Sep 30

Having now successfully fallen off my bike a couple of time, injuring my back and heel I felt it was time to slow down. I’m still practicing the 180 and getting higher in the bowl and also dropping straight in from quarter pipes rather than lowering myself in. Riding off a pipe is a major block I’ve had, made all the easier by a teenager who insisted it was easy to do. He was right, having made me feel so foolish for not just trying it. He was also showing me how to jump up from the quarter pipe onto the down ramp. Having told him I was 38, not 15 and about twice his weight he did see my point that it wasn’t something I was going to do today :-)

Trying to get higher up in the bowl and turning, easy does it….

A rolling drop in sequence. Awesome, such a rush when you drop in!

The question is will I drop in to the bowl next week or bottle it?

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Sep 08

Kieran and I headed out early on Saturday to the BMX park. This was a chance to check that I could still get out of the bowl and get up ramps OK. Note to self, no coffee next time I do this! Having got through the initial caffeine shakes I settled into doing some ramps. After plucking up enough courage to fall off my bike and break my face I dropped in off a ramp, this is about a foot lower than the bowl so a good start.

Kieran took great delight in telling me how his bike was better as his front sprocket was much smaller so it didn’t bank the lip as we dropped in off the ramp.

The major achievement was getting up the ramp the other end of the drop in. Given I’m not a teenager and weigh ever so slightly more, getting speed is a major issue.

This was so much fun! We spent two and a half hours messing around on the bikes, I spent the rest of the weekend recovering from it!

Awesome!

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