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whats your best excuse for not riding scary bits?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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I'm a pussy
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I was about to ride a drop this w/e and bottled it on the lip, so stopped. Fortuitously a mate arrived at exactly that moment and called over to me. So I blamed him for wanting to have a chat (sorry Andy). But of course then I had to ride the drop, the first time I ever have too- and I was a bit chuffed with me for having done it. Go Ambrose, King of MincecoreLite!
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Werewolf 'drop'? Jeeez, reminds me of that little step at Llandegla (that's no longer there) that that club had serious difficulty with. There's a vid on youtube somewhere but I can't for the life of me remember the club's name.
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"Not on the Fixie"
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First time we went to Kielder, I rode Dougie's Day Off in the morning without too much drama, but then had to walk down it in the afternoon as I'd sobered up in the meantime.
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I just cleaned my bike this morning and don't want to get blood on it
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"What!.....ride that.....with my piles?"
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Some days stuff scares me and other days I barely notice it. Some days everything looks steep and others it looks small. I try not to beat myself up about it because life is too short for self induced misery. I just make a mental note of the blockers and then one day it just happens. I'm patient.
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for me, i think its just a case of wanting to get home at the end of the day in one piece.
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I've heard my self say it:
"I'm on the wrong bike".
Knowing full well I wouldn't do it on a bleedin Session 88.
Also, about the same drop -
"There's no point going down there, you have to walk back up again"Sounds like the Dalby Gil drop lol?
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"i'm a big girls blouse, deal with it"
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"I'll do it next time"
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wwaswas - Member
"i take less risks now with a 9 week old at home"I broke my hip when my daughter was 9 weeks old, at the local jump spot.
that was a tricky call home...
Why! Did she answer the the phone?
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I'm not stupid or immortal.
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Why! Did she answer the the phone?
I wish, unfortunately my wife did;
"Errrm, I fell off my bike and I've hurt my leg. I'm in an 4x4 ambulance but once I get my breath back and this dead leg goes away I'll be coming home"
She wasn't fooled and asked to speak to one of the paramedics.
Coincidently;
For the 4 days I was in hospital following the op to have my leg reattached my daughter refused to do a poo.
I got home collapsed on the sofa had daughter sat on my good knee and then, within about 2 minutes, she let the entire backlog out.
We virtually had to hose the lounge out afterwards.
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Amongst mine are:
1. "my cranks aren't warrantied for jumping"
2. "there is a weight limit on my wheels - they are not for jumping"
3. "my collarbone is still strengthening"
4. "my bikes a bit nervous on the steeps, with a 70degree HA and 100mm forks"I do find problems mostly on steepish stuff where it has been loosened up by people with much fatter tyres than me, really justifies excuse 4 justified when combined with narrow xc tyres.
My Flux frame never came with stickers so to the casual observer it looks like a 5 spot, even though the forks are 100mm.
So I plan to get some Flux stickers on it to give me some justification for wimping out.
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We virtually had to hose the lounge out afterwards
what a great story!
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