What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

[Art Vanderlay]

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gravel bike today. Legs are toast

Hi all,
I posted this on Saturday night. This was an organized Audax ride which is quite popular and gets 200+ riders, with the option of a 100, 160 and 200km loop.
At the conclusion of my ride I was informed that a rider had a heart attack on course (was hard to believe at the time and you hope will be ok). Fellow riders performed CPR until the ambulance arrived. Paramedics had nothing but praise for those that helped. The rider was air lifted to hospital, under went surgery and the condition of the rider was stable (this was noted in an email received yesterday).
I just received an email from the ride organizers of the event to say that the rider has passed.......so sad.
For those not familiar, an Audax ride is an organized ride, not a race. Is actually a very social event, you are often riding side by side with someone, just chatting as time goes by. Along the way there are a number of food/drink stops, it is actually a well catered event.
I have done a number of these events, and met many fellow riders without knowing their names. Always a fun day but this one was certainly dampened on the day and now a big blow (sorry not sure what words to go with).
I did not know the rider, I am sure there would have been a number of people riding on the day that knew and was friends with the rider. I really feel for them (and family of course).
To hear the news tonight was a real kick in the guts.........be safe everybody.

 

[Chriso_29er]

Hi all,
I posted this on Saturday night. This was an organized Audax ride which is quite popular and gets 200+ riders, with the option of a 100, 160 and 200km loop.
At the conclusion of my ride I was informed that a rider had a heart attack on course (was hard to believe at the time and you hope will be ok). Fellow riders performed CPR until the ambulance arrived. Paramedics had nothing but praise for those that helped. The rider was air lifted to hospital, under went surgery and the condition of the rider was stable (this was noted in an email received yesterday).
I just received an email from the ride organizers of the event to say that the rider has passed.......so sad.
For those not familiar, an Audax ride is an organized ride, not a race. Is actually a very social event, you are often riding side by side with someone, just chatting as time goes by. Along the way there are a number of food/drink stops, it is actually a well catered event.
I have done a number of these events, and met many fellow riders without knowing their names. Always a fun day but this one was certainly dampened on the day and now a big blow (sorry not sure what words to go with).
I did not know the rider, I am sure there would have been a number of people riding on the day that knew and was friends with the rider. I really feel for them (and family of course).
To hear the news tonight was a real kick in the guts.........be safe everybody.

Sorry to hear that mate, terrible news yet again for Audax.
My uncle was unfortunately the previous audax rider to suffer a heart condition during a Sydney - Melb event a few years ago.
Brings it home again a bit as my dad actually had a quad bypass performed on Friday. Luckily doing well now. Look after your health guys, particularly if there is any family history there.

 

[DougalStrachan]

Yesterday was a day of highs and lows - high this arrived

Low was as I was going over the old bike to give to #1 son I found this

Now to have a chat with the LBS and see what they can do - lets see how trek go with their lifetime warranty.

 

[Jpez]

Yesterday was a day of highs and lows - high this arrived
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Low was as I was going over the old bike to give to #1 son I found this
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Now to have a chat with the LBS and see what they can do - lets see how trek go with their lifetime warranty.

Theres no emoji for ‘that bike gives me a boner’! and sad face at the same time!
Looks awesome. Canyon have really knocked it out of the park lately.

 

[Scotty T]

To hear the news tonight was a real kick in the guts.........be safe everybody.

I did a Big NSW Bike ride in 1996, started in Albury. Was a slightly older fellow staying at the same pub as me (I was 24, he was about 40) and we got on the beers together. Ride kicked off the next day, and I was meeting others who arrived that morning so we parted ways before the ride started.

About halfway through the first leg was a lookout, I didn't bother with it as I was drafting my friends who had a tandem, but apparently plenty did including the other fellow I'd met the night before, and he had a heart attack and died. It was pretty shocking at the time, I didn't figure out it was the guy until the day later.

 

[beeb]

Theres no emoji for ‘that bike gives me a boner’! and sad face at the same time!
Looks awesome. Canyon have really knocked it out of the park lately.

Agreed, that post was a rapid-fire rollercoaster @DougalStrachan! Great/shit news.

 

[ashes_mtb]

I did a Big NSW Bike ride in 1996, started in Albury. Was a slightly older fellow staying at the same pub as me (I was 24, he was about 40) and we got on the beers together. Ride kicked off the next day, and I was meeting others who arrived that morning so we parted ways before the ride started.

About halfway through the first leg was a lookout, I didn't bother with it as I was drafting my friends who had a tandem, but apparently plenty did including the other fellow I'd met the night before, and he had a heart attack and died. It was pretty shocking at the time, I didn't figure out it was the guy until the day later.

Stories like these really freak me out. Fortunately don’t have a lot of family history, just a grandfather who had a valve replaced in his 80’s, but still weighs on the mind.

I’ve cut out alcohol almost completely in recent years, and aren’t doing too bad with exercise, but need to sort my diet and weight out. Sad stories like these are always good motivation.

 

[pink poodle]

@DougalStrachan! Another one! I need to pull my finger out before they sell out.


@Art Vanderlay sad times art.

 

[Cardy George]

Yesterday was a day of highs and lows - high this arrived
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Low was as I was going over the old bike to give to #1 son I found this
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Now to have a chat with the LBS and see what they can do - lets see how trek go with their lifetime warranty.

I'm now on my third warranty frame from them, so unless there's obvious neglect or crash damage you should be good.

 

[Scotty T]

Stories like these really freak me out. Fortunately don’t have a lot of family history, just a grandfather who had a valve replaced in his 80’s, but still weighs on the mind.

I’ve cut out alcohol almost completely in recent years, and aren’t doing too bad with exercise, but need to sort my diet and weight out. Sad stories like these are always good motivation.

I still have too many beers too often. From my vague memory the guy who died was not very fit, the ride was kind of a get fitter and get out thing he was doing. I don't freak out at these stories anymore, everyone has one, or two, BIL died at 46 of a massive heart attack.

I'd say while there are freak incidences where otherwise quite fit and healthy people keel over, those are much less than sedentary dude in 40's who drinks a bit much and eats badly.

 

[Flow-Rider]

Five people have had heart attacks on the trails here in the last 10 years that I know of, four of them were fatal and all around crashes too.

 

[DMan]

I still have too many beers too often. From my vague memory the guy who died was not very fit, the ride was kind of a get fitter and get out thing he was doing. I don't freak out at these stories anymore, everyone has one, or two, BIL died at 46 of a massive heart attack.

I'd say while there are freak incidences where otherwise quite fit and healthy people keel over, those are much less than sedentary dude in 40's who drinks a bit much and eats badly.

Absolutely. Although I do wonder when I'm at the top of a pinch climb at 180BPM, at 51, whether I should go easier. Until I start descending....

 

[moorey]

Five people have had heart attacks on the trails here in the last 10 years that I know of, four of them were fatal and all around crashes too.

It's funny, I was only thinking last night that I don't know of any regular burners we've lost in the last 10 years. I 'know' more people on here than IRL, and have lost a lot of IRL people in that time, not just to old age.
I assume we have, and just figured they wandered off the forum.

 

[beeb]

It's funny, I was only thinking last night that I don't know of any regular burners we've lost in the last 10 years. I 'know' more people on here than IRL, and have lost a lot of IRL people in that time, not just to old age.
I assume we have, and just figured they wandered off the forum.

Note to self - stop seeing @moorey IRL.

 

[moorey]

Note to self - stop seeing @moorey IRL.

Amateur. Most people have been onto it for years. Oddly, even unrelated to this.

 

[Scotty T]

and all around crashes too.

That's something to think about for sure. I've tended to think people dying in MTB crashes are more from some kind of unfortunate impact rather than a heart attack brought on by the crash.

 

[DMan]

That's something to think about for sure. I've tended to think people dying in MTB crashes are more from some kind of unfortunate impact rather than a heart attack brought on by the crash.

Fuck that would be right. It won't be the pinch that gets me but the adrenalin of the descending. At least I'll go smiling then.

 

[moorey]

It won't be the pinch that gets me but the adrenalin of the descending. At least I'll go smiling then.

I think there’s a look of terror on my face usually.

 

[Scotty T]

Fuck that would be right. It won't be the pinch that gets me but the adrenalin of the descending. At least I'll go smiling then.

If the pinch is your nutsack in the chain after an awkward stack it might just get you, and you won't be smiling!

 

[ozzybmx]

Absolutely. Although I do wonder when I'm at the top of a pinch climb at 180BPM, at 51, whether I should go easier. Until I start descending....

180 !!!! 220 minus your age = 169bpm... you are in trouble

We took the Yoinker to a heart specialist as his max HR was about 215bpm... I thought that was wrong and his should be ~204bpm max (220-age)

Heart specialist wasn't concerned at all, they did an ECG, stress test and had a 24h monitor on him. His resting HR was min of 34bpm, they said he's a fit young teen.

Needless to say, I was a bit worried about him and with the ticker, better safe than sorry.