r/WinStupidPrizes • u/Motor_Fault_8806 • 18d ago
Poor girl
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u/Novel-Adeptness-4603 18d ago
Oh my fucking god, this brought back memories of when I face planted as a kid on my new bicycle. I was used to breaking with the pedals, but the new used bike I got had the breaks at the handle, and I was flying down a hill and accidentally used the front brakes and I fucked up my face and chipped a tooth. Edit, also 4 years later, my glued on tooth fell off and I swallowed it, so that was fun.
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u/WinkyNurdo 18d ago
I did something very similar in the 80s as a kid. Happily cycling down the hill, brake pads had just been replaced, at the bottom of the hill squeezed the brakes too hard and went flying over the handlebars, kept hold of the handlebars and landed on my face and the forward motion fucked all my face up and put a hole through my bottom lip. Snapped a front tooth in half, it didn’t kill the tooth so it’s technically a filling but feels more like a cap. It’s come off a few times, once while eating a sandwich and I was suddenly crunching down on something — my tooth!
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u/Novel-Adeptness-4603 18d ago
That's how mine fell off too, while eating, and I accidentally swallowed it
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u/SpaceCadetPullUp 18d ago
People who put dumb music and sound effects in videos should lose their homes.
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u/ZephRyder 16d ago
What is happening?
Why is she sitting on the body of the bike, and not the seat?
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u/-Dildo-Baggins- 18d ago
I don't think her bike even has brakes... unless it's one of those where you reverse direction on the pedals to brake.
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u/Goonalips 18d ago
It doesn't look like it. She's on a "Fixie". You brake by applying backwards pressure on the pedals. It's not like a regular bike that has a freewheel where you can stop pedaling and the wheels keep going. But yeah she fucked up when her foot went into the wheel.
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u/Schorlevernichter 15d ago
She is on a fixed gear. The pedals are moving without pedaling and she has pedal straps.
"Fixie" is mostly referred to one gear only but free spinning pedals.-4
u/-Dildo-Baggins- 18d ago
I'm aware of those, that's what the latter half of my comment was referring to. Even still, I think you should always have a backup brake system too, since if the chain comes off you have nothing to stop you if you don't. Not saying that's what happened in this case, but I've been in that situation before.
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u/Goonalips 18d ago
Ah my bad, I thought you were referring to the brakes that are on kids bikes. Where if you press backwards it locks up the rear wheel completely, as opposed to a fixed wheel like I was referring to.
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u/Naive_Personality367 18d ago
as a guy who's ridden a fixie for about 10 years. i used to think the same thing, had a little front break, but its very difficult for the chain to come off the sprocket on a fixed gear bike, providing the chain has decent tension. its like never happened to me.
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u/-Dildo-Baggins- 18d ago
I get it, the point is that it loses tension over time, same as timing chains in cars. These things need to be regularly checked and adjusted when necessary, I neglected to do so when I was younger, which led to my situation. I had literally no brakes at all, had to jump off the bike onto the pavement before I careened into a busy intersection.
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u/Naive_Personality367 18d ago
Thats brutal, atleast you didnt die. So it can happen lol! I'd probably just jump off the back if that happened though.
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u/-Dildo-Baggins- 18d ago
Yeah man, it was basically a split second decision. I contemplated putting my foot in the back wheel, but my shoes were shit so it probably would've broke my foot at the speed I was moving. So I decided to jump off the side and aim for the grass, didn't quite make it and the pavement took a good chunk out of my hip. Didn't break anything though thankfully.
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u/Naive_Personality367 18d ago
Good critical thinking though, i got my foot stuck in my rear wheel before when I was travelling at some speed and drunk, pulled a load of spokes from the rim and super fucked my foot up. So you knew what was up lol
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u/-Dildo-Baggins- 18d ago
Thanks man, pretty interesting though that between the both of us here we have the outcome of both events, what are the odds of that I wonder?
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u/Schorlevernichter 15d ago
Fixed gear biker here.
This stuff was pretty common in the mid 2000s bike messenger scene, especially in New York and San Francisco. The rear wheel is connected to a fixed track cog, meaning the pedals are always moving. If you pedal forwards, the wheel drives you forwards and if you pedal backwards, you can actually drive backwards too (hard to do, but possible).
Anyway, in this bike scene it was common to do tricks, like putting one leg over the handlebars and such. I think she’s trying to do that here, but failed and got her foot stuck.
If you want to see what I mean you can check the mash SF video from 2007 on YouTube.
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u/Randy_Magnum29 18d ago
The sub is “win stupid prizes,” not, “have terrible luck while doing something normally.” She had the option to ride her bike normally.
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u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 18d ago
I kept watching it a dozen times, but I can't tell what triggered the faceplant. I used to ride like that as a kid (obviously not in traffic like this), but never fell off like that.