2011 sucks..

delcol

has anyone else had shitty year this year..
so far i have
had faulty2011 parts
my brother got a brand new frame that was faulty and left him with out a bike all summer
i broke my clavicle and dislocated my shoulder and broke my thumb in the same crash
i got made redundant after 13 years with the company.
then on my 4th day of my 3 weeks holiday in whistler (mtbing) i have the gayest off ever and totally mess my hand up.
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfHoIjRZ ... ideo_title
then i have to pay $1.400 to get it fixed...
anyone else be glad to see the back of this horrible year...

diy

Sorry to hear that - life can suck at times. With the current economic climate I think most people are find work tough for the last 2-3 years. Working harder for less etc. Good luck finding a new job.

If you haven't read them already:
Who moved my cheese, (Spenser Johnson) ISBN 0-399-14446-3
How to win friends and influence people ( Dale Carnegie ) ISBN 1439167346

Both are light reading and can certainly help you get back in the game mentally.

saprkzz

I know how you feel,

Mine was 2009... I lost my nan, My 39 year old cousin died from CF, my company went into administration, my brother was diagnoised with Cancer (recovered now thank god).
We had just had a second child so the stress levels were high.. money was tight etc etc etc..

My god I hated 2009!!!!!

cooldad

I am still alive. 2011 is OK.

rudderboy

We all have years like this at some time, mine was 2008. My wife was diagnosed with cancer - fortunately she also recovered, and then my appendix exploded whilst she was in the miiddle of chemotherapy, so I was was off work for 3 months and not much use to her.

BUT, and it's a big BUT, one way or the other you get though it and, sh*t, does life look pretty good once you do. So there's always 2012...

blablablacksheep

how come you had to pay for medical treatment?

i thought you are covered with your eurozone health card for all health issues, and if not that health insurance for holidy should of covered you, unless you didnt have any? :shock:

unlucky about finger,though it is quite funny when you look at it, remember doing 4 of mine in rugby was a right laugh....untill they snapped them back in that is :oops:

cooldad

Errr Whistler isn't in Europe.

njee20

ITS NOT!? What am I gonna do with the Euros I just got out?

Kidding. I got Yen, don't worry.

2011s been alright for me, above average (although still very mediocre) set of race results, significant promotion at work (after only 8 months in the company), like my race bike more than any I've owned, nice new house.

cooldad

The clue might have been in the $1400

njee20

Oh I see, it's in Australia. :-)

cooldad

Hong Kong I believe. Excellent MTBing there.

njee20

If Weight Weenies is anything to go by there are some insanely expensive bikes out there. GreyGoose with his fleet of carbon exotica as well!

gilesjuk

My life has changed a lot in a year. My mum has gone into a care home and at the start of the year she was at home.

As a result I now look after her dogs and so I can't really go away for the weekend unless they can come along with me.

I ride my bikes less too as a result.

delcol

thanks for the support guys
i still laughing and positive.. i wish it was aus it might be sunny and warm instead of peeeeeeing it down. then i would of seen that corner coming :P
i do have travel insurance but the med centre here don't deal with international ins companies only bc med.. so you have to pay upfront..
all i want to do is get back in the bike park but me redesigned finger is stopping me holding the bars. i hope to back on the bike tomorrow..
as for the popping it back in i was to busy laughing my balls off on the gas to notice it i felt the crack,, it did kinda throb after the gas had wore off...

Tim.s

1400 smackeroos :shock:

Should of bought a bottle of JD and got your mate to snap it back in.

blablablacksheep

Tim.s wrote:

1400 smackeroos :shock:

should have bought a bottle of JD and got your mate to snap it back in.

sounds great untill you mate freaks out at the sight of the finger and faints......happened to a friend of mine who shall remain nameless....john wilson..ops sorry john

Anonymous

Interesting year for sure. Gained an appreciation for the work and dedication of ICU staff, impressed by how the human body can heal itself, and been thoroughly hacked off with the day job and want to get out of IT and ride the bike even more. Find me a job involving bikes that pays as well and I'm sorted. Turned down a new contract at the same place so I can have a bit of a re-adjustment with what I'm doing anyway, which means more time for riding. Or I may just get another contract, hopefully paying more and funding better bikes. May put some of that money towards insurance though in case I smash myself up again.


Anyway, $1.4 or $1400?

Either way, years ago a fractured wrist in the states cost $1000 alone just for x-ray and cast. Thankfully insured. This time, dread to think what the spell in ICU, multiple x-rays, CT scans, drugs and a week in the trauma ward would have cost if it wasn't for the NHS!

mmxbreaks

Not as bad as yours, but still shit.

I went on holiday and promptly got food poisoning (way to ruin a very expensive holiday).
Came back, went to work for one day and then had a mechanical issue which flung me (and bike) down a road at speed... severed my clavicle, cracked a rib and cut/bruised up badly. Serious muscular bruising to my right calf, right outer pelvic area and inner left leg (bars, road and seat impact respectively). Been off work for two weeks, have about 70% movement back to the right arm now and other issues are slowly dulling down (I didn't take painkillers today for the first time in two weeks... go me!). Trying to be optimistic but worried what the surgeon's gonna say when I see him in a couple of weeks.

kinmofo

i got high... the rest is a blur 8)

sorry to hear about your shit year, we all have them, its part of life. but just think if this year has been uber crap then next year (no matter what) can only be better?

life is a roller coaster and i got my hands in the air

jonnyboy66uk

Ha well my bad year was 2010....

Christmas had just finished and I took my Gf back to uni in Cardiff, I had just moved into my first house and on the first saturday (28th Jan) I decided to hit the trails for the day... I made it as far as the garage... Cut a long story short by 2 pm i was in the JR Hospotal with two broken arms... right arm was just re-set and plastered, Left arm/ wrist was broke in 8 places so I had a five hour op to Plate and screw it. 6 weeks later had a set of x-rays and basically the plate had come unattached, So i was straight back in that night for an op the next day, Another 8 hour op and now a bigger plate and 13 screws.. Another 3 weeks in a backslab followed by 8 weeks in cast... We are now in May and my left arm is just coming out plaster. 17 weeks with no use and its the size of a twiglet.. 4 months of physio and i start to get movement back, Am told I am only gonna have around 60% movement and I busted my guts to get back on a bike in july... Now 18 months on and its still grief, After an hour my wirst is throbbing and on a cold morning there is no movement until i have done my exercises... Oh, did i mention as well... I used to race motorbikes and 2010 I had signed to race in the British 1000cc superstocks... Guess again, My bike racing career was over all because of that 10 seconds!

Life sucked and living on your own with no arms and hands was difficult considering the two things I loved had been taken away from me.. Push bikes and motor bikes... Motor bikes will never come back but I am determined to get back to full fitness on the push bike... Starting with the beast of brecon which i want to do next year...

Moral that I have found, Life is difficult but its how you recover and react that makes you the person you are... Im happy to just have movement and a hand that still work.. Surgeons are genius!

Im sure eventually you will get back on your feet, I now look back and take what i can from 2010... Its surprising teh positives you can take..

diy

Jonnyboy - what actually happened?

MountainMonster

Man JonnyBoy that sounds terrible! How the hell did you manage it?

prb007

You get good years, you get bad years, you move on,
and just hope that when you get to the end, you've had
more good than bad.
An old saying...
'I cried because I had no shoes; then, I saw a man with no feet'

99; bad - broke my neck
'01; good, qualified as a snowboard instuctor
'02 - bad, wife lost a baby
'04 - good, promotion at work and 30% pay rise
'05 - good, adopted two children
08 - good - first year MTB'ing in Morzine
11 - good and bad; completed JOGLE and raised 4k for charity in the process, another
promotion at work, then, bam, lost my mother after a long decline, the day before yesterday.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.......George Bernard Shaw

enough philosophy, back to the OP, that WAS a gay slam, btw

jonnyboy66uk

Aha, Well to delve into the long story, I had just moved into a new house and the previous owner had built loft storage in the apex of the garage.. I was about to go cycling but to get to my bike i had to move boxes of old college work and general junk in my garage and I thought it would be the ideal time to stick it in the apex storage.. when putting the second box up the loft flooring gave way and it came crashing down knocking me off the ladder and the next thing i know is waking up in a pool of blood with two broken arms and my left caught in the ladder...

When i stood up my left hand swung back round and smacked against my left foremarm with my ulna sticking out of where my wrist should have been.. It was a horrible thud noise, Like dropping a slab of meat on the floor. Certainly a noise that haunts me and will continue to do so!

As i live on my own, Trying to use a poxy iphone with two broken arms / wrists is a challenge...

My nice 8" scare is always a nice talking point though in the pub and I am back on the bike so all is good... As my good ol mam said, it could have been a lot worse!

The Real Radioactiveman

Cut part through my patella tendon in a rock climbing accident on the 25th July this year. Just learnt to walk unaided 14 days ago and I now have enough range of movement to sit on a turbo trainer although to weak to do much on it.

leg is still incredibly weak and doesnt bend fully.Treatment has been adequate but I think the orthopaedic's I have seen on the whole would have made good vets. No requirement to speak to patients and if they are nasty a dog would be ok to bite them.

Cost me a fortune in lost overtime,the kids had no fun over summer and I am officially bored shitless. That said it could have been worse and I am improving every day slowly.

delcol

shoot my year seems good comparied to some,..
at least my injury only kept me off the bike for just over a day,.. i was back on the bike on friday. it kinda hurt but once the finger was bent round the bar i could ride...

at the jd sugestion it was'nt my mate it was my brother my identical twin brother i think he was more bothered by it than i was...
i am now back home in the uk and seeing a hand physio who just told me this morning to stay off the bike another 3 weeks,,, this to adds to my sucks list as i just purchased a new chromag hardtail frame to build up and have all the parts waiting and ready to go..... (had to spend my fat redundancy payout on a few good things)

jonnyboy i hope you are well on your way to recovery and on your bike again.
and thanks to eveyone for all the kind and sarcastic words, it gave me something to chuckle at..... thanks again everyone DC :P :shock:

Thewaylander

Stared riding DH alot more and stopped pedaling up so much... Feel much better about myself.

other than that average year with naff weather and alot of costs i didn't expect

monkey_man_1

it seems to go like that, some good some bad. things will always pick up again!

i bought a bike back in around mid march with the aim or gettin right into mtb as have always liek the look and finnally got round to it. rode maybe 3 times and was loving it then very start of april i slipped two disks, this then showed up another spinal problem. imense pain up untill last weds when i had surgery, now just another 6weeks recovery and i might be able to start riding! also found out this week that both mum and sister (my whole family) both need surgery aswell...

on the plus side i still have my family and an amzing girlfriend and still have a job and health (eventually)

just gotta look on the good things the best you can!

bwfc4eva868

Mixed year this year really. Have improved my riding since trying Gisburn forest for the second time but on a cold march night. Fell of the blue board walk tho lol. Have been to Lee quarry and nailed. a steep descent in my local woods after a year of being scared of it. Work life has been good, my 3rd Umbilical Hernia surgery seems to have worked and not popped out after 3 months like previous attempts. Fantastic two weeks in Rhodes with the missus. The one major down point has been my Granpa being diagnosed with bladder cancer. He seems well tho for now, but has his off days.