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Took my house mate out on a ride in Morzine and Les Gets today after equipping her with high rollers and some good pedals on her all mountain rocky mountain element 30. She was slow but steady on Pleney and was really listening to advice well - however.. without warning just after crossing over to Les Gets she lost her footing on a smooth bit of ground that proceeded into a 1 meter gentle slope but as she had at this point lost control she went off the track into some soft grass.
Sounds like nothing?
Next thing I know shes upside down with her leg being supported by my helmet and I'm calling in the paramedics! the chain ring had ripped up the back of her leg a good 5" and muscle deep! blood everywhere!
Guy comes down with a big bag of bandages, goes "woah" calls in the land rover... rover comes... calls in the ambulance... ambulance comes - goes to the doctors surgery - doctor comes - sends her to Thonon Hospital!
Now shes just had a sterile shower with iodine and is currently in surgery!
She had full body armour head to toe.... and just ridden pleney well!
Whatever the odds are, I don't like them!
Pictures tomorrow! (not for the squeemish)
Sounds nasty , would a bash ring have prevented the chainring cutting her?
maybe you should have bought her a chain guard instead! healing vibes to your friend and hope you're not too mentally scarred either!
A bash ring would have helped but the way it unfolded was very very unlucky. Her bike is a do it all jobbie so she needs the gears and where she fell it wasn't because she was doing something the bike wasn't designed to do. Infact very much in its comfort zone.
I'd even made sure the rear shock rebound was slowed down and all that caper 🙁 bad looks! not mentally scarred just a bit "ugggg its my fault" but I think its such a freak accident it couldn't have been avoided.
Could have happened on a fire road (which is pretty much what the track was like where she fell).
boo! least shes hard as nails and wanted lots of gory pictures
least shes hard as nails and wanted lots of gory pictures
put 'em up, put 'em up!!
I would right now but she has her blackberry on her. I've just got a picture of her bed socks haha! good things come to those who wait. Apparently (she can speak fluent french) the doctors were having a conversation that went "...do you think the ligament is damaged... I'm not sure but the muscle is torn" urggh. proper grim!
I hope she doesn't put my rent up arrrf!
(they also said you could see the ligament very clearly!)
Yikes. That's real bad luck. Could happen to anyone, regardless of skill or confidence level.
Look forward to seeing the pics. Not had a gorefest thread for a while.
Edit - hope she mends quickly
jeez!! it was me who bought the bike with her - pass on my best!! was she still on her flats, or had she put the spds on?
have now had 2 mates in morzine having bad bike related injuries - the other came off the road bike going pretty fast - wrecked the bike and lost loads of skin...
Chicks dig scars...
[b]Next thing I know shes upside down with her leg being supported by my helmet[/b] and I'm calling in the paramedics! the chain ring had ripped up the back of her leg a good 5" and muscle deep! blood everywhere
Hope shes ok, but you may well want to rephrase the above, just for decency.
I will Tom thanks mate, totally crap isn't it! she was riding a grippy pair of flats I put on for her actually to avoid her losing her footing
🙁
Freak accident!
Bummer.
Scars are good icebreakers.
When you left her was she "ggggGGGNAAR THAT URT" or is she down about it?
I literally thought she had been stung by a wasp or something as she was hopping about saying "come here"... I well wasn't expecting the damage that I saw! I'm going to go pick her up and see if we can share the gnarrr pictures with you folk 🙂
Apparently she had a spine injection so she couldnt feel her legs whilst they fixed it back together! sounds crazy, guessing it was an epidural type jobbie.
Don't know how I'd feel about not feeling my legs!
pictures as promised... sorry I do need to apologise somewhat as we don't have a picture of the full wound only the lower 1/2 that was popping out after my attempt to stop blood.
enjoy the montage:
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Is she going to be ok with you posting pictures of her gash?
yep, just not the bed socks
that might be a contender for the MBR (I think) award thingy for injuries and gore. 🙂
Thats a beauty.
'kin-ell - 'enjoy the montage' was hardly warning for pic 5 after the 'arty shadows' of pics 1 to 3.... 😳
farg...
something about her face too. 😯
That gash photo belongs on rotten.com
I was about to have a brew and a jam sandwich but am not so hungry now,
hope she gets better soon
hahaha what warning do you need, from post 1 I made clear that it was grim!
impressive bit of gore there....
****! OUCH!
get well soon and all that!
ps can I have your jam sandwich im ungrys!
😯
Awesome photo and a great injury!
Wish your friend a very quick recovery and tell her that STW sends her a big hug.
😯
She's still got a beautiful face
will do will thanks for the kind words 🙂 I love it how (myself included) all the guys that see this are freaked out and she's basking in the glory of being well ard! 😀 amazing she is a legend
At least she's managed to keep smiling.
A good advert for double and bash.
nah a good advert for a freak accident but no denying if we work on maybies then it could have helped.. but whos to say something else wouldnt have been damaged badly!?
I'm on the BBG website as we speak. Quality injury.
Nice gash.
That's one of those injuries that when its happened to yourself you'd rather have not looked down and seen!
Sheesh! Fair play . . . heal real soon.
Yeah, that's impressive! puts the odd shin scrap from pedals to shame!
DrP
[i]"Next thing I know shes upside down with her leg being supported by my helmet..."[/i]
I must admit I was thinking that's a bit of an extreme way of elevating the wound until I saw the picture and realised you'd taken your helmet off.
It's been a long day.
**** me... that's gory! a chainring did that?? 😯 😯
Double and bash on all my bikes nowadays... 😀
Double and bash is great, until your pedal snaps off, causing you to put your knee through the frame and into the chain rings in the ensuing fall, which is why I have a quality scar (though not as good as the one she's going to have) going in an arc around my left knee 🙂
That's way worse than I expected from a chainring 0_0 Has it put her off riding or does she just put it down to bad luck?
I wasn't going to comment on this till I saw the picture, that's rough! Think I'll be leaving my bash on having seen that....
Mr MC knows that hospital well! Stretched off Le Pleney in 2009 after a freakish crash on the 10% meant he didn't clip out of SpD's and snapped the end off his tibia! Man the taxi fare to Thonon hospital every day for a week from Morzine ain't cheap 😉
Freakily Mr MC fitted bash guard to my bike today to prevent just that (well I never would've thought a chain ring could cause that much damage).
all the best to her, at least she spoke French and understood what Dr's were saying, we didn't have a clue!!!
Get well soon. xx
Jesus man that's a helll of a rip! I can't understand how that much damage happened! Get well soon
That's pretty scary. I was out with a friend on Sat and lost the front wheel on some boardwalk that had those staples hammered into it for grip. I was lucky and only lost some skin, although walking with a stick right now. I was grateful it was me and not my mate, his wife would kill me. As said freak accident, hard to avoid. Oh, I was thinking of a bash guard, after those pictures I bet CRC has a rush for them. All the best to you and friend.
Sorry if i made any of you guys puke!
There were some kids that stopped to check on me and promptly went a bit pale, but bless them for trying to pretend that it wasn't that bad!!!
Thanks for all the get well messages.
Use a guard.
Hey Thatgirl, what did you have done in the end? Super mammoth stitches? That is going to be a cracking scar with a cracking story to go with it, rather than "I scratched my leg on a bramble" .......
Get well soon, did you go to Clinic Le Martin in Thonon? lovely place, Mr MC was always impressed with the 3 course meal he got after surgery when food really wasn't top of his agenda!
Lordy. 😯
Sweet Jesus of Nazareth that's a nasty one. Hope it heals up well.
I'duv passed out with something not even a quarter as bad as that. 😳
One of those injuries, if you weren't in shock upon doing the injury you certainly would be once you'd seen it or if your oppo went "OMG look at that eurgh" ...........
CharlieMungus - MemberIs she going to be ok with you posting pictures of her gash?
Post of the day. I did laugh at that.
Yup Bruneep as did me and Mr MC! It's amazing how the it can make you laugh so much ;-0
more substantial leg armour may have done the trick. .
those look pretty small for leg armour, . .mine come right around the calf at the back!
Wasn't wearing them the other wee though when a similar but less substantial thing happened to me!
Sorry fella and understand your taking the blame But its simply an accident
and simply and sadly has that !!!
Wish your girlfriend a speedy recovery Fella 😉
Bruises fade,
Bones heal,
and chicks ALWAYS dig scars
*runs off to order mrsconsequence a bashguard*
hope it heals well! remember if anyone asks you got it shark-wrestling.
My bashguard is now well and truly fitted. Has anybody got any news about how the OP's friend is doing?