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On Saturday, leisurely going round Cathkin, which I ride pretty much weekly, with a mate. On the steepest of the 3 descents, manual off the first drop, land ok....next thing I'm in an ambulance on way to hairmyres. Dunno what happened but think front wheel washed out. I went down hard on my face and was unconscious and blood pissing out. My pal Stuart did a great job of securing area and getting ambulance in. Was fitted with neck brace and had loads of xrays and ct scan before getting moved to monklands plastic surgery unit where they sewed my face together and reset my nose. Home today, can only eat yogurt and porridge but feeling better. Bike is perfect. Prescription specs and helmet totalled.
Could have been sooo much worse :-[
Ouch. Speedy recovery mate.
Well done to your mate and get well soon.
Aye, for a guy that gets squeamish at the sight of blood he did an amazing job. I think it shook him up big style....
glad to hear you're mostly ok, seems to happen so easily and 99 times out of 100 we get away with it.
Do make sure you take all the recommended 'head injury' precautions. A guy I work with still can't remember most of July after coming off his bike and hitting his head...
Would it be in bad taste to say "Pics or it didn't happen"
Either way, all the best for a speedy recovery
Good work from your mate, recovery vibes for you!
Heal well and hope they make you good looking.
Drac - they are surgeons, not magicians 🙂 thanks though !
Hehehe!
Anono - wife has forbidden me uploading pics for now 🙂
Upload and blame the drugs? 😈
oooyabugger /:
glad you're OK, main thing.
Glad you are ok
Securing area? Did he make sure no one could attack/did a sweep ready for your heli-vac? 😆
Ouch. Make sure you send your pics off for injury related prizes in the bike mags
Glad you're ok and a speedy recovery. Hope you heal for your turkey.
Heal quick!
Is that the left turn descent from the flat moor section that has 3 different lines varying in difficulty?
Hope you get well soon!
Oof. Get well soon
I still can't remember one day in August when I hit my head on the ground at the FoD, very weird sensation.Take your recovery slowly and GWS
Get well soon.
Just aswell your mate was with you.
Having seen the pics, I'd call it an improvement. 😉
It could of course all be an elaborate cover story and you've actually been off and had a nose job and facelift...
Healing vibes.
Had a similar one in the Alps this summer and was v thankful for my full face helmet.
can only eat yogurt and porridge
WIN!!!!!
Murf - yes that's the bit. Pete - I'm not that vain given pain level 😉
Nasty, i hope you are well and back on the bike soon.
Mates - you got to love em:-) Geoff and Al did a grand job when I bust my leg, and like you say neither of them are very "brave" - sterling work.
Just as well we have mates like that, I did something similar last year!
I was very eager to ride again, although I've become much better in the time that has passed I'm still not as quick as I was downhill as a result of my crash and subsequent face-plant!
Good luck with the recovery. Are you off work now then 'til after xmas? I had a week off eating yoghurt and soup and watching Wimbledon!
Sounds nasty, get well soon Iain.
Thanks for all the good wishes,off work till Mon 23, in for 2 days and then off till 3rd Jan. New helmet ordered today and going to optician fri after I get stitches out to sort out new specs (other thread)
Get well soon. I'm still working through various ongoing problems with the physio after a heavy OTB 10 weeks ago. Take it easy, I went back to work almost immediately, which with hindsight was clearly a bad idea.
Best wishes for a speedy return to the saddle.
Ouch!
Hope you heal quickly.
All the best.
Earlier this year I used my front teeth and a rock to stop myself on a rocky descent. Highly recommend Smash as a easy to make, easy to eat food.
Smash - great idea 🙂 am getting sick of the sweet stuff so will try that tomorrow, poss mix in some spices and stuff, cheers
I landed on my face from a 5 foot drop, doing a very similar thing, about 6 months ago.
I was a real mess for about 4 weeks, but look totally normal now. Tiny little scars, that no one can notice.
It'll hurt, and be a real painful experience for the next couple of weeks, but I'll improve really quickly. I promise.
Eat what you like,drink what you like (and can).
Be careful of too many painkillers, I had a huge come down when coming off 70mg of codiene for a week.
I was a nervous rider for about 3 to 4 months, and now am back to being normal. So expect to be apprehensive, but I'll all come back. Just think how long you've been riding and how often you done something like this.
I was a nervous rider for about 3 to 4 months
I am still on this stage after my smash. Its horrible, but everyone I have talked to has said it comes back. Just takes time. Just need to MTFU and show myself not every steep bit is going to make me fall off and hurt myself.
Be careful of too many painkillers, I had a huge come down when coming off 70mg of codiene for a week.
It also bungs you up (poo) 😆
Thanks for info. Amy trying to reduce pain killers a bit from this evening as been on high dose brufen and cocodamol, which combined with eating challenges is bound to be cementing the bowels.....
Sounds nasty, I seldom ride alone these days, even on familiar trails. High five your pal for keeping it together. Heal quick.
Wow. Just goes to show you shouldn't take your local trails which you know so well for granted as I'm sure most of us do.
Get well soon dude!
It also bungs you up (poo)
I'd forgotten about that! I must have blocked it out of my memory, they were intense toilet sessions I tell you!
Thanks for reviving the memories.
Just seen the pics. Whit a sight! Coupon like a burst couch! Mrs C may be concerned about losing you 'cos chics dig scars but really, you're an ugly ****er anyway and these things are better shared. Get them posted! 😀
Speedy yuletide recovery greetings from the Midlandshire.
Make sure your mate talks about it too. Having to deal with my mates simillar situation it played on my mind for a while afterwards, thinking [i]what if[/i] etc.
Speedy recovery, but as has already been pointed out, this thread is useless without pitchers.. 😀
Nasty! Hope you get better soon! Had similar in April this year but was unfortunately alone. Was quite a walk to where an ambulance finally got me. Try not to get caught up on what happened after and during the crash. I can't remember anything after spotting the obstruction and another 300m further on and don't expect it'll ever come back and it haunted me a little and still does.
I picked up Scienceofficer off the trail when he knocked himself out a couple of years ago, it didn't hurt me like it did him, took me a long while to get over it though.
Seeing your bud smashed up, covered in blood, unconscious, is a haunting memory.
Cleaning his bike up afterwards, cleaning the blood and cr4p off it.
Talk it over with your mate, go ride the trails again, take a moment at the place where it happened to try and release some demons, it helps.
Get well soon
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GWS my friend.....I had similar eating issues after throat cancer...quite easy to leave out important bits and proteins etc.... I just liquidised loads of fruit skin n all, made thick veg and meat soups... Loved em so much I still have em sometimes.....good luck.
Yeah thats not a good look on you.
I'd stay away from the salt and vinegar crisps for a couple of weeks if i was you.
Glad you're on the mend and get well soon!!
Ouch! Healing vibes. But if there is ever a remake of the Streets of San Francisco I reckon you'd get the part!
ooof hope you get well soon fella. take it easy and dont rush things.
Oh and make sure you buy the missus a pint and the guy a bunch of flowers for looking after you 🙂
Ouchie........... get well soon. No participation for family christmas photos for you this year !!
Jeebus!
So was this on the three drop section near the start at the wind turbine? I'll be riding round that for the foreseeable!
Ouch! Nasty! Can't add much more than get well soon!
Christmas fancy dress party bonus though - go as a member of the zombie apocalypse.
Good work!
its feeling a good bit better today, thanks
Get well soon, hope you don't have to liquidise the turkey
Ow! Ow ow ow ow ow.
Makes me feel a bit better about my broken back...
Could have been worse - you can still see, eh?
Get well. Soon be spring. 🙂
You're lucky. My pal John Graham went over the bars on the traverse around Lonscale Fell and broke his neck.
His widow's tribute:
Ladies and gentlemen - as if we needed reminding - what we do is very dangerous.
Let's be careful out there. 8)
Bit late for Halloween, no?
Heal quick.
I pretty much always ride alone - seeing things like this make me think it's not suchg a clever idea.
Yuk.
Get well soon.
I can still see, badly - mashed my riding specs. Eating is a challenge - currently on Alpen porridge.
It could have been so much worse...
That's bad luck Iain. Cathkin has claimed a whole load of victims so far; the public generally aren't used to a world cup track I think and assume because it's XC they can relax! (not talking about you, but some others aye).
Speedy recovery. That's a pretty good look anyway, bet you'll scare the crap out of folk when you smile!
Last Autumn my son aged 13 lost control of his road bike and nutted a tree, knocking himself out. Coming round a corner and finding my own child lying unconscious in the mud with a pool of bright blood coming out of his nose is something I will never forget. Thankfully the damage was not serious or long-lasting. The following February he took a jump badly while skiing and compressed a vertebra; another trip to hospital, this time to stay for five days. He's a lot more cautious nowadays on downhills.
Saw this on the GMBC FB page. That looks pretty nasty Ian.
We've never met so I cant comment on whether the new arrangement is an improvement or not! Healing vibes, still you'll be back on the bike in time for the worst of the winter mugdock slop.
Which is nice.....
Ouch! You made a bit of a mess of that, didn't you?
Get well soon.
"You've got red on you"
Looks like it stung a bit! Get well soon fella and respect to your mate, he's earned a pint.
cheers all, I may have been ugly, but not that bad 🙂 The uncanny thing for me is that it's a section of trail I ride weekly, nothing new or risky....just goes to show I guess....
4 days in and mending 🙂
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*barfs*
(I'm sure you're handsome under all the scabs and bruising, though)
Glad to see you are on the mend Iain.
Its a funny place Cathkin Braes, none of it is "hard" but there are plenty of places that would really hurt if you came off. I've had a couple of stupid offs up there as well.
Always manage to avoid landing on my face though!
New MET parachute for xmas for you I think!
Seriously though glad you are feeling better, the mrs is now paranoid about me riding up there in the dark though!
Yikes! That was a proper mess!
Looks like they made a good job of closing it up. Heal fast!
Jesus, it's a shame their not still auditions for world war Z in Glasgow!
Healing vibes mate 😆
Looking much better now Iain - healing vibes and all that - as said above, this is a reminder of how dangerous what we do is and, as much as we all love it, it pays to take care. All the best
More concerned about what's in your wardrobe tbh.
Yeah bit of Hawaiian shirt going on in there 😉
Holy Crap....photo's just after the accident are good'ens.
Speedy recovery and I hope you don't get a cold for at least a month or more....blowing your hooter is not goona be fun!
Get well soon!
I was thinking of having pizza for lunch, but err...
The things you'll do for a bit of time off at Xmas.