Did anyone see my crash at Stromlo?

[arpit]

I crashed on my first race run at Stromlo.

I thought I knew the track quite well, since I was riding most of saturday, and all of Sunday morning.

I was rolling over all the doubles, pumping them. I would go on the brakes over the take off ramp to force my front wheel down, then I'd push the bike down, and roll over the landing ramp without losing much speed.

I saw what looked like one of those roll-overable doubles, and went on the brakes as per usual, and pushed my front wheel down.
The problem was, as I remember it, the double wasn't rolloverable.

I don't know what happened. I remember my front wheel dropping, then the next thing I know I was getting up with my goggles full of dirt, my ears feeling funny, and my mouth full of dirt too. THe remote resevoir from my shock had snapped off the frame.

I think someone asked me whether I was alright and I replied to the effect that I was. I then rode the rest of the track with my goggles half off.

It turns out that I got a concussion. I'm quite dizzy and disoriented.
I'm trying to assess how bad it is.


Did anyone on here see the crash? Can you tell me what happened? Was I going fast? Did I take the impact predominantly with my head, or was it a secondary impact? Did I black out? Did my body (particularly neck and back) bend in a funny way?

I don't think I like racing anymore. I have a bad record of crashing when downhilling. I'm not supposed to ride a bike, or do anyhting which jars my head for a month, but after that, it'll probably just be XC. I don't want to risk brain damage again.


I was riding a blue mongoose bike with dorado forks. I was wearing work boots, board shorts, black shinpads, and a 661 pressiure jaket with no jersey on top. I was wearing blakc gloves. Also, I was wearing a carbon dibre black, yellow and red 661 helmet. I was racing in sport.

Thanks!

[jamis7]

gotta suck

[johnny]

Mate, I know I hack on you a lot and am probably far too drunk to talk sense, but....


...good on you.

As you know, I've seen you crash before, after a drop on a fst section of track. You were hurt but you came back another day abd rode again. That is pretty fucking cool.

If you feel that this game iws a bit too much for you, then o prob, you gave it a good hard crack and had a go.

Good on you.

Life is fucking tough. You'll take seriouws knocks and be confrnted with the adversity of bouncing back. You can do either one of three things. you can:

1. Say fuck you and take the hill by the horns and bounce down the c*nt with greater anger and force and take life nd it's knocks as it comes.

2.Know what else there is and find another way up, around and down the hill. Nothing wrong with revising strategy in order to avail, you are still into it and you are still gettting out and going hard. The heart conquers life before it is lived; the decision to do something is the grand strategy everything after that is simply a tactic to ahieve that aim. No one forces you to risk the costs but you do anyway, you decide if you tread the beaten path or you instead beat the path.

3. Be a fucking sloppy poo, princess nappy pants and go home.



As much as you and I are very different types, I believe you have a good deal of cunt in you and will find a way around your mountain; be it straight down or up around and over. You aint a nappy boy deep down inside. You'll be fine no matter what anyone posts here..., including my own self-righteous self.


Good luck to you mate and into it.

[pinned--->]

At least you didn’t break any bones dude. I just got my cast taken off my arm which I had for 6 weeks, and I'm still not meant to ride for another 6.... Similar thing happened to me, hit a double at full speed, nose cased, head first from about 6 foot in the air, knocked out and taken to hospital. That’s just what I’ve been told, not like a remember :rolleyes:. I got pictures of mine but, so it was worth it :p.

*Edit* Lol @ Johnnys drunk dribble :p.

[flava]

I saw you riding the bottom sections of the course with your goggles covering your nose and mouth, you could say you looked a "little dazed"...i did laugh pretty hard when i saw it, i obviously didnt know it was serious.

Ill tell you something though, you were riding better than the guy with half his arse hanging out...

[Binaural]

Hahaha, I know how you feel. I fucked up a double at the Coffs round last year and knocked myself cold for a bit. Felt like I'd been put together by a particularly stupid apprentice carpenter for a little while afterwards, but it felt all the sweeter when I went back for some more relaxed runs later on in the year. The only long term effect of the brain damage I undoubtedly suffered is continuing to argue with creationists :p

So Johnny, did you drink your entire cache of Coopers before that post?

[fatass]

Hey, I sort of know how you feel. I had a run with about 4 stacks, all of witch left me dazed and confused. The whole way back up the hill (fuckn big hill) I was left to wonder about quitting DH. I pulled through and still love it, but that's only my story. Yours is probably a whole lot harder to find the answer to, take each day as it comes and hopefully you will still be riding at the end of it. Your desiscion to quit -should that be so- is yours and I think the majority of the farkin people will be ultimately let down in you. Joking, do what you want to do and fuck anyone who opposes your awesome awesome-ness

[johnny]

Mate, I know I hack on you a lot and am probably far too drunk to talk sense, but....


.I think some one hacked my user account lastnight.

[shanus]

I crashed on my first race run at Stromlo.

I thought I knew the track quite well, since I was riding most of saturday, and all of Sunday morning.

I was rolling over all the doubles, pumping them. I would go on the brakes over the take off ramp to force my front wheel down, then I'd push the bike down, and roll over the landing ramp without losing much speed.

I saw what looked like one of those roll-overable doubles, and went on the brakes as per usual, and pushed my front wheel down.
The problem was, as I remember it, the double wasn't rolloverable.

I don't know what happened. I remember my front wheel dropping, then the next thing I know I was getting up with my goggles full of dirt, my ears feeling funny, and my mouth full of dirt too. THe remote resevoir from my shock had snapped off the frame.

I think someone asked me whether I was alright and I replied to the effect that I was. I then rode the rest of the track with my goggles half off.

It turns out that I got a concussion. I'm quite dizzy and disoriented.
I'm trying to assess how bad it is.


Did anyone on here see the crash? Can you tell me what happened? Was I going fast? Did I take the impact predominantly with my head, or was it a secondary impact? Did I black out? Did my body (particularly neck and back) bend in a funny way?

I don't think I like racing anymore. I have a bad record of crashing when downhilling. I'm not supposed to ride a bike, or do anyhting which jars my head for a month, but after that, it'll probably just be XC. I don't want to risk brain damage again.


I was riding a blue mongoose bike with dorado forks. I was wearing work boots, board shorts, black shinpads, and a 661 pressiure jaket with no jersey on top. I was wearing blakc gloves. Also, I was wearing a carbon dibre black, yellow and red 661 helmet. I was racing in sport.

Thanks!

I saw your crash from berm a few metres before the jump. The speed you carried into it probably wasnt enought to completely clear it but probably enough to rear wheel case the landing and continue on. You rolled up the lip and then nearly came to a complete stop when you realised you were in trouble. You then let go of the brakes and attempted to roll it out... it was never gonna happen. Your front tyre caught the bottom of the ditch and you went head first into the backside of the landing. It didnt look like a massive hit but it was obviously enough to do some damage. You got straight up and continued on much to the delight of the crowd. Everybodys comments were along the lines off "has this bloke ever ridden this track before?". You looked like you were aproaching the jump for the first time and didnt realise it wasnt rollable. Most people who were not doing the jump were rolling around the right side. Hope that helps.

[old4dy]

good on you for having a go.

I have a fair idea on what goes into a riders mind on occasions like this

and i would say its nearly his arse, only joking.

I too am nearly recovered from a crash, broken collar bone thank heavens only 2 weeks to go.

The hacker was a dweeb who couldnt spell,

we all know Johnny was in the top of his spelling class.

[PEELER]

Hahahaha that would've been pretty funny man!
I saw a guy at stromlo nats who crashed on that
jump over the rock(last jump of the tripple treat) and when he got back up he went and got his bike and sat back on it,then he
fell of the other side and rolled down the hill.Then he
walked back up with skin off him everywhere and said
"fuck what just happened man",i Couldnt reply without
laughing my ass off.Shit it was good,i love crashes.lol.

[WolfCreekPsycho]

Mate, I know I hack on you a lot and am probably far too drunk to talk sense, but....

...good on you.

As you know, I've seen you crash before, after a drop on a fst section of track. You were hurt but you came back another day abd rode again. That is pretty fucking cool.

If you feel that this game iws a bit too much for you, then o prob, you gave it a good hard crack and had a go.

Good on you.

Life is fucking tough. You'll take seriouws knocks and be confrnted with the adversity of bouncing back. You can do either one of three things. you can:

1. Say fuck you and take the hill by the horns and bounce down the c*nt with greater anger and force and take life nd it's knocks as it comes.

2.Know what else there is and find another way up, around and down the hill. Nothing wrong with revising strategy in order to avail, you are still into it and you are still gettting out and going hard. The heart conquers life before it is lived; the decision to do something is the grand strategy everything after that is simply a tactic to ahieve that aim. No one forces you to risk the costs but you do anyway, you decide if you tread the beaten path or you instead beat the path.

3. Be a fucking sloppy poo, princess nappy pants and go home.


As much as you and I are very different types, I believe you have a good deal of cunt in you and will find a way around your mountain; be it straight down or up around and over. You aint a nappy boy deep down inside. You'll be fine no matter what anyone posts here..., including my own self-righteous self.

Good luck to you mate and into it.

:D Spoken like a true pisshead ! Just missing a few "I love ewes"

[mongoosedh]

:D Spoken like a true pisshead ! Just missing a few "I love ewes"

hahahahahahahahah spoken so, so, so well

[arpit]

Thanks for the support guys. I'm still getting headaches after a week.
The CT scan shows I don't have anything really serious, but obviously, with the headaches in mind, this is no mild concussion. Only an MRI, apparently, would be able to show the actual damage which has occured.

I tried a road ride, but the headache got very bad - just from the undulations on the road.


I've decided that I do want to ride DH again - in no small way due to what has been said in this thread. It won't, however, be till December. Hopefully I'll be able to to ride XC once before I go back overseas in October. Maybe I'll do a loop of the Mogo Angry doctor track.

I knew Stromlo about as well as I know any DH track, barring Ourimbah. I had ridden it about 10 times before - On Saturday and Sunday. I guess i just got confused as to which doubles could be rolled, and which couldn't.

I've recognised that the crash which occured is both common, and potentially very harmful. I think I mentioned that had I caused a vein in my head to burst, I'd need to get a hole drilled into my head. In light of what happened to Roxy - a situation which was on all fours with my own, I think I was very lucky.
Thus, when I restart my riding, I think I'll concentrate on riding safer rather than faster. I'm not entirely sure how I can do this, but hopefully in the coming months, I'll think of a way.

Thanks again for your support! I'll see you on the DH tracks in December. Also, thanks to the guy who described my crash. It made my head hurt just reading it, but it's nice to know what happened!