How Could I Be So Stupid/Careless?

MAXWEDGECHARLIE said

@65TerrorCuda I'd forgotten my bicycle mis-hap! It was the time of The Great Escape. I took the fenders off the bike. There was a spot in the driveway that I used as a small jump ramp. A friend was coming through the yard and I said "Watch This"! I jumped and watched the front wheel fall off! The forks dug into the grass and I went head over. I had to get 7 stitches and I still need to comb around the scar!

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I did the same thing when my parents moved from Columbia, MO to Bristol, VA in 1969. My 1969 Foremost Swinger 20x16 was strapped to the back of the Mayflower moving van and it was the first thing off. I didn't know they took the front wheel off so it wouldn't keep spinning as they drove along. They put the wheel on and I walked up a steep hill next to the house and a cemetery and I took off. About a third of the way down the wheel flew off and I went end over end! Got pretty scraped up and the people living in the shack beside the road came out and fixed me up the best they could, and brought me and my bike down to see my parents. What a was to find new friends...LOL..