This seems to have become a tradition for our regular routes. There’s Carl’s* corner where he had to take evasive action to avoid a car and ended up sliding across a suburban lawn. There’s Pete’s corner where his wheels slipped out on the white line at a badly off camber point in the bend. There’s Nate’s hill where he got the speed wobbles and ended up in the trees at very high speed and was lucky to hit nothing.
There was no Princhester corner till about 0639 this morning.
By about 0640 and a cracked left radius and substantially less skin later, I now have my very own corner. Yay me.
‘QS hedge’ is at the foot of a steep hill with a sharp right at the bottom. I was on a single speed bike and had the pedals ripped from under my feet on the descent. Couldn’t make the turn. Hit the curb. Flew into the hedge. Oh yeah, I was 7 y.o. at the time.
You didn’t ask about skiing so I’ll save that story for another time.
About the strangest thing around here are old cue sheets that call for turns at the ‘yellow house’ and ‘white barn’. Both have been painted different colors years ago but us old-timers still call them that and no one changes the cue sheets.
Not named after me (thank goodness!) but a couple examples from trails I run on…
“8-Pin Alley” is a very rocky section of trail. Got its name because one of the first riders to run it lost it and ended up with…8 pins in his bones. There are also two other features on that trail called “Headache” and “Jawbreaker”…I dont know, and don’t think I want to know.
“Nice-ly done” is actually named after a runner. That feature is at the end of a long slope down a finger. Then it abruptly gets rocky (loose rocks), drops a couple feet, and takes a 90’ turn to the right. A runner whose last name is “Nice” took it a little too enthusiastically and basically sailed off the drop-off, missing the turn and landing on a rocky hill. He broke some stuff, too.
