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whats the worst ride you've ever had?
On Sun, 28 May 2006 09:45:36 +0100, someguy wrote:
caught in bad weather / injuries etc.. I have had 2- Actually I've never really had a very bad ride. But these are the worst I can think of. Coincidentally, they were both when we had visitors in town (for business). We had unintentionally developed a long-running reputation for abusing visitors! Probably the worst ride was one that started off with this long, long downhill. It had all sorts of switchbacks and obstacles, but was generally rideable for average skilled riders as long as it was dry. It was mid-summer and hadn't rained in several days, so it should've been dry. We were riding with a friend from Israel who'd done some mountain biking. I talked him into wearing an extra pair of gloves. It wasn't dry at all! The trail was slippery as hell - it was like a layer of slime on the top! Rarely did we manage a switchback without at least one bike going down. The Israeli returned my gloves, covered in mud...apparently he'd gone down quite a few times! He was shivering and hadn't taken a drink the whole ride, but was otherwise OK. One other guy was peeing blood after this ride, but he healed in a couple of days. Next to that was a fireroad & singletrack ride that had lots of tough climbs (http://bbauer.gomen.org/fpark/f12-newton.jpg going clockwise), but our visitor (from Sacramento, CA) said he'd done a lot of mountain biking. We hadn't realized how much different it is in Oregon, I guess. We got to the bottom of a very long downhill (just fireroad), and our visitor was just starting his descent. And then he freaked. I'm not sure if he used his brakes or not, because he just kept getting faster and faster. He let out this yell that just kept getting higher and higher pitch, until BOOM! He'd been veering left the whole time until finally he hit this ~3-foot tall log, and shot off into the woods. We lost sight of him in the trees. He came out of it without a scratch! Then it really started raining hard. We still had the long climb to go, but he refused to go any further with us. He sat there in the rain for ~45 minutes while we struggled up the steep, loose (and now very slippery) climb! -- -BB- To e-mail me, unmunge my address |
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whats the worst ride you've ever had?
On Tue, 30 May 2006 21:10:43 +0000 (UTC), BB wrote:
Actually I've never really had a very bad ride. I take that back. In ~1995, my first bike had a threaded non-suspension fork with this poorly-designed stem, which would never stay tight for any length of time. I went off a jump, not realizing it was loose. Upon landing, the front wheel went perpendicular to the bike and I was thrown into the gravel. It ripped the skin off my forearms, and scraped up a few other places. The sidewall of the tire was destroyed, so I had to walk the bike home, bleeding all over myself. This was in Dallas, Texas, and I had a job that required me to wear a suit every day, in the 100-degree weather, with my arms burning from ripped-off skin. That sucked. -- -BB- To e-mail me, unmunge my address |
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