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5/23/2016 1:26pm
5/23/2016 1:26pm
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5/24/2016 12:05pm
"""RJ Hampshire had a good first moto, placing fifth, but suffered a nasty endo in the second moto and got trapped under his bike. It ended his day."""
This is what I see happening a lot these days and for the life of me I just can't remember this type of stuff happening back a few decades ago..... Can anyone really imagine a Broc Glover or Bob Hannah becoming "trapped underneath" his bike and then having to PULL OUT of the moto ?
or am I not remembering well?
This is what I see happening a lot these days and for the life of me I just can't remember this type of stuff happening back a few decades ago..... Can anyone really imagine a Broc Glover or Bob Hannah becoming "trapped underneath" his bike and then having to PULL OUT of the moto ?
or am I not remembering well?
There's always more to the story.
Took a little time to get his arm out and it was a little jacked up.
I don't blame him.
The Shop
But still, it does appear lots of riders these days just brake off a clutch lever or whatever and then just pull out whereas that sort of stuff just did not happen in the 70's, The riders literally just jumped back up after a crash and hopped on the bike and took off as fast as they could, whereas nowadays most just casually get up and then sit and SLOWLY click the bike back into neutral and start the kicking ritual for about two minutes.
Some however do jump back into action fast, lets see who for example... Dungey, Tomac, Roczen, to name a few, but there are lots on down the list who just surprise me at their lack of interest in trying to finish out a moto as high as they can....
Any comments from guys who actually witnessed the 70's ?
95% of the other riders would not have been back out on the track
most of the bikes seldom made 2 complete motos and plenty of people had to retire after a crash.
There was some gnarly tough guy's then and there are some now.
Pit Row
"The 2015 Arlington Supercross marked the beginning of RJ Hampshire’s professional supercross career, and the GEICO/Honda rider got a warm welcome in practice from the fresh red clay inside of Texas’ AT&T Stadium, with a big crash. Even with this gnarly intro to Monster Energy Supercross, RJ qualified for the show with the 11th fastest lap-time, qualified for the main with a 5th in his heat race and went on to finish 7th in his first-ever main event.
Not a bad debut for a healthy rookie, but today @RJHampshire posted that RJ went to the hospital and found out he was racing with broken ribs, a bruised lung with some small punctures and some internal bleeding. He is still hanging out in the hospital for a little while longer while they wait for the blood in his abdomen to dry up, so he can race the next weekend."
https://youtu.be/YEATaeEHBzw
But, since you mentioned the speed of things, I always liked this pic of Glover.
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