Eina

[igknot]

Sterkte

[marko35s]

You will always have this problems on a lap race.

 

It's like having a XCO Wold Cup race and deciding to run the under 12 age category on the same router on the same time. Do you really expect that the Nino Schurter and Julien Absalon racing for a win to slow down and wait for a nice wide jeep track before they pass a young rider.

 

The mother's response is a typical response of someone not understanding the sport at the highest level. If they passed the mother and young rider on a jeep track going 20km/h faster than the slow rider then they will still be told they are inconsiderate and mal. If they are in a single track and they shout TRACK at slower traffic up front then they are inconsiderate and rude etc. There is a reason it's called a race and not a ride.

 

The solution is simple though. Keep the shorter distances on a separate route or only start the shorter distance when the first 10-20 riders have started their second lap.

 

I really feel sorry for the young man and I do hope that this incident won't cause him to not ride/race again.

Speedy recovery

 

PS. I do not condone the incident but I do understand why the top guys ride the way they do.

There's no other word for that bit other than bollocks.

There is no reason or excuse ever for endangering a kid, never mind one of him being a bit too slow.

[TALUS]

I will slow down/stop and ask if the person is ok if it looks like a serious fall.(a fall other than someone falling over etc. because they rode to slow)

 

If it's in a race and I see other people attending to the person then I don't stop. I'm not a doctor and won't be able to help the person any better than the persons already attending to him BUT I will tell the next marshal I see that there was a crash so that he can call for help if someone has not yet informed him.

 

If I'm on a training ride then I will always stop and ask no matter how small your tumble was.

Nice answer. Even for a Dr there is massive medico-legal implications. Morally I agree though.

[MAVERICK 13]

Just when I was about to buy a MTB!!!

[XCnewbie]

I had an almost identical injury during a training ride at Northern Farm in January this year - rider fatigue (exhaustion) was mostly to blame in my case, was riding a longer distance than I could manage (trying to build up fitness after fracturing my left wrist in August 2013 also on a training ride which had me off the bike for almost 4 months) and wasn't concentrating on the singletrack. Managed to hit a large enough rock at a slow enough speed at a sufficient angle to whip the handlebar to the right as I sailed OTB, catching the brake lever (Tekro Draco) in about the same place in my right thigh as shown in the OP at enough speed to pierce all the way to the pivot. The rest of my week from there went a bit like this:

• 2 hours lying immobile in the sun to prevent spurts of blood from escaping the wound with my right leg suspended so as to not put pressure on the handlebar between my legs while my mates stripped the entire bike down as far as possible - not pleasant (wished for hinged brake mount!!).
  
• Another 2 hours to get into the ambulance and from furtherest point of Black route to Fourways Life, while travelling very slowly over the farm access roads until exiting the farm - wasn't a happy chappy by the time I got to A&E.
  
• 2 more hours until I got into surgery while the doctors and nurses discussed what scans could be done with the patient on a scoop stretcher with a steel handlebar between his legs, and new staff kept on tugging on or bumping the handlebar before realising it was still attached - serious sense of humour failure.
  
• 3 days in ICU after surgery with drain due to risk of infection.
  
• Another 2 days in general ward after drain was removed and open dressing started.
  
• 6 weeks of changing open wound dressing at home daily to allow the hole to close naturally while expelling any nasties (I owe my wife big time - sorry babe).
  

Back on the bike now - apart from the scar, no issues.

 

Pic below on day 3 just after removing the drain and cleaning up the area (excuse the spilt saline on my sheet cover).

 

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[TALUS]

I had an almost identical injury during a training ride at Northern Farm in January this year - rider fatigue (exhaustion) was mostly to blame in my case, was riding a longer distance than I could manage (trying to build up fitness after fracturing my left wrist in August 2013 also on a training ride which had me off the bike for almost 4 months) and wasn't concentrating on the singletrack. Managed to hit a large enough rock at a slow enough speed at a sufficient angle to whip the handlebar to the right as I sailed OTB, catching the brake lever (Tekro Draco) in about the same place in my right thigh as shown in the OP at enough speed to pierce all the way to the pivot. The rest of my week from there went a bit like this:

• 2 hours lying immobile in the sun to prevent spurts of blood from escaping the wound with my right leg suspended so as to not put pressure on the handlebar between my legs while my mates stripped the entire bike down as far as possible - not pleasant (wished for hinged brake mount!!).
  
• Another 2 hours to get into the ambulance and from furtherest point of Black route to Fourways Life, while travelling very slowly over the farm access roads until exiting the farm - wasn't a happy chappy by the time I got to A&E.
  
• 2 more hours until I got into surgery while the doctors and nurses discussed what scans could be done with the patient on a scoop stretcher with a steel handlebar between his legs, and new staff kept on tugging on or bumping the handlebar before realising it was still attached - serious sense of humour failure.
  
• 3 days in ICU after surgery with drain due to risk of infection.
  
• Another 2 days in general ward after drain was removed and open dressing started.
  
• 6 weeks of changing open wound dressing at home daily to allow the hole to close naturally while expelling any nasties (I owe my wife big time - sorry babe).
  

Back on the bike now - apart from the scar, no issues.

 

Pic below on day 3 just after removing the drain and cleaning up the area (excuse the spilt saline on my sheet cover).

 

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Now THAT is right next to the artery (Femoral). Could have been VERY nasty...

[XCnewbie]

Now THAT is right next to the artery (Femoral). Could have been VERY nasty...

 

Ya, they did a lot of different types of scans on the area before they let me leave the hospital, including a scan on the operating table after I went under to make sure I wouldn't bleed out when they removed the lever (I got to see the ultrasound with all of the arteries and veins pulsing later in the week). They said I was very lucky to miss all the blood vessels in that area and only have soft tissue damage. Even though it went through muscle, there was no real damage internally because it was a clean puncture as opposed to tearing.

[Patchelicious]

Well you are back on the bike, so big up to you!