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[steve mercier]

The number of ways to kill yourself on wheels seems to have grown dramatically since I was a young man.

OK, OK, my wife just reminded me that when I was a young man, there were no wheels.

No wheels you say.... I bet you worked a Pogo Stick like nobody's business.

 

[Prairie Dog]

No wheels you say.... I bet you worked a Pogo Stick like nobody's business.

Personally, I would rather watch extreme pogoing as an Olympic event over break dancing.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

No wheels you say.... I bet you worked a Pogo Stick like nobody's business.

Yeah, that was totally me, and you should have seen me on a catapult.

NO idea how people survive the learning curve in these extreme high-flying sports on hardscaping. Just one mistake or miscalculation, and you're dead or paralyzed in an instant.

UNLESS... Whoa, maybe they aren't people at all! Maybe they're space aliens from an advanced extreme sport civilization with the ability to switch off gravity when things go sideways in practice. Only thing that makes sense. ;^}

 

[Prairie Dog]

NO idea how people survive the learning curve in these extreme high-flying sports on hardscaping. Just one mistake or miscalculation, and you're dead or paralyzed in an instant.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Well that's different. I do that all the time.

 

[steve mercier]

Yeah, that was totally me, and you should have seen me on a catapult.

NO idea how people survive the learning curve in these extreme high-flying sports on hardscaping. Just one mistake or miscalculation, and you're dead or paralyzed in an instant.

UNLESS... Whoa, maybe they aren't people at all! Maybe they're space aliens from an advanced extreme sport civilization with the ability to switch off gravity when things go sideways in practice. Only thing that makes sense. ;^}

As I watch the Pogo vid I am thinking ..."why not have one strapped to each leg? Then they could run and jump farther and faster methinks ....and maybe call them Pogo Stilts?" Calling all inventors!

 

[Prairie Dog]

Well that's different. I do that all the time.

I've always wanted to fill in the blank space on a work resume stating my occupation as a 'Professional Slackliner'.

 

[JRA]

Not going for a ride today, too cold and snowy for me

 

[fooferdoggie]

ya wife and I rode our tandem it was 37 and snowing by the time we were half way back it was 31 and the snow was sticking. Now we have 2" 10 miles away 14" it will take at least two days before we can ride as it has not got above 28 today though the road was melting as its sunny. got home just in time temp dropped fast and it was snowing like crazy.

 

[Prairie Dog]

ya wife and I rode our tandem it was 37 and snowing by the time we were half way back it was 31 and the snow was sticking. Now we have 2" 10 miles away 14" it will take at least two days before we can ride as it has not got above 28 today though the road was melting as its sunny. got home just in time temp dropped fast and it was snowing like crazy.
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I hear ya Foofer. I've shoveling for the past 24-48 hours and with windchill temps hovering well below -30C, no riding for me.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

My problem with these extreme sports is that I did medical imaging for a living. Saw lots of trauma of all kinds — well, at least on the victims who survived long enough to get an xray or CT scan.

What happens on the inside in the kinds of injuries in play here is not a pretty sight. The non-fatal consequences can be devastating.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Not going for a ride today, too cold and snowy for me

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Where is that? Stunning!

 

[ChezCheese:)]

No wheels you say.... I bet you worked a Pogo Stick like nobody's business.

Just looking at that makes my spine hurt . Better to watch marble rallies:

 

[steve mercier]

I finally got Covid so my rides have been 10k instead of 100k per day. Tested positive Saturday and still positive today. Nothing unusual about catching it since everybody is gonna get it. But what is unusual is that I got it from my 89 year old Mom!

 

[fooferdoggie]

thats too cold for me. ours never lasts often the snow melts the next day. they are really bad about plowing the roads here. one of the main roads has nothing done to it and its solid ice. but ts not practical to get tires to rides in it as it dos not last.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

I finally got Covid so my rides have been 10k instead of 100k per day. Tested positive Saturday and still positive today. Nothing unusual about catching it since everybody is gonna get it. But what is unusual is that I got it from my 89 year old Mom!

It's coming for pretty much all of us. Hang in there. The Covid of 2023 is not the Covid of 2020. My 92 year old mother just had it and my 92 year old MiL had it a few months ago. Used to be, I didn't know anyone who had gotten it, now I know only a few people who haven't had it.

 

[Prairie Dog]

I finally got Covid so my rides have been 10k instead of 100k per day.

And all along I thought it might have had something to do with the weather out there. Take care.

 

[JRA]

Where is that? Stunning!

Oceanside, OR, taken from my patio at noon 2/23. Won't stick around long but it was the most snow we've gotten here in at least the 30yrs. my 85yr. old neighbor gal has been here. 9 or 10 inches I'd say.

When I lived in Crested Butte it would have been what we called a "Rule Day" and everybody would head for the hill!

 

[Prairie Dog]

ya wife and I rode our tandem it was 37 and snowing by the time we were half way back it was 31 and the snow was sticking. Now we have 2" 10 miles away 14" it will take at least two days before we can ride as it has not got above 28 today though the road was melting as its sunny. got home just in time temp dropped fast and it was snowing like crazy.

No goggles or do you just find them too much of a hassle? I admit that I don’t ride in the wet all that often and only don goggles to protect my eyes from extreme windchill.

 

[Prairie Dog]

Oceanside, OR, taken from my patio at noon 2/23. Won't stick around long but it was the most snow we've gotten here in at least the 30yrs. my 85yr. old neighbor gal has been here. 9 or 10 inches I'd say.

Ever notice how trees sometimes take on an ethereal appearance when covered in snow? Your image reminded me of a special TV segment that I watched recently talking about the snow monsters of Yamagata, Japan.

Juhyo: The Snow Monsters on Japan’s Mount Zao

Windblown ice and snow build up hulking shapes on the trees atop Mount Zao.

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