Globalti
Legendary Member
Oh yes! I've done that a few times in the past!
CycleChat's cycling twonk of the year
- Thread starter Jon George
- Start date
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Oh yes! I've done that a few times in the past!
No idea, it was a thread on this site somewhere. Had me rolling on the lawn with my family reaching for the phone. Again.
It's quite refreshing to hear it's not just me.
classic33
Leg End Member
Managed to get a 27inch tube to over 10 foot diameter. Checking to make certain I'd fixed the puncture. Then found I'd no tube.
Thought I'd see how big I could get it.
glenn forger
Guest
Went to inflate the Airzound on a really cold day, there was a bowel-loosening BANG and my ears rang for two days.
_aD
Do not touch suspicious objects
- Location
- East Hampshire, UK
I did something similar - camping trip to Porthmadog in Coldest Wales in winter. Forgot my coat. And my sleeping bag.
_aD
Do not touch suspicious objects
- Location
- East Hampshire, UK
I can beat that hands down. This week I went for a brief ride to check the tweaks to my brakes. I was paying too much attention to a van in the side rode I wanted to join, and as a result didn't see the car coming down my road towards me. He would have hit me were it not for his quick reactions. Never done anything so stupid in my life :-(
PaulSecteur
No longer a Specialized fanboy
- Location
- Walsall, West Mids.
My claim to twonkness is almost slitting my wrist on the large chainwheel when loosening a stubborn pedal suddenly became un-stubborn.
Oh yes... there was blood.
Oh yes... there was blood.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
I arrived at work one day in record time, it felt like I was really flying all the way in. Got off the bike to put it in the shed and saw that my pannier with all my clothes wasn't on the bike; I'd left it at the garage door. Nothing for it but get back on the bike to go 7.5 miles home.
Uphill.
Nobber.
GC
Uphill.
Nobber.
GC
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I fixed a puncture at home and rode to work across London. Carrying the bike up the stairs, the front wheel dropped off. I had forgotten to tighten the QR skewer.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
i've still got a scar on my palm for that…
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
OP
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Jon George
Mamil and couldn't care less
- Location
- Suffolk an' Good
I'm withdrawing my candidacy - the staggering twonkness being admitted here is out of my class and is of a quality I can only admire. 
Though there was that time I got lost on Dufton Fell. In a freezing fog. With a broken thermos. While wearing an army surplus camouflage jacket that rendered me invisible at a distance of ten feet. But since this is a cycling forum, I'm not counting it. 
Though there was that time I got lost on Dufton Fell. In a freezing fog. With a broken thermos. While wearing an army surplus camouflage jacket that rendered me invisible at a distance of ten feet. But since this is a cycling forum, I'm not counting it.
_aD
Do not touch suspicious objects
- Location
- East Hampshire, UK
I once cycled around the village I used to live in. It was day four of my cycle camping tour. Twas dark, raining and my lights were starting to fade. Not that it mattered much - the signposts were mostly overcome by trees and hedges anyway.
By "cycled around the village", I mean that literally. I managed orbit the entire place twice before figuring out where the hell I was and getting to my sister's place in need of tea and cake. That was a blimmin' good ride though.
By "cycled around the village", I mean that literally. I managed orbit the entire place twice before figuring out where the hell I was and getting to my sister's place in need of tea and cake. That was a blimmin' good ride though.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
how about fitting the cycle rack to the car driving 25 miles to the mountain bike trail then realizing you forgot to put the bike on the rack, does that make me a first class twonk
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
how about fitting the cycle rack to the car driving 25 miles to the mountain bike trail then realizing you forgot to put the bike on the rack, does that make me a first class twonk
That really is quite spectacular twonkness, if you don't mind me saying so, almost pathological twonkishness.
