riding your dads racing bike
twas a warm summers day, myself and a couple of pals decided to go out on our bikes. We were 13/14 years old at the time and the lure of a monster truck show a couple of miles up the road from royston vasey (where I grew up) could not be ignored. My pals had nice shiny mountain bikes, whereas I was majestically astride my dad's old 10 speed puck (made in russia from old bridges ?).
Anyhoo, the genius of this day out was that there was a bmx track right next to the monster truck event, as you may know, the start of a bmx track is a huge mound of earth. High enough to see over fenced off monster truck spectacles.
Would anyone like to guess what happened when 3 teenage boys at the top of a bmx track got bored of the lacklustre monster truck show ?
I am by nature rather competitive. I took it easy on the first lap, wasn't sure how a 10 speed puck racer would handle a bmx track. I didn't win, but got round. The double jump (do they call it a camel or something) felt a bit weird, however I needed to win. Off we go again, picking up speed, you can go really quick on a 10 speed puck down the steep starting slope of a bmx track. The banked left hander proved no problem, next up that double camel jump thingi. This is where it all went wrong. The trusty 10 speed puck obstinately refused to gain any air at all, it seemed to have a magical attraction to the ground. The rules of physics did, however, apply to me. I attempted low earth orbit as I crested the second part of this jump, there was quite a lot of air to travel through before I returned to earth with quite a thump. My left knee took the brunt of the impact and burst open in spectacular style. It looked like a haggis hit with an axe. Quite an amazing amount of blood too, think monty python. All that was left was to limp across the field to the st johns tent at the dull truck show and wait for my parent to come and shout at me.
On crutches for bloody months, but the 10 speed puck was fine.
(danceswithferrets is leaking sanity, Sun 24 Jan 2010, 16:08, 2 replies)

When you say 'Puck'....
I take it you mean Puch, Austrian manufacturer of fine quality bicycles and mopeds to the landed gentry.

They are built very well; as you found, better than a 14 year old's kneecap.....
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Sun 24 Jan 2010, 19:07, closed)

that's
the bugger, like a moped minus the engine.
(danceswithferrets is leaking sanity, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 12:50, closed)