Today while riding my normal "semi-muni" route, I decided to try
"bombing" down a very steep hill. I had just switched from 150mm cranks
to 175's and thought no problem slowing down, especially with my new
hydraulic maguras.
Well, I got going soooo fast, I was a "runaway train" and even my
brakes couldn't stop me...and they STOP very well! But not this time;
maybe in the confusion I didn't apply enough pull or that small puddle
I had just pedalled through contributed, but MAN! What was AMAZING is
just as I began to lose control, (I KNEW I was about to CRASH HARD!)
BOTH my feet came off the pedals-but I Miraculously stayed ON the muni,
for what seemed like 10 seconds! But it was probably more like a second
or two at most, but maybe when you're about to eat it bad, time slows
down!
Anyway, I went FLYING forward and hit the rocky/rooty/hardpacked dirt
pretty hard on my tailbone, and also sustained a nasty pedal bite on my
right ankle. Luckily and to my surprise, I got up and shrugged it off
and have no serious injuries. Now THAT I wish I had video taped!🙂 So
I guess that was my first (and hopefully last) unintentional "Coast."
:p
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terrybigwheel
Impotence: Nature's Way Of Saying "No Hard Feelings".
Uni is just a cycle I'm going through. 😎
You -can- "Tune a fish". You simply adjust their "scales"! 😄
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