Tony has been pretty busy lately and hasn’t been able to ride with us much over the past few weeks, so it was a nice surprise to have him show up this week.
This ride started out rough, and didn’t get a whole lot better (ever have one of those days?). We thought this ride was going to end up as an hour-ling video of fails. I didn’t even bother turning the camera on until about 30 minutes into the ride, since we were still warming up. Then the first line that Tony and I tried, I spent probably 15 minutes on it before sort of getting it: old, cold, and out of practice.
Tony had a couple pretty hard crashes. One is shown in the video, where he fell and bonked his head on the ground (right on a tree root). Even with the helmet on, it looked like it rang his bell pretty good. The other fall was not caught on camera, and that one was nasty too: he fell onto a rock (on his back if I recall). Fortunately he was ok after both falls.
I had a couple near misses due to slipping rear brakes, which almost caused some wicked loop-outs. Looks like it’s time for a fresh grind before I take a nasty spill.
Regardless of the struggles, this was still a good time. Our riding wasn’t so great, but the company was good and the commentary was hilarious. This video is best watched with audio on.
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