Awesome crash stories, Manny!
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Manuel Acosta < manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Good amount of East Bay dirt. > Five of us. Kurt, Brian, Jeremy, Evan and Jon. > > Two of the five were on single speeds. > 4 out of the five haven't ridden the single track of Joaquin Miller Park, > Oakland's only "downhill" course. > Which always equals fun. > > Lots of crashes today. Me included. > > Notable crashes. > > As we start of the single track down from JMP we're followed by another > group of dirt riders. > 10 bikers barreling down a single track, I take a short cut and was able > to cut in front of them only to miss the last lip and doing my best ninja > roll over my camera. Nothing hurt just a twisted handlebar. Camera was fine. > > Mr.Brian Oei, one of the four/five? members of the Boyz on the Hoods > Made my life complete by allowing me to watch him crash but recover in the > coolest way possible. > Going down Sunset Trail in JMP with Brian, Kurt and Jeremy behind me. > Taking the first switchback Brian's back wheel slides out. > I look back and he's on his back still clipped in. > He was in toe clips and he couldn't unclip. Like a boss he did a 180 > backspin on his back on the cambered switchback. > He rolls his bike over himself gets back on the trail and rides ahead of > me. > Then proceeds to rip through. > > My life feels complete now that I've seen that. No pictures of this but 2 > other people can be a witness. > > Picture proved that the rest of the ride was great: > http://flic.kr/s/aHsjTcUtiG > > Manny "Uses his breakdance moves on the trail" Acosta > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- "I want the kind of six pack you can't drink." -- Micah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
