Everything was falling

Today on the ride to the gate practice the snow was falling and I knew that would keep a lot of the riders home. I pulled in a Joe was there and then Ray, Kenny, Josh, Matt, Fast Girl, Little Fast Girl showed up. It was a smaller crowd tonight and that was nice. The thing that has changed in the last couple of weeks was there was a group of free style bmx riders coming for gate practice. They are great bike handlers but they just like to jump every thing and into each other. Well I was dropping the gates and then I was watching turn 1 and this guy looses it over the last roller of the triple and hits the ground. I wait he limps off to the side and sits down on the cot and just moans. I begin to drop the gates again to keep the rest of the troops happy. Words comes back he broke his ankle and he gets a ride in the ambulance to the hospital. As he leaves his friends are riding again and one of them goes down and dislocates his elbow. He asks Kenny and Matt to put it back into place, they try and then a few take him to meet his friend. The rest stay and now I'm in the gate with a few and we are in turn one all lined up and I see that these 2 are in trouble I back off and right after the step up out of turn 1 they hit the deck hard. I just miss them and go off the side and land in the 2nd straight right at the bottom of the table and fly over that and manage not to crash some how. The guys that went down just face planted and one of them pushed his teeth through his lips and I think loosened up a few in the process. Word to anyone riding a bmx bike is to get a full face helmet as this guy is going to have one messed up smile, it was ugly as the few friends not hurt yet loaded him up to visit his other 2 friends. Then right at the end another one of the faster regulars went down and dislocated his shoulder. Matt and Kenny looked to try to put it back in but Matt said it was swollen up already and went to visit the other 3. It was a rough night as Kenny did go down and got a good strawberry on his knee just warming up. Chris decided to fall off his bike in turn 2 also and twist his elbow a little. Other then those and a few of the little kids falling over the rest of us managed to keep our bikes upright.

I'm watching the weather and I'm going to play it by ear as I don't want them to freeze and fall off on the ride Saturday. If it is real cold I will bail as I don't want to be sick for my day off on Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King day. Right now the weather is saying a wind chill of -35 right now. So it is a maybe ride right now. Later..