(Mis)adventures of a novice mountain biker
One of our new members, M.Zaree, has put together an extremely funny short comic of his near-death experience going on a steep downhill (off-trail!) on last Friday’s ride. If you don’t know Arabic, I have provided as good a translation as I could.
Thankfully, Zaree came out of the ordeal with minor injuries, and lived to tell the story for incoming waves of mtb novices to learn from 🙂
“I started off on top of a steep hill, ready to hammer down to the main trail”
“…then I started accelerating downhill at a blazingly fast speed”
“…I was supposed to pump the brakes when I hit the flat section…”
“…only problem is, I had no brakes to speak of…”
“…and the only physically possible outcome was catching air in a trajectory akin to a stalling airplane”
“…but since I had no parachute, the worst part was landing”
“…for which the result was…”