christmas Day on my first mountain bike, I pulled the front brake instead of the back one and went right over the handlebars

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I fell off fairly regularly. Made me the man I am today.

This for me too

6yrs old- see above post

7yrs old- jamming sticks between the spokes and flying over the handle bars. Bumps and scrapes.

8yrs old- stacked it on a curb, resulting in half a dozen stitches in my chin a head.

12yrs old- playing 'burn up', big Bruv made me crash, massive graze down my face a killed the nerve in my tooth.

19yrs old- riding home from work d*unk, stacked it on a curb (again!). Dislocated collar bone.

Looking back all these 'crashes' could have been avoided

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

"I never had a bike

Excuse me can I have a bit more sympathy please,the lack of feelings on here is terrible!

Aww you poor thing, I couldn't imagine a child growing up without a pushbike.

Here is a sympathetic and completely unprovoked sad face because there isn't a hug emoji

Thankyou all is well now,I was starting to think everyone was heartless on here with their bike mishaps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I never had a bike

Excuse me can I have a bit more sympathy please,the lack of feelings on here is terrible!

Aww you poor thing, I couldn't imagine a child growing up without a pushbike.

Here is a sympathetic and completely unprovoked sad face because there isn't a hug emoji

Thankyou all is well now,I was starting to think everyone was heartless on here with their bike mishaps

It's no problem, if you want I can fetch you my bike, show you how to ride it then push you off. All the childhood experiences you missed in 10 minute

Because I'm nice like that

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

"I never had a bike

Excuse me can I have a bit more sympathy please,the lack of feelings on here is terrible!

Aww you poor thing, I couldn't imagine a child growing up without a pushbike.

Here is a sympathetic and completely unprovoked sad face because there isn't a hug emoji

Thankyou all is well now,I was starting to think everyone was heartless on here with their bike mishaps

It's no problem, if you want I can fetch you my bike, show you how to ride it then push you off. All the childhood experiences you missed in 10 minute

Because I'm nice like that

I have one now,although it's collecting dust in my shed and has done for a number of year's. I'm not very confident on it probably due to the fact I didn't have one as a child.

My elder brother got one which was then passed down to my twin brother,but did I get one did I buggery not even a second hand one!

I have issues don't I!

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By *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

"I never had a bike

Excuse me can I have a bit more sympathy please,the lack of feelings on here is terrible!

Aww you poor thing, I couldn't imagine a child growing up without a pushbike.

Here is a sympathetic and completely unprovoked sad face because there isn't a hug emoji

Thankyou all is well now,I was starting to think everyone was heartless on here with their bike mishaps

It's no problem, if you want I can fetch you my bike, show you how to ride it then push you off. All the childhood experiences you missed in 10 minute

Because I'm nice like that

I have one now,although it's collecting dust in my shed and has done for a number of year's. I'm not very confident on it probably due to the fact I didn't have one as a child.

My elder brother got one which was then passed down to my twin brother,but did I get one did I buggery not even a second hand one!

I have issues don't I!

Aww I now have a image of phoebe from Friends with her first bike

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By *illy_the_tvTV/TS
over a year ago

hoorn, Netherlands

All the time. Front flipped over the handles when it got stuck between a curb and landed elbow first, safe to say I have a lovely scar there now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I fell off and the handlebars broke my ribs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Only once, the morning before a big dance show and I had big gravel grazes over both knees

My mum went mental and scrubbed my knees with neat dettol on a dry flannel!! That's how we rolled in the 70's, proper hard

Peach x"

I had the neat dettol treatment when i cut open my knee rollerskating. Medical people would be horrified today!

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

No I got knocked off it, by a Ford Capri.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hit the back of a car... flew over the roof face planted on the bonnet slid off into the road to see the front tyres of the car smoking and the smell of burnt rubber in the air...

Not sure who was more scared me or the driver

Broke my wrist...lucky boy... and had to carry the bike home...

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Yep, I still do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Only once, the morning before a big dance show and I had big gravel grazes over both knees

My mum went mental and scrubbed my knees with neat dettol on a dry flannel!! That's how we rolled in the 70's, proper hard

Peach x

I had the neat dettol treatment when i cut open my knee rollerskating. Medical people would be horrified today!

Ahh, I remember many a dettol bath during the school summer holidays.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fell off my pushbike and broke my collar bone and 3 ribs, was told it was just a bruise and to stop my greetin' and get to school by my Mother, a nurse.

After I couldn't write, lift my arm or put a t shirt on I was reluctantly taken to hospital to be told it was the worst collar bone break the Doc had ever seen and I really should have been there sooner. (take that, Mother.)

Also came off a 125 when the rear brake cable snapped at around 40mph

was luckily off road at the time and used my helmet (not the purple one) to break my fall.

Never went over the handlebars, so I need a different excuse for looking like I've been hit with a shovel.

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

I did, crashed straight in to a fence when my brother persuaded me to go "no hands"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes, I was hospitalised once and badly injured another time. I was about 9/10 years .. :o

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I did, crashed straight in to a fence when my brother persuaded me to go "no hands"

Id say you taking a different kind of handsfree bashing these days ??

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Grazed my knees a few times!

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

I haven't fallen of my bicycle for a very long time. I've been knocked off it and gone over a bonnet of a car that pulled out on me a few years ago. Long time ago on a Motorbike over the bonnet of a car and a number of near misses.

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By *tep121Man
over a year ago

manchester

Hadn't done for a long long time.. however I came off last year. Skidded on ice, hit a rock. Had to shell out not far off £500 to get my bike fixed..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Over the handle bar, got a scar on my chin.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I fell off my bike... Unfortunately it was halfway down a hill and the bike had enough and left me to carry on alone

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