in message <[email hidden]>, Alex Ferrier
(') said:VisionSet said:
Jon Senior said:
First happened to me in France on holiday. Pulled up at the
junction, twisted my foot and nothing happened. My parents
description was that I frantically waved my foot around, then
seemed to give up and just put my hands out. Amazingly, as the bike
hit the floor, both feet unclipped.Yeah, so did mine... which was nice.
Pah! You've not done it properly until you've slipped off a narrow
piece of singletrack contouring round a *very* steep hill [1]
travelling at speed and landed upside down in a stream, still clipped
in.Thank ged I was wearing a woolly hat, it could've been nasty
otherwise. The sounds of laughter from above was what really hurt
though. ;-)[1] The Minton batch on the long mynd.
I've done better. Consider a track deeply rutted by tractors, running
across a steep hillside. Because you can't ride *in* the tractor ruts
I'm riding along the outside of the track, when I came to a closed
gate, so I had to stop to open the gate. Obvious, innit? Well, I
couldn't put my foot down on the uphill side because of the tractor
rut, so I unclipped - yes, I *unclipped*, successfully I may say, the
foot on the downhill side, and put it down...
Sadly, dear reader, owing to the slope of the hill I couldn't get my
foot to reach the ground, and thus toppled gracefully over sideways and
landed upside down in a ditch anyway.
The best laid plans o meece an men gang aft agley.
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