Spectacular but pain free bails
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So... The path devided and still ran parallel to each other around the side of the hill. One path rises steeply and it about 5ft above the other.
I get to the high point and chain suck stops the bike dead. Even if I had made it out of the SPD's there was no place to put a foot. I bounced off the trail below and down the steep slope into the trees below. I stop with my ancle stuck in the fork of a tree my head and shoulders in the brambles.
My buddies come to rescue me but are suddenly paralised with fits of laughter.
I have a couple of small grazes and an irritating splinter but I am unhurt. Anyone else have a stunning and pain free accident?
I get to the high point and chain suck stops the bike dead. Even if I had made it out of the SPD's there was no place to put a foot. I bounced off the trail below and down the steep slope into the trees below. I stop with my ancle stuck in the fork of a tree my head and shoulders in the brambles.
My buddies come to rescue me but are suddenly paralised with fits of laughter.
I have a couple of small grazes and an irritating splinter but I am unhurt. Anyone else have a stunning and pain free accident?
I had one of note years ago when practising for a DH round at Cranleigh...
Wooded section near the end of the course, narrowing through trees. It had been raining, and there were exposed roots on the ground making it a little sketchy. Came into a particular section a little off balance, and clipped a small spruce tree with the right end of my handlebar. This sent me somersaulting over the bars...
Miraculously however, I somehow managed a perfect forward-flip with a half turn and landed on my feet pointing back up the hill where I had come from. Grinned massively at my lucky escape, picked up bike and carried on.
I only wish that someone had filmed it!!
Wooded section near the end of the course, narrowing through trees. It had been raining, and there were exposed roots on the ground making it a little sketchy. Came into a particular section a little off balance, and clipped a small spruce tree with the right end of my handlebar. This sent me somersaulting over the bars...
Miraculously however, I somehow managed a perfect forward-flip with a half turn and landed on my feet pointing back up the hill where I had come from. Grinned massively at my lucky escape, picked up bike and carried on.
I only wish that someone had filmed it!!
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