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How often do you crash, stack, OTB, etc.. ?
So I stacked it again this morning, twice this month, this time got more than just bruises 
That's 2 stacks in 10 rides. Both stacks happened at the 2nd lap around Manly Dam, tired, less concentration is my reasoning behind it.
Just wondering how often do others crash ?
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I had a good OTB at the 19th hole on Saturday morning on my second lap too. Was hot, exhausted and not concentrating, next minute straight over I went.
I reckon I would have at least 2 good stacks a month, mostly when I'm trying a new line or not paying attention properly......All part of the game
...for fear of jinxing myself!!
... on average once a year.
Not all off-road.
I don't ride off-road when mentally fatigued, I've learned the hard way it's a recipe for getting hurt, especially around Manly Dam. If I start getting ragged I pull the pin and go finish the session on a fire road.
My conditioning seems to have improved, it's usually towards the end of the third lap around the dam where I have to be watchful of how I'm handling the terrain. It used to be that doing one was an achievement. Too many other people around seems to have been a factor in a few of my offs - crowding the line or stopping in the wrong place in techy sections, and me trying to (unsuccessfully) go around instead of stopping.
I myself am a portable disaster area. Especially over the last 12 months. When I do stack, it's usually speed and fatigue related, mostly minor otb's... Then of course there's the major offs... No need to talk about them...
But they are generally getting less and less.
Interesting replies, keep em coming
So just like driving a car don't ride when fatigued
If you're not falling off your mtb then you probably aren't trying hard enough. But I never fall off a road bike, not since I was bought my first drop bar road bike when I was 12.
It never really bothers me falling off, which is odd because my mtb riding is limited by a fear of falling off, and usually its the thing that makes me fall off (ie fear of falling off).
Watching an interview after a world cup race one of the participants said in mtb there are limits to where you can push yourself because the risk is a lack of control. She had just won the race because the leader fell off on a tech section after a big climb. In road racing I find myself desperately hanging on, dribbling, gasping, hurting big time, because you can ride on the road like that, but not when you are mtb'ing.
Almost every ride, sometimes more than once.
With armour on it wasn't that bad. I pushed myself a lot harder than now. Went from complete beginner to technical 6 foot drops in 24 months.
Used to have to regularly change dressings at work as work pants and grazed hips are a bad combo.
Now not very often, 1 every 4 months. Mostly low side stacks.
My main rule is never have one more run on technical sections. Quit before you get tired or complacent.
I'm now probably a worse rider from lack of riding, trying to catch up now I have a more relaxed job.
I have little offs here & there but nothing major. The kind of thing you forget about almost imediately after it happens on the regular basis.
But I've had 4 serious offs in the last 12 mths 3 of which were because my tyres were not inflated correctly. The type of stack where you limp for a few days or cant turn the steeringwheel in my car because ribs hurt so much, along with the usual loss of skin on one side of the body.
By far the biggest stack I've had was a few years ago about a week after I got my first brand spanking new Dually. I wasn't showing off. just really exited about the new bike. Going down the cascades at mach 3 .....OMG ,OMG,OMG. I got away really lucky. No broken bones. cracked helmet and lost about 1 kilo of skin. (figure of speech....a farking lot of skin.)
The wife freaked out big time....she put down towels in the bed & all. I woke up the next morning......I was stuck to the pillow. ewwwwwww...... LOL,LOL
Mario,
I know its a little off topic
I love Manly Dam But I've been very fortunate to have lived virtually on the circuit for a number of years. So for me or anyone who lives close to the Dam its is not much trouble to do a quick lap. But I gotta say these days I need a little veriety. Perhaps verietry also stops fatiqe....(maybe to a degree) . Maybe instead of doing 2 or 3 laps you could just alter you ride a little & include Cascades & St Ives singletracks.
Nowdays I live in Bayview so its a bit of a process to get there but I still need the veriety. But certainly i can see the point when you have to make a serious effort to get to Manly Dam that 1 lap just isnt enough.
Cascades is pretty boring but its great for your fitness The single tracks up at St Ives are totally worth it as well.
anyway I hope your injury isnt too terrible & get well soon.
duhhhh
D Double post.....sorry
All the time.
How do you know where your limit is if you don't over step if occasionally? Remember your comfort zone is a very dangerous place to be
Yes the only times I've gone OTB has been from lack of attention. I've never done it trying out some knarly technical section which I haven't ridden before.
I have raced 5 state downhill races so far this year and the crash count is,
Crashes in race runs = 0
Crashes in practise = 4
Crashes on my XC bike in the last two years = 1
So far in vets this year I have won state champs, won Coffs Harbour and also 3 second places so its not like I am not pushing hard!
hey Stan I ride Manly Dam because it's only a 5 mins ride from work so I can easily fit 2 laps before work in the morning. Also helped me to get away from peak hours on the days I ride.
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Appin used to be my Saturday morning ride, but since they've shut that down Saturday is just family time which isn't bad after all. You're right though,I do need more variety.
Very looking forward to my Canberra weekend
Injury is not so bad, just lost some skin and bruises in the forearm. OTB seems to be my most common crash, perhaps I'm not leaning back enough in these techy sections ???
On a good note my times around the dam are getting faster
when I don't crash
... had my first stack since the Rock Wallaby after reading this thread this morning. Just a minor otb, but a nice pedal strike on the left shin.
Lol that's why i never watch bike crash compilation vids on youtube - it's dangerous having that stuff in your head
I've not stacked since early 1978 and that was entirely SpokeyDokey's fault.
Got his flares caught in the chain on the tandem, causing me to lose control, sending us straight into the side of a Charger turning onto the Parkway at the blinking light.
Disclaimer: I will not be responsible for any crashes, OTB, etc that are caused by reading this thread
Don't you mean 1958? That blinking light was removed some time in the sixties
But flares were around in the 70's. straight leather ties & wickle pickers were around in the 60's. Kudos to anyone riding around Manly Dam in a straight leather tie & those pointy shoes ROTFLMHO.
and I expect a sub 40 min lap in that. LOL
For a start, it was a Datsun 120B. How could you mistake it for a Charger? You were in front on the tandem and hit a pothole and lost grip of the bars, attired in your cooler-than-thou tight Joey Ramone spray-on black jeans. My flares would never have caught in the chain as the bell bottoms would never have reached over my soles.
The one thing I do agree with is that my last stack was also that one back in the summer of '78. These newbies will get there one day...
Your memory really is beginning to fail you.
How could you forget the Charger? It being driven by that young fellow on his way to the Skyline drive-in. And I never wore black jeans. Amco bogarts, desert boots and flanny to keep me Winnie reds in, was the uniform de regueur.
@Hawkeye. For those of us that lived the 60's it will always be the Blinking Light. (Would now add blinking smiley face but have no idea)
My grandson said that today. I love the absolution from responsibilty those two words bring.
And you in desert boots? Methinks you wore the same winkle-pickers from the '50s all the way through to the '80s
Now have swollen ankle and out of action for a while. Wasn't even on a bike.