As you can imagin, the weekend didnt go according to plan, I broke my wrist in my first run of Saturday practice. Well to begin with Johann and myself were really stoked to get our new canfields all blinged up for the first event of the European season. We had never imagined that the bikes would look this amazing... really these bikes are awesome!
We drove through Thursday and were ready to go on Friday! We walked the track and were really excited to test the new machines, we new it would be tough on this track because it was close to 5 min long and so rough..... bearing in mind that we hadnt ridden downhill in a month. While walking th track we came to a drop onto a road, it was pretty wide but we thought it might be possible to gap although it wasnt a road gap. So rode on Friday and did just 2 runs because of the insanely long wait at the gondala, but then first run on Saturday morning I decided it was time. Johann had jumped it twice and it looked ok so I went for it..... that was the end of my weekend. I came up a bit short in a slight nose dive, it just shot me over the bars and dowb into the woods. I knew imediately that it was broken, I didnt want to admit it but I knew I had made a big mistake.
After getting it checked out and spending 80 Euros on a taxi to get back to the track it looks like Im out for 6 weeks which sucks but it could be worse. Getting back to the race, it poured with rain on Sunday and the the race was cancelled because of the heli not being able to fly in the fog. So after all that it turns out I didnt even need to ride... :) I just happy because I gapped the road with only 3 others!
A big thanks to all my sponsors who this all possible, Canfield Bros Factory Team, Red Bull SA, Seattle Coffee Co, Virgin Active, Leatt, Adidas eyewear, John Wakefield @science2sport, Evoc and Csixx.
Sorry to hear about the accident. Hope your arm gets healed up quick Stefan!
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