Warning distressing crash footage at UCI worlds in Cairns!

Tommylurve":3qesaqz6 said:

Did anyone see this at the Downhill in Cairns the other day:


A Pro rider hit a tree on his run and while he was down a spectator (probs pissed up) picked up the pro's bike and set off down the hill to "help get the bike to the bottom". Needless to say he had no helmet/armour on! Then this happened…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amY7JLRgYwg

The guy apparently got away with fractured vertebrae and dislocated shoulder but thankfully no permanent spinal injury. Thats according to Steve Peat, who's run was stopped half way down in order to scrape this guy off the track.
What a tumble!!! :shock:

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Barneyballbags":31cemgxg said:

Tommylurve":31cemgxg said:

Did anyone see this at the Downhill in Cairns the other day:


A Pro rider hit a tree on his run and while he was down a spectator (probs pissed up) picked up the pro's bike and set off down the hill to "help get the bike to the bottom". Needless to say he had no helmet/armour on! Then this happened…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amY7JLRgYwg

The guy apparently got away with fractured vertebrae and dislocated shoulder but thankfully no permanent spinal injury. Thats according to Steve Peat, who's run was stopped half way down in order to scrape this guy off the track.
What a tumble!!! :shock:

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I heard that it was one of the marshalls charged with getting the bikes back to the bottom of the course following a crash, and not a spectator.

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Barneyballbags":1hfk8r0w said:

I heard that it was one of the marshalls charged with getting the bikes back to the bottom of the course following a crash, and not a spectator.

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