Issue 157 Last Word – Catastrophe!157
After a dozen years of incident-free mountain biking, luck ran out for my wife in October and she found her foot pointing sideways after an innocuous slide-out into a gravel car park. Thanks to the wonders of the French health service, her foot was swiftly returned to the right direction and the additional broken ankle was plated and bolted. Ten weeks later, she did her first off road ride post-accident and, along with some stern…