Leadville 2010
So, I’m driving just over Independence Pass (12,090′), down heading toward Twin Lakes, just south of Leadville and I get this text message from Wolfy demanding that I post something here about Leadville. Right now I’m in our motel in Leadville, literally 5 short blocks from the starting line for Saturday’s race and using my wife’s tiny netbook to type out something. Something profound. For profound, read TS Eliot “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Well, profound may escape me, but I can offer a pretty good helmet cam shot wherein I was wearing the camera (ON!) when I crashed pretty had. Hard enough to crack the helmet, like gone. Bought a new one that day. I sent the link to Bell Helmets (it was a bell) to a generic email address for “customer service.” A few days later I got a generic email back about how glad they are that I’m ok and etc., but then then there was this PS: “The Video was crazy. I have to say I hear about crashes all day and I have received pictures of after the crash, but your video was a first. Safe riding!”
Watch for yourself:
That, dear friends was in Colorado during my July La Ruta Team Climbing camp.
More fun videos on my channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/lowco2reno
More later. I’ll let you know what I find tomorrow.
Holy Crap dude!
If you can think clearly enough to run through an injury checklist, you’re probably not hurt that bad. At what point do we revoke your solo riding privileges? The buddy system is your friend John!
The important thing is that your Vholdr Countour HD helmet cam wasn’t broken!
-M
GO Dr John, GO!!! have a buddy coworker riding it right now too… keith. get’er done guys!!
(…an ER nurse, by the way… sounds like a pretty good person for you to get to know!
i should introduce you guys 
good luck!)
duuuuuude! so glad you rode away from that one. have you done any calculations of how much inertia and what forces were involved with that rapid deceleration?
ride safe, and remember, go fast – take chances but always wear your brain bucket.
for JR, you know I was running the PowerTap system during the crash and I know about where it was relative to the ride so it should be pretty easy to find the segment and figure it out. I just looked quickly, not having the video to compare to, but I could be going as fast as 15 mph when I hit. That’s a lot since the rock didn’t move.
–J