GA cup crit crash in LA Grange

[Big Scott]

Heres a vid of my teamate just squeeking by the crash at the GA cup 2/3 crit on Sunday...

La Grange Crit crash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPT9Nc6G_Vs)

I had to pick the guy up off the pave so the ending is weak till I edit it.

-Scott

[jamiewilson3]

Some familiar faces in there. Were the guys on the ground OK?

[Bantam]

Was that an overlapped wheel?

[Big Scott]

From what I can tell it looks like the first guy's front wheel slipped out. I picked up the dude in the Cannondale kit and his hip was in bad shape but I think he only had a slight arm fracture, I don't know about the other guys.

http://members.tccoa.com/bigscott/Cougie/Road_rash.jpg

This guy (Arron's team) crashed himself out solo towards the end of the race but managed to make it to the road race the next day.

-Scott

[waterrockets]

Looked to me like he just slid out. There was a bit bigger of a gap in front of him, so maybe he grabbed some brake in there and lost the front wheel. The 2nd guy ended up overlapped as the first guy slid/slowed.

[Bobby Lex]

"Slight" arm fracture?

Is that like being "barely" dead?....or a "little" pregnant?

Bob

[Bantam]

Looked to me like he just slid out. There was a bit bigger of a gap in front of him, so maybe he grabbed some brake in there and lost the front wheel. The 2nd guy ended up overlapped as the first guy slid/slowed.

Would this be a result of grabbing back brake?

[Big Scott]

Yea, I laughed when the promoter told me that the day after. I figured he broke his pelvis or something major like that since he was in some serious pain. I'm sure he got a mean bone bruise nontheless.

-Scott

[waterrockets]

Would this be a result of grabbing back brake?

It looks to me like his front wheel went out first. Certainly a back brake can hose you in a corner, and the front is usually safer.

This brings up a good point though. Even front brake in a corner is going to lead to a rear slide, not a front.

Maybe he just plain slid out. He must have done something sudden, because nobody else had any trouble with the corner that time through.

[Big Scott]

Update...

http://cafeinecafe.com/pics.html