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My mate had a big off yesterday on the new blue route at whinnlatter and we had some much needed help getting my mate off the trail and off to hospital.
I've came on this site before and commented on how the atmosphere at trail centres can be a bit cold and a bit 'how fast can we do a lap' type of thing, and saying hello to people was a no no, but after yesterday and the help we got, a little bit of faith in mountain bikers and mountain biking has been returned.
once again guys if your reading this, thanks again, and just so you know he's on the mend!
Sounds nasty. Hope he's ok and back on the mend.
Hope your mate it ok.
Funnily enough my mate had a nasty off at Whinlatter yesterday too, but on the bridleway down to Thornthwaite. We went to the mini-hospital at Keswick, and they took one look at his gouged arm and said 'so you've been up at Whinlatter then?' 😛
I was really impressed with the minor injuries unit in Keswick, open 24/7 and they were very quick and helpful - the NHS gets a lot of stick but I think it's a great service. They said they get an awful lot of 'business' from Whinlatter too, but they were still very cheery about it.
Funny becasue we did the same and popped down to the keswick clinic and they just took one look and said 'oh we can't do anything with that' and gave us directions to carlise, not exactly condfidence inspiring for me with my limited and strecthed first aid skills! I at least would of thought they'd of given us something to stop the bleeding? I'd used all my swob things from my first aid kit and was on to my gillet top!
But on a positive note the staff at carlise were amazing, he was in and out in 2hr 45mins! thats from sitting down to being stitched up and out!
Well it is a 'minor injuries unit' - my mate's arm wasn't [i]that[/i] bad - it was pretty deeply gouged (flap wounds apparently :P), just needed cleaning up properly and dressing really.
What did your mate do?
Face plant into the floor over the three whopps towards the end? Smashed one of his front teeth out and a deep cut to the lip, wasn't looking for major surgery, just a bit of reassurance and something fresh for his wound. But its over with now and he's back home and on the mend. surgeon did an amazing job on his lip, apart fom the swelling it looks as good as it could do, and the scarring will be minimal which is good.
Ouch! Strange how different your experience of the place in Keswick was.
Not really sure how you are meant to ride those bumps at the end of the blue trail well - manual over them?
just ride at a constant pace and pump through them. my mate tried to manual them and got caught short, put his wheel into the third whole and went straight over the bars, nothing he could do couldn't even get his hand out. a nasty crash which i know something about as i did something similar 10 years ago, only i got even more stitch's 😉