Almost exactly 4 yrs ago. 400yards roll down the road, turn on to the trail, 50 metres later over the bars into a stream, broken humerus, 12 weeks off work, no riding for about 6 months.
Great start..
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Posted 6 months ago #
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Got my bike out of garage and was pushing it towards the front, noticed motorbike tipping over, drop pushbike, try and catch motorbike, almost fail, succeed by standing on brake cables and removing them from the pushbike. Great, dings in both my bikes.
Learnt to leave the motor on its stand now not just leant against wall.
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Yeah, pump tyres, get 30 yards from car park and rear rim peels out like a long piece of swarf and tyre goes bang. Done that.
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start of a Nemba race in the early nineties stood on start line for ages, straddled bike and tore my groin..
200m into a race at bingley was pulled off bike when bars got tangled in a spectators camera strap
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Done the rim blowing up one as well, road bike. Got a mile down the road, thought that it didn't sound right when braking, checked the rim and saw how worn it was. Dropped the tyre pressure to about 40 ish, just enough for me to roll home with minimum stress on the rim and I got to within 100m of the front door when there was a massive BANG and about a third of the rim blew outwards, mangling the tyre and tube in the process.
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Saw some fellow brits gooning around in Morzine on the Saturday night shortly after arriving. One of them ended up ovalising the bolt holes on his swingarm doing some drops - bike hadn't been put together properly after its journey. He spent most of the week looking glum whilst being sat in cafes.
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