memorable skids

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[Woz]

Most memorable was routine skidding into the drive after the evening paper round, except one day the rear brake cable snapped causing me to pile head-on into my fathers parked work van. Took me 20 years to own up to the "mysterious" smashed number plate and dent in the front bumper.

Happy times.

 

[FMJ]

H-Ball was the originator of the Porcupine Skid. That pic of Jo has probably given a few of the Klein boys on here a heart attack.

 

[REKIBorter]

I met up with Jo a couple of years back at an enduro race. Asked him about 'the skid' and he said it was done with chalk.

 

[FMJ]

ya, in the Onza ad Herbold did it wasn't so defined.

 

[orange71]

My cousing had a motorbike and lived on a farm, he would pull me on my pedal bike behind his motorbike on the long gravel track up to the farm and then when we hit about 25mph I would slam on the back brake and do about a 20m skid

 

[unkleGsif]

Down the hill in the park, we used to have distance competitions to see who could do the longest one.... bit like the ones in the toilets and changing rooms at school, but on bikes

My Mrs is fully aware of the fact that my performing skids makes her clothes fall off, and is regularly reminded of the fact

G

 

[Barneyballbags]

Hooning down Rhayader Golf Links (quite a well-known section of track in Mid Wales, near Elan Valley) on my Specialized Supercross, and dabbing the back brake around a long sweeping right hand corner to get the back wheel to break loose, and then steering ever so slightly in the direction of the slide to keep the bike upright, while still having 2 feet on the pedals...

That was a memorable one for me. Made me look a much better rider than I actually was!

 

[Barneyballbags]

Or the one that I did in my pants a few weeks back, after a particularly fearsome Chicken Vindaloo...

Pants were a write-off

 

[MiniNinjaRob]

My Mrs is fully aware of the fact that my performing skids makes her clothes fall off, and is regularly reminded of the fact

G

I'll have to try that with my wife (I nearly didn't add "my wife" then, boy would I have come in for some grief!)