[Closed] Have we done the cyclist riding into the back of the parked car yet?

lol. Garmin induced I think.

I've done it. Thank **** there was no camera. Though mine was more bloody, I broke the glass.

Saw that on facebook this morning.. Big guffaws 🙂

How embarrassing! I did this when I was younger, I was checking out a girl walking on the other side of the road, I went up the rear window over the roof and slid down the bonnet.

She laughed, a lot!

Did it when I was 10, focussed on a snazzy speedo. Lost two teeth!

I've seen it happen. There was a big group of us on a MTB ride, going up a lane and one guy was chatting away and didn't see a builders van parked on the side of the road. He put a big dent into the panel under the windscreen.

The builders all had a good laugh.

I skated into the back of a parked up Landy many moons ago. I was so drunk it didn't hurt so much at the time but I felt it the next day.

🙂

I broke both my wrists doing this. Ironically I was late cycling home after work to meet a financial consultant about setting up life insurance. A scaffolding lorry overtook me on a country road and then had to slam on its brakes because a car came out of a side road and I was on the rivet and a bit head down and didn't clock it had stopped until too late. The driver had no idea I'd run into him and pulled away again with my broken front wheel caught around his rear number plate dragging me along with it. The scary thing was my throat only just missed the scaffolding poles sticking out the back of the flat bed as I crashed into the back of it and they grazed my shoulder instead. All in all, a painful experience!

I know a CSO who rode into the back of a parked car on the longest straight road in the city. He's got some really impressive scars too.

We didn't wind him up about it. Much. 🙂

Ouch. I did it when I was 10- wanted to see how far I could ride with my eyes closed..... opened them after I landed on the bonnet of a parked Polo. the owner was gardening and was far more concerned about me than his car.

Once when i was in my teens ... still get ribbed about it 35 years on !

Did the same thing maaaaany years ago while out on a nightride (in the days before 'proper' lights), while smacking the torch I had gaffertaped to my stem as it had randomly turned itself off (for the thousandth time that evening).

Bloody hurt. And broke the bike. AND cost (my parents, ahem) quite a lot to repair.

Never done it since. 🙂

Local club rider rode into a parked car staring at his Garmin, broke a couple of ribs and punctured a lung! We all called it a Stravccident...

Did it on my Raleigh Maverick in 1989, over the bonnet of a parked police car! Hobbled together, no one saw and off I went. Was 11 and so no long term effects! My mate wet himself, literally!

Couldn't believe I didn't see a luminous panda car though!

A friend of my brother did it to a car stopped at lights 30 odd years ago. Through the rear windscreen and ended up on the back seat of the car with the two cops in the front seats somewhat unimpressed.

Good job he was on his bike and rode into a car, and not the other way around...

Yup done that, was looking behind me at the traffic as I was ready to cross, and smacked into the back of an MX5 - snapped the headtube off my Spooky Metalhead

yeah I've done that as a kid aswell - looking down at my clickety clicking gears.... WHAM!. Fat lip, sore nose, bent bike.

Kids are stupid.

<edit> just to illustrate that point further, as kids we did the tying bikes together thing, stronger rider giving a friend a tow. Going down a ginnel with a lamp post at the end I went to the right of it, person I was towing went left. Idiot!

Yep, also done that....

Thought I was the only idiot to crash into a parked car.
Riding to work on a dark foggy Sunday morning with little traffic around. Pull away from some lights on a straight road put my head down for a sprint, looked up when I was a couple of metres from a parked car. Didn't have time to brake and went face first into the rear window. Would have come of OK if it hadn't been for the windscreen wiper that's ripped my mouth and nose.
Finished my ride to work with half my face hanging off, my manager insisted that I go to A+E.
Why is it you get two attractive student nurses patching you up when you're wearing Lycra ghost white and shaking like a s**ting dog due to shock.

Riding in the snow I was keeping my head down to stop snow getting in my eyes and rode into the back of a car.

Chinned myself on the roof and bent my lovely Tange forks. Must of been 13/14 at the time.

Mate rode down a hill and straight into the lamppost at the bottom going full throttle fast (for a 12 year old), never forget the initial scream.

It's surprising how many of us have done that isn't it 😯

I did it in my teens, chatting away to my mate next to me, neither of us clocked the parked car until I was licking the back window

Best case of this I've ever seen though was on a wet and horrible commute, following a guy up ahead, he had his head down trying to crank along without getting too much rain in his face, clearly hadn't clocked the parked van, he looked up at literally the last second, managed to swerve and just miss the van.... only to pile into the back of the queuing car next to it a few feet further along. Poor chap was so embarrassed but fortunately not hurt.

Seem to remember someone here inflicting grievous bikely harm by riding into a skip!
Think it was the old "look down and check the gears - Boomf, where did that jump out from" scenario

Cyclists did this to me three times whilst cycle commuting in London. This was slowing down gently with one hand, and using the other to wave and warn them. Too busy racing strava and/or each other (especially on embankment)

Paging Samuri and PeterPoddy 🙂

wanted to see how far I could ride with my eyes closed

Did it in my teens. Bit the wing mirror off on my way over the bonnet and smashed a tooth. The ride home in the winter with an exposed nerve was fun...

Around the same time had a mate who rode into the back of an open van. Bike stopped dead, he didn't...

Yeah, done it too. Turned to look over my shoulder, whilst riding donw a hill, and for some reason slightly turned the bars to the left. Ouch. Scars still visible on hands.
This should be added to the 'things you only do once' thread.

When I was a kid I crashed in to the back of my neighbours car while learning to use spds. Thankfully at very slow speed.

Where's Binners? I recall he had a good intoface with a parked car 😀

Done this too but with a car that stopped in the middle of the road, I was going almost flat out. Landed in the bus lane, luckily no bus came as the shop owner that called the ambulance said the last person that did what I did (motorcyclist) got run over by a bus and died.

Overnight stay in hospital, CT scan, pain, comical swelling and bruising pretty much everywhere, broken collarbone I didn't even notice as everything else hurt more, 2 months signed off work and a four figure repair bill to replace the rear of the 4x4 I hit luckily dealt with by insurance company.

Not doing that again...

I did it a couple of weeks ago. A van overtook me and then immediately cut in front of me. I was so busy giving him the finger that I didn't realise he'd stopped in traffic and went into the back of his van. He gave me the finger back, which was probably fair.

Me and a mate cycled into a skip on the way back from the pub whilst watching a lady "getting ready for bed" in a bedroom with the curtains opened, well we were 16..............

lamppost, pissed riding back from a party turned back to talk to mate then just as I was going to look ahead again wallop, needed a tooth capped and had the biggest fat lip the next morning.

Yep, I've done it too. Car stopped at traffic lights, I didn't. Smashed his rear light. He got out, looked at me. Shook his head. Got back in and drove off. I was fine luckily. 😳

IIRC there was a chap on BikeRadar who actually paralysed himself doing this, and isn't there a school of thought that Davis Phinney's Parkinson's is down to his 'incident' with the team car in the 80s?

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Done it as a teen also, doing a paper round before school, fumbling away with my knackered downtube shifters, next thing I know I'm sliding off the roof of a parked car. Wheel was taco'd.

Yes, I've done this as well, except it was a double decker bus 😳

I was filtering without slowing in-between 2 lines of traffic towards some traffic lights. My mind was elsewhere and I failed to see the big red thing straddling both lanes and went into the back without touching the brakes.. ouch. Surprisingly not injured except bruises and pride.

Me too - 8/9 years old, racing my brother on my Raleigh Tomahawk, I rode into the back of a Triumph 2000, while looking behind me to see how much I was beating him by.

My dad had to fork out for the repairs to the Triumph's chrome bumpers.

Haha, I've done this. it's something you'll do only once! 😀 Not quite as bad as the OP's video mind!

Did this too when I was about six. Back of a truck, no damage, but my front wheel jammed under the bumper and the bike stayed upright. So tightly wedged it was too, so I couldn't pull it out. Had to run home and get Dad. Who was not seeing the funny side of it!

yep. back from uni, visiting the village pub using my old BMX from the back of the garage. Freewheeling down the hill doing that putting all your weight on the bars thing because the bmx seat was last moved when I was 12.

No street lights, hit the back of a van, 1st thing that hit was my face, luckily it was the 'soft' bit of the van where a window wasn't.

Not parked but I rode into the back of the car infront pulling away from traffic lights, they accelerated then missed 2nd gear so I ploughed straight into them.

And on a moped looking into a junction on the right to check for traffic and the car in front stopped.

And into the back of a street sweeper whilst drunk on a Sheffield Uni CC night out, I was running down the road in a drunken attempt to jump on the back and they stopped which earnt me the temporary nickname "the tank".

Paging Samuri and PeterPoddy

I was just thinking the same.

I was 11 on Usk high street coming off the bridge, blam into the back of a car, over handle bars and land on roof of car looking at driver through windscreen, poor driver had the screaming abdabs 😆 I cut my elbow pretty badly still not sure how.

Done the same but with a wheelie bin, kind of embarrassing.. It seems to be quite a common thing though!

Not a car or wheelie bin but I did ride head first into the canal whilst looking behind me for my mate on my raleigh grifter. It sank and I was covered in sludge and I stunk. Mom made me strip off outside when I got home before I could go in!

Riding up a steep hill,head down,out of the saddle giving it death.The last thing I saw before impact was a very frightened girls face staring out of the back window (tbf he was parked on double yellow lines).

had a guy do that in a time trial at about 25 mph

"Son of a bitch" indeed.

Amazing amount of buffoons on here

Mine was when I was around 10 or 11, going on a long uphill, struggling in 2nd gear on my Chopper, for some reason staring at the gear lever near my knees 🙂

Morris minor I think. So no damage to car.

Just out of interest, for those of you that caused damage to unoccupied cars, how many of you hung around to fess up and pay for any damage?

Just wondering?

My car had its bumper ripped off whilst in a car park and I was just full of joy that the ****t had just driven off leaving me with the bill.

I didn't hang around, mostly out of shock and embarrassment 😳

I slid a kmx125 into the back of a stationary car smashing my heel and fracturing my spine.

There's a bloke round here who's a quadriplegic as a result of doing exactly what was shown in the OP. He had 3 young children at the time he did it.

I rode into the back of a parked caravan (that I'd ridden past about 3 times) while "sprinting" against my mates, aged about 9. No real damage to me or it.

Then hit a telegraph pole while riding on a pavement on the way back from a night ride - turned my head so as not to blind oncoming cars and straight into the post which was set into the path. Luckily I was going slow as I was knackered after the ride

Age 14 rode into a parked Cortina and took a tooth out .I had a pair of new mudguards strapped on the carrier and looked back to check they were secure .Cost me a crown and a new frame for my Dawes 5 Star

Does the car have to be parked to count? The only time I've run into the back of a car was when I was doing ~30mph down a hill (in a 30 limit), a car overtook me and slammed on the brakes to stop to pick up somebody hitching.

Teenaged me looking down to adjust/index his gears going up and down the road. On the third time back down there was a Volvo estate parked where it hadn't been 2 mins earlier which I didn't notice until I bounced off the corner and slammed into the ground. After limping home and shaking for a while I did go and offer to pay, annoyingly the entire light cluster was once piece up the side, along the top and down the other side so it wasn't cheap. Managed to claim on insurance though along with a new saddle and bar ends for the bust ones from hitting the car and ground...

Also surprised it's so common but then teenaged guys don't have the best coordinated motor skills, add a bike into the mix and showing off/lack of common sense...

As a twelve year old I rode straight into a barbed wire fence. It was slightly difficult to spot as it was grey wire against a dark green field. There were some tyre tracks down into the field, but I really should have twigged. I ended up having a load of stitches in my forearms.

The thing is, I only realized later that the wire had been stapled to the back of the posts and I had ripped it off. Had it been on the other side it could have been very messy indeed.

I ran into a countryside bench today.
Up on Shotover and I saw an attractive lady walking towards me. Too busy noticing attractive to notice dog lead hanging from hand.
Enter Stinger Spaniel stage left.
I land on arse on bench edge and unbeknownst to me year of a chunk of skin under my long sleeve Tee.
I don't realise for ten minutes until I see just how dark and damp my left sleeve is.

I was riding some old raleigh BMX when I was about 8 racing my cousin looked back at him and ploughed into the back of a parked tipper lorry, almost impaling myself on the handle of a big latch sticking out of the back, luckily it just skimmed the top of my head... still a lot of blood though.

Paging Samuri and PeterPoddy

Yup. I've done it. Snapped a Sanderson Breath frame virtually in two and smashed the windscreen with my face.

Ohh come on Peter, we needed pics

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A chap in my class in Primary 7 cycled into the back of a bus. Was showing off and riding no handed while looking to see who was watching.
His whole face was one giant bruise, I can remember what he looked like to this day!

I've done this. LR Discovery at the bottom of my hill.
I was in full tuck looking at my stem. Bang.
No car has ever parked there before 😳 . Not a single mark on the Disco. My private parts were bruised and I hit my face on the stem so a couple cuts and bruises there too.

I managed to pull a similar stunt whilst riding home from Cubs.
I guess I was around 10 or 11 years old, riding along no-handed & was absolutely fascinated by my shadow overtaking me everytime I passed a lamp post.
I think I managed to pass about 5 lamp posts before I hit the front of a Ford Cortina, parked on the opposite side of the road. Rolled across the bonnet, up the windscreen & came to a stop on the roof!
Fortunately there wasn't a scratch on me, but I rode the rest of the way home with my handlebars at around 45 degrees!
It still makes me chuckle & shudder in equal amounts, if there'd been a car coming the other way, I'd have been mincemeat.

I feel like some sort of awesome rider as I have never ever done this

Ha, Panzerjaher, that's almost exactly what I did- I was watching my wheel reflectors in the shadow going ooooooh. Straight into a transit van.

[quote=Junkyard ]I feel like some sort of awesome rider as I have never ever done this

yet 😉

My brother and my best mate did this. My brothers incident wasn't so funny as there was so much blood everywhere....on the road....pouring down his head totally soaking his clothes, however my mates incident was ****ing hilarious.

The crazy ****er road himself back to my rents to get himself to the hospital.

Closed the old bridge at the bottom of the hill near my mum and dads as they were building a new one. But as you could still get a bike through I ignored the 2 mile diversion. Until the day the middle was missing....

Yep, another victim of the parked car here. 14 or 15 riding home from school racing my mate. Overtook them down a hill and looked behind to see how far in front I was, smack into the back of a parked car

yet

I have hit a stationary car on the drivers door ...in my defence I had seen it I was trying to stop but the steep hill , ice and the laws of physics conspired to over rule me.

Good friend of mine had to eat his Xmas dinner through a straw after doing exactly that....

A few weeks back, head down, about to cut a corner on a back country road, giving it some beans, looked up, realised there was a large pot hole, so prepared to bunny hop it on my cx bike, looked down looked back up - bloody great ox stood there. Skid to a hault, just touched it with my front tire, it took off, attached to a rope that was attached to a tree at roughly my neck height, with me pushing backwards as quickly as possible as the ox calmed down.

It must have been hidden in the bushes before, as it certainly wasn't there when I first looked up. Got a photo of it, to show the little one.

i did this cycling up hill - Rowley bank heading from Stafford to the Chase - some guy pulled up and parked, where you clearly shouldn't, i had my head down, wasn't going overly fast, bit of a clout, seeing the car last split second and knowing you are screwed stays with me!

I've done it too.