This is a blog on my experience with breaking my mountain bike. The year make and brand are 1999 super V Raven by Cannondale, it was a handy down from my dad. The frame is carbon fiber, with an aluminum swing arm.
I broke the frame at Bidwell Park located in Chico Ca. I attempted to clear this small jump over a shallow rut. At the last second I decided to abort and roll the jump. Well i got just enought air to land on the up hill part of the landing with the rear tire. The force from the impact ripped the bolt for the swing arm thought the frame. I crash immediately and it took a second to figure out why.
There was no real injury except the back tire came up and grinded the back of my right leg. So next I was stranded 5 miles from home with a busted bike. I call my first friend, whose honda breaks down on the way to pick me up, cost him $500 to get that fixed, I called my other friend who gets lost 5 times trying to find me.
So inconclusion dont dirt jump on a cross country bike, When this bike was new it cost $3000, cannondale has a full lifetime warrenty on thier new bikes, but i guess this bike was out of warrenty, but cannondale agreed to give me either half off a new 2008 rize, or 450 off a complete new bike. So since i got another handy down from my dad, i didnt need a rize, so im taking the $450 and im gonna get the Cannondale Chase 3, which is a dirt jumping bike. Pretty stoked to get that bike, ive heard there are some "secret" dirt jump spots here in chico that i was able to find on the internet. So ya, my first blog, and no proof reading!
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