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06-20-2012, 10:57 PM | #1 |
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| Took a spill at the bike park today.
They built a new ramp at the bike park. My friend had done it before, and I never have. I got too much speed and did not know how much air I would have gotten. This is the result: Just a big scrape above my elbow, luckily no broken bones. |
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06-20-2012, 11:00 PM | #2 |
Newbie Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Alberta,Canada
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
ohhhh Dude, lol
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06-20-2012, 11:05 PM | #3 |
Gettin’ back on the horse Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hoonsville
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
We had a jam session a few years ago at some trails one of the guys got wasted and jumped the rhythm section as he went through the section he started leaning a little bit more and more as he worked through the section until he did what you did. It always makes me laugh. |
06-20-2012, 11:13 PM | #4 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: somewhere near Los Angeles...or a city looking thingy.
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today. I heard an "oh sh!t." This is what happens when you're multitasking down a horse trail on your mountain bike. I was fine 'till I got in the shower. It'll heal. |
06-20-2012, 11:17 PM | #5 | |
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today. Quote:
Showers + open wounds = Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
06-20-2012, 11:21 PM | #6 | |
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Seems as though thats the reaction to everyone's crashes, good ol' laughing. | |
06-21-2012, 09:49 AM | #7 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Under a Rock in North Texas
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
My worst crash....and unfortuantely I don't have it on video....was off a teeter-totter. We were riding one of local 6.5 mile loop trails one Saturday and they had recently put up a new teeter totter. I'd ridden across it a couple times about 2 weeks before, so I knew what to expect. Well, this particular day there were about a dozen people standing around watching others cross it. So I come around the corner, line up for the crossing, start up the side that's down, get to about the middle where it pivots, and bam! I fall off the left side on my face. I layed there for a few moments as I hear everyone else gasp, "oh shit", etc. and try to regain my bearings. One guy helps me up and we check everything out. No broken bones, a swollen left cheek bone, which leads to a black eye, some scratches down the left side of my face, but I'm otherwise okay. I pick up my bike, check for damage, hop back on, and continue riding. Even tried the teeter-totter again and was successful. After we finished riding, we were putting the bikes back on the rack and taking off riding gear when I inspected my helmet. Wasn't until then that I realized I cracked it in the fall. All the way through cracked. Felt pretty lucky at that moment. $40 helmet saved me a concussion and a trip to the hospital. Drove from the trail to the bike shop and spent $180 on a new Giro Xen helmet and another $30 on a Giro helmet pod. |
06-21-2012, 09:52 AM | #8 |
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
Oh man, thats doesnt feel good. ha! Helmets do wonders! Always wear one. |
06-21-2012, 10:05 AM | #9 |
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06-21-2012, 11:40 AM | #10 |
Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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That was a weak jump and a weak bail. |
06-21-2012, 11:44 AM | #11 |
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06-21-2012, 11:44 AM | #12 |
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
Easily could have ridden that out.
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06-21-2012, 11:54 AM | #13 | |
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Also, don't ever take your feet off of the pedals right before you land. That is a 100% guarantee that you will fall. Last edited by Duuuuuuuude; 06-21-2012 at 11:56 AM. | |
06-21-2012, 12:12 PM | #14 |
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today. remember, kids nowadays don't do as crazy of stuff as you and I did when we were young, the stuff they do now is classified as "hardcore" |
06-21-2012, 12:13 PM | #15 |
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06-21-2012, 12:17 PM | #16 | |
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06-21-2012, 12:19 PM | #17 |
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
Actually it does, say your back wheel is 24" diameter, your back tire is only about half a wheels diameter from the ground.
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06-21-2012, 12:25 PM | #18 |
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
I think your ready to go to the Whistler bike park... Here is what we ride locally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4NU4Ffe8w Last edited by cboggs; 06-21-2012 at 12:33 PM. |
06-21-2012, 12:31 PM | #19 |
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Did this last month mt biking. Rolled my left foot and broke my 5th metatarsal in two places. This pic is a couple hours after. Didn't go to doc till next day. |
06-21-2012, 12:33 PM | #20 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Under a Rock in North Texas
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| Re: Took a spill at the bike park today.
I do have to agree on the jump. Maybe a foot off the ground. This is how you jump: This isn't me, but it's my Raptor 350 hangin' in the air. Rider is my youngest brother-in-law and the "ramp" was about 4' tall. I snapped this pick over Easter in 2010. He launched the bike about 45 feet on that attempt. Later that day he launched my Raptor 700 53.5 feet! |
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