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Quikdrawjoe:
Tun Unit prepared you well ##
Wayshow:
--- Quote from: Quikdrawjoe on July 08, 2013, 02:12:34 pm ---Tun Unit prepared you well ##
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SHIT He's alive ##
Keith:
bump from the grave (but still an alive topic)
Al:
Nice. Can you tell us about the crashes?
Keith:
--- Quote from: Al on August 23, 2015, 03:38:54 am ---Nice. Can you tell us about the crashes?
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Well during nationals last year in arizona I was just starting with my ride and not even 1 mile in (because I was trying to put on my shoes still) I crashed. What had happened was that a latch on my shoes wasn't tightening and I was very close to a curb when I was bending down to adjust it, and my wheels got locked up against the curb. When that happens there's almost no way to turn out of it, and I went down at about 25 mph into rocks. Landing in rocks was lucky actually, because they move out of the way when you hit them whereas the street won't. So all that really happened was bloody road rash the rest of the ride and torn clothes, a little soreness. Dehydration slowed me down more than the crash did, probably. That race was my fastest bike split race despite the crash.
The most recent crash I was commuting to work and was traveling parallel to some railroad tracks and tried to hop sideways across them. I got over the first one but the second one I got the front wheel stuck in a crack between the road and the track and my wheel totally stopped while I was going 20mph. The bike kind of slid sideways but I did a kind of rolling flip as I fell off. Jumped back up right away and kept going to work. Worse road rash this time and after being at work for 5 hours I realized my arm wasn't bending anymore so I got it checked out and yeppp broken elbow. So I was out of commission for swimming and lifting at least til now. I was biking to work in a sling about a week after it happened.
Also mojo move this to sports ##