The Worst 20 minute bike ride....ever.

   

The Worst 20 minute bike ride...ever.

  A quick bicycle ride becomes a 12 month ordeal.  

Why did i crash? who ever knows? i have been the victim of speed wobbles, pot holes, faulty crank arms, lack of skill, and lack of focus. Every serious climbing fall has been a lack of focus. Skateboarding crashes generally seem like a lack of skill...bicycles have been both lack of focus and faulty equipment...

I am chocking this one up to lack of focus. I had been putting alot of miles on a Shogun touring bike, and what was intended to be a short intense ride on the fixe, was only about 15 minutes long...including the limp home after the crash. I figure i got about 4 minutes of ride...5 minutes of crash and gathering of wits, and then 6 minutes of limping home with a broken bike, a blown out knee and a jacked up shoulder. 

Paying for radness, putting blood into the game.

  So....as you can see from the pictures that this training ride for ski season, ended my ski season before it started.  What you see above is a shredded ACL.  Below the massive bruise on my shoulder.

 And...the condition of the bike.  The wheel is twisted and cracked. I have not had the heart to give the forks a good check.  I think that in 2014 I will filp this over to single speed free wheel, give myself a little more margin for operator error.

Mason Skate Park- first stop of the Kalamazoo Church of Skatin

Sunday

 6am- Meet in abandoned Burger King Parking Lot

 Drive to Mason, Michigan

 7:40 am Arrive in Mason. Before park opens

 8:00am  Skate park given a "peoples opening"...no one from Mason Parks showed up so we jumped the fence.

9:40 am  Drive to Charlotte

10:15 am Arrive in Charlotte with all the Frisbee golfers

11:00 Leave Charlotte and drive  back to Kalamazoo

noon- back in kalamazoo.

Lake Michigan sailing: fun til death outta South Haven

Sporting a " Fun Til Death" sticker on a sailing vessel is a questionable decision.

Andys mini

Fun til death stickers!

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Banks of portland

Thanks to tom for keeping me posted on the various banks he has been spotting and skating around Portland.  I paid homage to this down at the kalamazoo skatepark. 

40 yr old skater Crucified on the coping

I have awoken to a really sore body.  The result of two days of skating, one with a spectacular, legs in the air slam on my back...directly on the coping. 

Again the price of radness is paid. 

A pay off though is really coming out of this in not too bad of shape. Super sore, but i am going to credit some over all fitness to not being completely broken.  

The scene at upjohn park was nice yesterday..which i noticed more because i had to sit out the majority of the session.