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11/5/2020 9:35am
Ohio has a winner, Briarcliff is by far the most dangerous track in the state.
Even on an open practice weekend the MED-FLIGHT chopper appear regularly to take severely injured young men to the hospital, with life changing injuries. Truly could be a great track with a good operator but with the current operator its a death trap.
The AMA held a single event there 2 years ago, a ATV National, the officials said they will never return, they had never seen so many injuries or the such severity of injuries at a single event before, young people who's life was changed.
The only track in OHIO that needs a helicopter pad.
So that's OHIO, what's yours
Even on an open practice weekend the MED-FLIGHT chopper appear regularly to take severely injured young men to the hospital, with life changing injuries. Truly could be a great track with a good operator but with the current operator its a death trap.
The AMA held a single event there 2 years ago, a ATV National, the officials said they will never return, they had never seen so many injuries or the such severity of injuries at a single event before, young people who's life was changed.
The only track in OHIO that needs a helicopter pad.
So that's OHIO, what's yours
For me, EVERY track I ride is the most dangerous.. But it has nothing to do with the track.
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My question is what track causes a disproportionality high level of major injuries, to me that come down to bad design, and/or bad operator. In Ohio we have both, when MED FLIGHT choppers arrive routinely on open practice days there is a problem, not with the riders, but a problem for sure.
About 10 years ago I remember there being a string of deaths and paralysis at tracks in North Texas. I'm not as plugged into the amateur scene today since all the racing I do is Vintage but I know quite a few people who stopped riding motocross all together because of the deaths and injuries. I hate this topic.
The OP Mike has a personal vendetta against the owner.
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Pit Row
A few deaths, a few more paralysed and countless injuries every session.
Bad managment, poor track conditions, blind jumps and stupid step ups which are great for pros.
Nothing like having a pro sail over you're head.
Unfortunatly practice tracks are far and few in the south.
STFU NOOB ! ! !
Last Friday at RV there was a kid that was about 15 or 16 out there on a 150 during the little bike practice session. I guess technically he met the "little bike" rule, but this kid was not riding respectfully around the little kids and was jumping right next to them. He was plenty fast enough for the big bike class. I was hoping to see the track officials remove him from that practice and put him in the big bike practice, but as far as I know that didn't happen. It's not my track or my decision, but it's pretty disheartening and nerve racking to watch.
Village Creek just draws a lot of fast guys and the more speed you have, the higher the propensity for catastrophe. And they also have the SX style night track that has some more advanced obstacles. Between guys being too confident in their abilities, and just common mistakes, it's easy to have a helicopter ride out of there. Village Creek is the track that Josh Demuth got injured at that eventually led to amputation. No fault of the track or Josh's really. His bike locked up over a huge downhill triple from what I recall. The first time I rode the night track, the helicopter landed. Scared the living shit out of me since I was new and that was the first helicopter I saw land.
This is from the owner of Briarcliff.
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