[rlmorel]

LOL, ifinnegan, isn’t it almost ALWAYS an “ow”? I swear, I don’t know a single guy who didn’t try to build a ramp with a board and cinderblock, and did a face plant as a result of it!

Kind of a rite of passage!

[Charles Martel]

Ah, the board and cinder block ramp. Often the board was a salvaged hunk of weathered plywood from God knows where. You could feel it flex when the bike's front wheel hit it, but faith in your engineering kept you going over it again and again. Until it finally splintered and snagged the bike, sending you over the handlebars.

I still have a scar on my left elbow from such an adventure. :-)

[ifinnegan]

I lived on my bike.

Jumped up and down all day.

What this kid did wrong is let his feet come off the pedals.