Mountain Biking Extravaganza

yesterday, i (steve) went mountain biking with a friend, steve s, and we got a great workout and really enjoyed the trail, especially since we conquered for the first time a tricky rock section.  we came through that unscathed, so we were pumped and ready to soak up the home stretch which is all downhill with some fun jumps.  we got going pretty fast and i heard steve give a shout of excitement and i assumed that he was happy about getting some nice air.  but apparently he was close enough to me (i was out front) that i blocked his view of a second jump that came up quickly.  so after hearing his shout of excitement i heard a shout of...something not good and i looked over my shoulder to see perhaps the most intense fall i've ever seen in person.  i saw a cloud of dirt and a human body and a bike flying all over the place at, shall we say, an unsafe speed.  the bike ended up about 20-30 feet away from steve, his sunglasses somewhere behind him on the trail.  he broke his water bottle and his helmet, but he lived to tell the tale and walked away just fine, except for some lower back soreness where his seat hit him!  only two things can be said of such a fall: 1) thank God everything was okay and 2) bragging rights.

steve