Bicycle Horror
Whilst out and about the town with a few mates, one of which has a rather nice mountain bike, we wandered into an art college which has a very large ramp leading down to an underground car park.

This ramp is at an angle of about 45 degrees and is about 100 yards long with about another 15 yards of flat tarmac and a metal gate at the end.

My friend on the mountain bike decides to wheelie down the ramp (show off) and tells me to do the same. Now in my stoned state I though this would be fun, even though I'm shit on a bike so I start rolling down the hill trying to pull aforementioned wheelie.

Down the hill..

Trying to wheelie...

Not braking...

FUUUCKK!

Hit the flat bit of the tarmac at about 20mph and bounce into the air heading face first into this metal gate which was coming at me rather quickly. I hit the floor about 5 yards in front of the gate and luckily after the bounce, had been turning slightly so skidded sideways into this gate and smashed my head and my mates very expensive mountain bike on it.

I picked myself off the floor and immediately fell back to ground with a terrible ringing in my ears and the feeling of liquid oozing from them. There was no blood coming out luckily.

I was seriously woozy for the next few days, but my mates bike was fucked.

That was quite a silly thing to do now wasn't it?
(Jimmy Large Is huffing Jenkem on, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 10:43, 7 replies)

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45^o?

You sure?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:05, closed)

Seconded
45 degrees is 1 in 1.4 (or 1 in 1, depending how you calculate it) You can't easily drive a normal car up anything over about 1 in 3. Even most 4x4s aren't going to like 1 in 1.4. So it would be a pretty pointless car park.
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:12, closed)

Thirded
If it was 45° and 100 yards long, the bottom would be nearly 71 yards below ground level. Which is quite deep!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:38, closed)

Hmm....
First of all, an expensive bike made for hurling off things is generally built like the Forth Bridge. It's very difficult to fuck an expensive bike up unless you are riding at speeds which invariably will kill you if not wearing the necessary headgear.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:45, closed)

Unfortunately
I am not a qualified suveyor so don't know if it exactly 45 degrees, all I know is it is bloody steep!

And I'd call the handle bars pointing a completely different way to the wheel (which is also bent up) pretty fucked.

*Edit* PJM I see your mates bike was £7k, so really the bike I was on wasn't that expensive (£1k) Enough to piss the guy off though!
(Jimmy Large Is huffing Jenkem on, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:48, closed)

Bent bars and wheel
Yep, I'd call that fucked. Nicely done.

[edit] Actually, the total cost of our three bikes was £7k or thereabouts.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 21 Dec 2007, 12:32, closed)

Bent?
My Handlebars are generally at right angles to the front wheel.

/pedant
(Christopsy, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 12:46, closed)