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Man down…
Apologies for slow responses to email but… It’s been a while coming. I have been waiting for a big one to happen, and sure enough, Tuesday it arrived…We were on a test day with the Nukeproof DH bike and some fast lads at the Moelfre track. Thats not us in the vid, but thats the track we were riding. Some of the CRC Intense team were there too, and perhaps, in retrospect trying to keep up with Matt Simmons and Pagey was a mistake, especially on a borrowed bike (I wasn’t riding our sample).
I’m still not entirely sure how, but I think I hit a kicker at about 1:55 on that vid, and took off into space . Cord found me about 10-15mins later, barely concious with a very broken bike. Big dints in my helmet and a pain in my shoulder.
Ed from Greatrock valiantly whisked me to Wrexham Hospital, who checked me over, confirmed the damage – broken collarbone -, and in the process had to cut up my Dianesse suit. And my Icebreaker Merino. And my Aldi long sleeve.
I have a collarbone plating operation booked on Friday, and a 13hr flight to Taiwan on Sunday. ~Hmmmmm.
Ow.
Anyone know where you can get new green Travis forks from?
ragley
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Graeme Wood 11:56 am on March 19, 2010 | #
At first glance I thought you were waiting to get a haircut! Collarbones are painful but looking at those forks it could have been a lot worse. GWS 5-6 weeks IIRC
Lars 3:24 pm on March 19, 2010 | #
I’m sorry to hear about your mishap, but am glad it isn’t worse!
Get well soon!
pg 9:45 pm on March 21, 2010 | #
I’ve had a couple of broken collarbones and a compound broken arm… wouldn’t let the EMS or ER cut my gear off either time… too expensive to add insult to injury! They seem to enjoy cutting up good gear.
Speedy Recovery, your skills will vastly improve when you are fully back in the game. I think my riding has gotten much better after every major crash, because I eased back into the speed, but did a lot of practice and learning during recovery.
Cheers and I’m so looking forward to getting a Pig when I have saved enough for it.
AW 2:57 pm on March 29, 2010 | #
I like your grey plastic replacement forearm.
Where can I get one? Is it carbon fibre?
Andy Hanson 3:02 am on April 15, 2010 | #
Yeah , i can sympathise , i’ve got a nicely made piece of ti instead of a clavicle . bone is sooo 20th century