Descriptive Essay on Crashing While Cycling

“Should I scream dramatically like they do on tv shows?” “Should I try to slam on my brakes?” “If I swerve I still hit the other car”. All I knew in that moment was a car was about to hit me. While remembering that my sister once said the worst part about a car accident is the sound, I came to the conclusion that no matter what, the crash was going to happen. My head banged forward and the car came to a jolting stop. CRUNCH. “Okay” I thought to myself “the worst part is over”. But oh, how I was wrong.

What do you get when you mix drugs, a man named Fuckhead, and drama? A Denis Johnson story. Drama is a prominent and key aspect that appears in all of Johnson’s work. Johnson’s work demonstrates various uses of multiple techniques and ideas that young writers can understand and apply to their own work.

The sirens get closer causing me to sprint into the dark and spooky undergrowth. I make it a good distance from the road before my feet trip over nothing and I faceplant to the ground.

Braaaaaap! Braaaaaaap! Ricky Charmichael takes the lead! He made the pass in the air over the 80 foot triple. Something that I love to do more than anything in the world is motocross. Motocross is racing over rough ground on specially strengthened motorcycles.

Growing up I wanted to get a motorcycle so badly. Every birthday, every Christmas I would ask and bug the heck out of my parents to get me a motorcycle. And one lucky day I got what I always wanted. my first dirtbike was a CRF 100 that was brand new, still had the tire stickers on it and all, I loved that bike. The day I got my motorcycle my dad went into the shop to get a new tire for his bike, when he left the store I had a brand new motorcycle. A beautiful red Honda, a Honda that was 103cc to be exact.

I knew this was my only break so I made the most of it. I spotted the house across the street and the cover it could provide. I left my bike on the ground as I ran over to the house quickly, not looking back the entire way. It felt as if my feet weren’t even touching the ground, the second they did they leapt up again in fear, as if the asphalt were lava.

The movie Crash proves that a series of events can connect even the most unlikely of people. The movie demonstrated how racism and stereotypes tie people together and how detrimental our ill thinking could be to ourselves and each other. The entire movie is laced with coincidences leading to connections and appears to have a somewhat domino effect triggered by the actions or thoughts of another. Ignorance and intolerance divides groups of people and drives the gaps further and further.

One of my favorite things to do while I am cycling at the lake is to connect with some of the many cyclists who are doing cross Canada cycling trips. Our cottage is near Kenora, Ontario on Lake of the Woods and is a prime location to meet up with cross-Canada cyclists. Highway 17 which runs along the shoreline of Lake of the Woods is really the only route a cross-Canada cyclist can take through this area of Ontario. They stick out like a sore thumb. Their bikes will be heavily laden with panniers so they are easy to identify. I always make a point of stopping to talk to them or if necessary to push a little harder on the pedals to catch up to them if I see them riding ahead of me on the highway.

The darkness enveloped me that night. No light from the car headlights or the stars could cut through my foggy mind, and I kept moving, one foot after the other to distract myself. Right, left. I arrived at the wall faster than I’d hoped to.

“We have to get them out of there!” I heard voices yelling out in the distance, but was to lightheaded to know where they were coming from.

My eyes dart around me searching for routes of escape. The moon illuminates the corridor with a ghostly light ad a soft wind wafts through eliciting groans from a nearby door. One bare foot after the other I pad towards the door. I fear the door may creak if I open it to slowly so I opt to swing it open and make a fast break up the stairs. Voices begin to clamour behind me and I know I’ve been spotted. There is a curtained window at the top of the first flight of stairs that looks over the great skyline of the city. I know not what sort of madness drove me to step out of it but I did. I now stood on the window ledge the glass of the window my only support. The city lights before me twinkle with a dazzlingly reverie and the sounds of traffic down below is too loud in my ears. The wind out here is stronger too, willowing about me caring voices that beckon me to death. I close my eyes and pray no one dares open this

In the year of 1924, the first known to man game of motocross also known to be a British off-road event known as the Scrambles was at the area of Camberley in Surrey. This would become the most well known early event it is also the origin of motocross freestyle as we know it today, Over the years, the event would have a growth in interest , largely through the efforts of riders from Europe who minimized the tracks while increasing more laps and extra obstacles through the course such as jumps and made the event appeal more entertaining

The Columbia Accident is a report based on the very disastrous, but very preventable, misfortune that happened to the space shuttle Columbia. During the shuttle’s reentry to Earth pieces of the shuttle began to shut down and some even coming off entirely, causing the serious malfunctions that led to its disintegration. Because of these technology malfunctions, seven crew members perished and a billion dollar project became a failure. Due to oversight and money hunger corporations, seven lives ended and history repeated itself in a terrible situation.

When I was younger my dad used to teach me how to ride my bike, first we started with training wheels until I had the basics down. Then when I was done with the training wheels we would ride in the back yard of my old house, which was muddy and bumpy. He would push me and tell me to keep my balance and keep both of my hands on the handle bars. But that was kind of complicated because of how muddy and bumpy it was in the backyard. Over and over again I would fall of the bike but I would always get back up and try again because I was no quitter. Then the next day my parents told me we were moving to another house and I didn't know what to think and that night I slept in there room. The next morning we went to the new house and I got on my bike

Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime, anywhere. "According to the National Safety Council, which stated that more than 2.5 million collisions back every year, making it the most common type of car accidents, it is also known that the accident rear end as incidents of injury, because the nature of the collision leads often in whiplash injury the driver in the car in front and about 20% of people who participated in a rear collision injury symptoms of this kind. ", (NHTSA, auto-accident-resource.com). Among the car accidents, the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Also, all the people are exposed to risk and actually every one of them has got car