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I'm riding much better, and faster, lately... which is both a good and bad thing. It's a lot more fun to ride, and the crash damage hurts a LOT more too. Saturday I was riding slippery rocky single track at Capitol Forest, coming up on the pipe in third gear, when an errant [it's always the rock's fault, right?] rock knocked me offline to the inside of my right hand corner. First my foot and right handlebar hit a tree hard, resulting in full lock right turn, into the next tree. Which I hit solidly with my head. Next comes a little imagination on my part: The third tree was hit with my left shoulder, also hard, but I have no memory of this. Next thing I know I'm sitting side saddle on the bike, which is laying on it's right side in the middle of the trail, happily idling away. I'm stunned at the quickness with which it happened, and can't move my left arm at all. So I guess I'll just sit here a while and wait for movement to come back or the next rider to come along and help me get out of the middle of the trail.
Soon enough I was able to get mobile again, at a much slower pace. Balance, muscle memory and energy had all deserted me. Got to a safer spot to remove myself from the trail, had an energy bar, and continued on my way, but didn't feel right or come back up to speed for an hour or so.
Results? Stiff neck, a right foot that is turning lots of pretty color, a numb left shoulder and two sprained fingers on my left hand. Rode the short course today...
 
gasgastrials said:
I'm riding much better, and faster, lately... which is both a good and bad thing. It's a lot more fun to ride, and the crash damage hurts a LOT more too. Saturday I was riding slippery rocky single track at Capitol Forest, coming up on the pipe in third gear, when an errant [it's always the rock's fault, right?] rock knocked me offline to the inside of my right hand corner. First my foot and right handlebar hit a tree hard, resulting in full lock right turn, into the next tree. Which I hit solidly with my head. Next comes a little imagination on my part: The third tree was hit with my left shoulder, also hard, but I have no memory of this. Next thing I know I'm sitting side saddle on the bike, which is laying on it's right side in the middle of the trail, happily idling away. I'm stunned at the quickness with which it happened, and can't move my left arm at all. So I guess I'll just sit here a while and wait for movement to come back or the next rider to come along and help me get out of the middle of the trail.
Soon enough I was able to get mobile again, at a much slower pace. Balance, muscle memory and energy had all deserted me. Got to a safer spot to remove myself from the trail, had an energy bar, and continued on my way, but didn't feel right or come back up to speed for an hour or so.
Results? Stiff neck, a right foot that is turning lots of pretty color, a numb left shoulder and two sprained fingers on my left hand. Rode the short course today...
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I'm not a medical doctor, but if you have a loss of short term memory, you should get checked out. You might have a concussion.:)
 
I am a doctor and my bet is a concussion. More importantly, your helmet possibly should be replaced. It has performed it's one time job.
 
bkwdc said:
More importantly, your helmet possibly should be replaced. It has performed it's one time job.
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I'm an advocate of helmet replacement. Had to cut back my riding for a couple months, last year...so I could afford new helmets. Last year I replaced three. This year, so far, so good...no head strikes.
 
Boy! Hope you're OK. I agree on the helmet replacement.

Smugglers was awesome and brutal. Did the long course yesterday with my brother. He had a very similar hard get off in the rocks. We were going through one of the many wet rock gardens, going at a pretty good clip when he hit a large imbedded rock which rocketed him across the trail to another large rock where he slammed down on his shoulder. Took a minute to take inventory and his shin was hurting pretty bad. Took about 5 miles for him to recover and get back up to pace.

Totally agree on the consequences of stepping up the pace. We now ride at a fast B, slow A pace and get offs hurt a lot more.
 
I'm not a lawyer but I spend a lot of time talking to them so I'll offer this disclaimer.

No renumeration - financial or product - was offered for this opinion ...

If you're apt to be hitting your head on rocks or trees, you need to take a good, long look at the 6D helmets. Spendy, but designed to mitigate exactly the '... wait, where am I?' moments on the trail.

When my Arai runs its course the 6D is at the top of the list. The rest of my life depends on me having a clear head, and I can't really afford a concussion or the lingering after effects.
 
twowheels said:
I'm not a lawyer but I spend a lot of time talking to them so I'll offer this disclaimer.

No renumeration - financial or product - was offered for this opinion ...

If you're apt to be hitting your head on rocks or trees, you need to take a good, long look at the 6D helmets. Spendy, but designed to mitigate exactly the '... wait, where am I?' moments on the trail.

When my Arai runs its course the 6D is at the top of the list. The rest of my life depends on me having a clear head, and I can't really afford a concussion or the lingering after effects.
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I also agree with.........what? What were we talking about? Living proof of hitting your head to hard one to many times......:D
 
It was the Smuggler, and ironically enough I was riding as a first aid rider. I will contact Arai as the helmet shows absolutely no visible damage inside or out and I don't relish the though of replacing a less than two year old over $500 unit... Thanks all for the concern. Other than a stiff neck and badly bruised foot [and ego] I'm feeling fine.
 
gasgastrials said:
It was the Smuggler, and ironically enough I was riding as a first aid rider. I will contact Arai as the helmet shows absolutely no visible damage inside or out and I don't relish the though of replacing a less than two year old over $500 unit... Thanks all for the concern. Other than a stiff neck and badly bruised foot [and ego] I'm feeling fine.
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Between work & family obligations...I missed out on the team race at Straddeline, and the poker run. Both on the same weekend:mad:
 
Planning on doing 2 days next year. Great event!

It had been about 3 years since I've ridden Capitol and I forgot how fun it is up there.
 
Glad to hear you are all right Steve! I've had more than my fair share of concussions way back in my football days when helmet to helmet contact was considered a good hit . LOL Seriously if you are having headaches or feel pressure or dizziness you should listen to the doctor and get checked out.

if your just feeling stiff though we should go riding this weekend and maybe I can keep up with you. You will probably still leave me chasing your dust trail but it's always fun trying to keep up!
 
Three possibles for this weekend; riding Tahuya out of Dutch's place, the hare scramble at the Yak Ranch, or the mountains...
 
Tahuya on Sunday would be my first choice if the mountains are not an option with the fires. I watched some video on YouTube of last years Yak Ranch HS and it looked fun with a lot of tight woods sections and some wide open grass track but really dusty. I would need to get some new googles that fit over my glasses since I just ran out of contacts.
 
Jeff165 said:
Tahuya on Sunday would be my first choice if the mountains are not an option with the fires.
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If you hit Tahuya on Sunday(Elfendahl Pass?) Keep on eye out for a big brown '78 Dodge Ramcharger...Somewhere there will be an equally ugly KX250(55 on front plate).
 
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