Jason's Imminent birthday was revealed on Junior Friday, and we were riding Tamorancho the next morning (thank you kind bosses).
I rode Santa Creme, now featuring dual Minions with lots of knobs available. Tamo features a very tricky left-hand corner that leads to a steep and usually slippery rockface. Its been years since I got up and over this puzzle, today I felt good (compared to previous weekend) and gave the face a good push - not enough, I was left hanging, then falling backwards. A tearing and tugging on my shorts, the entire bottom tore out as I fell backwards and caught myself. I had the BBC diaper on so could continue, but I left the shorts with the Alien...so funny haha.
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| Pic by Dave |
So we continued on, me with extra and appreciated ventilation - why are we wearing shorts? New HandsUp jersey there.
All the way around I repeated the effort, repeated the fail, front wheel rose but rather than catching myself on tearing shorts, there was nothing there, no footing even, over I went and I felt my head hit the rock through the helmet. Rung my bell, but I didn't pass out, I took my time checking overmyself and feeling for holes. I had my buds check my head, then I got up. Neck was a bit whiplashed, but I was well enough to ride around and out to Gastalt Haus.
The POC Tectal Spin Race did its job
No crash replacement policy so no *need* to stay with the POC. I found the helmet hot and really ugly in pictures before the crash, so I had my eye on the TLD A3 Mips. Colors all sucked for 2024 so I found a sweet Silver 2023 on Amazon. May it cradle my head like the POC "volvo".
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