Downhill Dave's left leg x-ray after surgery. This was a massive tibial plateau fracture and the Kamlopps Surgeon stopped counting at 20 fractures. He said he was considering amputating during surgery and told me I'd likely never walk on it again.

The titanium hardware consists of 12 bolts/ screws and the one big side plate.

After incredibly intense therapy and training, I was actually able to make a pretty full recovery and got back to racing 2 years after this 1998 crash at the National Downhill Mountain Bike Championships at Sun Peaks Ski Resort. 2 years after the injury, I was actually faster on the same race tracks than before the injury.

This injury is the main reason for me building my Downhill Electric Mountain Bike as the pain is constant and terrible and is worse when I press down on the pedals like when climbing.

On an interesting note, one of the racers that came to my aid, Duane Nickull from Norco Factory Racing, ended up redoing his run and broke both his arms in the exact same extreme slope near the top of the course that I crashed at and ended up in hospital with me.

The following year, this section which claimed many riders was ommitted.

Downhill Dave's left leg x-ray after surgery. This was a massive tibial plateau fracture and the Kamlopps Surgeon stopped counting at 20 fractures. He said he was considering amputating during surgery and told me I'd likely never walk on it again.

The titanium hardware consists of 12 bolts/ screws and the one big side plate.

After incredibly intense therapy and training, I was actually able to make a pretty full recovery and got back to racing 2 years after this 1998 crash at the National Downhill Mountain Bike Championships at Sun Peaks Ski Resort. 2 years after the injury, I was actually faster on the same race tracks than before the injury.

This injury is the main reason for me building my Downhill Electric Mountain Bike as the pain is constant and terrible and is worse when I press down on the pedals like when climbing.

On an interesting note, one of the racers that came to my aid, Duane Nickull from Norco Factory Racing, ended up redoing his run and broke both his arms in the exact same extreme slope near the top of the course that I crashed at and ended up in hospital with me.

The following year, this section which claimed many riders was ommitted.

Downhill Dave's left leg x-ray after surgery. This was a massive tibial plateau fracture and the Kamlopps Surgeon stopped counting at 20 fractures. He said he was considering amputating during surgery and told me I'd likely never walk on it again.

The titanium hardware consists of 12 bolts/ screws and the one big side plate.

After incredibly intense therapy and training, I was actually able to make a pretty full recovery and got back to racing 2 years after this 1998 crash at the National Downhill Mountain Bike Championships at Sun Peaks Ski Resort. 2 years after the injury, I was actually faster on the same race tracks than before the injury.

This injury is the main reason for me building my Downhill Electric Mountain Bike as the pain is constant and terrible and is worse when I press down on the pedals like when climbing.

On an interesting note, one of the racers that came to my aid, Duane Nickull from Norco Factory Racing, ended up redoing his run and broke both his arms in the exact same extreme slope near the top of the course that I crashed at and ended up in hospital with me.

The following year, this section which claimed many riders was ommitted.

This is the pre-surgery x-ray of Downhill Dave's right shoulder. They should have operated at the hospital at the time of the accident but for some reason did not. 5 months after the accident the bones were still almost 2cm apart and would never fuse so surgery was required.

This crash happened during bike testing of a new all mountain bike from the Czech Republic where I was doing urban freeriding in Downtown Vancouver trying to break the dual suspension frame (to test its limits before I began distributing it). Unfortunately I did not know that the manufacturer had put light duty cross-country tubes in and when I landed about a 6 foot concrete staircase jump to flat the front tiire blew immediately, wrapped around the fork and slammed me into the concrete. OOOPSSS!!!

This is the after-surgery x-ray of Downhill Dave's right shoulder.

The titanium hardware consists of 6 bolts/ screws and the one big plate.

About a year after the surgery, I actually had to have another surgery to remove the titanium as it was binding in my shoulder and causing extreme pain.