Omg - I can dooooo it!!!!!

[badkitty]

I can JUMP on my bike! Proper jumping - not just bouncing over stuff, but proper Evel Knievel flying over things...Yay!

Don't know why it took me so long, but the penny finally dropped on the way back from the school - needed more speed...doh...

So I went bombing towards the tree that blocks the path, pulled up and took off just like Elliot in ET.

Well, ok, not quite as high perhaps, but it felt like it to me..!

So I've just jumped everything all the way home - logs, rocks, speed bumps, craters, er bits of grass, litter, a dead mole...and when I ran out of things which needed jumping, I just did it for the hell of it...

Am a happy girl today..


(Apologies for the overexcitement, but I've been wanting to do this for so long... )

 

[summerdays]

Well done ... I've yet to pass that exam... I would like to try a basic Mountain Biking skills course sometime.

 

[papercorn2000]

I hope that this isn't on your Cervelo R1!

 

[snapper_37]

I always knew you'd be good for a jump babe!!!!

 

[spandex]

Go on girl


But it is no good just telling us we need pic's

 

[Dayvo]

I thought you meant running up to it, jump, and land effortlessly (and painlessly) on the saddle, like the cowboys used to do!

 

[badkitty]

I hope that this isn't on your Cervelo R1!

Er, I think you've got me confused with someone else ... I dont have one of those.

 

[badkitty]

Summerdays - thanks! But you dont need a course...just not being too dim to understand the speed thing will mean that you'll get it way sooner than I did! Go for it...( its easier than it looks, you know.. )

Snapper - lol!

Spandex...picture thing duly noted. Will take pictures of everything I jump from now on for you.....that is what you meant, wasn't it?

Davyo...I'm working on that too...anyday now..will let you know when I can do it..

 

[snapper_37]

Spandex...picture thing duly noted. Will take pictures of everything I jump from now on for you.....that is what you meant, wasn't it?

Get ready Spandex. You will need a very, very big scrapbook.

 

[Fnaar]

When we were kids, we spent hours jumping our bikes... home-made ramps, line up about 3 or 4 toddlers from the street, get them to lie down, and jump over them! Oh what fun!
Plus there was a long slope down, leading to a short slope up... speed down, go up, launch off the top of the slope and try not to fall in the very nearby river
Knackered several bikes doing that! (no toddlers were ever injured, though!)

 

[Panter]

Congratulations

I learned to do the jumping thing a couple of months ago on a skills course.

Unfortunately, I still can't do the landings.............

This is me seconds before slamming sideways into the ground so hard that I actually bounced

 

[Shaun]

When we were kids, we spent hours jumping our bikes... home-made ramps, line up about 3 or 4 toddlers from the street, get them to lie down, and jump over them! Oh what fun!
Plus there was a long slope down, leading to a short slope up... speed down, go up, launch off the top of the slope and try not to fall in the very nearby river
Knackered several bikes doing that! (no toddlers were ever injured, though!)

My younger brother still has the scars on his chin from when I set-up a ramp for him. As he sailed through the air the front wheel came off and he ended up using his chin as a brake across the newly laid gravel on our road! Poor bugger!

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[johnnyh]

Hmmmmm been a long time since I did much like that, in fact not since I was a good few years younger. (shortly after moving from a Chopper to a Grifter if I recall correcty )

Seems a bit early to be out jumping to me, though maybe it could jump start the day! ok IGMC

 

[spandex]

Congratulations

I learned to do the jumping thing a couple of months ago on a skills course.

Unfortunately, I still can't do the landings.............

This is me seconds before slamming sideways into the ground so hard that I actually bounced

See we love pic's

 

[papercorn2000]

Er, I think you've got me confused with someone else ... I dont have one of those.

*Sigh!*