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Met up with a couple of fellow RB'ers for a local ride, thought we'd go a bit more off-piste than normal , (up hill and down dale) loads of nice gravelly singletrack, bridleway, footpaths, disused railway and a little bit of road chucked in for good measure. Fantastic scenery, with a couple of nasty bumpy fields (for those of us on full rigid bikes :shock: ) supplied courtesy of Farmer Barlemow, then a nice sharp gravelly climb over the M1 and a couple more smooth fields, before a fantastic downhill packed full of gravel, stones, boulders and really rather large potholes
Thought I'd have a play with a new helmet-cam, have a go a capturing this nice long descent........ :roll: Any ways, a nice sprint ensued to get up a bit of speed (flat out in the biggest 'middle-ring' gear ) and that's when the fun started......
Trying a bit too hard to be bleeding Scorcese for a moment, I took my eye off the ball, weight (and there's a lot of it ) completely in the wrong place, my front wheel barrels into a nice deep pothole.... Thrown a good six inches in the air, I'm then battling to hold on, thrown left and right, trying to over-correct as I go :shock: and then a peaceful second before.............BANG!! ass is brought back down for an almighty wallop on the saddle...
grabbing a couple of handfuls of brakeage, I manage to somehow stay on the bike (likened, by one of my fellow riders, who was behind, to a bit of a rodeo ride ) and kurb the speed somewhat, before coasting to the next bend for a well earned calm-down and a re-fettle of the brakes
Result - ?..... A seatpost rammed down as far as it would go into the seat tube and this:
Still, the adrenaline rush was immense, and I wanted to go and do it all again..... :roll: :twisted:
And this is why today, I love mountain biking
I do have the video, but with the amount of expletives coming from my mouth, I thought it best not to post, as it is an open forum.....
Met up with a couple of fellow RB'ers for a local ride, thought we'd go a bit more off-piste than normal
, (up hill and down dale) loads of nice gravelly singletrack, bridleway, footpaths, disused railway and a little bit of road chucked in for good measure. Fantastic scenery, with a couple of nasty bumpy fields (for those of us on full rigid bikes :shock: ) supplied courtesy of Farmer Barlemow, then a nice sharp gravelly climb over the M1 and a couple more smooth fields, before a fantastic downhill packed full of gravel, stones, boulders and really rather large potholes Thought I'd have a play with a new helmet-cam, have a go a capturing this nice long descent........ :roll: Any ways, a nice sprint ensued to get up a bit of speed (flat out in the biggest 'middle-ring' gear
) and that's when the fun started...... Trying a bit too hard to be bleeding Scorcese for a moment, I took my eye off the ball, weight (and there's a lot of it
) completely in the wrong place, my front wheel barrels into a nice deep pothole.... Thrown a good six inches in the air, I'm then battling to hold on, thrown left and right, trying to over-correct as I go :shock: and then a peaceful second before.............BANG!! ass is brought back down for an almighty wallop on the saddle... grabbing a couple of handfuls of brakeage, I manage to somehow stay on the bike (likened, by one of my fellow riders, who was behind, to a bit of a rodeo ride
) and kurb the speed somewhat, before coasting to the next bend for a well earned calm-down and a re-fettle of the brakes Result - ?..... A seatpost rammed down as far as it would go into the seat tube and this:
Still, the adrenaline rush was immense, and I wanted to go and do it all again..... :roll: :twisted:
And this is why today, I love mountain biking
I do have the video, but with the amount of expletives coming from my mouth, I thought it best not to post, as it is an open forum.....
