Falling on a fixie aint bugger all...
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Originally Posted by stendhalian
do you have a huge garage with tons of stuff in it?
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
Next time someone comments on the reckless nature of some ss/fixie riders, I'll be sure to quote you.
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
Hmm. I've seen video of trackies racing counter-clockwise, but last time I was at the track out here, it was clockwise. Confusion sets in.
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When I fall on my bike it's usually something stupid and in front of a lot of people. Like how I was lugging a case of beer around last week, tried to start pushing through an intersection, my hand slipped and I just fell over in the intersection....in front of about 20 people and a couple cars.
Ego was more bruised than anything but atleast the beer was ok.
Ego was more bruised than anything but atleast the beer was ok.
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Originally Posted by stendhalian
i compound fractured my tibula and fibula on my right leg...this was on a vert ramp in corvalis oregan
in 1989...another skater ran into me as i was coming out of a 5 foot air, dude came right under me, i was going full speed and we smashed shins. mine basically wrapped around his. on the flat i picked up my leg and it was as bendy as a noodle. so yeah, after that, ill basically take anything...i aint ****in' with cars though, i've had a few drunken near death, late night hill bomb, blasting through red lights and brushing inches from cars crossing my path sorts of situations that i am actually sort of cautious now...just older and wiser maybe.
in 1989...another skater ran into me as i was coming out of a 5 foot air, dude came right under me, i was going full speed and we smashed shins. mine basically wrapped around his. on the flat i picked up my leg and it was as bendy as a noodle. so yeah, after that, ill basically take anything...i aint ****in' with cars though, i've had a few drunken near death, late night hill bomb, blasting through red lights and brushing inches from cars crossing my path sorts of situations that i am actually sort of cautious now...just older and wiser maybe.
I always saw that back there and always wanted to ride it, they tore it down a couple years ago I think-
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Originally Posted by nickw
Vert ramp in Corvallis….was that the one over in the big park by the river, probably 2 miles south of OSU. Pretty big ramp if my memory serves me correctly.
I always saw that back there and always wanted to ride it, they tore it down a couple years ago I think-
I always saw that back there and always wanted to ride it, they tore it down a couple years ago I think-
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I'm 40 in May.
Martial Arts 10 accumulated years
Skateboarding 27 years
banned for life by wife for dislocating kneecap and now having holes in the bones in my knee..... still want a long board though...or a mountain board lol
Military-ness cadets reg and reserves 7 years.
Skiiing/Snowbaording 12years.
Messenger in Montreal 6 years.
Nothing like a big air to splat on the 'crete on your stick to teach you the value of being able to roll out your momentum. Like when you ollie the big staircase. I have virtually no cartilage in my knees anymore and the mass of scar tissue on them is something I am proud of most ppl think it's odd. I can slide across pavement now.... get up brush myself off and get back on and ride away dripping blood. The surgeon still wants to fillet my knee and fill the hole in my bone with bits taken from the upper part of my leg to fix the damage from the dislocation. When I can't ride or walk dude. All of it makes me a better rider/crasher. I very rarely get hurt, even when I took a door in the knee at 45kms it spun me 9 feet into the other lane. I give myself whiplash keeping my noodle off the road (no lid...hot day), got up, pickup my **** and continued to ride to work. Word to skating.
Lookin' forward to a fixie setup this summer, promise I will let you laugh cuz I'll be laughin' too on the side of Queen St.
Martial Arts 10 accumulated years
Skateboarding 27 years
banned for life by wife for dislocating kneecap and now having holes in the bones in my knee..... still want a long board though...or a mountain board lol
Military-ness cadets reg and reserves 7 years.
Skiiing/Snowbaording 12years.
Messenger in Montreal 6 years.
Nothing like a big air to splat on the 'crete on your stick to teach you the value of being able to roll out your momentum. Like when you ollie the big staircase. I have virtually no cartilage in my knees anymore and the mass of scar tissue on them is something I am proud of most ppl think it's odd. I can slide across pavement now.... get up brush myself off and get back on and ride away dripping blood. The surgeon still wants to fillet my knee and fill the hole in my bone with bits taken from the upper part of my leg to fix the damage from the dislocation. When I can't ride or walk dude. All of it makes me a better rider/crasher. I very rarely get hurt, even when I took a door in the knee at 45kms it spun me 9 feet into the other lane. I give myself whiplash keeping my noodle off the road (no lid...hot day), got up, pickup my **** and continued to ride to work. Word to skating.
Lookin' forward to a fixie setup this summer, promise I will let you laugh cuz I'll be laughin' too on the side of Queen St.
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Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
I'm 40 in May.
Martial Arts 10 accumulated years
Skateboarding 27 years
banned for life by wife for dislocating kneecap and now having holes in the bones in my knee..... still want a long board though...or a mountain board lol
Military-ness cadets reg and reserves 7 years.
Skiiing/Snowbaording 12years.
Messenger in Montreal 6 years.
Nothing like a big air to splat on the 'crete on your stick to teach you the value of being able to roll out your momentum. Like when you ollie the big staircase. I have virtually no cartilage in my knees anymore and the mass of scar tissue on them is something I am proud of most ppl think it's odd. I can slide across pavement now.... get up brush myself off and get back on and ride away dripping blood. The surgeon still wants to fillet my knee and fill the hole in my bone with bits taken from the upper part of my leg to fix the damage from the dislocation. When I can't ride or walk dude. All of it makes me a better rider/crasher. I very rarely get hurt, even when I took a door in the knee at 45kms it spun me 9 feet into the other lane. I give myself whiplash keeping my noodle off the road (no lid...hot day), got up, pickup my **** and continued to ride to work. Word to skating.
Lookin' forward to a fixie setup this summer, promise I will let you laugh cuz I'll be laughin' too on the side of Queen St.
Martial Arts 10 accumulated years
Skateboarding 27 years
banned for life by wife for dislocating kneecap and now having holes in the bones in my knee..... still want a long board though...or a mountain board lol
Military-ness cadets reg and reserves 7 years.
Skiiing/Snowbaording 12years.
Messenger in Montreal 6 years.
Nothing like a big air to splat on the 'crete on your stick to teach you the value of being able to roll out your momentum. Like when you ollie the big staircase. I have virtually no cartilage in my knees anymore and the mass of scar tissue on them is something I am proud of most ppl think it's odd. I can slide across pavement now.... get up brush myself off and get back on and ride away dripping blood. The surgeon still wants to fillet my knee and fill the hole in my bone with bits taken from the upper part of my leg to fix the damage from the dislocation. When I can't ride or walk dude. All of it makes me a better rider/crasher. I very rarely get hurt, even when I took a door in the knee at 45kms it spun me 9 feet into the other lane. I give myself whiplash keeping my noodle off the road (no lid...hot day), got up, pickup my **** and continued to ride to work. Word to skating.
Lookin' forward to a fixie setup this summer, promise I will let you laugh cuz I'll be laughin' too on the side of Queen St.
edit: jsut noticed you are 40, i'm 34. in skating 6 years is a big difference, maybe we didn't cross paths back then...
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Nope I rippin' up Montreal back in the day, went to the Transworld Worlds @ the Vancouver Expo.... oh the parties with the pros were amazing. I heard there was a vert ramp where you dropped in from the second floor, wish I'd that. I got the skate the Clown Ramp from Austin, TX when they rebuilt it in Ottawa. fun. I miss the big air days but getting too old for mashin' my knees.
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i was at expo. i was 14 years old. saw the pro vert contest. but something about an all night shroom trip and not coming home got me grounded and i missed out on the rest of the contest at the north van bowls. they re-built the clown ramp in ottawa? crazy.
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Steve Coffee is like my brother from another mother...... holmes!!!!
Yes he was doing his crazy rotorouters...we drove up in his Austin Marina from Montreal.
I remember Tom winning a comp in montreal at the Beaubien ramp ...won a snowboard and then dropped into the ramp with it. He went balls out crazy when he turned pro. Good on him.
Yes he was doing his crazy rotorouters...we drove up in his Austin Marina from Montreal.
I remember Tom winning a comp in montreal at the Beaubien ramp ...won a snowboard and then dropped into the ramp with it. He went balls out crazy when he turned pro. Good on him.
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I swear he could pull an invert in the shower!!!! He was in my wedding party. Messed his shoulder chasing superior snowboarders in Whistler years ago, they popped over he followed to a rather large drop he wasn't expecting. He's fine now. Haven't heard from him in years.
Steve was a monster on a stick.
Steve was a monster on a stick.
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