Has anyone ever fallen asleep riding a bike?

"Asleep at the wheel: second driver reports nodding off before fatal...," by Tom Held.

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Permalink Reply by Matt M. 18.5KM on September 6, 2014 at 6:04pm

awesome


David Barish said:

I don't think I fell asleep while riding but when I was younger and stupider I rode home from a bar after our softball team won our league. I have no idea how I got home and awoke under my bike on the front porch of my apartment the next morning.
Permalink Reply by T.C. O'Rourke on September 6, 2014 at 9:46pm

Never fell asleep, but I hallucinated during the Paris-Brest-Paris.  I kept thinking I was on a bike trail in Florida, where I lived briefly, but never biked.  It was vivid enough that I could hear --and even smell-- the surf. 

I see most of the stories here are from randonneuring, which typically involves sleep deprivation.

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 8, 2014 at 7:08am

Back when I was 14 or 15, I used to go to summer school, go hang out with friends, then work after. I would ride about nine miles at six in the morning, and ride home around the same distance around midnight. My mom lived in a very rural area of Michigan, so it was rare that I would see a car on weekdays at night while riding home.

I know there were at least two times where I was so exhausted on the ride home, riding my bike on autopilot, that I had dozed off for a few moments. I'm glad that nothing terrible happened.

Permalink Reply by Tominator on September 8, 2014 at 9:09am

Almost. On RAGBRAI. Not enough sleep. Oddly enough, a craft beer fully revived me. Not. Kidding.

Permalink Reply by Gecko on September 9, 2014 at 3:00am

Years ago when I was racing mountain bikes in college, a teammate and friend forgot to take his narcolepsy pills before an XC race and fell asleep while racing.  He woke up somewhere off the trail, laid out in the woods, and got back on and rode to the finish, but the race was over.

Permalink Reply by Tominator on September 9, 2014 at 9:06am

It was the beer tent they set up each day....what is the name of that Iowa brewery? Really good stuff.

Back Pocket Brewing.

Serge Lubomudrov said:

Ha! Which one?

Tominator said:

Almost. On RAGBRAI. Not enough sleep. Oddly enough, a craft beer fully revived me. Not. Kidding.

Permalink Reply by Michael Lemberger on September 11, 2014 at 7:38am

Two words:

Trans Iowa.

Glamor

It was 10 p.m. and we were at a convenience store in an Iowa town whose name we didn't know. Mile 180.

Permalink Reply by Marty A. on September 11, 2014 at 7:53am

Yes . . . it was following the Baptism by Booze bar bike tour in the Summer of my first year in Chicago (2008).  I was riding from the LFP over the bridge to get to Old Town.  I am not sure if it was falling asleep or passing out . . . 

Permalink Reply by Steve Weeks on September 11, 2014 at 8:01am

It doesn't actually say that he fell asleep, though you'd think he wouldn't be at risk for cardiovascular disease.It has been known to happen, as with Ed Burke. An autopsy might have clarified this.

I've fallen asleep on a motorcycle a couple times, for a second or two... talk about adrenalilne rush!

Steve

O said:

Bob Breedlove died in this fashion:

http://www.rusa.org/newsletter/08-03-07.html
Permalink Reply by Christine W. on September 11, 2014 at 8:31am

I am not happy to hear about this Mr. w. 

Mrs. w.

mike w. said:

Nodded off during a brevet a couple of years ago... riding head down into a tough wind, staring at my front wheel... woke up as i rolled onto the gravel shoulder.

 

Permalink Reply by Captain Swizzlestick on September 11, 2014 at 9:06am
Yep, I nodded off once when I was on a solo tour along route 66. Somewhere in the cornfields between Springfield and saint Louis. Same thing, the shoulder of the road woke me up.
Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on September 11, 2014 at 9:11am

LOL. 

Christine W. said:

I am not happy to hear about this Mr. w. 

Mrs. w.

mike w. said:

Nodded off during a brevet a couple of years ago... riding head down into a tough wind, staring at my front wheel... woke up as i rolled onto the gravel shoulder.

 

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