Llandegla Black Vs CYBs
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Thewaylander wrote:I have never used my medical kit on myself, but several groups of people have been patched up by myself and they have said Oh isn't that clever to have some first aid with you
Can I ask what the things you patched up were?0 -
TheGeneralist wrote:Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:26 pm Post subject:
I've never seen anyone get in an accident that stopped them riding, that any first aid gear could help.
I'm generally in agreement with this. Very few of the serious injuries * I've seen could have been helped with a first aid kit any more that the stuff you'd have on you anyway. I think you're kidding yourself if you think a standard kit is going to make much difference to
* broken foot
hole in head
dislocated knee
broken rib
broken pelvis
Smaller than a match box and found in first aid kits:
Disposable foil blankets can be a life saver from people suffering from shock and hypothermia
Now how many times have I seen these being used ?0 -
I've done the black sections at Degla and CyB many times on my hardtail, without falling off. I recently got my first FS and have since been off at both. Riding at Llandegla, I do daft stuff that I wouldn't attempt riding in the Peaks.0
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I'd like to see where Radio 2 got their stats from.
Due to the amount of injuries I was getting from football and squash and the subsequent recovery time out of action, I decided, around 5 years ago for football and 2 for squash, to pack them in and concentrate on mtb.
Personally I find mountain biking causing me far less injuries than my forays into the world of football and squash.
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Same here. Far less injuries than when I played football.0
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What kind of injuries did you get playing football? I've never been a football man, but I can;t ever remember getting injured in the several years I had to play it at school, or rugby, luckily.0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:What kind of injuries did you get playing football? I've never been a football man, but I can;t ever remember getting injured in the several years I had to play it at school, or rugby, luckily.
i once fractured my leg playing football...hurt like fook
dislocated 3 bones in my lower back playing rugby....i was pretty good aswell but at 17 that put pay to any ambition i had of carrying on playing (2 of the guys i played with went on to play for wales :? )
but i had more injuries skateboarding
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football - loads of knocks and strains, fair few unconscious times, few broken noses, fractured jaw, cracked ribs
squash - mainly ligament damage and sprains, one broken nose
rugby - various cracked vertebrae, dislocated shoulder, broken fingers, numerous broken noses, torn ear sewn back on
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I see. I've strained and pulled things so many times that I don't even think of it as injury. I'm not "injured" unless I've drawn blood or I've incapacitated myself 0
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omegas wrote:TheGeneralist wrote:Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:26 pm Post subject:
I've never seen anyone get in an accident that stopped them riding, that any first aid gear could help.
I'm generally in agreement with this. Very few of the serious injuries * I've seen could have been helped with a first aid kit any more that the stuff you'd have on you anyway. I think you're kidding yourself if you think a standard kit is going to make much difference to
* broken foot
hole in head
dislocated knee
broken rib
broken pelvis
Smaller than a match box and found in first aid kits:
Disposable foil blankets can be a life saver from people suffering from shock and hypothermia
Now how many times have I seen these being used ?
Me a few times with mine...0 -
when I say sprain/strain I mean something that takes you out of action for a period of time, and probably requires treatment or self-rehabilitation
for example - a squash hamstring strain has taken me out of action from friendly games for a month and competitive matches for two months
not saying I don't get injured biking, just that in general the injuries seem to take me out of action for less time
all in all though, the potential for a really serious injury is probably greater in mountain biking due to terrain - there's a few corners I've not wanted to overshoot when descending snowdon0 -
I'm sorry, I was a little unclear.pj101 wrote:when I say sprain/strain I mean something that takes you out of action for a period of time, and probably requires treatment or self-rehabilitationn
I wasn't disagreeing with you, at all, you are quite right. Such a thing definitely IS an injury, but I do such things so often that I've stopped regarding them as such.
So I might say "I haven't injured myself on the bike in ages", but by doing that I'm ignoring all the times I've pulled a muscle, smashed myself into the rocks and so on
Basically, I'm lying to myself! 0 -
best way of carrying on denial i tell ya
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