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| | | fasteddy | | Chaac |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 962 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 10 Jan 2014 - 01:31 Post title : A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... | | | "Come gather round children from wherever you roam...."
Today, I proved that once again I too can and obviously, with great ease, be enticed into stupid!
Spirit Mountain In Duluth Minnesota, is a Ski Hill, and I'll leave it there...it's a SKI HILL!
I ran up there on "Blue" (My 03 America) to watch my son riding in a Observed Trials competition. I get there and the boy is out on the Loop trail. One of the riders says, you drive the loop trail, there is a guy up there on a Venture!
Well, I am on a Triumph and he may be on the loop trail, but after eyeballing it...I come to the conclusion, I can go up that trail. Again, let me paint a picture...It's a SKI HILL!
I putter and Blue pulls. I am going nice and easy, don't want to find an unexpected slip in the grass going up (THE SKI HILL!) Now imagine a grade (OF A SKI HILL) and I see a spot that seems a bit wet, I see an off camber slope, and choose to go up and around the low spot. I go easily as not to loose traction but you know what, it didn't work. GO FIGURE!
So guess what happens on the side of a (SKI HILL) rear wheel slips, and over she goes on top of my leg! Caught me by laying right on top of my calf right behind my knee with the exhaust pipe. It was on me because the bike is now all the way over, on a downward slope, wheels are no longer on the ground because the bike is now resting on my saddlebags and lightbar!
All alone on the side of a... SKI HILL, I pull my leg out forcefully (and quite painfully) free and try righting the bike. Again, righting a bike on a level surface is tough in an of itself, now add the incline of a... SKI HILL to it and it felt as if I was lifting the fullness of 500 lbs!
It took me three grunts to make it, and I got it up right. Now I am resisting gravity and the bikes desire to ride down the... SKI HILL with all that I have within me!
I get it upright and on a level spot where I can straighten out the the front brake lever that yielded to the pressure (Trials trick never cinch your levers tight, allows them to roll when the hit the ground) Turn signal was a whisker from dinging the tank!
As you might guess with my new found education relating to gravity and street bikes on the side of a... SKI HILL, I promptly, but cautiously made my way down the...Ski Hill!
Survey revealed the light-bar end tweaked but straightened, bent light visor on the bar, but straightened. This likely saved my gas tank form receiving a mortal wound. Dirt scratch on windshield, but brackets took the impact with no bending or moving!
As for me, my 50 year old body is groaning, no burn on my leg but black and blue and scrapes from top of calf to ankle . I may be strong like bull, I remain, smart like tractor. I once again can say and proclaim that DUMB HURTS! (on the side of a SKI HILL!)
And I share my adventure with you for your entertainment at my expense!
eddy
8/2005
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| | | Eddie | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/07/2010 | | Posts | : | 422 | | Location | : | Melbourne Victoria, Australia |
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| | Posted : 11 Jan 2014 - 05:25 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: fasteddy) | | | Hey Ed,
The fact that you were writing this story, meant that you were ok!!
But all I could think was, lucky you didn't have the T-bird or you may be still stuck under it!!
But Ed, before you decided to climb it, didn't the fact that it was a SKI HILL give you any clues?? regardless of how it looked??
Glad you're ok, thanks for the chuckle and just think, WE are all now a little smarter than a tractor!!
Eddie
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| | | mjgt | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/09/2011 | | Posts | : | 2,201 | | Location | : | North Somerset, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 11 Jan 2014 - 09:40 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: fasteddy) | | | Eddie, we've all been there, if it had of worked and you got to the top it would have been a testament to your riding skill and ability and you would have been hailed as a hero. However you didn't, so now it was a stupid thing to do and all will say why did you try such a daft thing. At least you fessed up, so until the next time you attempt to become a hero or just another idiot good luck, it could have been a lot worse.
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| | | Linkdog | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 10/02/2011 | | Posts | : | 2,923 | | Location | : | Groveland, FL., United States |
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| | Posted : 11 Jan 2014 - 14:14 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: mjgt) | | | I had to chuckle a bit , but we all have it in us ( Hell yea... I can do this. )
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| | | fasteddy | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 962 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 11 Jan 2014 - 15:21 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: Linkdog) | | | It was one of those machismo moments that most 18 year old kids have...unfortunately at 50 and even now at 57, I still have those moments! (see riding in Greece video and Riding on a beach video) this is a pattern not a momentary laps. Keep in mind I take my bike out on snow and ice every winter for a winter ride! I am a risk taker, I have to admit, not blindly but risk taker none the less.
After seeing Birdy's Scambler video, I was watching that thinking..I bet I could do that with my America! But I love the bike too much to do that...but you know if I did this or that....?
As for the hill, I did make it exactly halfway up was just a bad spot, muddy surface and I suspected it was going to be trouble and it was, just didn't think I would end up under the bike!
I really hope it made ya smile!
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| | Posted : 12 Jan 2014 - 01:06 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: fasteddy) | | | Good story Eddy and glad it ended well, most of us have that in us, some control it better than others I guess
I did something similar as a young fella with a VW beach buggy, ended up sideways across the slope, me (driver) on the downside shitting myself and my mate hanging off the upside of the buggy to stop us rolling. I think we used to call it fun. 
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| | Posted : 12 Jan 2014 - 02:21 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: fasteddy) | | | Hmmm I'm gonna have to watch you next time we go riding ... boy!
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| | | fasteddy | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 962 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 12 Jan 2014 - 03:17 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: Bedouin) | | | You know how I ride like every bike is a trials bike! Remember I road over the curb? Up on the pegs and slow ride!
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| | Posted : 17 Jan 2014 - 13:42 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: fasteddy) | | | each time that I have ridden with you eddy I have thought ' somebody should follow this guy around with a video camera because sooner or later he is going to do something interesting'. Most likely sooner 
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| | | fasteddy | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 962 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 20 Jan 2014 - 16:40 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: mag10) | | | Is that a good thing or a bad thing Micah?
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| | Posted : 23 Jan 2014 - 20:19 Post title : Re: A Ski Hill, Dumb Hurts. An old tale, from a few years ago... (Re: fasteddy) | | |
fasteddy wrote:
Is that a good thing or a bad thing Micah?
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Its all good eddy
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