Month: April 2008

Thanks to KK, there is an update on Tim Jackson. According to her blog post:

He hit the boards at about 30 mph trying to avoid another rider. He was on a brand new bike, 24 laps into a 25 lap race… He sustained a concussion, a broken rib and nearly severed his right thumb clean off. At the moment he has a blood clot behind his left eye and three cracked vertebrae in his neck – hence the neck brace – which they say he’ll have to live with for the next six weeks. We are waiting for the results of a cat scan to determine the condition of his right knee…

Unbelievable as it sounds they expect to have him standing upright, at least a little bit, later this evening.

Get well soon, my friend!

Donna Tocci from Kryptonite just wrote an email to tell me that our friend and fellow Spokesmen, Tim Jackson (aka Masiguy), was injured pretty seriously at the velodrome last night according to an account on the Blue Squirrel blog today. Here’s what he had to say:

unfortunately i have some bad news to report concerning one of our star riders, tim, aka masiguy, action jackson, maggie. apparently a total nob slowed down in front of him at the SD velodrome last night and tim tried to go high and ended up hitting the boards at 30mph +. he sustained a concussion [he was out for 5 minutes], broken ribs, a few fractured neck bones and a mangled thumb that will have surgery done on it today. please keep tim in your prays and i will update his legions of fans here as soon as i know more.

I’ll be keeping tabs on this too and will keep you updated. In the meantime, I hope you’ll all send your thoughts and prayers out to Tim. I am.