Oh dude, that's a shitty way to end the trip. What run were you on?least of my problems at the moment, binned it massively going over the bars off a drop last night and took a little trip to the medical centre. possible broken scaphoid, reckon i would have broken ribs for sure if i hadnt been wearing armour. oh well, i've had 10 solid days of awesome riding and heading home soon anyway
doing a sweeper run on freight train and stupidly decided to hit that damn container and totally botched dropping off the end of it... long way down over the bars onto rock slab. glad it didn't happen at the start of my trip, was due for a rest anyway.
Good advice, thanks dude. I've only got 18 days, so it's tempting to cram as much in as possible, but I think i'll pace myself in the hope I can ride every day and not break myself.
Good idea I didn't think too have a look there, I'm chasing 3.25x400 or 450 to fit a fox
.least of my problems at the moment, binned it massively going over the bars off a drop last night and took a little trip to the medical centre. possible broken scaphoid, reckon i would have broken ribs for sure if i hadnt been wearing armour. oh well, i've had 10 solid days of awesome riding and heading home soon anyway
pretty sure its not open yet. i was super keen to do it as well. if it opens i may be tempted to try it one-handed...
Aaargh that sux mate, hope you're doing ok -maybe you could gaffa tape a bit of wood from your shoulder to the bars (bypassing your wrist) to keep you going haha?! Glad to see the armour saved you too........ that just re-opens the 'to wear armour/ to not wear armour' debate again, causing me serious confusion!least of my problems at the moment, binned it massively going over the bars off a drop last night and took a little trip to the medical centre. possible broken scaphoid, reckon i would have broken ribs for sure if i hadnt been wearing armour. oh well, i've had 10 solid days of awesome riding and heading home soon anyway
i was actually seriously tempted to ask the hospital to mold the cast into a kind of handlebar grip... shitty thing about this injury is that is that it mostly doesn't show on the first xray, but if you decide that it's just a sprain and push through the pain and is a break it will double the healing process... with 4 more days here it's so tempting to be stupid...
yes i'll definitely be back every year i think. 10 days is about as much riding as i think you would want to do in one hit anyway, i was getting to the point where i could hardly hang onto the bars anymore and needed a few days off. still killing me that there's a possibility that i've only sprained my wrist and if this is the case i could get in a couple more days riding without risking making anything worse... if it wasn't so freakin expensive i would get an mri to clarify where i'm at...
Bummer mate! Hopefully it's not too bad of an injury, and as has been said atleast it was in the later stages of your trip.. I hear you on the 10 days bit, 7.5 days smashing out runs in NZ was very hard work by the end! On another note, how's the demo treating you?
