A bicycle question-OUCH!
The Pacifier
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From: Cloverdale, BC
The last time my junk met the top tube, I think i was 7 or 8. Not really paying attention to where I was going, but I hit a wicked pothole. Oh, the pain.
Other crashes after that, I was considerably more careful. I ate a tree once, wheel stayed straight, handlebars bent, trapped my leg to the top tube. Nuts okay. Another time, riding down an ever so slight incline, for all intents and purposes, it was a flat road. I had induced a speed wobble on purpose, went *** over tea kettle, road rash on my right shoulder. Bike landed on top of me. Again, nuts okay.
Oh, yeah. Make sure the handle bars are screwed on tight, too. Try pulling a wheelie, then when you come back down, the bars roll forward, into the wheel. Well, not quite that far, but enough to teach you to tighten up the handlebars.
Other crashes after that, I was considerably more careful. I ate a tree once, wheel stayed straight, handlebars bent, trapped my leg to the top tube. Nuts okay. Another time, riding down an ever so slight incline, for all intents and purposes, it was a flat road. I had induced a speed wobble on purpose, went *** over tea kettle, road rash on my right shoulder. Bike landed on top of me. Again, nuts okay.
Oh, yeah. Make sure the handle bars are screwed on tight, too. Try pulling a wheelie, then when you come back down, the bars roll forward, into the wheel. Well, not quite that far, but enough to teach you to tighten up the handlebars.
Fleet Owner
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
Irregardless...
You really don't want a bicycle frame beneath you if you go off of an unexpected thirty foot (ten meter) cliff.
The smartest thing I ever did as a young man was to lean sideways just before the edge of a drop-off one day - and KICK THE BIKE THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!
As a result, I only broke an arm...
You really don't want a bicycle frame beneath you if you go off of an unexpected thirty foot (ten meter) cliff.
The smartest thing I ever did as a young man was to lean sideways just before the edge of a drop-off one day - and KICK THE BIKE THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!
As a result, I only broke an arm...
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Only in walmart bikes or comfort bikes do female bikes don not have top tubes
On bike shop bikes $300 and above the main differance is the lenth of the top tube but they are still there bikes are sold in inches in mountian bike and centmeters in road Im 5"11" and I ride a 17" mountian my wife is 5'6" and rides a fifteen you want about four inch of room betwwen the top tube and that yourself when straddling the bar and you sould not touch the ground from the seat the knee should be abou 98% strait when at the bottom of the peadel stroke sorry to invade a old post but Iput a camper shell on my ford truck to carry mountain bikes in the dry we do shuttle with my truck i can hold six people and six folks @ one time I have seats and belts for the bed of the truck and a six bike roof rack for but in full bike form I can put 10 bikes on the truck total all bikes lock down by the front fork never lost one with thousands of miles loged in
( A single speed mountian bike is a kids bmx bike on acid they make a man out of you and) no gears just 2 to 1 ratio and big knobby tires disc brakes , front and rear shocks and no gears
On bike shop bikes $300 and above the main differance is the lenth of the top tube but they are still there bikes are sold in inches in mountian bike and centmeters in road Im 5"11" and I ride a 17" mountian my wife is 5'6" and rides a fifteen you want about four inch of room betwwen the top tube and that yourself when straddling the bar and you sould not touch the ground from the seat the knee should be abou 98% strait when at the bottom of the peadel stroke sorry to invade a old post but Iput a camper shell on my ford truck to carry mountain bikes in the dry we do shuttle with my truck i can hold six people and six folks @ one time I have seats and belts for the bed of the truck and a six bike roof rack for but in full bike form I can put 10 bikes on the truck total all bikes lock down by the front fork never lost one with thousands of miles loged in
( A single speed mountian bike is a kids bmx bike on acid they make a man out of you and) no gears just 2 to 1 ratio and big knobby tires disc brakes , front and rear shocks and no gears
Fleet Owner
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
I used to know a shipmate from the Bronx who rode a fixed. He was amazing with trick bike moves, but it went nuts one day when he tried to ride to the stadium in San Diego. Murphy Canyon and Montezuma Road are best described as going straight down one side, and straight up the other!
Where he lost it was when his feet came unglued from the pedals - he screamed down that hill (literally) and burnt up the soles of both tennis shoes trying to jam them into the tire at the front fork.
That he was alive on monday and unhurt was a miracle...
A "FIXED" is a bike with only one gear, that can be pedalled backwards. The gear in the back never coasts. And they have no brakes
Where he lost it was when his feet came unglued from the pedals - he screamed down that hill (literally) and burnt up the soles of both tennis shoes trying to jam them into the tire at the front fork.
That he was alive on monday and unhurt was a miracle...
A "FIXED" is a bike with only one gear, that can be pedalled backwards. The gear in the back never coasts. And they have no brakes
Last edited by Greywolf; Nov 3, 2007 at 04:49 PM.
The Pacifier
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From: Cloverdale, BC
I heard a story several times of either my uncle, or my dad, depending on who told it. First time either of them got a bike with hand brakes. Riding down a main road, steep decline, and a red light at the bottom of the hill to cross another main road. Back pedalling like a mf to stop the bike, totally forgetting the brakes are now on the handlebars.
Remember watching Disney cartoons with Goofy going off the ski jump, and the scream he let out?
WHAAH HOO HOO HOO!
Unscathed! Maybe it happened to both of them? Naw, musta been my uncle. I'll have to look into that.
Remember watching Disney cartoons with Goofy going off the ski jump, and the scream he let out?
WHAAH HOO HOO HOO!
Unscathed! Maybe it happened to both of them? Naw, musta been my uncle. I'll have to look into that.
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My single speed was not Built to be simple or slow I built in mirror of my geared bike so i could ride it and not give up any thing but gears
2005 KHS solo one with soft tail rear suspison rockshock polite front shock bb7 disc brakes It is bike that you get out of it would you put in
my geared bike is a 2005 khs comp softtail with a rockshock sid bby brakes lx cranks and rhino light rims I carry them both in the camper in my truck as well as riding gear i LOVE MY LONGBED 1984 F-150 12volt ice chest to keep drinks cold
2005 KHS solo one with soft tail rear suspison rockshock polite front shock bb7 disc brakes It is bike that you get out of it would you put in
my geared bike is a 2005 khs comp softtail with a rockshock sid bby brakes lx cranks and rhino light rims I carry them both in the camper in my truck as well as riding gear i LOVE MY LONGBED 1984 F-150 12volt ice chest to keep drinks cold
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