Man down :-(

All the best Simon. Hope you make a full recovery and are up on you feet before too long.

Best wishes to Simon. Hoping for a speedy recovery

Speedy recovery Simon

All the best, hope everything goes in your favour and you’re back out and about soon.

Also well done to the folk that administered CPR.

I’ve been a long time lurker of the Bogtrotters pictures , get well soon and keep them coming.

I joined STW about 5 years ago and in reply to my very first post somebody asked me if i was Simon F Barnes….I couldn’t lie, I am not!

Good luck fella on your speedy full recovery, have enjoyed your style of photos over the years, looking forward to the next set 😉

F-in-L had CPR performed on him no more than a couple of months ago….found it hard to keep up with him a fortnight ago on a good speed ride! Thumbs up to the folk who can perform CPR

Good luck fella.
Excellent work by the boggies.

Latest from his son on FB is that he’s beginning to come round out of his anaesthetic and has been moved to a general ward rather than ICU which sounds like good news.

Heal quick fella

Certainly a lot better than “critical”, crazy-legs.

I suspect SFB will be thoroughly baffled by the outpouring of adulation when he discovers this thread!

glad to hear that the signs are promising! 🙂

I can’t help thinking that 7 pages into an SFB thread with no arguing is some sort of record.

Glad he’s improving.

I can’t help thinking that 7 pages into an SFB thread with no arguing is some sort of record.

I’ve seen more

That’s great news Crazy-legs!.
Hopefully someone’s taken his camera in for all those Nurse’s bottoms.

indeed, great to hear some positive news 😀

I hope in the circumstances the mods will forgive me for making a post just in order to add a tag (inspired by comments above)

Good news (expects pics of nurses bums in the very near future)

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Get well soon Simon, hope to randomly encounter you out on the trails sometime soon.

Would somebody please post a bit of foul invective as I fear that if Simon reads all this outpouring of affection it might give him a …

Oh, hang on, he’s just had one of those.

glad to hear that the signs are promising!

+1

🙂

Vinny Jones shows how to do CPR

Everyone can do CPR…watch this. It’s quite funny and very informative 😀

Don’t know you sfb, but like your interactions on here. Get back soon.

Thoughts with all f&f

Glad to hear there’s improvement, healing vibes being sent!

Shocked, but glad to hear he’s on the mend.

How long before we hear of a patient banned from Blackpool Victoria Hospital for arguing with everyone…. 😀

Get well soon.

Just read this hope the recovery continues apace.

Really relieved to hear the latest about Simon. I was just in front of him when it occurred.

I called for the ambulance and a guy who had come along for the day arrived on the scene. I was in the process of giving a location to the 999 operator when this guy started administering CPR. He worked for the fire service in Bolton. I think he was called James. He and Jo (lady cyclist) combined brilliantly to keep Simon going for 20 minutes until the first responders arrived with a defibrillator. 10 mins later the ambulance and paramedics arrived. I’ve only ridden with the group twice but in this short time it’s clear that Simon is a great MTB man and enthusiastic group leader.
My thoughts are very much with him and his family and I wish him a speedy recovery. I just want you all to know that James & Jo deserve massive credit for their actions.

has been moved to a general ward

Enjoy your bed wash

Get well.

Good job nickdavis2013, I hope your OK to, not a nice situation to be in.

Good work it’s good CPR that makes the difference.

All the best SFB and co.

Hats (helmets) off to CPR’ers 30 mins is tough work and must have been good quality work for him to make the Hospital!

Splendid work James and Jo. Glad to hear SFB is out of the critical ward. Fingers crossed for a full and speedy recovery.

Glad things are looking up.
This thread needs a good barney about riding on footpaths.

Oh no it doesn’t ………

Hats off to the CPR’s really good going and you should be very proud of yourselves.

Any new news at all?

By the sounds of it, they saved his life. Can’t get more awesome than that!

Posted by his son James yesterday on FB
Dad was awake for several hours ( on and off). He’s confused but was able to recognise me and smiled when I told him his bike was fine. Still on ventilator but that may change tomorrow. I told him how everyone is rooting for him, he seemed to understand. He’s been sedated again so he can sleep as lung infection is making breathing difficult and he was quite distressed, but otherwise positive.

Rich

Wow shocking news. Like many on here I have not met him but I’ve admired his photographs a lot and enjoyed his contributions. Hope you’re back on you bike soon Simon.

Can any medics comment on the nature of a heart attack in someone who is a regular cyclist and therefore likely to be pretty fit? I think it would be a useful discussion here and help raise awareness of potential heart conditions that fitness won’t prevent but could help reduce the impact of.

I remember as a youth riding the road, that the fittest and fastest vet in the club suffered a heart attack while on a Sunday club run in the hills and the doctors said it was because he was only because he was so fit that he survived.

Thanks for the great news Rich.

Maybe time for a separate thread to discuss our general heart worries further? Or perhaps something Singletrack and Dr Jon could cover in an article (together with CPR advice)?