Bad Ideas

[imploded]

We've all had them. I'm having one right now (reading the NEMBA forum while on my honeymoon...).

But, I was just telling a friend of my digger last week and realized that my bicycles, and the friends I ride them with, put my brain full of bad ideas. Last week, BadDNA and I were up in Maine, just prior to my wedding, when we enhanced a jump in front of the house we rented and had a "long jump" competition. On my last pass (trying to beat a 15' jump), I dropped the hammer and just came off the jump all out of sorts, going OTB and breaking the fall with my noggin. Crack in helmet, mild scrapes, no big deal. But that damned two wheeled toy of mine just promotes the worst ideas.

So... share your bad ideas!

Cheers,

-Andrew

[BrianK]

Getting overly ambitious when I was just learning moutain biking and dropping off a 3ft high loading dock onto flat concrete. Feet slipped off pedals and you can imagine what the top tube connected with....

Good news is I just became a father so everything turned out ok ;)

[fisherking]

Vietnam does it to me in general..
2nd time riding there with a friend, worked on a few of the drops, nothing bigger than 3ft. Had one double drop that ended in me riding the endo a bit then crashing, but my camelbak saved real pain. So somewhere in my mind I think I thought it was kind of cool. Had a few more falls during the day that weren't too bad so had to try that double drop one last time on the way out. But this time at speed to smooth it out......
Landed after the first and my tire popped (or I just lost control and then it popped..... jury is still out) and crashed very hard. Baseball sized bump on my shoulder and a lot of pain.
Luckily I could still ride out and nothing serious ended up with except missing riding for a week or so...

That one kind of kept me off drops for a few months.... but now it is creeping back into the routine...

[mdc]

Waaay back in 2000 I purchased my first full suspension bike ( my trusty Superlight) and was feeling much to confident in my jumping ability ( "look guys you can jump off anything and it is soooo smooth"). The group I was riding with had started behind the Stanley Woolen Mill in Uxbridge and ended in the same parking lot. While returning from the ride I though I could jump from the wooden bridge which spans the Blackstone River, clear a 4 foot flat, clear a set of 4 or 5 stairs and land in the sandy parking lot no problem (writing this out I have no idea what I was thinking). Well I cleared the flat, cleared the steps, landed alittle sideways in the lot ( on gravel) and wiped out hard in the tar parking lot in front of a woman ready to go on a walk. Needless to say I was picking gravel out of my arm for a week with tweezers....