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TD Training Entry #5: Taco Tony!
Posted on May 18th, 2009 2 commentsI guess it was only a matter of time.
This past Saturday, I ate a heaping spoonful of shit on the Memorial Park biking trails, a direct result of me getting cocky in the saddle. Summoning my best Evel Knieval impersonation, I landed on a root longways and took a tooth-jarring dive on to the hard packed dirt. Tacoed my front wheel pretty good. Have a look:
My First Taco Ever!
At least my riding partners for that day, Pat and Gilbert, waited until they knew I was OK to laugh at me. I had to hike the bike outta there, and suffer the stares of passing riders in humiliating fashion. I convinced myself it was all a good thing though. I’d been falling in love with my increasing technical skills and was becoming too daring on rooty faire. I hadn’t wiped out like that since my days as a total newb nearly 20 years ago. Way to slap that check on me, Memorial!
So I went to Webster Bikes later that day hooked me up with a new wheel set (Sunrims DS2-XC), and I’m ready to roll next weekend. We were planning on a 200 mile weekend at Huntsville State Park, but their campsites were full, so now we’re headed to Rocky Hill Ranch near Austin, which really looks like a more kick ass place anyway. This will be me and Paul’s hardest test of ourselves so far….neither of us have covered that kind of distance over a weekend before. Wish us luck!
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2 responses to “TD Training Entry #5: Taco Tony!”
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You’re welcome! That was awesome! FYI, Tony was ready to ride once he spat out the dust, he looked over at his bike laying there like last night’s lover and said “aw, man look at my bike!”. Classic!
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Hi, nice posts there
thank’s for the gripping advice
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Pat May 21st, 2009 at 05:20