Meyer will get back on bike: manager
Travis Meyer's management is hopeful the WA cyclist will be back on the bike towards the end of the European season after being hit by a car while training in Spain on the weekend.
The 24-year-old Drapac rider was taken to a Barcelona hospital on Sunday and had surgery yesterday on his badly broken jaw.
Though Meyer's injuries are not as bad as first feared, his manager Wayne Evans said it would still be at least six weeks until he was able to get back on a bike.
"He's got some trauma, he's got a broken arm, a broken jaw top and bottom, so he's sustained some pretty severe facial damage, but it could be a lot worse," Evans said.
"He's conscious, he's always been conscious, and there's no brain damage."
Meyer had been preparing to ride for Drapac in the Tour of Turkey later this month, his first European ride of the year after competing in the Tour Down Under in South Australia and the Tour of Perth.
Evans said time would tell whether Meyer could return in 2014.
"He's going to be out of action for at least six weeks because of his jaw and he's going to severely drop weight because he can't eat," Evans said.
"He may be able to get something out at the end of the season, but it just depends on complications, whether he can get back on top of it or whether they linger because of the downtime."
Meyer's older brother and Orica-GreenEDGE rider Cameron flew to his brother's bedside on Sunday from a training camp in Tenerife.
Their mother, Frances, is expected to join them today.
Spanish police are believed to be investigating the incident, although early reports suggest the driver of the car helped at the scene before Meyer was taken to hospital and is co-operating fully.
Meyer has suffered horrendous luck since having surgery to correct a narrowed artery in 2011, which was stopping the blood flow to his left leg.
He took nearly two years to recover, only to be cut from Orica-GreenEDGE at the end of his contract last season.
Meyer was one of Australia's most successful junior track riders, winning five world titles, before switching to the road and claiming the national road race crown in 2010.
