My first crash trail riding in quite a while: we are in the last few weeks, if not days, of riding here. There is snow on the ridge behind me, and already snow has fallen at my place, but then melted and dried off. I hit a rare stretch of the rocky trail I was on (NOT a mountain bike single track, a very gnarly dirt bike/ATV type track, terrible riding but I've grown to love the challenge it offers and it is literally in my backyard so I beat myself up on it regularly) that was NOT rocky, just dirt. It was covered by a solid bed of leaves, and fairly steep and I was going downhill. It was some kind of bastard friction less mix of leaf,frost, and mud, unique to this one section of my 5 mile trail ride that day. The front wheel got sideways and my face got slammed into the soft dirt, my nose is still a bit red from the impact but no bleeding anyways. My cheap sunglasses somehow escaped any damage, and about 10 minutes later I wondered if I had gotten any use out of my helmet. I took it off to look at and sure enough there was a big goober of mud and leaf on it, I was lucky there was not any rock where my face impacted, then again if there was rock on that section I would have had traction. Live and learn, and crash, I rode the same trail yesterday but this time really kept a close eye for any leafy sections with no rock. T
This latest crash was "just right", I didn't get really hurt, just banged up a bit, enough to re get my attention.
I had another one, just a "static fall over", last week on a trail across the valley. I had stopped to BS with a guy cutting firewood, still straddling the bike with both feet on the ground. I was facing sideways on a mild slope, and when I turned to leave my what should have been my downhill foot got jammed up between the front tire and the bike frame, hard to explain but I was slowly tipping over and couldn't get my foot over there to stop it. Down I went, no rocks, no pain, just funny as hell really, I told the wood cutter that I was glad he was there to see it, it would have been a shame for it to have gone unseen.