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04-12-10, 12:38 PM
to descend a steep rocky single track trail. :(
Took my 10 year old out Calavera Open Space Park in Carlsbad to do a little trail riding. He was on a 24" 7 speed front suspension bike, I was on my hybrid flat bar that I recently put some 700x42 cyclocross tires to make it more dirt/trail friendly. We were tooling along fine doing a big loop on a mellow fire road making our way to the top of a hill out there. On the way down we got off on the wrong trail and wound up on pretty technical single track. I was definitly in the wrong place for a bike with no suspension. So after quick bit of "schooling" for the boy to descend safely we proceded down. Halfway down, I'm probably doing 1 mph and hit a rut, a front suspension bike would have been fine, but no, front wheel stuck and over the top I went. Luckily just minor scrapes except for about a 2" gash on my left knee and I woke this morning and my right forefinger is swollen to twice normal and is black and blue. I don't think it's broke, but I doesn't feel to great right now.
We get back to the car and tell him that it's not a good ride unless someone leaves a blood sacrifice, in which he replied, "Then i'm glad it was you and not me." :lol:
Took my 10 year old out Calavera Open Space Park in Carlsbad to do a little trail riding. He was on a 24" 7 speed front suspension bike, I was on my hybrid flat bar that I recently put some 700x42 cyclocross tires to make it more dirt/trail friendly. We were tooling along fine doing a big loop on a mellow fire road making our way to the top of a hill out there. On the way down we got off on the wrong trail and wound up on pretty technical single track. I was definitly in the wrong place for a bike with no suspension. So after quick bit of "schooling" for the boy to descend safely we proceded down. Halfway down, I'm probably doing 1 mph and hit a rut, a front suspension bike would have been fine, but no, front wheel stuck and over the top I went. Luckily just minor scrapes except for about a 2" gash on my left knee and I woke this morning and my right forefinger is swollen to twice normal and is black and blue. I don't think it's broke, but I doesn't feel to great right now.
We get back to the car and tell him that it's not a good ride unless someone leaves a blood sacrifice, in which he replied, "Then i'm glad it was you and not me." :lol: