My Bad
think I have told this story b4, but what the hell, was such a laugh(for everyone else) First a bit of back ground... , for years I worked out at the woodhill forest bike park as a one of the park wardens, got to know most of the regular riders out there over the years I worked there, but thats not important right now !
Often rode there myself when not working as a warden, one of the more intersting and skilful riders who vist woodhill is John Nic from Kiwi rider bike mag, what can you say about this old bugger, those that know him will agree a fantastic rider, heaps of skills, Enduro ace, etc etc,not much John can't get a bike to do,, any way John often comes out to woodhill to test ride new bikes for his write ups in KR mag( yeah I know shit of a job, not !)But thats not important right now !
I often would watch John when he came back from a ride round the park he did this cool wheelie up to his trailer and straight back on to the trailer with out the ramp that most of us use, I guess you have to ride off road bikes to understand, its a pretty cool trick.
So Ia'm thinking yeah I can do that, so I start practicsing, had a few bin's but slowly got the hang of it.
After a few weeks I manage to do it with out making a dick of myself, and figure what the point of being able to do trick shit if you don,t show it off.
So I pick a sunday afternoon, the bike parks rocking heaps of riders there just after lunch everyones sitting round chilling out after a good moring ride.
Enter me, soon to be the woodhill dick of the year !, nice little wheelie up the car park (sorry Greg bad example I know) and up on to the trailer
ah- no-not going to happen- get the front wheel up okay weight forward drop , just not enuff the back wheel just touchs the back of the trailer.. so close..over we go drop the bike and pin myself under, can,t lift it off
after a while, and once they stopped laughing a few dudes came over and lifted the bike off me... they even asked me to do it again, so they could watch
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Got heaps of shit for weeks after that, every time I signed someone up for a days ride, I'd get "hows the trailer stunt going "? or" saved up enuff money for a ramp yet ?".
About a year later, I was still getting a bit of shit from the regulars who were there that day..
F/F
"Kiwi Biker, still a great place despite the mods "
"Would crawl over broken glass before owning Suzuki"
The only reason I only ride in the Iron man Class is I have no friends left to enter the two man events,
my own fault really.
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