happybaboon wrote:Yeah, he ain't gonna have no hotdog once his frame snaps and his junk gets crammed into the gap between tyre and seat tube. I can see the newspaper headline now... "Cycle commuter loses dignity, testicles".

I managed that trick a lifetime ago (read this in a high tone) when, having suffered a grotesque braking failure on a (then) mate's bike coming down from Wrights Hill in Karori.
For some obscure stress-parameter reason, known only to structural engineers and mung beans, the stick that we had used to replace the missing bolt from the back-pedalling brake's torque arm sheared / dropped out / vaporised.
As warp speed approached, and things got blurry, I decided the only way to retain a modicum of life expectancy was to launch myself off the back.
Unfortunately, calculations based on Newton's Law failed to adequately account for clearing the back wheel.
I landed on it, and the nadds began a high speed, rubber-assisted dive into the grim void that you identified above. I'm sure that the smell of burning denim, with a hint of testicle, pervaded the still air, but I didn't have time to notice, as my feet, having hit the rough chip road in a nanosecond, then proceeded to assign an elegant jack-knifing motion to the scene, catapulting me into some kind of forward roll with triple pike entry, and bringing about a gravel-rash assisted speed reduction to an eventual standstill, extracting the twins from their impending doom in the process.
The moral of the story? Be careful in selecting sutable woods to use as replacement critical cycling componentry - It is a trap for young players, and young man fruit as well.

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Velocipedestrian wrote:Awesome in a "Never ride it, but looks different" kind of way, yeah

Awesome in a "Jesus, all those holes drilled haphazardly look like a shattering, puncturing, gashing, pending disaster" kind of way, yeah.

All the drilling and pantographing in the World won't always help...

Thank you, deleted spammer, for this dredge down memory lane.
Can we get an update on the OPs testicular integrity?

I’d like to know about Gumby’s teeth.

http://www.vorb.org.nz/talas-about-t124949.html

dwgknz wrote:I’d like to know about Gumby’s teeth.

http://www.vorb.org.nz/talas-about-t124949.html

Me too.