bigdad have you ever watched On Any Sunday II ? really disappointing and IMO should never have been made.......................but I shouldn't complain or be so down on it I did get a small part in it
Re: Long winter is here
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#2841227 11/03/2012:44 PM11/03/2012:44 PM
At or around the 49:30 minute mark on a yellow bike, mostly yellow gear and a blue helmet with two white (skunk) stripes There's another rider on a Honda that helps me out of a bad and awkward situation on top of a cliff
What got me to this awkward position was actually the shot near the end that appears to be someone else going too fast. It was me going at a good race speed on the side of the cliff on a single track trail. I hit a pretty good size rock that got knocked onto the trail and popped the front wheel airborne and I was headed off of the cliff. Somehow I saved it from going all the way over but the left side foot peg had buried itself into the ground and acted like a pivot. Every time I tried to pull the front end up the bike would pivot on the foot peg and put the rear wheel over the edge. I was very lucky the big red rider came along and good guy that he was pulled the back end up as I pulled the front. I was thanking him the entire time and even as I left and hoped to see him at the end to thank him again and buy him a beer Funny thing about the situation and being short I had trouble remounting the bike and actually hit the rear fender with my boot as I swung my leg over. I felt it and almost knocked the bike (again) over the edge but got going. I got just a little ways down the trail when I had a chance to take a quick look back and saw the dust at the bottom of the cliff and thought "OMG I just knocked the guy that helped me off of the cliff, That wasn't my rear fender I just kicked but that good guy that helped me" I never saw that guy again and thought he was mad at me for what I had done to him after he saved my butt. When the movie came out I saw what really happened and realized I really owed him a couple of beers for all of that.
Second image is me hauling butt down the single track and headed for trouble: I have had lots of crazy things happen to me in races but never one that was filmed and somewhat shown to be true........"never screw up a good story with facts" someone once told me, in this case I found out I thought for a year that I had knocked that poor, good guy off of the cliff.
MikeR
Re: Long winter is here
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#2841310 11/03/2003:29 PM11/03/2003:29 PM
Around the 48-ish minute mark........they made it into a pretty funny instance. Really wasn't at the back of the pack as it was a National Enduro in the California desert. Won my class and went on to win the class national title and have to give that guy a big thanks for saving my butt. As I said I really thought I had knocked the guy over the cliff when just moments down the trail I took a quick look back to see all of the dust down the cliff side and at the bottom. Glad he and no one was hurt and sure glad I didn't go off the edge as I was hauling when I hit that big rock.
Re: Long winter is here
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#2845646 11/13/2010:08 AM11/13/2010:08 AM