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Remember that first big crash???

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DRB

unemployed bum
Oct 24, 2002
15,242
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Watchin' you. Writing it all down.
I remember my first crash on a bicycle. I still have the scar on my chin. I was 5, hit a sewer grate, and went over the handlebars chin first into the ground.

Mountain biking, don't remember. I do remember the crash that brought me to mountain biking. I had an Alan cyclocross bike in 1986 that I jumped and snapped the fork off at the headtube on the way to class one day. That brought about the purchase of my first mountain bike.
 

Polandspring88

Superman
Mar 31, 2004
3,066
7
Broomfield, CO
The first real crash that was not doing something dumb as a kid was on my good old Royce Union. I was hauling ass down a big downhill when the stem decided to twist independently of the fork. I went OTB and tore skin off of my shoulder, face, abdomen, and hand. It was not pretty.
 

boostindoubles

Nacho Libre
Mar 16, 2004
8,412
6,939
Yakistan
i was riding down a hill at a camp ground when i was young, rode into the bushes, where someone had felled a tree to stop them from driving further. I sacked my nuts on the stem and walked my bike back to the camp ground.