Road accident
When I was ten and my brother was eleven, we both got "new" bikes from our stepdad. We decided the best thing to do would be to take them to the top of the steepest hill in Lowestoft and see how fast we could ride down it. My bike was like the one I had learned on, and my brother's was one of the ones with the curly handlebars (EDIT: A "racer", apparently.)

I get to the bottom fine, stop and wait for my brother to pluck up the courage to speed down the hill...

As he rounds the corner, I hear his long drawn out cry: "I CAN'T FIND THE BRAAAAAKES!!"

At about 45mph, he reaches the bottom of the hill and slams into my bike in a futile attempt to stop himself flying off the end of the road into the sea wall. This sends me flying into the road and bends my bike in half, completely crushing his front wheel.

I broke my nose. He was never bought a new bike again. :D
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:10, 2 replies)

The technical term
for one of those bikes is "A racer". According to a ten year old me.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:16, closed)

I think my brother called it a "speed bike", which sounds like some kind of drug...
my mom called it "a bloody mess". :P
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:24, closed)