I can see it now: a runaway best seller titled "The Art Of Crashing" by UNNA & Motu . . . . Is that the follow up to "Twisted My Wrist "
I have half expected a bill from Carter Holt for the amount of shrubbery and forest floor I manage to bring home attached to me and the bike. I tried to bring home a roll of fencing wire once that attached itself to the back of the bike and ended up in hospital. I logged it as bicycle accident so it didn't affect the stats and the ACC levy.
In response to that post UNNA, a suggestion for a possible sequel could be, "Interesting Places I Have Crashed", followed by "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Hospital" . . . .
Forest riding has it all. So much variety. Crashing on uphills, falling from drop-offs, terrifying pine trees, finding fences before others do and removing them with the forks at speed, playing chicken with the many deer that live in Woodhill and discovering that watery rut is actually 3 meters deep and has a dead Land Rover in the bottom. The best part is when you are absolutely flying ( this just before a crash) and you hear a whining sound and look down at a 10 year old on a 50 who has just carved you up and disappeared up the trail and you don't see him again. Oh yes! There are times on the trail I would gladly swap the bike for a set of lawn bowls so I wouldn't have to drive home looking like a New Guinea mudman. Again. Other times you painfully drive home looking like a sandman with the satisfaction of only having fallen off fewer times than previous. Try it. You'll like it.
Damn. Now I can see just what i've been missing out on, after all these years. By the way, Land Rovers never die. It's more likely that it was an Army vehicle on manoeuvres, or the driver was taking a quick smoko break before heading back to the bombing range . . .
A friend of mine went fishing with mates. They all left their 4WDs parked and all were done over apart from a Land Rover with keys in the ignition....
Heh, heh, heh, there's a suggestion for a new marketing tag-line: "Land Rover - the Chuck Norris of 4WD's . . . . "
