Loving it! Thankyou Mark! Missing out.... still catching up on me-time after an August full of races & places. See you soon!
AdriFerrari On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:57 AM, mark Snyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Those of you who have watched the movie Inception will be familiar with the > term "kick" or was that "kicker"; either way the term was used in the movie > to describe THAT feeling of falling when you sleep. Yes, the one that makes > you kick dogs, cats and even girlfriends or wives out of the bed with an > involuntary spazz jolt. > > > > So the dream scene is set. There I am on a beautiful evening. Gingerly > puttering along a very unintimidating piece of single track. The new > handlebar light set to medium to suite the mood. When out of the dark in > front of me I spot a cluster of rocks in the middle of the chilled, smooth, > red track. “Ah…” I think to myself. “Time to refresh some technical skill. > Hit it right over that big one!”. > > The convo with myself continues as I put the front of the bike over “the > big one”:”Yes please. Riding some ruff stuff J”. But what I didn’t take > into consideration was the fact that behind “the big one” was another “big > one”. Hidden nicely in the shadow of the first “big one”. Enter the “kick”. > > > > All of a sudden the light from the handlebar light retracts from the trail > ahead and makes a nice bright spot under me... The PG 13 version of my > thoughts going something like: “What the flag knog??? Ahhh crud”. “Ah crud” > luckily is my body’s queue to eject. And that’s exactly what I did, eject. > > > > Kay enough of the endo story, but I should note that “big” is a relative > term and that the “big one” was only ever so slightly bigger than a standard > brick. > > > > So the stats: > > > > Alpha dog: Hardy > > Sweeper: Nico > > Number of riders: 11 of which 5 were female and 2.5 were newbies. > > Number of technicals: none > > Number of ungraceful dismounts: 1 > > Number of speed zones: 2.5 > > Speed zone champion (2.5/2.5): 4Bar > > Number of nicknames given: 2 (4Bar and Dollos) > > Ride time: unknown* > > Max speed: unknown* > > Distance covered: unknown* > > * Apparently an endo can frighten a Polar CS300 so badly that is stops > recording a ride… > > Number of downhilling helmets: 1 > > Rider with the coolest helmet: Oupa Gert > > Air pressure in QT’s tyres: not much > > Number of times QT frightened the day lights out of Hardy by barking like a > dog (and giving a little bum-pinch whilst Hardy was talking about crocs): 1 > > Number of Velotex reps on the ride: 1 > > Number of lost tracks rediscovered: 1 > > > </RideReport> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DarkAndDirty" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<darkanddirty%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en. > -- And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.* **Nelson Mandela* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en.
