1st whistler experiance..

[K_Mitchell]

well my roadtrip was friggin sick! started out in kamloops and rode Harper, RoseHill (the new trail "RIO" is AMAZING!!) then headed to kelowna and rode Gillard, Powers Creek, and Postill (Addiction is SWEET!!!) then we headed to Silverstar for the opening weekend, bundled up and camped out in the parkign lot! That is a FUN hill!! you could drive a mack truck around those berms!! so huge!! Took off sunday afternoon once it started to rain and headed for whislter!! We were supposed to ride whistler Mon,Tues,Weds but on my 5th run down the hill things went wrong for me...Hit up the Biker X and the big table jump after the Step down bucked be wierd and i ended up landing at the the bottom of the tranny on my head knocking me out..dont remember ridding to the bottom of the hill but my buddies were tellign me later that i was repeating myself alot and was kinda out of it, so off to the clinic it was..no concussion, just some good road rash and soem stiches in my knee..TLD pads are comfortable but they slide around to much..puncture wound to my knee (no breaks though thankfully) ripped the knee off my pad and split the plastic in half, helment held up good just some scratches now...so i got to chill out in whistler for 2 days and hobble around the village...

super stoked on the trip though and i am already planning my return!! Met a TON of awesome people and it was truly an awesome experiance!!! i think a move to kelowna is in order...

here are a couple photos..used PB again cause NSMB seems to make the ones i post HUGE!!!

http://i3.pinkbike.com/photo/1386/pbpic1386445.jpg

http://i2.pinkbike.com/photo/1386/pbpic1386444.jpg

[GeoffG]

Shit man. You were wearing leg pads and you still did that:eek:.

[Cooper]

Thats awsome that you are still super stoekd about your trip even though you got hurt. Glad you had a fun time, heal up!

[K_Mitchell]

yah i as wearing the TLD brian lopes pads..they pretty much blew right off my knee on impact..also i never wear upper body armour but i decided to get some for this trip..so glad i did...the spine protector on my upper stuff has gouges in it like 4 inches long ! dont think i would be walking if i hadnt been wearing it...just remember hitting the jump then that is all...rode to the bottom of th hill i guess but cant remember it..

and yah i am still super stoked on the trip, hey crashing is part of the game, just glad i will be able to ride my bike again soon!! the jump wasnt outta my league by any means..just got bucked weird..shit happens..

[bryce mcl]

Good thing you were wearing body armour. I plan to wear mine forever up at Whistler, just cause the ground is so hard up there!

[jzogaris]

holy crap if you werent wearing leg pads i cant even imagine what your legs would look like... and ya the biker x is very very fun this year but not hard to overshoot the jumps

[C.Lee]

get those.. soft pads.. taht lopes wear under his knee pads..

[C.Lee]

hmm.. i just looked at their website.. so it comes with the soft pad thing =/.
get new knee pads?

heal up!

[the Master Plan Dan]

Hey man... heal up!

Oh and we'll see you in "Therapy" to help you deal with what I feel is going to be an unheathly obsession!

HA!

[bcbud]

Good thing you were wearing body armour. I plan to wear mine forever up at Whistler, just cause the ground is so hard up there!

as apoosed to the soft dirt everywhere else???!!

[M_C]

Get Better soon... Come back to Whistler

[funkendrenchman]

as apoosed to the soft dirt everywhere else???!!

Our mountains here are made of bubble wrap. Anyway, there's no way I will be buying the TLD Lopes knee pads. YIKES!

[Fat Whacker]

Hit up the Biker X and the big table jump after the Step down bucked be wierd and i ended up landing at the the bottom of the tranny on my head knocking me out..dont remember ridding to the bottom of the hill but my buddies were tellign me later that i was repeating myself alot and was kinda out of it, so off to the clinic it was..no concussion, just some good road rash and soem stiches in my knee..

If they told you at the clinic you had no concussion with those symtoms, then they should be fired as first aid attendants. Those are classic symtoms for a level 3 concussion. I would still make an appointment with your family doctor to make sure your noggon is all good. Some of the most severe damage can happen days after it actually occured.

Sounds like a wicked trip!

[littlemountainmike]

Wow. Sounds like a sick trip. By any chance this isnt you is it:
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t110/minimart14/Mikesjunk121.jpg
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t110/minimart14/crash.jpg
Got those in the Boneyard. Everyone eats it on that jump. :announce: CHANGE IT PLEASE.

[Cammm]

Got those in the Boneyard. Everyone eats it on that jump. :announce: CHANGE IT PLEASE.

they did . they made the lip less kicky.