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Discussion in 'Crash Confessions' started by blixet, Mar 4, 2020.


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  1. blixet

    blixet Well-Known Member

    Location:
    San Gabriel Valley
    Name:
    Tom
    Current Bike:
    Transition Scout, TJ Ti
    but if found myself getting bucked up over the bars on a steep section of narrow, chunky single-track. Managed to get my feet down and nuts slammed into the stem before realizing I was still going too fast and had to turn it into a left side body slam. Fortunately, no injuries beyond a little bruising and abrasions, bike is OK but ended up tangled with me and the front wheel spun 180* in the wrong direction. Hope to be good for another year or two but who knows?
     
  2. DangerDirtyD

    DangerDirtyD iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    CA
    Name:
    Chicken Nugget
    Current Bike:
    2018 Guerrilla Gravity SMASH
    Congratulations for the thrill and escape!
     
  3. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Western US
    Name:
    Mike O
    Current Bike:
    HT, FS
    No good!!! But, good dodge of worse injury! :thumbsup:

    Too much front brake, not enough body english, or line choice? Maybe a cocktail of? Steep, narrow and chunky sounds like a place to be on point. Good save. :geek:
     
  4. blixet

    blixet Well-Known Member

    Location:
    San Gabriel Valley
    Name:
    Tom
    Current Bike:
    Transition Scout, TJ Ti
    I think that about sums it up.
     
  5. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    Eventually, we all pay a price for thrill seeking. May good fortune follow you now.
     
  6. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Calabasas
    Name:
    Matt
    Current Bike:
    Transition Sentinel
    What I would give for a good OTB right now. Perspective, and $h!t.
     
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  7. DangerDirtyD

    DangerDirtyD iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    CA
    Name:
    Chicken Nugget
    Current Bike:
    2018 Guerrilla Gravity SMASH
    If you pull a @mountaingirl sara your first few rides back, well then that could only be a coinkidinky.
     
  8. Faust29

    Faust29 Moderator

    Location:
    irgendwo
    Name:
    B. Bunny
    Current Bike:
    I gots some bikes.
    Well... You got it out of your system for awhile... :thumbsup:

    Glad you walked away! It was probably more of a bow-legged cowboy swagger, though, after hitting your nuts... :p
     
  9. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Calabasas
    Name:
    Matt
    Current Bike:
    Transition Sentinel
    I don't think I ever heard the full story, but I think I'm correct in saying it was a big injury, followed almost immediately by another big injury (the knee one). Yeah, I'll pass on that. Was just thinking a nice little somersault with some minor flesh wounds and a few days of aches and pains would be a nice pittance to pay for a return to glory. A lyric from a song came to mind: "I want a sunburn, just to know that I'm alive".
     
  10. mountaingirl sara

    mountaingirl sara iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    So Cal
    Name:
    Sara
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley
    Ha, funny, I like that song too, I actually play it for yoga sometimes.
    Be careful what you wish for Mr, I have a nice little broken left index finger from going OTB in Dec. :whistling:
     
  11. mountaingirl sara

    mountaingirl sara iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    So Cal
    Name:
    Sara
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley
    That was a fluke...I think. :thumbsdown:
    :D
     
  12. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Calabasas
    Name:
    Matt
    Current Bike:
    Transition Sentinel
    I could hear that song in yoga. When I'm back to form I should come with my better half to one of your classes. She's on a yoga tear right now, and wants me to come with her. We did a lot of yoga together back when we was a courtin'.
     
  13. Faust29

    Faust29 Moderator

    Location:
    irgendwo
    Name:
    B. Bunny
    Current Bike:
    I gots some bikes.
    I have one of those! But mine has been broken for over three years now... :oops:

    Thankfully it’s on my right hand...
     
  14. Sasquatch9billion

    Sasquatch9billion iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    trinidad j. mendez
    The scariest OTB story I've ever heard was when a guy my buddy knew up at Snow Summit told us he'd been off the bike for 6 months because his stem caught his S@$K and tore it. The dude said he was riding the Fully loop when it happened.
     
  15. mountaingirl sara

    mountaingirl sara iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    So Cal
    Name:
    Sara
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley
    Good for her, and how awesome that you two did yoga together!
    Ya, come to a class if you like hot yoga!
     
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  16. mountaingirl sara

    mountaingirl sara iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    So Cal
    Name:
    Sara
    Current Bike:
    Ibis Ripley
    Lol, It’s my third broken finger, one from volleyball, the other basketball. The worst part is I can’t wear my favorite ring anymore :cry:
     
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