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Re: Day in the Dirt KW 04-05-2008
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Posted by KW on April 5, 2008, 9:59 pm

>
> Okay, don't laugh, but

Not laughing about the dumpster dive find, that's cool....but...well read
on....

>
> When I got home later I looked it over real well.

Great ressurectioning for ya!

> So today we loaded up and drive about 4 or 5 mile over to the BMX
> track at The Edge in Allen. Free admission and all the drinking
> fountain water you can swallow.

Way cool to have a resource like that in the 'hood.

> Despite being 41 years old and riding a 20" BMX bike,

Now, for me, this is a visual where the uncontrollable giggles got the best
of me.

> I was able to
> successfully pull off a 180 (with about a foot of air)

Schweet!

> The 13-year old got a little overzealous one time and took a pretty
> good hi-speed spill on a table top, managing to scrape up his elbow
> and forearm a little. The 7-year old was a little intimidated.
> Somehow though he managed to get his pinky finger against the spinning
> tire and managed to remove several layers of skin in a "rug burn" type
> fashion. Ouch.

What is it with the Bradfords and finger/forearm damage?

> Still though, it was a nice afternoon with the kids and the outdoors. :-)

Good on ya Dad way to spend some quality time!

KW



Posted by CrashTestDummy on April 5, 2008, 10:42 pm
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:59:52 -0400, "KW"

>
>>
>> Okay, don't laugh, but
>
>Not laughing about the dumpster dive find, that's cool....but...well read
>on....

and

>> Despite being 41 years old and riding a 20" BMX bike,
>
>Now, for me, this is a visual where the uncontrollable giggles got the best
>of me.

Yeah, that's the part I was hoping to discourage laughing at ;->

It's funny though, I feel nearly as comfortable on this new Haro at
41 as I did on my old Schwinn Predator at 21. I'm just a little more
cautious nowadays. I guess alot of that riding I did when I was
younger has stayed with me. I rode all throughout high school and up
until I was about 22 years old. I even used to ride with <<shameless
name-dropping>> (former ABA Pro and Hall of Famer) Darrell Young:
(http://www.ababmx.com/index.php?page=default/halloffame&year=2003).

I never raced in the strictest sense, but used to "free ride" in
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Texas. You gotta meet other local riders
to find the "underground" hot spots and that's how I met Darrell.
Really kewl guy, btw, and *super* smooth. Another buddy I rode with
could ride sit-down wheelies as far as you wanted him to. Uphill,
downhill, around corners... he was the Doug Domokos of BMX. At the
time, I was 21, Darrell was 21, my wheelie buddy was about 16, another
buddy was 18 and several other young guys would join and depart the
group as their time allowed. We'd throw the bikes in the back of my
Toyota Celica, bungy-cord the trunk lid, and drive to all the kewl
underground spots. The Riverside BMX track was in Clackamas, OR. and I
think it's still there. Good times.


Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
fjbradfordREMOVE@tx.rr.com

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