Posted by Sean_Q_ on September 21, 2009, 6:04 pm
...perched precariously on my CX500 trying to unload it from
the trailer... via a folding steel bike ramp onto the back yard
walkway which is two steps up from the driveway, and I've got a plank
for my feet on each side of the ramp and the bike's in gear to stop it
rolling backward and there's a load strap to prevent it from falling
over sideways, but it's uphill to get from the trailer deck to the ramp
and it's too heavy to push and I keep getting off and back on trying
various ways to move it and sometimes it's not in gear so I gotta keep
my right hand on the brake lever...
...and olive a sudden I'm perched up there and I get this vivid insight
that one mistake, one slip or a moment's loss of balance and this whole
600 lb bike is gonna fall off the trailer onto the asphalt with me
underneath it...
...and considering there are 208 bones in the human body, none of which
I can spare at the moment, I decided to get off the machine and rethink
the problem...
...and so with the bike leaning away from me and my 208 bones and other
soft tissue which I can't spare either I used a ratcheting tensioner to
inch the bike forward and up onto the ramp. Once the front wheel started
down the ramp I was able to get back on the bike and walk it down. Whew.
SQ
Posted by Stephen Cowell on September 21, 2009, 9:02 pm
> ...and so with the bike leaning away from me and my 208 bones and other
> soft tissue which I can't spare either I used a ratcheting tensioner to
> inch the bike forward and up onto the ramp. Once the front wheel started
> down the ramp I was able to get back on the bike and walk it down. Whew.
... and missed your big Darwin Award chance!
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Steve
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Posted by Sean_Q_ on September 22, 2009, 1:17 am
Stephen Cowell wrote:
> ... and missed your big Darwin Award chance!
Darwin Awards are won by people who make seriously self-destructive
decisions. Whereas I was doing something only moderately stupid
(which still could have been fatal).
I was lucky that the awareness of how stupid it was came to me while
I still had the chance to back off. Unfortunately, there were too many
times in the past when a similar enlightenment was late in dawning.
SQ
Posted by Bob Myers on September 22, 2009, 12:10 pm
Sean_Q_ wrote:
> Stephen Cowell wrote:
>> ... and missed your big Darwin Award chance!
> Darwin Awards are won by people who make seriously self-destructive
> decisions. Whereas I was doing something only moderately stupid
> (which still could have been fatal).
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you have to actually take yourself out
of the gene pool to qualify for a Darwin.
That said, there certainly are a number of people I'd love to
be able to nominate...
Bob M.
Posted by Bob Mann on September 21, 2009, 10:37 pm
> ...perched precariously on my CX500 trying to unload it from
>
How many $500 bikes do you have?
--
Bob Mann
Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.
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> soft tissue which I can't spare either I used a ratcheting tensioner to
> inch the bike forward and up onto the ramp. Once the front wheel started
> down the ramp I was able to get back on the bike and walk it down. Whew.