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Message started by reever on Mar 5^th, 2017, 12:10pm

Title: Olympus Has Fallen
Post by reever on Mar 5^th, 2017, 12:10pm

Many of you know this already, but one of our giants in the recumbent world--Dan Hansen--fell and broke his hip on the very first day of his trip across America. Please pray for his speedy recovery! I'm sure all of us are sharing in his pain.

Title: Re: Olympus Has Fallen
Post by diannalightning on Mar 5^th, 2017, 2:04pm

Wow, thanks for the info, Reever. Do you know what he was riding? I'm so sorry to hear of his accident---broken hips are no fun. Thought and prayers out to him.

Title: Re: Olympus Has Fallen
Post by square_corners on Mar 5^th, 2017, 4:17pm

Dan Hansen was 6 miles into the first day, hit a pothole, and went down. I don't know the make, but he was on a 2-wheel recumbent. I only saw photos of it on Facebook. How very disappointing for him! His surgery was yesterday - titanium rod inserted and the pieces of bone enclosed around the titanium rod - all will fuse back together. According to his wife, the surgery went well. That's all I know, courtesy of Facebook posts I've seen.

Title: Re: Olympus Has Fallen
Post by aikigreg on Mar 5^th, 2017, 6:22pm

He was riding his lightning carbon.

Title: Re: Olympus Has Fallen
Post by MrWizard on Mar 6^th, 2017, 8:44am

R84

aikigreg wrote:

He was riding his lightning carbon.

Title: Re: Olympus Has Fallen
Post by FlyingLaZBoy on Mar 6^th, 2017, 9:15am

The Bradfords told me yesterday that it was a spiral femur fracture, instead of a hip. Sounds like he caught an ankle, etc., when he went down due to the pothole.

PB