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you know this is a feebl e attempt at prev entin� fl esh loss. Fear creep s into you. Fall ing can t happ en here-bones will break. The course drop s into an obnox iousl y steep washb oard cor- ner where there's a hidd en hol e that your state of-the- art, ov ersize shocks would norm all y suck up like a kid inhal ing Quik chocolate milk. Norm al ly . Som et hing goes wrong. Later, there are faint recollections of a disconcerting crack, of
shocks blowing apart in a graphic spew of suspension guts and the high ly athletic response to save yourself from flailing wildly like a rag doll. The race is over. Your bike is wrecked.
When Andrew Shandro, a professional downhill mountain bike racer from Vancouver, BC, blew
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