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Steve Conner

Fri Apr 28 2006, 01:03PM

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LOL @ the redneck skate park

Tesladownunder

Fri Apr 28 2006, 05:52PM

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I ride for the health benefits so long slow distance suits me. Fast down hill is exhilarating but injury prone and as I am about to touch 50 (years not MPH) I have a different perspective on my invincibility.

A few months ago while cycling home at 1am a road train that had just passed me in a 100kph zone came to a screaming stop. When I passed I saw that it had hit a kid on a bike. No helmet, no lights and weaving across the road with a bottle of grog in his backpack. He looked dead and wasnt breathing but as I untangled him from his bike on the side of the road it was apparent that he didn't at least have massive injuries. As I was assessing him he made a slight respiratory movement. I supported his airway and remarkably an ambulance returning from a distant town stopped and I was able to suction him, get an airway in and oxygen and get him in to the local emergency department very quickly. He had head injuries and a fractured pelvis and lost a kidney but survived after a couple of months of hospitalisation. The driver said that he thinks he hit right in the middle of the bullbar but the 42 wheel road train had no chance of evasive action. Pretty amazing he survived and he probably wouldn't have if he didn't have a physician on the scene in seconds and an ambulance in minutes.

Just a sobering thought about a careless cyclist.

Peter

Part Scavenger

Fri Apr 28 2006, 07:40PM

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Location: Arkansas
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Boy. It's a good thing you were there! By the way, what kind of doctor are you?

On a lighter note, my great-grandfather was hit by a train and I have the same name as him. My dad likes to joke, "there's a train out there with your name on it." To make it even wierder, he's talking about an actual locomotive down by the river with my initials on the side.

Ah, well, he likes to kid. That would make an interesting TV show though.

Avalanche

Fri Apr 28 2006, 08:41PM

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sheesh, yes he was lucky you were there at the time.

I often think, when I'm riding down a main road with cars flying past me at 60mph every few seconds, it would only take one non-observant driver to do me some serious damage. I've got one of those LED rear lights but I guess it isn't enough if you're out often...

For the record, my most milage in one ride was about 47 miles. That was done in an afternoon. That was a few years ago on an old hybrid bike that I picked up out of the paper for Â£10 (about $18 USD) I suppose it is about time that record is beaten, preferably on my Avalanche!

HV Enthusiast

Fri Apr 28 2006, 11:59PM

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Here are some cool wheelie photos . . . I am the wheelie master . . . once did a wheelie across the entire Ben Franklin bridge (passenger walkway) here in Philadelphia!

1. Cool one-handed wheelie - just like Hans Rey!

2. Wheelie over the death ledge at Gloucester Community College in NJ. The ledge is about 1 foot wide at top, with steep 60 degree angle (much steeper than it looks) ledge drops on either side and about 20 feet down to concrete on one side and 6 foot drop on the other side . . . not somewhere you want to mess up on a wheelie - especially with clipless pedals that i'm using here . . . on my old urban assault / urban trials Cannondale Beast of the East bike!

Shahn

Sat Apr 29 2006, 01:33AM

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That is a nice wheel stand!!! Yeah a 6ft drop on the Cannondale could be a little nasty, but with some good travel the drops are all the buzz. :)

GODSFUSION

Sat Apr 29 2006, 09:15AM

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I do a fifteen mile round trip everyweekend, work pending. Living in the second hilliest city in the contenental US that fifteen miles is quite a workout in its self.

As with tesladownunder, my heath has inproved dramatically.

- Wayne -

HV Enthusiast

Sat Apr 29 2006, 01:08PM

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Shahn wrote ...

That is a nice wheel stand!!! Yeah a 6ft drop on the Cannondale could be a little nasty, but with some good travel the drops are all the buzz. :)

Actually, its a wheelie (moving) The 6ft drop is not a big deal. The deal is that with a wheelie, you have the tendency to fall or lean sideways. Do this off the ledge and you are falling on your side 6 feet.

In that case, it does not matter what kind of bike you have, you are still going to hit hard. And with clipless pedals, you may or may not be able to get your foot out by the time you hit the ground!

Tesladownunder

Sun Apr 30 2006, 01:29AM

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Nice stunts EVR.

My brother used to do kilometer long wheelies. He also had a unicycle.

But for me it's safety first.
Pic of my lights at night.

Peter

HV Enthusiast

Sun Apr 30 2006, 02:17AM

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The thing is, when you do a long wheelie like that (like my Ben Franklin feat), your lower back is screwed up for like a week!!!

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