On my most recent ride, I was riding on a very lumpy rock surface, and
near the middle of the line, is a two foot drop. I was riding it for
the third or fourth time, trying to ride out the landing on the drop
into a trough. It was just sprinkling – enough to moisten the surface
of the rock. Having worked the previous 30 feet navigating the hardest
line I could find, I made it just to the drop, lost my balance, the
tire slipped downward to the right, I dropped with it, and my hip
caught a crushing blow as I glanced off the edge of the rock.
Hip meets rock.
Needless to say, I didn’t land the drop. Four more attempts, were just
that – attempts – no hands up or lauding by the nearby birds, just an
"ohh F---"...
My next project is to incorporate some internal sleeves for some
padding that can be inserted for rocky riding conditions.
Here’s the picture:
[image:
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=170109&g2]
Here is the surface and drop.
[image:
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=168758&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=45e582ae4f692aaae23b174c9ae691f2]
I took the line coming down from the right and ending just above the
right corner of the image.
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