[quote=deadforkinglast]Tried to clear a small trench off of a 1ft. drop on my Trek before I could even do a wheelie. Ended up sending the front wheel into the trench, bending my top and down tubes and making an ass of myself. Effectively killed that Trek, as well, though I rode it for another few months because I couldn’t afford a new frame. I miss that frame a lot. To this day, I wish I was going faster and leaning back more. That frame fit so well and rode so great, all slack and 80’s sport-bikey, with a super low BB and clearance for dayzzzz because it was built for 27" but I used 700c.
I cleared this same thing on the Stumpjumper last week. Felt like I had, in some way, come back and redeemed myself in the climactic scene of the most boring sports movie ever.[/quote]
I tried to clear a 2’ drop over a 3’ wide creek and did the same thing with my rigid 29er. Luckily, Surlys are tough as fuck so no serious damage to the bike, but I absorbed the fall with my head and cracked my helmet. Thank god for helmets.
See your biggest mistake here was willfully attending an alkaline trio show.[/quote]
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lol. I don’t get the A3 love… but I guess at the time they were popular I was probably listening to 311.
i worked at a bike shop as my first “real” job at age 15, at that time i rode a dept. store mtb.
so i knew a lot about bikes before i got seriously into them. that make sense?
i did convert my father’s touring bike (that he rode across/around this country, and across europe twice) to a fixed gear as my first.
but he did want to throw it out, so whatevz
i do/did ride some bikes that don’t fit that well, and i rode this fixed gear for a while that had something like 8 or 9 (maybe i’m exaggeratig, idk) inches of saddle-top of bar drop. and that was with drop bars.
when i was in the drops i could take a finger off and stretch it out and it would hit the top of the front tire.
i’ve never ridden brakeless or a stupid high ratio though.
Taking a corner too fast and trying to brake in the middle of it, leading to a broken kneecap (10+ weeks recovery) and a major dent in the TT of my crosscheck. This also happened on the first day of spring break, about 5 hours before I was supposed to be on a train to Chicago.
Removing the brazeons from my first conversion. It was just a shitty Fuji, though.
Failing to adequately secure a box of cupcakes on my rear rack. At least I got to see a city bus run over a bright pink box of cupcakes.
Riding through open field in the middle of the night at top speed to avoid ticket for trespassing, leaving lights off so cops couldn’t see me, running smack into a bench and giving my conversion true track geos and hella toe overlap. Luckily my handbuilt Campy/Mavic front wheel was totally unharmed and is still in use. The frame was used to make a shop stool.