Slowpok92

I ride Crank Brothers Mallet 1 pedals before they got all cheap and plastic and i just retired a pair of 661 filter shoes and switched to five tens Maltese Falcon shoes. I have three or so rides on the Maltese Ffalcon and like them so far, i like the strap design a billion times better than the 661 filter shoe

I wish him a quick recovery and I know his pain as I managed to break my pelvis. I had 4 fractures in my pelvis and then a break in my sacrum, mine was from a bike accident not a tree falling on me. It wasn't pleasant but it wasn't terrible at the same time. I will say, The worst part of it all was having the stupid crutches to lug around and not being able to ride. Here was my recovery. I was off my feet for not even 24hrs. The day after i was walking with a walker, and then the day after that I was on crutches and on my way home. I got lucky and didn't require surgery as my breaks where stable. I was on the crutches for 4 weeks, I was back on my bike after 6 weeks and after about 8 everything was more or less back to normal. I didn't do any physical therapy as the doctor felt it wasn't needed. It is now 4 months or so after my accident and everything is back to normal and I am back to 100%, i do get some pain in my sacrum if i slouch in my work chair really bad. The doctors contributed my fast recovery to how healthy I was and seeing as how Mark Weir is a pro athlete I am sure he will have a quick recovery too.

Thats not enduro!

Thank you for this article. I have been down and out for the last two weeks. I fractured my pelvis in 5 places doing a downhill run. Thankfully i was able to start walking the day after it happened and didn't end up on bed rest. This injury though has definitely taught me alot, as what used to be simple every day tasks are now a challenge. Everything I do now takes twice as long. Mentally i have been ok with the injury as i knew it came with the sport and if i was afraid of getting injured i wouldn't being doing it. Also one of the things that has helped is I have set goals for where i would like to be by certain periods. The first goal was i wanted to be walking on crutches within a week of getting hurt, i smashed that one, as i was walking on crutches two days after my crash, now my goal is to be walking hopefully on a cane by November 20 something and i hope to be riding a bike inside on a trainer by December 20 something. By having these goals it gives me something to strive for and to push for. The other large bummer from this whole crash is i was just about ready to go see about buying a new bike but i had to put that on hold because i know i have med bills that will be rolling in soon.

I have a fresh new scar that is forming on left elbow from this past saturday, after i wrecked at the two rivers downhill course, but i also got along with the scar a fractured pelvis. So now i will have a good story to tell about how i got the small scar on my elbow and fractured my pelvis.