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It
was the second to last day of 1998. I was coming down the Roller
Coaster on the new bit of the track (as the fence was being built
for the wildlife place on the old track). The new track still had
lots of lose stuff on it as not many bikers had been down it.
I was coming down fast. At the top of one of the down bits I had to go round a walker!! I got in to the really lose stuff at the side of the track. I tried to get back on line by turning right, then turned left to straighten it up again, but I turned it too far.
The next thing I remember is flying through the air then landing and sliding/skidding. Once I had stopped my bike was about 10 metres behind me. When I got up I looked at my elbow. It was all bloody, my hip was hurting (but I didn't look at that to I got home) and my back was sore because after sliding on my side, I rolled onto my back and the pump in my camel bak dug into me.
I got up and jumped around a bit to make the pain go away, then headed back to my bike. It was missing some paint on the left bar end, it was twisted round a bit and the handle bars and wheel needed to be put back in alignment (I got these injuries which took ages to heal and I fixed my bike in two seconds). Then I hopped back on the bike and headed back down the hill but a LOT slower. One good thing is that my house is only a couple of minutes from the bottom of the Roller Coaster/Denton Park.
When When I got home I had shower to clean of the dirt. Then I went down to the doctor, so she could have at look at my hip and elbow, because they looked really really yukky. The doctor gave me some antibiotics, told me how to dress the grazes and the big one she said that "I couldn't SWIM for a while" (big problem because it was four weeks untill the Wellington Champs and I needed to get in some training).
The wounds have now healed and I am now glad that I went to the doctor because the stuff I had to put on it stopped the scarring. I think will only have a little one about one centimetre long on my hip. The Wellington Swimming Champs went surprisingly well considering I had only four days to train beforehand.
The
Moral of this story is:
Buy some
armour so you can go as fast as you like and come off and not get hurt as
much!!
See Ya
DAVID
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