I'm quite intrigued by how fanatical people become when they start bombing down mountains on bicycles. I'm almost equally intrigued by people on road bikes, grinding and writhing away in all their spandex clobber glory.

I'm one of those people who drive cars and indulge in sofa sports, beer in one hand, remote control in the other.

I've just found this article which tells us about mountain unicycling, or muni riding as it is called.

How long before we hear of people falling of alps because they thought going down on a unicycle was a good idea?

Oh come on Goonmeister, this trolling has been done before and better

Still a long way to catch up with the tally of skiers falling down mountains and hurtzing themselves.

I think you'll find it is probably already happening. I saw a kid going up the train at Gurten a few weeks ago with an off road unicycle wearing armour and a helmet. I didn't see where he took it from the top, but it was the same style of unicycle that the guy in this article was using to bomb down the hill.

What you call falling, we call a controlled descent.

So you can give me a lift to the hospital when I need it?

Falling off an alp ... like this ?



PS. BIGFAIL

This is so treacherous that even the injuries have their own nomenclature.

shindentations (marks where rocks had punctured the front of his legs)

Is this where your shins start to look like the edge of a bread knife? Sweet, I have them from motorbikes and mountainbikes. I never knew there was a name for them.

But I do wear better shin guards these days now that I am a fragile old man.

No, in Switzerland it would happen more like this, just with sharper rocks and an ice-cold river at the bottom...

All at one time?!

Tellyawhat....

I've enjoyed my share of rocket descents on my MTB...after all I sweated my ass going up, right? So I guess I deserved some adrenaline in return

BUT I never indulged in anything that could have been dangerous for other men and/or beasts.

What kind of couch sports can one practice, BTW (pls spare me the "casting" variations, LOL)?
Couch bungee? Couch freeclimbing? Couch basejumping?
Jeez now you've even made me laugh all by myself....

/UG

Yeah, they really need to put air-conditioning into those gonodolas.

I have to get up, with regular frequency, to retrieve another frosty libation. You may laugh, but this requires a certain physical prowess.

Is this your equivalent to the chick chicks, "what dress should I wear" thread?

Cause I don't know is this one is much better ladies.

Ooo, so much testosterone, I don't think we're allowed to post here Tash...


Barbra.

You think?

Have you seen the colour of Woodsie's Bike?

Well, yes, there is that..... but pink is the new black for metrosexual SNAGs, isn't it

Barbra.

SNAG - Classic!

I had to look that one up, for those who don't know Sensitive New Age Guy

I just got a lilac road bike that Woodsie maybe would like to borrow for one of the Thursday rides.... size 57, will post pics later...

If interested just let me know Woodsie, it is just how you like them... Manly steel but with a feminine layer of paint over it.

Um, I think the rest of us have known about SNAG for a fair while Gooner... Like try 1996

SNAG is definitely not man-talk so I'm forgiving myself for that one.