Ouch!

2x10

Riding in the superb Surrey hills I managed to do a face plant in a huge muddy puddle oooh! This was due to two reasons. 1/ a large gnarly root and 2/ incompetence!
Undaunted I went around for a second try, same bit of root, same puddle, :oops: face planted and a dislocated shoulder to boot.
Thats my biking finished for the year. maybe ill get a darwin award? :oops:

cooldad

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cat_with_no_tail

2x10 wrote:

Riding in the superb Surrey hills I managed to do a face plant in a huge muddy puddle oooh! This was due to two reasons. 1/ a large gnarly root and 2/ incompetence!
Undaunted I went around for a second try, same bit of root, same puddle, :oops: face planted and a dislocated shoulder to boot.
Thats my biking finished for the year. maybe ill get a darwin award? :oops:

As it's a posthumous award, if you do win it, a dislocated shoulder is the least of your worries.

miss notax

Oh god! I'm sure there's a moral there somewhere but i'm not sure what it is....!

All the best for a speedy recovery

bartimaeus

miss notax wrote:

I'm sure there's a moral there somewhere

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again... and then give up.

the_moodster

Chin up, three weeks ago I broke my wrist while out at Surrey hills and have no memory of the crash. Got a Ti upgrade to my wrist though :-) no riding until next year for me either :-(

Hope your shoulder heals soon!

bennett_346

the_moodster wrote:

Chin up, three weeks ago I broke my wrist while out at Surrey hills and have no memory of the crash.

Err that can't be good

the_moodster

No, fortunately no concussion, my lid took the brunt of the impact, just a bit got a bit scrambled in the tumble, could be worse.

2x10

the_moodster wrote:

Chin up, three weeks ago I broke my wrist while out at Surrey hills and have no memory of the crash. Got a Ti upgrade to my wrist though :-) no riding until next year for me either :-(

Hope your shoulder heals soon!

Yoghurt pots too??
happy healing :0)

miss notax

Bartimaeus wrote:

miss notax wrote:

I'm sure there's a moral there somewhere

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again... and then give up.

Yes, that's the one - although you missed one vital component. Loudly proclaiming about some mechanical fault after you give up on said tricky feature

MountainMonster

Best wishes everyone. It sucks having to be off the bike for any reason.

njee20

Yoghurt pots too??

There aren't any roots on YP!?

cooldad

Yes, there are.

cooldad

As you go kind of downy uppy downy uppy then down a bit and round a bit on the opposite uppy bit. More or less.

MountainMonster

cooldad wrote:

As you go kind of downy uppy downy uppy then down a bit and round a bit on the opposite uppy bit. More or less.

Amazingly said.

njee20

You're thinking of the mass of roots I imagine - where the big puddle is, and you can skirt to the left? Because yes, there are there, I'll give you that, and I imagine it's where 'the incident' occurred.

lostboysaint

Njee - I was thinking the same place.

I separated my AC joint in my shoulder in them there Hills!!

cooldad

njee20 wrote:

You're thinking of the mass of roots I imagine - where the big puddle is, and you can skirt to the left? Because yes, there are there, I'll give you that, and I imagine it's where 'the incident' occurred.

Yup, that's what I said - but if you take a heroic high line at rad gnar speed on the opposite uppy bit, you can hit the roots.
Obviously myself and the OP are rad to the power of gnar riders.
However you, sir, are just a pussy. Skirt to the left indeed.

balmybaldwin

MountainMonster wrote:

cooldad wrote:

As you go kind of downy uppy downy uppy then down a bit and round a bit on the opposite uppy bit. More or less.

Amazingly said.

Theres' a big'un comming across and off camber on the tempting "dry" line before you go round a bit too - wouldn't be surprised if that was the culprit.

Was closed on Sunday morning just gone for trail building activities, so maybe they've improved it a bit (hopefully some drainage)

cat_with_no_tail

cooldad wrote:

downy.

Don't touch their ears

njee20

cooldad wrote:

kind of downy. More or less.

You said it.

2x10

If you lay face down in the puddle in the first muddy bit there's a gnarly old root with a sadistic look about it!

the_moodster

2x10 wrote:

Yoghurt pots too??

Embarrassingly on the dirt road just after yoghurt pots I think, my memory of that bit of the afternoon is slightly scrambled