lazn

Ya, though the knee still acts up, and probably always will. All in all I got off light. I don't ride without my armored pants anymore though, even just to the store.. I had all the rest of my gear on, and the rest of me healed up well.

Hope you heal quick and well from your mishap!

RCVTR

I'm glad you're going to be ok. MTB crashes really are dangerous - even the small ones.

I locked my front wheel behind a rock on a really steep, technical section a couple years ago. I was instantaneously tossed over the bars and landed on my left pinky. Tore a ligament in the first knuckle and it was jacked for an entire year!

An 80 MPH get off on the track was mild, by comparison - although a lot more expensive.

jbaxx

Hey Buddy, sorry to hear about your crash. I think bicycle crashes tend to cause injury moreso because we're not geared up like we are on a m/c. Lets ride Ortega when you're feeling better!

jbaxx

Oh, and I'm very glad the VTR wasn't involved! My little get-off last year was expensive!!

VTRsurfer

Ouch, I feel your pain with the RC more than mine. Actually there was little pain and none now, I'll probably go off the pain killers after today. But people will be staring at me when I go out.

VTRsurfer

Like I said, I'm lucky to have connections with an NHL Hockey dentist (Rick Morimotto, DDS in Garden Grove). My wife called him and got a referral to the oral surgeon in Orange, since the tooth was partly pulled out. Didn't even think of the emergency room, since I knew Dr. Morimoto would take care of me.

As for eating, I won't be using my front teeth for awhile. Both upper incisors are "splinted" to adjacent teeth with wire. So I won't be able to use them while they set back into the bone. I won't even be able to eat tacos.

VTRsurfer

I hear you Coaster, but I'm old fashioned when on my mtb. It kind of comes from surviving riding a bike all over the place in the 1950s. We were always on our bikes.

My wife and I like single track. Mammoth is the best, but we usually go out to Laguna Meadows off Sunrise Highway. I always wear an mtb beanie helmet in the dirt, but we were just doing a casual ride yesterday through San Onofre and **** happens. Besides, I would have had to be wearing a full face downhill helmet to protect my teeth, and that would look kind of silly while riding on level pavement in a State Park. **** happens.

I hope your SuperHawk is getting well.

Mr Toad

Ya, it never fails when you let your guard down. Number of years ago after spending the day riding some really technical trails without much of a mishap, I ride down a slight grade into the parking lot, there are grassy berms between the parking rows. I get way more air than I was prepared for, taco the front wheel, take the impact with my shoulder and the side of my head, break my helmet in half, etc. The only thing was, no one was around to see it! I just wish I was able to heal as quickly as I used to be!

VTRsurfer

Might have been cool to have a friend get a video of that, but I wouldn't want to crash in a parking lot in front of strangers. Glad your helmet did its job.

Twice I've needed stitches on my forehead after getting hit by a board while surfing (one was mine, the other was from an *** that took off in front of me). Both times were on a 2 foot wave. Not the best for bragging rights.

VTRsurfer

I'd be up for that, but I don't do Ortega on weekends/holidays since I retired. Too many crazies dragging knees. And the cops are thick, often with aircraft on weekends. I rode it with my wife last Tuesday and by myself last Friday. I'm faster than some and slower than many, and I don't count Harleys. I can have fun pretty much doing it all in 3rd at around 5k rpm going into corners.

There are some damp spots near the bottom of the canyon on the San Juan side just about every morning up to noon, so I'm taking it a little easier or changing lines. But otherwise it's quite often great most weekdays hitting it about 11AM or later. At 2PM the eastbound commuters start streaming in trains. So 10 or 11 start and off the hill by 2PM is usually good.

I like to leave a margin for error, especially after my wife came back from Gelsons in Dana Point with stories of fatalities that happened two weeks ago. Two different guys that work there (one rides a CBR1000 Repsol) told her what happened:

A guy on a sportbike came around a corner and ran into a bag of cement that had fallen off a truck. Crashed and died.

A guy riding a borrowed $72,000 Ducati Desmosedici was hit head-on by a teenage girl who was texting.

So, on a brighter note, I am up for a weekday ride after the Holidays are over. Let me know.

jbaxx

No worries, I don't like to go too fast on the street, I'm too old to crash and too young to die. I save the speed for the track.

I usually have a day off during the week and the weather in January can be pretty nice. I'll hit you up in a few weeks.

VTRsurfer

skokievtr

I fell your pain. I've posted b4 about my last face plant. I'm a roadie. I was on a casual NYD ride on 01-1-07 and a jerk passed me and cut me off taking out the spokes of my brand new front wheel with his rear derailleur. Bastard left me no where to go, and then when my wheel collapsed I face planted at 18 mph. Besides torn up shoulder and elbow tendons, 3 compressed vertebra, my face was not too good either. Broke my Bell in half, and even tore up my JR armored jacket. I'm still suffering from my injuries, trying to avoid going under the knife. PT was not very successful. Can't sleep, numbness, tingling and pain from my shoulder down, and limited shoulder mobility and pain like a knife when I reach the wrong way.

VTRsurfer

Your face damage looks similar to mine, minus the loose teeth. I feel lucky after hearing about your crash. I hope the other guy at least showed remorse.

Some of those road bikers are just way to aggressive. They need to go to France or something.

captainchaos

Glad to hear you're ok. You're also fortunate to get quick care like that. The last time I went *** over teakettle on my mountainbike I separated my shoulder and had no insurance and just...left it. Good thing my gf at the time had a bottle full of percoset from her boob job tuneup so I could work

skokievtr

The schmuck never said "on your left" but I felt him coming and warned him loudly twice he was too close and was coming in to me; never got out the 3rd warning. Not only did he NOT go down but was NOT apologetic and while at the time he mumbled something about letting him know what my bike damages would cost to fix, later said "you're on you're own" and that I didn't know pace line etiquette. Heck, were were never in a pace line let alone riding in a loose group we were so spread out. I'm all fawked up and he's still smugly cruising and flaunting it!

I'm nauseated by all the Yuppie OTH TD'F wanabies. Of course their dirt counterparts can get you into ugly PDQ on a tight trail, whether it be downhill or sometimes worse, chugging uphill!

zmaniv

Vtrsurfer hope you get well soon. Have you ever ridden Noble canyon? When I used to work for bicycle warehouse we would do that on Thanksgiving. riding up the road then down the trail. Talk about a workout.

Skokie that sucks hope you get better soon.

VTRsurfer

I'll be fine, I hope you get better soon. And yes my wife and I did Noble Canyon a few years ago. The upper part was closed because of the fire. We rode up the asphalt road for several miles from Pine Valley...pant, pant...and headed down from where the road crosses the trail. There were some really fun parts, although a little rocky in spots and buggy along the stream. And the sandy uphill part near the bottom wasn't fun. I'd do it again, but only as a shuttle. It was hot and the uphill on the road was no fun for me.

We ride Laguna Meadows from Penny Pines on Sunrise Highway. All single track and the part through the trees skirting the north side of the meadow is a blast, with slight up and down and just enough rocks and drop-offs to make it interesting. I like to really pump it through there.

VTRsurfer

No dental insurance since I retired, so we went straight to the oral surgeon, bypassing the ER. It cost 2 grand, but at least my bike doesn't have a scratch and no orthopedic problems. Hope you enjoyed the boob tune-up.

VTRsurfer

Yeah, my wife theorizes that those agro road riders are on testosterone supplements. I'll be carrying my surfboard into Trestles on the asphalt path, which is also a main biking route between San Clemente and Oceanside, and a TD'F wannabe will speed by me from behind, 12 inches away with no announcement, scaring the crap out of me.

zmaniv

What brand Mtn bike do you have?

I have a GT Zaskar (original not a pacific made frame). The only thing original on the bike is the crankset. Everything else is upgraded. Almost full XTR groupo with Chris King headset and hubs, I built the wheels myself.