MOPED ARMY

Were you in a turn when you hit the loose dirt?

I was in the middle of a turn that I was admittedly taking as fast as fuckin' possible cause it feels neat. We are in the middle of our monsoon season in Tucson. We get a ton of rain for 10 minutes, then nothing, so small patches of sand, silt, and dirt get deposited on the streets. They are not always easy to spot. I obviously missed this one.

When I hit it I started to skid out, then gripped and it threw me over. Good thing the bike wasn't to damaged, I had to ride the three miles of rough road back home while bleeding on everything.

this one time i collapsed my lungs and noone took pics.

That hand has been the most painful of the injuries. The knee is the worst, but doesn't hurt as bad. I work at a vintage VW garage, so it's been difficult to work, or keep it clean.

@ mike, You should draw it. I'll add it to the blog.

it looked like some floam hitting a nasty vagina.

alright mike, welcome to the collapsed club.

collapsed chest wall. that was the most horriffic.

duffle bag loose strap catches on rear sprocket making an evil squeezing machine, looped over handlebar 90'd it, ate dirt. no pics just the buckle remains, but that happened awhile ago.

the latest was a near miss, a couple of foggies ran a stopsign right at me. i was on a straight away, the were on a side street in a T intersection.

i jammed the vlx's brakes so hard, it was so hot, add the fact that i had just ran 30 miles on those nylon knobbies, i stopped dead in 1 & 1/2 feet. no skid, no knarly wreck, just the shock of the front bottoming on the fork, shot enough force through me to bulge a lower back disk, nice third degree burn too. it happened like two weeks ago.

i thought i was sore and well it would ease, untill i had a spinal emergency. nothing like enough pain to dump yerself.

yaay, can you say neuro surgury, here i damaged the inside channel of my disk.

do MRI disks have JPG's?

i believe i may be screwed for life.

Some of the photos you guys are sending in are gnarly as hell.

funny you mentioned it. i stopped putting my hands in that instictive ohno position ten years ago. no matter how much you want to catch the earth before it hits you in the head, its always too heavy. i opt for the fore arm or shoulder block followed by what i hope will be a roll.

While pedaling for a faster start, my foot slipped off the pedal last night, and I went down.

Dusty Rim Wrote:

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What a stupid thing to say.

New updates on the blog, I love these badass women.

i like to deliberately crash once in a while. keeps me "good."

WillD SWOOP Wrote:

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It's been a little longer for me... But, I could fill a whole blog up... easily. Too bad I haven't taken any pictures.