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RE: Re-intro - the_marsbar - 10-03-11

(10-03-11, 12:03 AM)flyingcod Wrote:  Greetings!

... and that Pure can be a reet moody cow.

fc

I know that alright I did use the forum a lot back in the days, and I did check back to see what was going on. I just didn't post a lot for a while

Thanks everyone, it's good to be "back"

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RE: Re-intro - mr.pure - 10-03-11

Cheeky bastard !
Good to have you back Mars.
If it's not too difficult a subject to tackle, what exactly happened in the accident ?
Feel free not to answer if it's too tough.

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RE: Re-intro - the_marsbar - 10-03-11

No problem at all! It's important to know what you do wrong to prevent it from happening again.

At a training session in the woods we were going down a fast but easy descent. Probably 40-50 km/h which is a lot on bumpy terrain. In a corner I got too far to the left and didn't see a tree stump... I was thrown over the bike, or backwards, I'm not really sure. All I remember was that I almost couldn't breathe. At the hospital they took x-rays and apparently my back had been compressed, one of the vertebrae was broken. I had titanium inserted in my back for a year to support, just got it out this winter.

From time to time my back hurts, but I guess that's what you can expect. I was pretty lucky not to get paralyzed or something worse. I often think about what happened, the feeling of hitting the tree stump and not being control and so on... But I don't have problems talking about it.

I attached a picture from the day it happened

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RE: Re-intro - mr.pure - 10-03-11

Holy shit biscuits.
Scary stuff.
Glad you made it through and have the stones to ride again.
Were you wearing a back brace ?

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RE: Re-intro - the_marsbar - 10-03-11

Thanks Nope, normally you only wear that kind of protection for downhill racing which is far more agressive than cross-country which is what I am doing. Normally there's not a lot of accidents, I guess I was just unlucky. But then lucky at the same time to survive

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RE: Re-intro - mr.pure - 10-03-11

I always wear a back brace now for snowboarding after doing a very convincing scorpion impression.
Probably would if I was doing that kind of thing as well to be honest.

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RE: Re-intro - Sweet_Kicks - 10-03-11

Love the fact that in the midst of seeing you in a neck brace on a stretcher, struggling to breathe with a potential broken back, your mate still found time to take a picture

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RE: Re-intro - GeeBee - 10-03-11

Whoa . . . serious business. Glad to hear you're still in one piece.

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RE: Re-intro - Fritze - 10-03-11

I think you just had much luck in that situation even though it is not looking like that in the picture.

Good to see you're getting better and good to have you on the forum mate.

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RE: Re-intro - bigrob - 10-03-11

Well done getting back on the bike mate !

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