Moseley Injured and More on Lopes' Broken Tibia

Tracy Moseley broke her right wrist while training last week. She came up short on a set of double jumps at her local trails and landed badly which resulted in a clean break of her radius.Luckily, she was with riding partner Scott Beaumont as well as Oakley’s James Hunt, who looked after her and took her to the hospital, where they confirmed the break.

Tracy was back in hospital on Friday of last week to have the bone re-aligned and all is now looking ok for a full recovery. She should be back on her bike in the next 6 to 10 weeks.

This will mean she will not be able to race the first Maxxis Cup or Sea Otter but will be back in time for the first World Cup round in Fort William where she will be determined to win on her home soil!

Tracy has a new training plan from her training sponsors CTS and will be riding her bikes on the CycleOps Trainers for a few weeks, until she will be able to get back out on the dirt.

Please feel free to send any get well messages to Tracy - tracy@konaclarkslesgets.com
At the end of February mountain bike world champion Brian Lopes flew to Georgia to catch a Supercross and goof off with some friends. Hey, when your job is maintaining bro' relationships and staying in play shape, you gotta do what you gotta do.


from www.leelikesbikes.com

Lopes was spinning donuts in one of those off-road golf-cart things -- he was practicing throttle and slide control -- when the machine high sided. "I was like, 'No big deal, this thing's tipping over, I'll just step out,'" he says, "but I forgot all about the roll cage. It came down, clipped my leg and pinned me. Then it was like, 'Where are you going?'"

Brian's tibia snapped, and the bone shards poked through his girlish, freshly shaven ankle. Understatement of the year: "It wasn't very pretty."

Screws hold a titanium rod onto Lopes' weight-bearing bone, and he hobbles around his house, finding great challenge in everyday tasks. A shower is a 15-minute, standing-on-one-leg affair, all the while trying to keep his stitches dry. One week you're clearing an 80-foot triple jump; the next week you're re-learning how to clean yourself.

One doctor says he'll ride in three months; another says it'll be five months. If he's rocking in three months, he'll miss some NORBA Nationals but he'll make the World Cups, which is OK with him. If he needs five months, it'll be a tiny race season and a huge bummer. He missed most of last year because of injuries.

Lopes hopes to be walking in a few weeks, then comes easy spinning on the trainer, maybe some swimming, then road rides, then he'll start training with various bro's across the country. Whether he's healed or not, he plans to spend half of July riding in Whistler. Hey, you gotta get back to work some time.

Back in the day ...

Scroll back to 1993. We were hanging around my parents' house, and my brother dared B.L. to jump off the roof into the pool. Next thing you know ...


Look at those skinny calves! No wonder his tibia broke.