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Dumbest moment you’ve ever had on a bike? I will go first. fender rubbing against the tire around the front fork. I thought “a good shot would probably line up that backup”, so I bumped the front fender behind the fork while cruising. A miracle I’m still alive. Your turn.

— Stephen (@NorthRoadSte) May 26, 2022

Let the floodgates open…

Not closing my back pocket with a buff in it… pic.twitter.com/GieQWwWZp0

— Phil B (@phil_b) May 26, 2022

I went to hold on to a bollard at a set of traffic lights to avoid unclipping. It was one of the flexi.
Need I say more?!

— Liz (@misslizmanning) May 27, 2022

Hmmm, the hard thing for me is deciding which one counts as dumbest…

There was the failure of the commuter unclip, but that was more the result of stubbornly avoiding buying new cleats until the old ones couldn’t…well, unclip…

Somehow having a ball bearing in my frame is there too…it’s a rattle that’s hard to get rid of…

Or how about as a very young child, having just learned to ride a bike without stabilizers when I decided to try riding a bike with my eyes closed would be a good idea… *narrator: “This n was not a good idea”*. ..our neighbour’s hedge has never been the same again…

Back home after lacrosse practice. My buddy told me to be careful because I might get my lacrosse stick stuck in the spokes.
“Don’t be stupid,” I said, “He’ll never fit between the spokes. And I stuck him behind the wheel to prove my point.

The lacrosse sticks will fit between the spokes.

— Jon (@Jontafkasi) May 26, 2022

I forgot I was wearing crampons. Forgot to unclip at a red light, on a main road under a spaghetti junction in Birmingham. It was rush hour and I fell sideways. I can still hear the guys in the white van behind me screaming with laughter. 🤪

— Peter Bailey (@FWPeterBailey) May 26, 2022

I figured that if I continued on to the badger crossing the road, it would swoop down before I got there and save me from swerving to avoid it. This was not the case. He just looked at me as I ran over it, then chased me down the road. It scared me.

— Marc Ruse (@marcruse) May 26, 2022

Come on, don’t be shy… share your dumbest bike moment in the comments… we promise not to laugh also a lot…