[Aquaholic]

How's that saying go? "When life throws ya a lemon..........."

 

[29erchico]

Ouch! What happened?

 

[DMFT]

Mke Lemonade.....

Get well soon.

 

[pahearn]

Ha, at first I thought you were wearing long john's under your shorts and were putting your foot down because of the "reduce speed" sign.

 

[sennaster]

could be worse:

<-- inspirational

mend quickly.

 

[2xPneu]

If you're going to hang aroung Lake Hodges, do Bernardo Peak. That'll let you know if you're healed enough to do Noble.

 

[slocaus]

If you could just get one of these in TI

and bigger wheels.....

 

[LyNx]

Hey Aqua, how's those new brakes going? How much longer now, you've had that cast what 3 weeks now already? That damn right leg of your's is gona be frikin huge by the time they take the cast off with all the riding you've been doing.

 

[b3ksmith]

How's that saying go? "When life throws ya a lemon..........."

You are a BAD dude Aquaholic...keep up the good work !
One leg uphill with the swank Jones...excellent!

b3ksmith

 

[Aquaholic]

New year's eve day, we had gone out for one last 2006 ride. We were 30 minutes into our climb and about 3 miles up. We came to this wall ride that I had modified a week or so earlier. Basically, I changed it up so that you shoot up high onto the wall(towards that huge boulder), and then do a slow huck (off of those embedded roots) back down onto the trail.

Not warmed up, I foolishly had to show everyone my new stunt. Bad call.

The landing is sketchy and off cambered. I came off of the roots a bit too hot, and as my rear wheel landed, I felt the tire begin to give away. Instinctively, I unclipped, and the full weight/momentum came crashing down on my left foot. I felt a bolt of white hot pain shoot through my knee.

I sat down on that tree and knew immediately that I wasn't going to be able to shake this one off. After a few minutes I could not stand up. I didn't tell my buds how badly I was hurt. It was sort of an ego thing and I also didn't want to ruin their ride. I told them that I didn't think I was going to continue climbing and for them to go on.

It was excrutiating trying to get back down the mountain. I could not put any weight on my left foot and stood with all of my weight on the right pedal, coasting. It was really slow going and whenever I got to a boulder or tight spot I stopped and somehow used the bike as a walker. It took forever to get down.

Eventually, I made it to a saddle. But, then I had a 2 mile climb to get back to the trailhead.

Worn out, dejected, in pain, and exhausted...I couldn't pedal or hobble any further. I lay down in the dirt figuring that at some point my friends would be coming back down.

Two guys on Ellsworths soon rode up and asked me if I needed help. We ended up taking two inner tubes... tied them together, fashioned into a tow rope. One was looped around his gravity drooper and the other around my stem. The guy was a trooper!

Pulled me out on a climb, like a tugboat.

That was sunday afternoon. There was no way I was going to sit in ER on New Years eve for 8 hours.. so, I laid on the couch for the rest of the weekend. That was an adventure in itself.

Fast forward to tuesday, and I ended up wearing this full length cast with a busted tibia.

I have 3 more weeks to go in this blasted cast. Slowly slipping into madness...I had had enough of house arrest, and decided that I needed to somehow get some mountain air in my lungs.

It may not have been real MTB'ing, but it did my head a world of good to get out and pedal again!

 

[Andy aka Rut]

Two guys on Ellsworths soon rode up and asked me if I needed help. We ended up taking two inner tubes... tied them together, fashioned into a tow rope. One was looped around his gravity drooper and the other around my stem. The guy was a trooper!

So what I'm hearing is a gravity dropper actually saved your life??! Ouch, that must have hurt even worse that the injury! :madman:

 

[Francis Cebedo]

I sat down on that tree and knew immediately that I wasn't going to be able to shake this one off. After a few minutes I could not stand up. I didn't tell my buds how badly I was hurt. It was sort of an ego thing and I also didn't want to ruin their ride. I told them that I didn't think I was going to continue climbing and for them to go on.

I heard about your injury before but I didn't know about the self-rescue part. Damn, damn, damn. That's all I can say.

Get well soon and put that cape back on.

francois

 

[DIRTJUNKIE]

New year's eve day, we had gone out for one last 2006 ride. We were 30 minutes into our climb and about 3 miles up. We came to this wall ride that I had modified a week or so earlier. Basically, I changed it up so that you shoot up high onto the wall(towards that huge boulder), and then do a slow huck (off of those embedded roots) back down onto the trail.

Not warmed up, I foolishly had to show everyone my new stunt. Bad call.

The landing is sketchy and off cambered. I came off of the roots a bit too hot, and as my rear wheel landed, I felt the tire begin to give away. Instinctively, I unclipped, and the full weight/momentum came crashing down on my left foot. I felt a bolt of white hot pain shoot through my knee.

I sat down on that tree and knew immediately that I wasn't going to be able to shake this one off. After a few minutes I could not stand up. I didn't tell my buds how badly I was hurt. It was sort of an ego thing and I also didn't want to ruin their ride. I told them that I didn't think I was going to continue climbing and for them to go on.

It was excrutiating trying to get back down the mountain. I could not put any weight on my left foot and stood with all of my weight on the right pedal, coasting. It was really slow going and whenever I got to a boulder or tight spot I stopped and somehow used the bike as a walker. It took forever to get down.

Eventually, I made it to a saddle. But, then I had a 2 mile climb to get back to the trailhead.

Worn out, dejected, in pain, and exhausted...I couldn't pedal or hobble any further. I lay down in the dirt figuring that at some point my friends would be coming back down.

Two guys on Ellsworths soon rode up and asked me if I needed help. We ended up taking two inner tubes... tied them together, fashioned into a tow rope. One was looped around his gravity drooper and the other around my stem. The guy was a trooper!

Pulled me out on a climb, like a tugboat.

That was sunday afternoon. There was no way I was going to sit in ER on New Years eve for 8 hours.. so, I laid on the couch for the rest of the weekend. That was an adventure in itself.

Fast forward to tuesday, and I ended up wearing this full length cast with a busted tibia.

I have 3 more weeks to go in this blasted cast. Slowly slipping into madness...I had had enough of house arrest, and decided that I needed to somehow get some mountain air in my lungs.

It may not have been real MTB'ing, but it did my head a world of good to get out and pedal again!

Hey Steve it's one thing to do an off camber jump on a motorcycle. But on a bike, you have that whole crank thingamajiggy thing to worry about. Back in the day we used to do alot of off chamber jumps on our dirt bikes, and what a blast it was. What a coincidence about the whole Ellsworth / GD thing saving yo azz. [too funny] Or should I say GoreDuke ha, ha,. You sure make the rest of us look bad by getting back on the horse with before a full recovery, what a trooper.:thumbsup: I hope ya heal properly.

 

[mtber3737]

Not a matter of if you're going to get hurt....

Only a matter of when! Most of us have been there (although not hurt quite as badly). My wife often asks after a particularly hard crash, "And you do this why?"

Heal quickly friend,

OMR
SoCal

 

[Reedster]

Agree with the idea of "when your next crash is going to happen." I figure that if you don't crash sometimes you're not pushing hard enough.

Then again, maybe I push too hard sometimes... My fiance has actually told my friends that she doesn't think I could be a very good mountain biker because I'm always coming back bruised and scratched from the latest crash. Hmmm.....

Heal fast Steve. I'm still waiting to hit those trails in greater San Diego again.

~R