And we are back!
Feel like i should update a bit on what the hell is going on…
I think everyone know that i didn´t ride the finals in Leogang and that it was because Niklas decided he wanted a 2 week vacation at the hospital in Zell am Zee during the qualifications.
For sure this has been one of the more sketchy experiences i had seeing the helikopter airlift him out, not knowing for a long time what was going on at all and being told it was serious.
It turned out good. He punctured his spline but was so so lucky that they didn´t have to remove it. He lost a lot of blood and had to stay in the hospital 12 days laying straight down on his back not moving, eating or doing anything at all (shover, piss or shit included...)
First 48hours were worst since the doctors wouldn´t know anything for sure untill after a few days and he could still have to operate. Worst thing was to be honest having to tell him how long he would have to be there and how long it will take before he can ride a bike again.
It´s going to be 6 weeks of doing nothing at all & then another 3 months before he can start to ride again. Sad times...
Mom & dad came there on friday until that i had been sleeping in the car outside the hospital so i wasn´t in my best shape to be honest.
I knew the IXS-cup was going down that weekend in Leogang and since my parents were there i decided to do the race.
Felt real good in practice and it was good to ride my bike and not think about anything else for a bit but i was tired and a full run was hard for some reason.
Went of in qualifying and still finnished 11th & got motivated to pinn it on sunday. It wasn´t ment to be going well that weekend either. Slid out on one corner in the first woods and crashed. First i was thinking to just stop and not bother to ride down but i did and had another crash pinning it to hard in the last woods.
Dont know what i finnished really.
Me & dad drove the van home on tuesday and Niklas was sent home by plane on thursday. He was pretty stoked when he got to have a shower and a shawe i think...
Then i rode the swedish cup last weekend trying to get back to focus on riding. Had pretty fun riding with cousin Herman during practice. Made a big misstake in my final run and he ended up beating me by 2tenths of a second so i had to settle for 2nd place.
Sunday i spent riding moto with mr.Källström and then i went straight up to Åre for the Bike-festival and the Scandinavian photochallenge.
It´s been a flat out week!
I was in team Canaska shooting with Dan Barham from Bike and riders wereme, Linus Sjöholm, John Alm Högman & Mike Hopkins.
First 3 days we shot photos all day long and tried to ride anytime we could inbetween that.
It was so great to hang out with the guys and just ride people have no idea!
We didn´t at all excpect to win the actual comp but we ended up taking down mr.Fredriksson himself and i think it was a bit because we just had fun and Dan shot us doing what we would have done anyway.
There was 2 small dh-races during the week. One chainless race in the bikepark-trail flinbanan and one on the classic Nelson/Tjärnis singletrack wich was pretty sick since i won it by 4 seconds.
The chainless race was also pretty fun but i haven´t realy rode the new version of that trail so i didn´t have it very dialled. Got 2nd place behind Alex Kangas so that was still allright.
Been riding everyday 10-5 so i have had A LOT of time on the bike. Did some timed runs and a bit of propper training aswell but the weekend wasn´t that good for training with all the partying that went down.
I´m back home for the week now and then riding the swedish cup this weekend & then of to Champery.
Now i´m of for a roadride.
New video will be up later this week but heres a small clip of rydbergs
//R
