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No I didn't dump my bike or anything of the sort. I recently started running again after about 3 years. Anyway I like to get out in the predawn hours before going to work. This morning I happened to take a different route and tripped over a Bleeepin, mutha bleeping , S.O.Bleeping lip on the sidewalk and right into a tuck and roll. Well more of a stretch and slide, skinned up knee pretty good and in general pissed me off. Already had about 2 miles at that point so I decided it was time to go home. Ya'll have a good day and watch out for them S.O.B. sidewalks!

I too have experienced sidewalks jumping up and smacking me in the face a couple of times, however it's been a while.

We arent children anymore . That stuff hurts now a days.

I never run, dangerous stuff.

nice trip see you next fall

I'm most certain that if anywone saw me they'd be on the ground too, however that would be cause they were laughing their asre off.

Ahhh, "The road not taken". Nah, to adventurous for that. I'll take my cuts and scrapes and wear them as my "Red badge of courage."

WHAT! NO PIC'S?

Hope it's all well, BUT, had you been wearing your helmet (full face, of course), jacket, gloves...


ATGATT!

Without naming names I'm absolutely positive that others have done something similar. For instance say you are on a trip and are walking out of a friends house before daylight and their sidewalk has a single rise in it. Now also imagine that you are lugging two heavy bags in each hand and that as you are walking say someone like maybe your wife says "watch out for that step". As you are saying "what step" your foot hits said step and you trip and since you are holding two bags you try and let them go before you hit the sidewalk (except you don't make it in time). Essentially you face plant, belly flop onto said sidewalk. Not pretty. In this scenario one would expect the wife character to say something like "Oh my gosh, are you ok?" instead of "I told you to watch out for that step!".

Try a different wife!

LOL

Yeah Don, and on the flipside of that, this reminds me of the "Everybody Loves Raymond" episode where Ray and his wife Debra are sitting on the couch watching TV, and Debra starts choking on some snack, but Ray just acts like nothing is happening and ignores what's goin' on AND turns up the volume on the TV. And THEN once she's able to spit-up what she was choking on, she gets upset at him and tells him that he's "no good in a crisis"!

(...and leading of course to further hilarity)

Ya can't be too careful! Did you have your leathers on? And I know we don't have to lecture you on helmet use.! Jes kidding. Now, heal up and do something safer, like riding a two wheeled machine 60 mph while sharing an asphalt strip twenty feet wide with three ton cars careening towards you at the same 60 mph. That's gotta be safer than navigating those treacherous sidewalk lips!!!

60 mph is way too slow 'round here I'd get run over. Normally 65-70 in the 55 zone and 80-90 in the 70.