Made it three quarters of the way down Suicide Rocks - mostly by accident, guess you could say. Blasting over rocks - rounding the corners at speed. Wind whistling through the helmet flanges. Brush flashing by on both sides. Down into the tunnel itself- where the Manzanitas have actually connected forming a loose canopy over the trail.
Mountain bikes don t like water.
No indeed Up out of the freezing water - shoes soaking wet. Bulge up ahead. Never made the Bulge - even skinnier riders can t usually make it. But if you stay in, you crash into the tree. Scylla and Charybdis, boys and girls.