Crashed my bike!

**Sparky Bills** · 28th February 2007, 16:51

The Mountain Bike that is

Screaming round a bend, see a huge rock on the track.
I thought instead of jumping down a rock bank on the bike, id hit the rock instead, flying over the bars, and rolling down it instead!

Turns out, that was a bad choice. haha
Broken spokes, bent rim, elbow swollen like a mutha f*@ka! and a stupidly sore back!
What made it worse, was that i was just over half way, so still needed to make it home! Shit it was hard work riding a bike like that. Good training either way i guess. haha

Ahhhh, gotta love this shit!
Give me a few days, and ill be back out there! (after i fix te bike, that is)

**Trudes** · 28th February 2007, 18:13

Freaked out for a second there!!! Glad you are basically ok, nothing a hot bath and a back rub won't fix!!!

**WickedOne** · 28th February 2007, 18:18

Shit, sorry to hear about your bin, heal up soon!!!!

**CM2005** · 28th February 2007, 18:40

haha, i've done that... anyone highsided a mountain bike!? i have! lucky your okay! did you try bend the wheel straight before you rode back?

**ajturbo** · 28th February 2007, 20:33

fuckya..
stress us out... hahahahaha
good one!!!!

**riffer** · 28th February 2007, 20:34

Yeah, I've highsided a mountainbike. My Giant Yukon, on Hutt Valley Thunderbolts BMX track in Upper Hutt. Going over the whoopdedoos and pushed when I should have pulled - came down on the front wheel, compressed the forks to their maximum and over I went...

Dirt hurts when you hit it. Much more than I remember from when I was a teenager. And it removes skin nicely too...

And yeah, I bent the front wheel, but it was easily fixed by The Cycle Centre.

**V4ME** · 1st March 2007, 09:15

Join the club of recent bins - Hope you get your bike sorted soon and yourself. I've sorted mine and you are right about getting back home - it is a bit hard - I did not have a gearlever !! - but still got home somehow.

**bistard** · 1st March 2007, 09:20

Martin,mountain bikes are just fucking dangerous,I have heard of so many people who have completely Knackered themselves on them,broken arms legs,concussions,briuses,grazes,I dont trust anything that does not have throttle!!

**V4ME** · 1st March 2007, 12:15

Originally Posted by bistard

Martin,mountain bikes are just fucking dangerous,I have heard of so many people who have completely Knackered themselves on them,broken arms legs,concussions,briuses,grazes,I dont trust anything that does not have throttle!!

You're bloody right - I agree - anything that depends on gravity - sucks!! - also you tend too get hurt on the shins more than on a motorbike.

**Sparky Bills** · 1st March 2007, 17:15

I should be able to get a new wheel by the weekend, just need to re-spoke it now! Which im really not looking forward to!

Oh well...
You only live once!

Had a spa the other night. So feeling HEAPS better after that.