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Really sad news, 125, 250, 500 world champ brilliant rider.
55 is way to young.
What the?!? That IS sad, what happened to him? 🙁
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He jumped after a dog the fell from a leisure vessel late in the evening on a lake. Probabely because of the cold water got into trouble and drowned.
Last I heard the were still searching for what will presumably be his body ☹☹.
Just don't go into cold or fast flowing water after a dog, just don't !!!
No way! How incongruous - tough little dude, remember seeing the '87 Hawkstone 250 on Grandstand, he was just a class above everyone else.
For you then pondo. Pulled out in the first heat but had a storming second.
Just don’t go into cold or fast flowing water after a dog, just don’t !!!
Has to be more to it. That lake appears to be a smallish shallow reclaimed gravel pit or some such with nice gentle banks all around. In may it would be chilly but not cold - 14-15 degrees maybe. There will have been thousands of Brits swimming in colder waters today. Must have been booze, heart attack or a bump on the head to complicate things.
A sad demise for a tough rider/driver though. Very sad.
People die of hydrocution in rivers in France in Summer with the water around 20°C. But you can swim in water at 5°C if you take you time getting in. It's the shock of entering water much colder than the air with dilated blood vessels that is fatal, cold blood stops either the brain or the heart.
Se my contribution to the would you try to rescue a dog thread from a few weeks back. No I'd wouldn't try to rescue a dog but if you go about it the right way you can save a human even in codl water.
Bummer. 🙁
Wow, thank you Taxi - the very same! I shall tip a few in his memory tonight, and chuckle at Barry Nuttle being concerned about the hose going over his front numberplate. Adios the MX Kid - one of the greats.