single track... um. no track??
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single track... um. no track??
I think we've come up with a new extreme sport. Brush Scramble? No Track racing?
I decided to take a break from life today and get the bike out. Went with a buddy to another friends house. He's got several miles of "trails". Mostly ducking under and dodging laurels, forging rivers and creeks, nasty hillclimbs with logs halfway up. I bet we averaged 1mph today, lol. Was an awesome ride, but definitely the hardest ride I've ever done. I was wishing I'd brought a camera. We went up, around, and through some seemingly impoossible sections, and the scenery was absolutely beautiful!!
Nevermind the fact that I ate it this morning before I even got the bike loaded. I was getting it out of the shed, and going to pull it around the front of the house to load up. I was wearing only jeans and a t-shirt. My newly mounted headlight was apparently not on straight, and the bars got stuck hard right when the damper arm wedged behind the headlight housing. When I goosed it, bike went hard right towards the shed and threw me off to the left. I landed 15' away in my neighbors gravel driveway. Can you say catapult??? My left arm is all road rashed, and my fingers aren't working right on that hand, lol. I went riding anyway. Yes yes, I am an idiot.
WEAR YOUR GEAR!!! Wife was peeved when I came in all bloodied up, and didn't even have a helmet on.
I decided to take a break from life today and get the bike out. Went with a buddy to another friends house. He's got several miles of "trails". Mostly ducking under and dodging laurels, forging rivers and creeks, nasty hillclimbs with logs halfway up. I bet we averaged 1mph today, lol. Was an awesome ride, but definitely the hardest ride I've ever done. I was wishing I'd brought a camera. We went up, around, and through some seemingly impoossible sections, and the scenery was absolutely beautiful!!
Nevermind the fact that I ate it this morning before I even got the bike loaded. I was getting it out of the shed, and going to pull it around the front of the house to load up. I was wearing only jeans and a t-shirt. My newly mounted headlight was apparently not on straight, and the bars got stuck hard right when the damper arm wedged behind the headlight housing. When I goosed it, bike went hard right towards the shed and threw me off to the left. I landed 15' away in my neighbors gravel driveway. Can you say catapult??? My left arm is all road rashed, and my fingers aren't working right on that hand, lol. I went riding anyway. Yes yes, I am an idiot.
WEAR YOUR GEAR!!! Wife was peeved when I came in all bloodied up, and didn't even have a helmet on.
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Yeah, gear is important whenever you are riding the bike! I hope the hand is alright. Are you on the ice and ibuprofen diet!
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Re: single track... um. no track??
Not peeved. She just luvz you!juliend wrote:WEAR YOUR GEAR!!! Wife was peeved when I came in all bloodied up, and didn't even have a helmet on.
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Now that you mentioned it, I started think back over the years, and it seems that most of my worst crashes have occured when I was just putzing around the house, tuning, goofing around prior to loading, or in general just playing around with minimal, or no gear on.
Bad idea.
Bad idea.
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1999 Ninja 250 (Daughter's)
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