Well umm “you have been knocked the f&$k out”!!!!!!!!! Strange happenings it was for sure. We had just regrouped, yes Deejay was sweeping as the pace was on with Jason (I can ride no shit!!) keeping me more than honest :blush: We rode up a little dirt road from Ben Bullen into the garden of stone NP. We had only gone 1.1km from the regroup and I got to the single trail turn off and waited for everyone as there was a bit of dust around. The other four were there whitin 20 seconds but deejay wasn’t. Normally I would wait a min or 2 because they could be fiddling with goggles having a piss etc but for reasons unknown to me I took off straight back. I hate riding against traffic no matter what the reason so it was a unusual move for me. I didn’t speak to anyone of the others, and because it was not my normal behavior Chris followed pretty well straight after me ( he said later it was unusual that I didn’t wait so he thought whats doing ) I rode carefully back up the road only to come around the corner and see the KTM laying seat first into the batter wall ( the small pile of dirt the grader blade leaves along the edge of the road ) straight away I knew he had high sided and being at the end of the straight he would have some speed about him ( even on a shit wreck Kato ) I couldn’t see him and thought he is walking it off. As I got closer I saw him laying face down in the bush. His arms were under his body meaning he had gone in head first and fast because he hadn’t even got his arms in front to protect himself. I ran over yelling his name but he wasn’t responding. I never want to feel what I felt then, it sickens me even typing that, reminding me how I felt there and then. Luckily after about 30 seconds he responded with a yeah! Thank god or whoever you pray to.
Deejay is our first aid guy I was thinking and now he is laying on the ground F&$K!! How selfish if him :laugh: No seriously it was scary, anyway we went through the normally stuff, he wanted his helmet off etc that wasn’t happening for a while. Once everything moved didn’t tingle etc the helmet was removed and we washed his face and eyes out a rescue plan was put it action. When I got back from getting the car Chris said he had asked maybe 40 times what had happened! He turned at one stage having not seen his bike for maybe 2 mins and said “shit!” what happened to my bike! Funny now scary shit then. He didn’t want to go to the hospital, I ended up giving him a serious sit down talk about his injuries and hospital ( waste of time as he forgot in 25 seconds :laugh: ) we sent Mal a picture and then rang him, deejay heard first hand on the blue tooth in the car how concerned Mal easel he said he would go. Once at the hospital he seemed to get a little stressed with where he was and with so many people working on him, it wasn’t good at that time as they were very worried about his neck and eye socket. I then realized I would have to ring Lauren his girl, who is lovely but HATES bikes and me because I am always dragging him off riding and speeding money :laugh: That wasn’t a good call, she was worried as you can imagine but quickly got sorted and was on her way up to the hospital at Katomba.
They did ct scans and xrays of his neck etc he was cleared of breaks and other things but kept failing the memory tests they do before they will release you. Then the blood in the urine thing and they said they would transfer him to Penrith. That didn’t happen until nearly midnight, I stayed until they put him in the ambulance.
I hope nobody ever has to ride around the corner and see what I did, it was scary and made me question what I do for a while at the hospital. It’s dangerous but we know that, he had all the gear on and it all ended well.
He didnt have his neck brace with him when we left my place, I hadn’t used mine yet so I said wear mine before I send it up to Snowy for his paper, you have a Leatt you normally wear you can do a back to back test. Deejay I didn’t mean for you to test it like tha mate, if you don’t understand instructions ask little buddy :laugh:
Chris has photos of the crash site but here are some facts
The bike was in 4th gear when it was picked up!
From the end of the skid mark to the first impact mark on the dirt road was around 4 metres
From the first impact mark to the second mark is around 3 metres, nothing in between meaning the bike bounced!!
From the second impact mark to where the bike stopped is around 7 to 8 metres.
Deejay had gone over the high side and was 5 to 6 metres from the bike, his helmet is broken, and he ploughed a trench nearly a metre long with his head (arms under the body remember )
If he didn’t have any neck brace on I don’t know what would have happened.
Get better little mate
TB
They won’t be where we are going :woohoo:
