I fell off my bike, when did you fall last ?

Hopefully there's no concussion or anything, Weepsie.

You poor thing! Fingers crossed you're alright. That sounds like a bit of a shock.

I also cycled in today and realised the error of my ways about half way in the middle of a blizzard. Really bad stuff. Slipped a couple of times but didn't come off luckily.

First race Saturday & first get down though not the usual way.

I was doing a 20min warm up on a set of rollers of which I’ve used about 8 times when something caught my eye & I hit the deck. Pure embarrassing but what can you do only laugh.

Had a very tiny bit of 'play' in the headset. Usual routine of taking of the all allen bolts, checking things, the saga that is making sure the front wheel is perfectly straight with respect to the frame. Put the headset nut back in, took it for a VERY short ride and was flung onto the tarmac soon afterwards. I forgot to put back in allen bolts on the either side of the handleset, thus steering was impossible. Zero friction to push against.

Hit the ground pretty hard on an already badly injured knee (from years ago). Was only traveling at only a few kmph but was not able to correct things in time - no helmet on etc. Who wears a helmet in their backyard? - I'm otherwise pretty strict about such things.

Got up and my knee felt unstable from the back of my leg. Swelled up pretty bad and was limping for at least 2 weeks. Average walking speed was down to about 3 kmph. Had to home office for a while (the best thing that came of it).

My walking speed, stability, double-support time only recently back to what they were prior to the fall - not a quick recovery. Back to same average speed on my bike as well.

A few years back I was on a cycling holiday with herself. One of those touring bikes with a larger fame and a far higher saddle than the one I am used on to (a 59 cm road bike). Out in the middle of nowhere, unfamiliar with the location. Stopped for a little while with the intention of checking Google maps. Thinking it was solid ground I was putting my foot onto, I fell sideways a drainage ditch, landing on my chest. A few light grazes on my legs from the brambles - the bike may have take a slight knock as well. She had no idea where I had vanished to but did an about turn and we were re-united. Was able to get back on my feet relatively soon afterwards, but I knew something was not right. She returned both bikes to the local bikeshop (so that we could conceal any evidence of a fall/crash).

Not much hassle for the few remaining days of the holiday, but when I got back to where I live these times, I was absolutly banjaxed (may have been the flight). Getting in and out of bed nearly brought tears to my eyes - visible bruises on my chest. About one week to be fit and well again.

Hit the ground this morning on commute. Back wheel slid sideways when I squeezed the breaks. Wet conditions were the main factor for it happening. Skinned knee and hand and bruised ego. Could be worse

66 years ago since I fell off, caused hole in heart, open heart surgery 1 year later. Result: survived both.

Took a nasty wallop this morning in the pissing and driving rain of my own doing. North Dublin quays and traffic was moving so couldn't transverse across to the bike lane before the four courts so continued down the bus lane with a wanker in a red Audi following and beeping. Car in outside lane again at the next junction so onwards and having overtaken a bus was conscious of a car close behind. Had a look and thought the kerbing had ended sooner so decided to move over to the cycle lane but hit the deck before I knew what happened. I've a 1500 lumen front light but in the rain the kerbing looked indistinguishable (where's the high vis for those). A crossing pedestrian enquired as my condition but thankfully nothing broken, hip and forearm took the impact so plenty of road rash/bruising through the clothing which remarkable didn't tear.

Annoyed with myself as traffic/cars typically don't phase me so not sure why I didn't wait another few meters for the actual junction. The yellow box kind of discouraged me as never pleasant crossing heavily painted road in very wet conditions given the risk of loosing traction. Been 3 years since I last came off the bike and that was in black ice at the Wellington Rd roundabout in the Phoenix Park. Been a very unpleasant few weeks on the bike and this morning really topped it off and soaked again on the commute home.

Bit of a tumble today. Downhill, in the woods, hit a patch of wet leaves on top of mud.

You can see where I hit, and where the bike stopped.

I did it a few times in my first weeks of cycling and decided I might be better off walking lol

Ouch. It's one of the reasons I'm wary of the overly engineered segregated cycle lanes. Yes, they're intended to clearly delineate "don't drive here", but in reality they pose a risk to cyclists who, for whatever reason, veer too close to the physical barriers. The fear of clipping one and being thrown into the motoring lane is always at the back of my mind.