Sometimes we are not the cycling gods we appear to be, occasionally we slip into human form and have the odd tumble, as this short collection from the past year or so will attest. Conditions (naturally, never poor bike control or bad riding) play a large part, a wet root here, a slippy rock there, a couple of die-hards who have yet to relinquish SPD’s for flats have paid the price. The young ones do seem to make a disproportionate number of appearances, enthusiasm outweighing experience and all that. Whatever the reason for featuring, suffice to say we've all had a good laugh at your expense. The biggest regret is these are only the mistakes captured on video, just the tip of the tumbling iceberg, the other ninety percent exists solely in the memories of those who were present. The slow motion over the bars moments and the inexplicable “not even moving” trips, those tangled in the bike frame contortions and the classic “Pensioner stuck in a cattle grid” where I was warned with a startling degree of fluid profanity against using a camera by a sexagenerian laid flat on his back with one arm and one leg stuck through the bars of a cattle grid.
As the saying goes, “It’s all part of the fun.”
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