Carbon Wheels

[Brett Dikeman]

At 5:20 PM -0800 12/13/01, Orin Eman wrote:
>  > Carbon frames and wheels fail and fail big time. Generally the consequences
>>  aren't too bad
>
>I hear a broken fork usually results in a face plant on the road.

Ok, this is the only mountain bike joke I know, but:

How do you tell if a mountain biker is ok after a really nasty tumble?

Whether he asks if his bike is ok.  If he does, he's fine.  If he
doesn't, well, fetch the helicopter :-)

I believe this came from a book titled Zen and the Art Of Mountain
biking.  There are a large number of -very- amusing illustrations on
various techniques...fun book.

Aside from that, I once saw a out-take clip from a police training
film.  Instructor is demonstrating to police-officers learning to
patrol on bike; the particular lesson at hand is how to load the bike
up to bounce it, and jump a curb while chasing Mr. Bad Guy.

Well, let's say one of them didn't do the bounce right, and did a
faceplant(into the grass, thankfully), much to the amusement of his
colleagues :-)  These aren't -nearly- as impressive as a windsurfer
in a harness getting Catapulted.

bah.  enough OT :-)

B
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