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****** up
Been going through some old pics and found this beauty. Foot popped out of the cleat while cranking in (more speed = less death technique)
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So turning over a new leaf in the new year lets all laugh at ourselves.
Paddlesports is great for this...
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matt, has anyone said you look like Chris Akrigg in that photo?
Yep
[quote=sandwicheater ]matt, has anyone said you look like Chris Akrigg in that photo?Looks more like Rebecca Adlington in the first one.
That'll be the redundant Kona jump on Mabie dark side mikewsmith
Lol, I survived the second one with two rolls and no swim...
Second pic is one of my old apprentices, first or second time on a river iirc.
I thought Mabie 'til I saw the tree in the background?
Not me, but I took these a good few years ago
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And one of me, but I some how manage to hold it 😆
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This is me completely stuck halfway through a rock feature with a decent size drop off to the right- the Steps Of Doom. Had my left hand and foot wedged against the rock face and every time I moved it felt like I was going to die 😆 I think Iona thought she was going to have to hire a crane
Oh and this isn't me, it's some random French dude that ChrisL snapped at Tignes... but it's perfect
READY
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AIM
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FIRE
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pffft, you people know nothing about fail:
PURPLE bar ends - check
SCARY FAST ROCKET POWER GLOVES ! - check
(might even be a psycho tyre)- check
"I know, I'll just go left off that drop, straight across the off-camber landing to where my mate is with the camera"
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(It's lucky there's a bike frame in the way - I suspect there's a bit of an Alan Partridge moment going on with the shorts 😯
These aren't me-
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Oh and this isn't me, it's some random French dude that ChrisL snapped at Tignes... but it's perfect
Those pictures show perfectly why "getting your ass off the back" is not the way to do drops!
This is also not me, bailing out, halfway across a river on Exmoor!
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Amazingly, he made it with dry feet. Right up to the moment he had to wade back out into the river to rescue his submerged bike...... 😉
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P20 - is your first pic below skiddaw house? I snapped my beloved Orange Clockwork there decades ago.
Hospital immediately after this...
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Was looking ok to start....
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Then it was a classic OTB moment
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Boxelder, yes it is
This was in the local paper back in 97, from a downhill race.
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What can we spot apart from my pony tail
Bar ends?
The first one was mabie