Mike Vandeman[_4_]
January 11th 10, 05:24 PM
Even under "perfect riding conditions", mountain biking is inherently
dangerous!
Mike
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?p=6455238
Lynn Woods carnage... Pray and wish a fellow rider a good recovery.
No pictures, but the images still play in my mind!
My friend drove up from NYC to enjoy a weekend ride in LW. The four of
us, geared up and set out on the jaunt. We marvelled at the perfect
riding conditions and enjoyed the renuinon of friends. But one hour
into our ride, being the front biker, I quickly turned around in
response to gruesome sounding shouts from my friend. I knew
immediately he suffered a bad injury.
He was on the ground; his lower leg was bent and flopping around like
a broken candy cane still in it's bag. Horrific! Basically his leg
snapped like a chicken bone. His bike lay to his side with the front
wheel twisted. And he was writhing, twisting, clenched in pain with
uncontrollable shouts. I ran and checked him for more injury and then
grabbed his hand tightly to comfort him.
We called 911, and paramedics and LFD arrived 30 mins later. They
tried to call the Coast Guard for an airlift basket to get him out of
woods but ended up with 8 men carrying him out in a hammock-like
stretcher. Terrible. He was screaming. It sounded like a war zone.
I was saddened. I think he's going to have a long road to recovery.
Please wish him well or say a prayer. Thanks.
After he was tucked away in the hospital ER and after most of the dust
settled, my friend and I discussed if leg armor would have saved him.
He had just bought 661 knee pads for the ride, and that's all he wore.
We tried to figure out the mechanism of how it happened.
dangerous!
Mike
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?p=6455238
Lynn Woods carnage... Pray and wish a fellow rider a good recovery.
No pictures, but the images still play in my mind!
My friend drove up from NYC to enjoy a weekend ride in LW. The four of
us, geared up and set out on the jaunt. We marvelled at the perfect
riding conditions and enjoyed the renuinon of friends. But one hour
into our ride, being the front biker, I quickly turned around in
response to gruesome sounding shouts from my friend. I knew
immediately he suffered a bad injury.
He was on the ground; his lower leg was bent and flopping around like
a broken candy cane still in it's bag. Horrific! Basically his leg
snapped like a chicken bone. His bike lay to his side with the front
wheel twisted. And he was writhing, twisting, clenched in pain with
uncontrollable shouts. I ran and checked him for more injury and then
grabbed his hand tightly to comfort him.
We called 911, and paramedics and LFD arrived 30 mins later. They
tried to call the Coast Guard for an airlift basket to get him out of
woods but ended up with 8 men carrying him out in a hammock-like
stretcher. Terrible. He was screaming. It sounded like a war zone.
I was saddened. I think he's going to have a long road to recovery.
Please wish him well or say a prayer. Thanks.
After he was tucked away in the hospital ER and after most of the dust
settled, my friend and I discussed if leg armor would have saved him.
He had just bought 661 knee pads for the ride, and that's all he wore.
We tried to figure out the mechanism of how it happened.