Thank god you didn't break any bones! I have seen many broken bones in the trail in my day. Although I wiped out plenty of times, I never hurt myself too bad.
I'm into trail riding myself. Its awesome to see there are other people out there into this. It was only about 6 years ago that I was still hitting up my local trails and making tons of jumps.. See I ride a BMX bike (20'), I use to race out here on LI they have a track, every sunday I use to go out there. But what I really liked to do was tear up the trails. I would always go way back into the woods and start an entire trail from scratch. I would dig for the first 5 hours every single day and then ride it out for a few hours until it was dark...then be back in the morning and so on.....BUT ANYWAY
Last week I went out to the trails down the block from my house, riding my same bmx bike and I started digging away!! This whole group of jr/high school kids showed up there, they were trying to ride the trail but said they really didnt kno much about it...So I showed them how its done, how to perfect the lips and landing, and how to actually jump. I had a great weekend, felt real good passing on this past time to a younger generation.. Back when I was in high school tons of kids were riding bikes, we use to have 30 kids in the trails digging, jumping, drinking
, now a days these kids are busy riding something motorized/watchin tv/computer etc...always in the trail when i was a kid, those were some of the best times ever......WELL Heres some pics I took last weekend....
You can see from that pic above how much bigger the landing is on the first jump, they call it a 'step-up'. These type of jumps are called 'doubles', and when you put one double after another after another and so onn... (like these) they call it a 'pack'...6 doubles would be a 12 pack etc... heres from a few days ago, I started making a pack off to the right, just by expanding the lip side on the first double....
and this is the back view of those 2 doubles.....
Most of my weekends consist of riding the banshee and the kx125(well 137 ;]) , but the cops have been busting balls lately! So thats what got me to jump on the old bike!
Just thought I would share! Have fun riding man, and be safe!
