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Trying to make a little track in the woods just outside of town.
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Trying to make a little track in the woods just outside of town.
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Ok, so I was taking it easy and...…..
Shit that's not great 
I'm with Dan ^^^^^ how's the bike? 
I'm with Dan ^^^^^ how's the bike? 
Ok, so I was taking it easy and...…..
Oh damn! More racing titanium. Let’s hear the story.
The bike is fine. They always arehow's the bike?
when you are screwed. It’s when you jump up to remount it’s broken.
Knees and elbows suck! That’s motocross for ya, you should ride desert and take it easy and you won’t get hurt lol.
Ok, so I was taking it easy and...…..
WTH are you doing Ken? Geese, is this really another whack this soon?
Pretty f'n benign. Riding along a ridge with a kinda a wash between the one I was on and another one. Both prolly 8' high with about 3' of a wash between them. So I go down the one and start to go up the other side. The one I go down is kinda hard packed but the one I start going up is kinda soft so the bike starts to sink in. I figured I wasn't gonna make it so I turn to the left, which is the downhill slope of the whole area but the bike kinda sinks in some more and I figured the bike was gonna stall so I swing my right foot over the back of the bike to get off the bike but now I am facing uphill so I start falling backwards. I was prolly only 4' up the hill but gravity takes over and my lack of grace and my, uh, er, girth cause me to kinda just stumble backwards down the hill to the bottom. When I get to the bottom I fall on my ass and my...…..elbows. And wouldn't you know it, my left elbow found 1 of the 3 boulders in the whole area.....SMACK! With all my weight it drives my Humerus bone (really not funny) right through my Ulna bone (elbow) shattering it....
I was riding last as I am being more cautious so I can pick and choose what I do. So I was laying there for about 5 minutes thinking I broke my arm because of all the tingling. But it kinda went away so I pulled my glove hand off my elbow and noticed my glove took on a rather dark shade of red.....I thought, great, I think I need to figure this out pretty quick. Right then my buddies showed up and started whipping out all there gauze and stuff. Rode back to the truck about 3 miles e pretty knarly rain rutted/rocky single track. It only hurt when I was in the sand and the bars wanted to pull in different directions. That's when I need to ride with 1 hand.
I figured I'd get to the ER, they'd clean me up, throw in a few stitches and send me home.....but noooooo, I got to stay Saturday night, Sunday, and had the surgery on Monday
When they finally unwrapped all the bandages my buddies had put on they got to the last one. My wife went, "ooohhh", and left the room. The Dr handed me a gauge pad and said "hold it here with some pressure, I'll be right back"
So, another 4 months on the couch. Only 2 if it was just the bone but since I ruptured the tricep tendon, that'll make it four
Scene of the crime....
Yea, see above
Is that Rainbow?
Shit dude, you should just be like me and leave any purgatory hard enduro riding for the ones that like that shit. I prefer to ride, not bulldog, and stay away from overly technical in my old age. Especially with the shit insurance I have now being retired, I don't want to spend my savings on something stupid.
But I get it, it was just a little ride with some buddies, and that is how it goes. Sorry to here this shit, heal quick, and don't let the wife take the bike away.
Yea, since my wife had shoulder surgery in March, that ate up all of our "family deductible" so this $103K bill was covered at 100%.
And yea, totally sucks cause it was such a non-issue in "somewhere in the general area of Barstow". That was I think the problem. I am riding more cautious these days trying to protect my surgically repaired left knee. So instead of sticking it out and trying to hold all the weight of the bike and me on it, I tend to just jump off the bike and let the bike fend for itself and me just tuck and roll or whatever. In this case I was just on a hill so I fell backwards....f'n gravity. And I left my elbow guards at home. Don't know if they would have helped in this case since it was such a direct impact not a glancing blow. But, it would have been better to find out, that's what I have them for...not for decorations in the garage
