Chico Mountain Bikers

Friday, May 25, 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012

Helmets are good

Last night I had a Mountain bike crash.

We were riding a night ride and I went down a ravine on my way back up,
I had too much weight over my bars and in an instant I was on my head . Didn't even remember putting my hands out ,but I have the cuts on the bottom of my hands to prove it
I cut my left knee in two spots really good , broke my helmet( Lava rock is hard) . The helmet saved me from a lot worse head injuries.
My riding Buddy's Dan, Ben and Dan did some on the trail work on me and wrapped the leg. I rode back down the trail and finally made it back to my car.

I heading down to the ER where the cleaned me up,put stitches into my leg and CT scanned my neck and head. Again I owe my lack of head injuries to having a helmet on.

Today, I'm sore some stitches in my leg, but no broken bones, No concussion .I know my head injuries would have been a lot worse if I would have not had a properly fitted helmet on.

The picture is where my head struck the patch of lava rock on the trail. As you can see the helmet took a lot of the force and did what it was designed to do.

Thank you Giro Helmet for saving my butt!