yup, crash last week and crash again this week…
my crash last night was just plain silly, was riding along our “warm up route” through swinley and decided to practice trying to ‘manual’.
All going well, popping the front wheel up, getting my heels down and pushing nicely to get a few feet of ‘manual’ depending on my speed, very much on a “look at me i’m a riding hero, send me your virgins for i will take their virginities using nothing by my awesomeness” type high after learning how to ride no-handed on tuesday.
(remember kids i’ve only been riding less than a year so everything’s still new and exciting)
flat concrete road and i spot a little puddle/hole and put the power down… accelerate towards it, pop the front wheel up as i exit the hole and for some reason my arms decided (without permission from my brain) to twist the handlebars around… PANIC! i’ve still got my weight forward from “popping” the forks to get the front wheels up in the first place… this is all happening too quick!
i land heavy on the front wheel pointing in the wrong direction and the bike does an impression of an angry hose with water pumping through, thrashes about underneath me and throws me off the bike.
(TJ – if you’re reading this then ignore the next sentence) I came down with an almight neck-snappy whack on the ground, vision goes funny and it took a while to get my vision/balance and brain back in gear.. helmet saved my skull from being cracked into a million pieces, possibly.. well it definitely took the majority of the whack and you could hear the impact a couple of hundred feet away apparently.
bloody scraped up arm, bruised hip and ankle, bloody shoulder and a distinct woosiness for the rest of the ride… but it was still awesome… i was out in the woods with friends playing 😀