Good laughs all around when that happens. I too went down on my raleigh mountainbike, little 20 inch wheels and everything. Go over on a sunny afternoon with my mum and brother and pedal around. BMX racing is always a bit harsh when you fall but racers are prepared with padding etc. I fell off at coppul a while back and bared the scab for a good 6/7 weeks. Probably have a scar for a while but ah well. It'll have a story to tell the grandkids wont it? Its a shame that the next generation of Ashtonians wont have the same memories as us, but hopefully they will have a skateparkinstead :) Happy days.

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A long, long time ago (1959) when I was seventeen I'd had a big spinal operation and when I started recuperating I went out and wrecked my Raleigh sports bike on a makeshift track when I came off and someone ran over my wheel. Oh, the invulnerability of youth.

No such things as BMX bikes then. I also sailed over a parked car when I was 11, trying to see how fast I could go downhill before hitting the brakes :)

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So many happy memories in extreme sports :D

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I think that this site would probably fall foul of RoSPA guidelines. I looked at it with the police as a possible teen-meet site, but it was rejected as unsafe because it was too close to the main road, and a potential nuisance because it was too close to housing.

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