"Turner Brothers" Debut !!
in Fujimi Panorama Mountainbike Downhill Course
--- Chelsea was in Danger!! - Bloody Sunday Version ---
(May.23, 2004)

Chelsea and I bought the same Turner XCE.
I did not like to get the same bike with the same polish silver color because it it like fag...
Anyway... Chrlsea just got his new Turner redy to ride and he wanted to test his new bike in mountain!!

We chose Fujimi Panorama MTB Downhill park in Nagano for "Turner borthers" debut course.
Because we thought we can enjoy all the advantages of Turner full suspension bike!!

Wheather forecast for the day was sunny and rain later in the evenig....
BUT.....it was raining form early morning...
The sky was covered with thick dark crowd and mountain was covered with thick fog..
I felt something evil...I was afraid if any bad thing would happen.....

It was Chelsea's first ride of his new Turner XCE,
So, we rode picnic trail for warming up.
Chelsea was in good condition!! and he was satisfied with his new Turner!!

We had a late breakfast at the cafe near the trail and headed to the downhill course...
Rain became harder..... and the trail soaked much water and got slippery and muddy...
Oh no.....

We started with the easiest trail (C-course) first.
It was nice and smooth long single track downhill course.
It was little slippery and I couldn't see anything becasue of rain and mud....
We enjoyed C-course and we decided to try A-course which is the hardest course....

Rain got harder and harder....and trail got more and more muddy and slippery...
Chelsea supposed to go first because he was in good conditioin and ready to fly...
BUT I don't know why...I went first and Chelsea come after me...
A-course was very technical. narrow steep slopes with some drop offs...
I managed to clear some of difficult poits and decided to wait for Chelsea....
He supposed to come right after me....but....he was not there...
I was waited more than 20minutes....and many others riders passed by me....
I thought Chelsea was in trouble and I asked one of the rider who came after me
if he see anyone crashed very bad....the answer was "no"...
Other possibility was Chelsea just chickend out and chose the easiser course...

After few minutes...Chelsea came down with pale face.....
and he said..."I don't remember anything......""I don' remember how I got here?"
My evil feeling was correct...
Chelsea crashed very hard and seems like he hit his head and got a brain concussion!!
He keep asking me the same questions over and over again...more than 10 times in 5minutes...
"Am I bleeding? Is it bleeding very bad? What day is today? How I got here?"
Oh no....

After we rested for 15-20minutes, we rode down to the rescue room..
(Surprizingly he could ride normally .....)
The rescue team said he better to take CT scan his head and make sure everything is okay...
I knew his brain not okay even before the crash....but his memory was still unstable at the time...
I took him to the hospital and took some CT scan....
Result was...physically okay.....

Here is some lessons from today:
Lesson1: Never over estimatre your ability....
Lesson2: Get yourself insured when you goto Fujimi Panorama MTB Downhill Course..
Lesson3: GET Disc brake when you ride in rain!!

Next day...Chelsea felt severe pain in his fingers and went to the hospiatl near his house
and found his ring finger was broken....
We got more member added in our "Disable List"....

Chelsea was so happy with his new Turner XCR!!

The Turner Brothers!!
(Chelsea, Phreddie)

Celsea was satisfied with his new Turner!!

Phreddie also love his Turner!!

Nice warming up ride in picnic trail!!

Off the ground!?

Official "The Turner Bors" Car!!

Having break fast at a cafe near the trail!!

Having sweets???
Chelsea still don't know what will happen to him later...

FujimiPanorama MTB Downhill Course

In a gondora....I am still clean!!

C-course was fun!!
(Chelsea)

Oooops!! Very Slippery!!
(Phreddie)

Oh No!! Our lovely Turner is all muddy now....

Oh look at you!! So dirty...
Are you ready to crash??

Also very dirty.....
This is after one ride only...

Invader from space!?
I cannot see anything......
So wet and dirty...

Waiting for Chelsea.....
What happened??

"Memento" Chelsea just lost his memory and cannot get them back...
May be his new nick name would be "Memento"!!

Memento's Scarface!!
but he didn't remember how he did it...

Memento is going to see a doctor....
but he didn' t remember why he was seeing doctor...

CT scan of Memento's brain....
Physically okay...but...

Memento's brain smiles sometime....

but gets angry sometime...

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