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8/5/2021 4:47am
.... and it was on a mountain bike!
Joe and I went to a ski joint that has mountain bike lift access yesterday. I ate shit bad! We were hitting the flow trail one more time. I had my front wheel wash out between 2 berms and went over the bars. I flipped as it was pretty steep and ended up on my back. Smacked my head pretty good too. Knocked the wind out of me. All I remember was trying to call for Joe but I couldn't speak. He was ahead of me and always stops to wait for me to catch up. He made his way up to me as I was finally crawling out from under the bike.
We sat there for about 20 minutes and I was able to walk back down to the truck. Joe loaded up and started the 90 minute drive home. I have never been in so much pain before in my life. I had him drop me off at the ER and my wife met me there. I had a bottle of ibuprofen in the truck but I bought the gel caps and they all melted together.
Got the full trauma screening there. First x-rays showed fluid on my left lung. So then came the blood work, more x-rays and a bunch of cat scans. Finally got some pain meds too.
Diagnosis is bruised lung and ribs and a muscle tear in my back. So much pain! I can't move. Worst crash I ever had. I was really scared lying there. Maybe time to start acting my age.
Joe and I went to a ski joint that has mountain bike lift access yesterday. I ate shit bad! We were hitting the flow trail one more time. I had my front wheel wash out between 2 berms and went over the bars. I flipped as it was pretty steep and ended up on my back. Smacked my head pretty good too. Knocked the wind out of me. All I remember was trying to call for Joe but I couldn't speak. He was ahead of me and always stops to wait for me to catch up. He made his way up to me as I was finally crawling out from under the bike.
We sat there for about 20 minutes and I was able to walk back down to the truck. Joe loaded up and started the 90 minute drive home. I have never been in so much pain before in my life. I had him drop me off at the ER and my wife met me there. I had a bottle of ibuprofen in the truck but I bought the gel caps and they all melted together.
Got the full trauma screening there. First x-rays showed fluid on my left lung. So then came the blood work, more x-rays and a bunch of cat scans. Finally got some pain meds too.
Diagnosis is bruised lung and ribs and a muscle tear in my back. So much pain! I can't move. Worst crash I ever had. I was really scared lying there. Maybe time to start acting my age.
WOW....
Now, on to you.....glad you're ok, well, sort of ok. Get well and rest up
We're getting old, Dennis
Going through a 6 pack on a BMX, looped it out straight onto my back and literally couldn't move or talk for a couple of minutes, seriously thought I'd fucked it and it was gonna be chair time again, but must have just knocked myself into some weird factory reset mode.
The Shop
Love the Hawaiian MTB shirts!
For EI Dave come New Guy Name..."Are you implying we're getting old?!"
I wadded my YZ450F at the Jericho National H&H this year, sold it, and bought a Sherco 300 SE. Hard(ish) enduro is my gig now...no more high speed stuff! Getting older obviously sucks, but for both MTB and dirt bikes I try to focus on more skill-related terrain w/o the scary consequences...I'm too brittle to bounce like I once did.
Heal up! Act your age and ride something with a motor!
Glad to hear that it did not go “worse” and that it is something you’ll recover from. It can be a scary sport for sure. I feel like when you crash on a bicycle, it is a way harder impact than what you usually get on a motocross bike. It is just a hard, brutal body slam where all your momentum just stops in that first hit.
I rode MTB for the 3rd time last weekend of June and overshot and nosedived a tabletop bad. Broken femur snapped right off and multiple fractures in hip and a “dented” hip bowl. Could have been a lot worse. Landed directly on my head but I was “tucked” and rolled over to slam my hip and leg. Still learning basic movement and have maybe 20-25% movement in the leg. Got it on video though and a hell of a cool GoPro shot after I crashed that made the news, haha’
Have a great recovery and keep on shredding!
Pit Row
Secondly, something jumped off the screen from you post. The words, "one more time". Many years ago I knew one of the on-site EMTs at Durhamtown Park. We were talking one day and he said the vast majority of their calls occurred after 4:00 in the afternoon, and without fail, almost all of the stories were the same: "I was just going out for one more lap". Hell, my son ended up in urgent care on a practice day after, "one more lap".
After that, I adopted the policy to never go out for, "one more lap/run/whatever". If we're skiing, we'll say, "let's do two more runs and call it a day", with no intention of ever doing the last run. I've adhered to that policy for since 2004 and it seems to be working!
"Some more laps." Never "one more."
I was riding with a friend of my fathers, dude was maybe late 50’s and still pretty fast so I let him chase me a bit. He ate shit going so fast in a sweeper straight to the ground, it was the definition of a high side. I felt super bad and it was a reminder that I’ll be that age soon and I probably should drop the speed a bit.
You've lost a step. 😊
Hope you all are doing great.
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