What you missed on the Bacon Tour
That’s Mike Barnes with a dislocated foot he injured at Bacon’s southern Oregon trip this weekend. Photo by Daniel Evans.
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- Kilwag: Yeah got a post in the can on that one. Seems to predate this stuff....
- Lou: Actually I just looked it up, there other truck swapping thing is called "Qwik Truks". Spelling things differently makes them 36.4% cooler, guaranteed!...
- Lou: Looks like a fake "Quik Trucks" mechanism. The Quik Trucks are to fit any truck though, and they seem to be much lower than the Switch Board thingy....
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Dislocated ankle, not foot. Randy, that’s the injury I got on the U of I quad ding an acid drop in winter 85.Remember? My foot was turned in 90 degrees. I snapped mine back into place myself and hobbled to the emergency room. I was laid up for months. It’s worse than a break because you tear all of the ligaments and tendons in your ankle and they take forever to heal, and often it never heals 100%.
Dislocated shoe….
So true,Neil;that last thing you say,about the ligaments.
Ouch! Tendons are the worse thing ever to wreck. Ask my knee… Heal well Mike!!
Oh man, that looks painful! Wishing you a QUALITY recovery Darkness!
Damn, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. (About whom I’ve even heard a good-skating lesboeen say “That’s my guy!”.) I’m a little surprised it happened to such a rubberman, though… but I guess he’s got more rubber in his style than in his tendons… but, hopefully enough.
that photo makes me want to barf.
Seriously, dislocated seems like the understatement of the year. Jesus, it looks brutally cartoonish, like an “acme” steamroller driven by some random squarejaw just ran over it. Or it was crumpled in giant gears.
Is that Tacate Seedy is drinking?
i did same thing different leg in , 7 screws and a plate to hold the fibula together. it took a good year for the chronic pain to stop
The doc at the hospital popped his foot back in place, put him in a cast, and released him back to us. He continued on the trip. Never complained.
Skater’s pay in pain, Mike Barnes dues paided in full. Somebody give that guy a case of beer, that has to really hurt.
hope you get better soon
I hope u recover fast Mike come back stronger I feel your pain and never forget skating. Rest up.