Ride fast, take chances, laugh death in the face

**Crinkle** · 06-21-2006, 12:40 PM

Bike riding is inherently dangerous, duh. whomever it is that writes this crap on warning labels should be given a Pulitzer. Take your pick: road or dirt, serious bodily harm is a mere twitch away. Either on a 40 mph descent down a twisty road or hammering your favorite rocky singletrack descent. Sometimes there are factors out of our control that have a say in our untimely meeting with danger. Othertimes its our own decision making process (or lack there of) that puts us right in the path of doom. While participating in both disciplines of our two wheeled world, I have had my fare share of almost seeing the light. My preference is for the world of singletrack, rocks, roots and sand. Letting gravity have a fare shake in my method of travel. Leaving the ground as frequently as possible, letting my tires skip down through the trough. I swear Fred Astaire's shoes have made more contact with the ground than my tires have on some descents of recent memory. While this and other dangerous activities that many of us participate in would make a mere mortal shake in fear of getting punched out of this world, many of us giggle with delight. That's right, giggle, also included is: hoot, hollar, whoop and scream with a smile. There are consequences lurking in our shadows, but they don't obstruct our vision, if anything, they help us focus. Get out there throw the preverbial caution to the wind, floor it. Enjoy every second, don't forget to laugh after doing a nose wheelie around that exposed corner or narrowly missing some road kill while nuking down the local pass, breaking the speed of sound. Push the limits of sanity and saftey whenever possible, brag about it with your friends, but most of all don't forget to giggle

**Arty50** · 06-21-2006, 01:06 PM

Wheeeee!!!!

**jibco** · 06-21-2006, 01:13 PM

Word. If my ride isn't peppered with "moments," I'm not going fast enough.

**climb2ski** · 06-21-2006, 01:15 PM

true - but we still need to use are head. Not always in the way that it was used in the above picture.

**Rontele** · 06-21-2006, 01:16 PM

I beatered it pretty hard on an endo last night. My first response was to chuckle and HOOT! Well put Crinkle

**Kellie** · 06-21-2006, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Arty50

Wheeeee!!!!

Classic, especially the look on WSD's face!

**Crinkle** · 06-21-2006, 01:36 PM

taco'd wheel and banged up crinkle, but i was told i was laughing

**kidwoo** · 06-21-2006, 01:39 PM

Luckily I've never crashed so I'm not too familiar with this whole fear thing.

It does sound scary though.

**Rontele** · 06-21-2006, 01:46 PM

Crinkle, I didn't know you had slime inside of you.

Is that blood I see on the grass?

**climb2ski** · 06-21-2006, 01:57 PM

looks like nice colorado wild flowers

**pechelman** · 06-21-2006, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Rontele

I beatered it pretty hard on an endo last night. My first response was to chuckle and HOOT! Well put Crinkle

oh, and I thought that hoot was some animals mating call

**Son1cdeth** · 06-21-2006, 02:17 PM

the slime looks toxic.

nice taco though.

**pde20** · 06-21-2006, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by Crinkle

taco'd wheel and banged up crinkle, but i was told i was laughing

Crinkle is apparently an Alien who tangled with Sigourney Weaver and lost. Not clear if it was the human Ripley or the android Ripley, no matter though.

**Crinkle** · 06-21-2006, 03:40 PM

no blood on the grass, but i was bleeding fo' sho.
Alien spooge doesn't help you when your roll the tire off the bead. This was from my worst beater ever, luckily my friends were there to laugh at me and take pics.

**Ripzalot** · 06-22-2006, 03:56 AM

i usually come home bleeding someplace or another every time i ride. in a season, i'll endo at least once a month, and at least once it will take me out of the game for a week or if i'm unlucky, end my season early.

yeah, i suck. as long as there's no permanent damage, i keep riding!

**ANON-505** · 06-22-2006, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by Arty50

Wheeeee!!!!

Check out the hotty on the left.

yo. How YOU doin'??

**Rontele** · 06-22-2006, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by ANON-505

Check out the hotty on the left.

yo. How YOU doin'??

that is a maggette also known as watersnowdirt

**lph** · 06-22-2006, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by ANON-505

Check out the hotty on the left.

yo. How YOU doin'??

Originally Posted by Rontele

that is a maggette also known as watersnowdirt

WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY LITTLE SISTER! GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

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**ANON-505** · 06-22-2006, 12:35 PM

Hey, don't get mad at me. I'm happily married, but will always appreciate a beautiful woman ("soo, like, do you tele?")

maybe you should take it up with rontele:
"I won't go down in history, but I will go down on your little sister."

**lph** · 06-22-2006, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by ANON-505

Hey, don't get mad at me. I'm happily married, but will always appreciate a beautiful woman ("soo, like, do you tele?")

maybe you should take it up with rontele:
"I won't go down in history, but I will go down on your little sister."

hmmm, shit, didn't even notice his quote.

of course, his comment is rather general, AND NOT SO SPECIFIC!

actually, i am just kidding, i am not the mad overprotective big brother, my sister does a pretty good job in taking care of herself.

**Arty50** · 06-22-2006, 01:07 PM

Uhhh...can we keep this kind of stuff over in Ski/Snowboard. Thanks for doing your part to restore sanity to Sprocket Rockets.

**Rontele** · 06-22-2006, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by lph

hmmm, shit, didn't even notice his quote.

of course, his comment is rather general, AND NOT SO SPECIFIC!

actually, i am just kidding, i am not the mad overprotective big brother, my sister does a pretty good job in taking care of herself.

Am I being general? Or am I not?

**kidwoo** · 06-22-2006, 01:26 PM

lph, you better give me your sister's numbe.........I mean YOUR number so that I can get you those dates........tiREs I mean TIRES

The second part of rontele's quote just made me spit I just laughed so hard....

And just to keep it real: I ride bikes and stuff, this one time I almost crashed and then lph's hot sister felt sorry for me and gave me a band-aid just in case I actually do crash in the future.

And by bandaid I mean phone number.

**lph** · 06-22-2006, 01:42 PM

ahh, you guys are killing me here.

WSD, where are you?

Oh, and you guys should see her ride, this last trip to moab she practically cleaned all of the ups/lps/porcupine rim trail and was keeping up with myself on a VP free and a friend who rides very fast on a Nomad. She was KILLING IT!

In fact, she probably needs to get a full face helmet.