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Edited Date/Time 1/24/2012 10:16pm
who would you pick?
1. Larocco
2.Hannah
3.Dowd
4. Robert
5. Lackey
6.Johnson
7.Burnett
8.Decoster
9.Henry
10.Lamson
11.Josh Hansen
12.Falta
13.Chandler
14.Carmichael
15. anyone else im not thinking of?


My vote is on hannah as he seems to just grind his way through every race ive watched and you dont mess around with him.
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newmann 4/20/2011 11:07am
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I'm starting to lean towards Jimmy Button. Paralyzed from the neck down and came back to ride a bicycle 2500 miles . Did damn near half of it with a screwed together elbow. Donate here!!

http://www.milesformiraclestoday.com/donate.asp


Finished with a lap of Daytona and a trip to the podium.
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Reed and Stewart should both be on that list. The crashes that both of them have taken and kept racing are pretty bad ass.
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Lusk would be another one.

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gsxrcr28 4/20/2011 11:13am
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IMO the toughest would be Doug Henry.
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As with most of the threads concerning this topic, people will choose the toughest guy from "their era", or the toughest guy from the era they would like to be associated with. And then some guys will pick guys like Henry etc for overcoming horrible injuries, or guys like BRadshaw who were tough and never won, but didn´t give up.

I´m from the MC/Fro era so I have to pick whoever raced with the biggest hangover
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Adam43 4/20/2011 11:15am
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Don't know what your criteria is, but this is another one where its hard to argue against Carmichael.

Won more than anyone ever. Hardly ever missed a race due to injury. Raced with blown out knees. Won nationals while shitting his guts out. Had some of the most violent crashes ever caught on film and would pop back up.
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huck 4/20/2011 11:19am
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gsxrcr28 wrote:
Reed and Stewart should both be on that list. The crashes that both of them have taken and kept racing are pretty bad ass.
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gsxrcr28 4/20/2011 11:20am
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Darrel Schultz is another one that raced with some very bad injuries.
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3D 4/20/2011 11:22am
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Sunhouse wrote:
As with most of the threads concerning this topic, people will choose the toughest guy from "their era", or the toughest guy from the era they...
As with most of the threads concerning this topic, people will choose the toughest guy from "their era", or the toughest guy from the era they would like to be associated with. And then some guys will pick guys like Henry etc for overcoming horrible injuries, or guys like BRadshaw who were tough and never won, but didn´t give up.

I´m from the MC/Fro era so I have to pick whoever raced with the biggest hangover
haha.... You meant food poisoning, right?? Ahh the good old 90's.
panic revver 4/20/2011 11:23am
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They are all bad asses. I would bet no one racing right now that has raced the full season is 100% and few have probably been at 100% in the last year or so.
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peelout 4/20/2011 11:23am
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rmpilot wrote:
who would you pick? 1. Larocco 2.Hannah 3.Dowd 4. Robert 5. Lackey 6.Johnson 7.Burnett 8.Decoster 9.Henry 10.Lamson 11.Josh Hansen 12.Falta 13.Chandler 14.Carmichael 15. anyone else im...
who would you pick?
1. Larocco
2.Hannah
3.Dowd
4. Robert
5. Lackey
6.Johnson
7.Burnett
8.Decoster
9.Henry
10.Lamson
11.Josh Hansen
12.Falta
13.Chandler
14.Carmichael
15. anyone else im not thinking of?


My vote is on hannah as he seems to just grind his way through every race ive watched and you dont mess around with him.
you have Josh Hansen but left off Reed and Stewart?

LOL
panic revver 4/20/2011 11:25am
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Big Lenny. I saw a pic of him riding without goggles once.

I am with peelout. How about Barcia this year?
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jndmx 4/20/2011 11:25am
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Not to take anything away from the guys mentioned here especially Button, he is an animal.

But;
Doug Henry hands down.

Guy crushes his back and has to have a titantium cage put on it, told he may not be able to walk but even if he does he definitely is never going to race again.
Comes back just as good if not better.

Same track destroys both arms so badly he has to have a fan remove his goggles.
Comes back again.

Shows up at Southwick in a pick up with a bike in the back and holeshots against the factories.

Supermoto..crashes out and is told he will never walk again let alone ride.....
Well he is riding bikes and racing sno-cross and had been able to walk with assistance but still works towards walking again on his own.

That my friends is the definition of tough.
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MBBadgers wrote:
Rex Staten period.
Bull shit.
Rex Staten was the only Pro to come to Dunlap (Fresno) and complain about a little water crossing on the track.Even old Dick Mann just raced whatever we laid out.
Yes we had to take the water crossing out for Staten.
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VoR 4/20/2011 11:30am
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peelout wrote:
you have Josh Hansen but left off Reed and Stewart?

LOL
And Wardie, no matter how old he got he still won on 2 wheels
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Giancarlo Fallappa. Look him up on Wikapedia. (what it doesn't say is just how much he smashed himself up before his carrer ending head injuries....). Absolutely fearless.
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rmpilot wrote:
who would you pick? 1. Larocco 2.Hannah 3.Dowd 4. Robert 5. Lackey 6.Johnson 7.Burnett 8.Decoster 9.Henry 10.Lamson 11.Josh Hansen 12.Falta 13.Chandler 14.Carmichael 15. anyone else im...
who would you pick?
1. Larocco
2.Hannah
3.Dowd
4. Robert
5. Lackey
6.Johnson
7.Burnett
8.Decoster
9.Henry
10.Lamson
11.Josh Hansen
12.Falta
13.Chandler
14.Carmichael
15. anyone else im not thinking of?


My vote is on hannah as he seems to just grind his way through every race ive watched and you dont mess around with him.
Yes on all those guy's you picked.

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Bigfoot 4/20/2011 11:34am
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Roger "Who Needs A Spleen?" Decoster....
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Mini Elsinore 4/20/2011 11:39am
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Any such list should properly include Gaylon Mosier. Dude was a machine and not someone to screw with. RIP GM.
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Sunhouse wrote:
As with most of the threads concerning this topic, people will choose the toughest guy from "their era", or the toughest guy from the era they...
As with most of the threads concerning this topic, people will choose the toughest guy from "their era", or the toughest guy from the era they would like to be associated with. And then some guys will pick guys like Henry etc for overcoming horrible injuries, or guys like BRadshaw who were tough and never won, but didn´t give up.

I´m from the MC/Fro era so I have to pick whoever raced with the biggest hangover
3D wrote:
haha.... You meant food poisoning, right?? Ahh the good old 90's.
I`ve seen Jimmy Wienert race with the worst case of "Food Poisoning" in the world. Looked like walking death until he got on the bike. Then proceeded to wax the field. Definitely one of a kind when it came to toughness.
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rmpilot 4/20/2011 11:43am
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rmpilot wrote:
who would you pick? 1. Larocco 2.Hannah 3.Dowd 4. Robert 5. Lackey 6.Johnson 7.Burnett 8.Decoster 9.Henry 10.Lamson 11.Josh Hansen 12.Falta 13.Chandler 14.Carmichael 15. anyone else im...
who would you pick?
1. Larocco
2.Hannah
3.Dowd
4. Robert
5. Lackey
6.Johnson
7.Burnett
8.Decoster
9.Henry
10.Lamson
11.Josh Hansen
12.Falta
13.Chandler
14.Carmichael
15. anyone else im not thinking of?


My vote is on hannah as he seems to just grind his way through every race ive watched and you dont mess around with him.
peelout wrote:
you have Josh Hansen but left off Reed and Stewart?

LOL
i threw in hansen to see if anybody would notice
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rmpilot 4/20/2011 11:45am
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Adam43 wrote:
Don't know what your criteria is, but this is another one where its hard to argue against Carmichael. Won more than anyone ever. Hardly ever missed...
Don't know what your criteria is, but this is another one where its hard to argue against Carmichael.

Won more than anyone ever. Hardly ever missed a race due to injury. Raced with blown out knees. Won nationals while shitting his guts out. Had some of the most violent crashes ever caught on film and would pop back up.
i was thinking the guys that grind it out the most with some coming back from injuries thrown in there. and i cant believe i forgot about hughes and the broken leg.
660Dunlop 4/20/2011 11:46am
4/20/2011 11:46am Edited Date/Time 4/20/2011 11:47am
Any GP Rider from the 40 minute plus two lap moto era..
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oldx 4/20/2011 12:03pm
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660Dunlop wrote:
Any GP Rider from the 40 minute plus two lap moto era..
Yep, remember a couple tough Russians in that group too.

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