What's the closest you've ever come to dying?

[phinch1]

I was riding my XC bike up dalby forrest near Scarborough with two of my brothers and we had been riding some time enjoying the day out, and we started thinking when to get back to the center, we kept saying "oh next checkpoint" and it started to get a bit dark, we were riding down rocky mud hills in the dark and the adrenaline was really pumping

 in the end we found a fire escape road which takes you out of the forrest  and back to a main road, so we were cycling down this road (still pitch black) you could just make out the difference where the outline of the road was (me and my brothers are quite competitive) my eldest brother started racing ahead and i though fuck am i hanging around at the back on my own, so we all started racing....in the dark.... down a hill eventually i got in front by a far distance then all of a sudden BANG! I'd say i went from 25mph to 0 in an instant I heard my brothers fall off behind me trying to stop because they new something was wrong, I hit a long gate that was shut

That blue sign on the gate say " to prevent risk of serious injuries this barrier must be securly fassend at all times"

The first thing i did without thinking because i couldnt see was take a picture of my balls to see if they were ok ( I wont add that picture)
I burst my finger open in the break lever and cut into my leg as i didnt go quite over the gate i was kinda balancing on top, my legs felt like they had an inverted dent when they hit the handle bars at force. to this day i dont know how i did not break any limbs, I think it was because i was so relaxed and did not see it coming.
        

But thats not the end of the story, because that was not the near death expirience I think i hit the gate and got off lightly for a reason, if the gate had not have been shut and if we had carried on, literally 10 more seconds and we'd have crossed the main road back to center (which had no lights) and flew off the hill side which was an 80-100ft drop and died. but i didnt dwell on it to much, i pulled my tampon and and grew mt set of balls back and took some great medication




Not going to lie, that was one fancy Jack danials bottle i didnt want to drink from ha ha