Well, I just did.
What a mess. I hit the ground 2 times and clipped trees 4 times within 5km of starting. And when I mean clip a tree, I mean leave skin behind from arm/elbow/shoulder kind of clip. Rode like a total Noob - see a tree, look at tree - hit said tree. My buddy riding behind was in tears - said I looked like I had never been on a bike before - bouncing off both sides of the trail, hips on vacation, head bolted straight on and not moving...
Ran into some other members of my crew all out sessioning the DH bikes on the large bermed flowy part of the local XC trails - they took one look at me and you could see the communal WTF look - told them that I took the training wheels off too early and had had a few issues. Detailed my ride ( backed up helpfully by my buddy who mentioned we had only done 5K - thanks) and my efforts at manually bulldozing the flora... One of the crew who is injured but out riding contrary to Drs orders - healing separated shoulder and then a newly broken thumb that shoulder doc knows nothing about - known in the crew as Johnnie-Crash (one fast 40 year old tho) just looks at me with a big grin and says "Thanks for taking up my slack - I've not gone down since I did my thumb in a couple weeks ago"...
I figured the cycling gods were trying to tell me something so I called it a day....
michael
What a mess. I hit the ground 2 times and clipped trees 4 times within 5km of starting. And when I mean clip a tree, I mean leave skin behind from arm/elbow/shoulder kind of clip. Rode like a total Noob - see a tree, look at tree - hit said tree. My buddy riding behind was in tears - said I looked like I had never been on a bike before - bouncing off both sides of the trail, hips on vacation, head bolted straight on and not moving...
Ran into some other members of my crew all out sessioning the DH bikes on the large bermed flowy part of the local XC trails - they took one look at me and you could see the communal WTF look - told them that I took the training wheels off too early and had had a few issues. Detailed my ride ( backed up helpfully by my buddy who mentioned we had only done 5K - thanks) and my efforts at manually bulldozing the flora... One of the crew who is injured but out riding contrary to Drs orders - healing separated shoulder and then a newly broken thumb that shoulder doc knows nothing about - known in the crew as Johnnie-Crash (one fast 40 year old tho) just looks at me with a big grin and says "Thanks for taking up my slack - I've not gone down since I did my thumb in a couple weeks ago"...
I figured the cycling gods were trying to tell me something so I called it a day....
michael