i can't remember if this was a dream or something i made up... but it's.. "beautifully tragic" in my eyes... here goes..
*****Warning.. this get's a little graphic...*****
I am on a 4 wheeler... a 400EX... souped up to all hell... jumping dunes with my friend jeremy on his quad....
we both stop for a second smiling so big you can almost see it through our helmets... he glances forward... so do i... competition hill... the biggest steepest dune around.... "dinner says i make it before you" he smirks... "your ass you will" i laugh back to him... one, two, three revs and we're both off like rockets... 1st gear, 2nd, 3rd... 70 mph on a 30 degree slope, hanging forward over the bars to keep the front end down with all our might.
I pop 4th gear too hard and the front end lifts and ive got to back off and he shoots ahead of me but i'm back on the gas in an instant. He's 50 feet in front of me and i see him glance back and swerve a little and he almost tips and has to back off too. I push down on the bars and twist the throttle for all it's worth and as he recovers and does the same...
again we're neck and neck and he really doesnt want to lose to he shifts into 5th and hit's the nitrous... I wait for him to pull a little and feel cocky and i powershift into 5th and lay on the nitrous as well... 130 mph instantly and i'm in 6th gear, roosts off the paddle tires 30 feet in the air... i'm going so fast my eyes are tearing and blurred and i'm loving it.
I hear him shift into 6th gear as i'm catching up, still on the juice, wide open... and i see the crest of the hill nearing really fast... "haha dude! i got ya!" i yell to myself as i get all giggly and uber-happy 10 feet before the crest of the hill i fly past him like he's standing still and glance right in time to see his shoulders drop as he looks up at me.
"YEEAAAAHH!!!" i yell at the top of my lungs. i've never gone that fast off this hill before! i look down and see that i've completely soared over the landing... and that i'm actually just peaking my acsent where the very bottom fo the landing is... "holy shit i'm really high!" i throw my eyes back forward so see how bad this is going to be and see that i'm going to make it perfectly to the crest of the next dune.
i drop the quad back down to 5th and dump the clutch to set my angle right... not enough.. 4th... dump... ahh.. perfect! i continue to soar through the air bracing for the landing on the next dune and feeling great. the front end clears perfect and the front tires smack the sand but the angle wasnt as perfect as i thought... and the back tires smash into the face of the dune throwing me forward and down.
in slow motion i know what's going on. I'm about to smash my head into my bars.. good thing i've got a helmet... but the back tires have already rolled over the crest and the suspension is at max compression and it's about to rebound...
My chest hits the bars instead of my helmet "that is going to hurt" then i feel my left arm under pressure and then.. not under pressure.. in an instant... my left hand had come off the bar.. hence my chest hitting instead of my helmet... but my best also went through my let forearm... basically breaking it in two...
i am at the mercy of fate... the rear suspension decompressed, throwing me in the air, still traveling with the bike, right hand still glued to the throttle, with pulls the bar toward me and begins a fishtail. i bounce with the quad a few yards down the dune and when i come back down, my foot isnt on the peg where it should be... the fishtail has sent the bike left, and me right...
as i fall back down onto the bike, my left leg hit the peg, but my right foot hits the sand, pitching me over sideways, pulling down on the throttle... the bike kicks back right in it's fishtail and sucks my foot into the right rear tire.. spinning nearly three times as fast as the bike is traveling...
in an instant my right leg looks like it's picked a fight with a meat grinder, and is sucked down, effectively ripping me off the bike and under the rear tire. as my body falls, my right hand comes off the throttle and instinctively goes forward to break my fall.. onto the front tire... which brings my head smack down onto the front tire as well.
my body is in shock and the front tire has ripped my helmet off my head enough that when my head then hits the sand, the helmet falls all the way off, and the rear tire spins over the rest of my body and shoots me out the back.
the kill switch on the quad works, and the tires stop spinning, and the bike comes to a sliding stop about 7 feet away, nearly tipping over on the incline. my body decides that it has to move... so using what's left of my right arm and left leg, it flips onto my back and scoots as best as it can backward toward the quad...
i am coughing, choking, and laughing at the same time... i'm completely overwhelmed... i realise i'm close to the bike and use what strength i have left to prop myself against the front tire, right leg mangled in front of me, left leg torn open along the upper thigh... left arm dangling backwards at my side, right arm holding me from falling over...
i continue to laugh and choke.. but it's a hopeless laugh... and suddenly the vision in my right eye is red from the blood pouring out of my forehead... i take a few very shallow breaths and stare at the trail of dark brown sand leading to me.. i laugh one lest time and cough up blood...
my head falls left as i start to lose vision... i feel myself drift left and fall against my left elbow... but my arm doesnt hurt..either does my leg or head... i sayin a small voice "i won.." but don't know if my lips move...
suddenly it is pleasantly cool.. everything has a very slight grey veil to it... and i am seeing myself there... hardly breathing... leaning against my quad... eyes glazed with a mystified horror on my face through the blood... i know it's me i'm looking at.. and i know i should be concerned that i am seeing myself.. but the cool breeze is so comfortable... i feel like i'm getting further away from my body... and the comfort is so appealing...
far, far off i hear my friend jeremy screaming and i hear his quad shut off... i wanted him to know i was going to be ok... i was so comfortable... this feeling was so nice.........
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