vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Today was a one of the rare occasions when I ride my mountain bike and I met up with some colleagues in some woods that offered plenty of jumps for the fearless and moderate trails for more timid souls like me. A couple of teenagers tagged onto our group and a young Romanian proved to be almost fearless when taking on my colleague at some of the jumps until it all went horribly wrong....
A straightforward jump followed by a berm proved to be the undoing of the young un and a horrible sound of a high speed tumble followed by a wail had us all scurrying over to the source of the noise. He was lying in a heap with blood all over his face and his immediate concern was whether his good looks had been ruined followed by an appeal to find his missing tooth. We gave hime a quick health check before allowing him to stand up and the gap left by a missing incisor was not a pretty sight.
A scramble around the leaf mold and dead leaves unearthed his tooth while he rang his parents and tried to arrange to be picked up. We washed his tooth off and took him to his parents via a garage to get some milk to put his tooth in having decided it was easier for us to find them than for them to find us in the backwoods of Adel. Having reunited him with his parents I then guided them to the emergency dentist and I've just heard from his father that there is a very good chance that our prompt actions have save the tooth.
Turns out the boy is a Transylvanian - I thought they needed their teeth and preferred to imbibe blood rather than donate both in the pursuit of a perfect jump.
Still it made an interesting afternoon more action packed than was planned for.
A straightforward jump followed by a berm proved to be the undoing of the young un and a horrible sound of a high speed tumble followed by a wail had us all scurrying over to the source of the noise. He was lying in a heap with blood all over his face and his immediate concern was whether his good looks had been ruined followed by an appeal to find his missing tooth. We gave hime a quick health check before allowing him to stand up and the gap left by a missing incisor was not a pretty sight.
A scramble around the leaf mold and dead leaves unearthed his tooth while he rang his parents and tried to arrange to be picked up. We washed his tooth off and took him to his parents via a garage to get some milk to put his tooth in having decided it was easier for us to find them than for them to find us in the backwoods of Adel. Having reunited him with his parents I then guided them to the emergency dentist and I've just heard from his father that there is a very good chance that our prompt actions have save the tooth.
Turns out the boy is a Transylvanian - I thought they needed their teeth and preferred to imbibe blood rather than donate both in the pursuit of a perfect jump.
Still it made an interesting afternoon more action packed than was planned for.