I have to stop crashing so much

[White Chocolate]

tally from todays ride: Big lump on left hand palm, left shoulder has weird scrape from some sort of blunt impact, numerous abrasions on left side, and right leg doesn't really lift up too well anymore when standing (hip flexor?)

I would like to thank mother nature for deciding to reduce the fire danger while we were driving up the road to the start of the trail

A good observation: when you have 4" of dry dust on the trail and it starts raining, the upper 1" turns to mud, with 3" of dust underneath that. Just Imagine how much traction that creates

A word of warning, trying to ride skinny logs that are significantly sloped UPHILL in the rain is a bad idea, as demonstrated classically by my riding buddy who scares me. Chalk up one set of crushed nuts (on the bike frame, not unfortunately the log!) As a note for anyone who read my post after last weekend, he came the closest yet today to being carted off the hill in an ambulence. He tried to hit a gap off a rock, only he nose-cased the landing really really bad and got slammed full speed really really hard into the landing. It was ugly.

One final note, when you are really really really muddy, and the trails you are riding end at a lake with a swimming area, jumping off the dock in all your gear saves you a lot of scrubbing when you get at home. Also, when it is really raining hard out, it is warmer swimming then standing in the rain looking pathetic while waiting for the car.

[crashnburn'd]

I know how you're feeling. I just took one of the most painful showers in my life. Had a very good day at Mountain Creek save for a couple dumb moves.

Didn't notice that I had a tire going down and right in the middle of this big high speed burmed, it decided to completely go. Sending me skidding one way and my bike the other, result cut up leg and slightly bent handlebars....

Going down a big water covered rock, I decided that I would not ride straight down, I'd try to ride it at an angle. This sent my bike and myself sliding, somehow my pants came off about 1/2 way to my knees while sliding... I ended up on my back sliding head first (not a good feeling). Now the left side of my back and ass are all scraped up.

Drops to washed out rocky things are not good. Dropped about 4 or 5 feet to a place where there apparently used to be a good tranny and ended up casing my back tire on the corner of a big rock that the tranny was built on. This flatspotted my rim and blew another tube.

THANK GOD FOR BODY ARMOUR!

[watersnowdirt]

heh - I have armor and haven't even used it yet. Big mistake.

Took a nasty fall yesterday and my right leg is a mess - ugly, once again. No skirts for me this week.

Had I worn my armor, I would have been golden! Note to self....armor doesn't do you any good if it's sitting at home .

[White Chocolate]

I found a nice bruise on the left thigh this morning, and my neck is sore


I am hoping to get out to the east coast next year for some biking. Mtn. Creek is definately on the list. Jon aka hcor from www.hcor.net (shameless plug ) gave me a diablo freeride park t-shirt which i wear all the time. I'm holding it down for you east coast rippers out here on the left coast. Start preparing now for serious carnage upon my arrival.

[crashnburn'd]

does this Jon happen to ride for Dirtworks?

Mountain Creek is pretty good, especially if you like big rock gardens... There are some decent small bridges and drops. Nothing real big other than some dirt tabletops... Trails are built really well, although after this weekend they're a bit washed out. Plattekill is good too, it's easily the steepest place I've ever ridden. A lot of the trails just go straight down through loose shale and don't flow real well. There are some better ones though when you stay left of the lift. They've also built a freeride course that sounds pretty burly, but haven't seen it...

[Arty50]

Originally posted by crashnburn'd
THANK GOD FOR BODY ARMOUR!

No shit! I uttered those same words on my first or second ride with my 911 shin guards. I took a nice little spill and then looked down to notice a nice size gouge in the fairly burly plastic. Naturally thoughts of that happening to my bare skin went through my head.

[White Chocolate]

Originally posted by crashnburn'd
does this Jon happen to ride for Dirtworks?

No, he suprise suprise rides for hcor and i think chumba wumba this year. He was riding for iron horse last year. super nice guy, and a sick rider to boot. He even has a small segment in chain reaction 5.