Lucky escape – Rachel Atherton Vid

That’s got to have hurt!

Yes, lucky escape

No helmet
Listening to an iPod
Cycling with her head down
Drifting onto the wrong side of the road

All the ingredients for a Darwin Award

She likes AC/DC….

BOBFOC though

very talented downhill cyclist as well

oh and i should say very nice person by all accounts

“narrowly escapes injury”. No she didnt, she WAS injured, more like “narrowly escaped death”

You’d think her sponsors would make her wear a frickin’ helmet

Very lucky girl, get well soon etc

Before you say so, no I cant read

Err it says narrowly escaped serious injury on the footnote. 😉

Oh and get well soon!

I don’t quite understand why she appears to be wearing a skin suit?

silly move, she should know better

No helmet

If she had been wearing a helmet, it would be getting used as an example of a helmet “saving” someone’s life.

what i like is how when i first met her some years ago, she (and her brothers) had a broad shropshire accent

shropshire accents aren’t like gnarly dude

‘windshield’ WTF?????

“Dude, it was gnarly”.

🙂

Its all a bit Joss Stone, no? (rising inflection at end of sentence)

thats what the kids do innit?

she says “like” alot,,, like 😕

i can’t talk to be fair

we were all like ‘WOH SICK DUDE THAT WAS RAD’ in canada last year, mostly not ironically

Whoa there fella, TALKING IN CAPITALS!

It was gnarly… (that sounded a bit awkward)
like…like….like…..

God, how annoying!

Still, glad she’s ok.

I reckon it was a publicity stunt
media whores

You have to ask whether her mental faculties have been affected by previous blows to the head

I like the way it describes her as ‘shropshire’s downhill mountain bike champion’ – as though she is the champion of shropshire 😛

Strange,they don’t even live in Shropshire or England for that matter…but hey it’s only a minor detail,different country and all !

I think more people should go on the news in their bras!

women NOT people!!

I agree with thomthumb!
BUT she should have been looking where she was going!Helmet is up to the individual.
When I had a similar crash as a young’un on me chopper- riding away from the corner shop with curly-wurly in mit- I wish had said “gnarley dude”, instead of crying and running home to me mam!

Are women not people?

I can’t believe how bloody stupid she was!

Hope she gets better soon though.

Forget her – look at the Cervelo…..
Boo hoo hoo, throw a blanket over it or something.