Saturday, July 04, 2009

Did I say Road Trip

I could just as easily have said


Bike Trip


Besides our luggage we were carrying 2 of Hair Two’s 3 bikes – road & mountain.  We left the trick bike at home.

 

On our second day in Calgary the plan for the day included biking. We set off to a nearby jump park after breakfast. 


It had rained during the night but Hair Two was determined.  The clay mud stuck to every part of the bike.  He spent more time pulling wads of muck off the bike than jumping. 


Back at the house he hosed it down.  When he was finished cleaning it he found that the rear wheel was wobbly. 


It was a sad and sorry moment. 


Tuesday we headed out to Canada Olympic Park where Hair Two

 

 

 

IMG_0678 Jumped
Rode Flat Logs  IMG_0769
 IMG_0725 Rode Bumpy Logs
 
Flew Off Logs IMG_0735
IMG_0801 And Jumped Some More

We had to rent him a bike because it turned out he had broken the axle on his in all that mud. 


He rode the skills park at the bottom for about an hour and then used his lift ticket to get up to the big trails/jumps. 


Thankfully mommies can’t see that bit.


After we repaired him………


        he crash landed the last jump of the day ……..


                        the road rash looks worse than it actually is .……………

 


He lived to ride the bike that Jack built Uncle Paul repaired another day.



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