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4/13/2017 5:53am
I was probably 7 when I grabbed too much throttle on one of the smallest jumps on the track- needless to say, that didn't end well. I endowed and had the bike fly maybe 10 feet in front of me. Didn't even break a single part of the bike, but blew a piston lol
Vital, let's hear the stories!
Vital, let's hear the stories!
I had many that i grabbed the bike and continued wondering how i wasn't dead.
Here's a kinda funny one,
Muddy creek fall of 89,i know because of the bike was on.
My cagiva quit on the gate,coil mount had broken loose. My friend and his dad has just bought a Suzuki shop and he had his brand new rmx 250,the enduro thing,so I hop on it and take off. We were running the track backwards for the first time so even though the bike was slow and under sprung the guys couldn't select lines and i get 2nd.
Next moto on the opening lap I'm passing guys around the outside pinned,come to the downhill that is now the bomber jump and pin it 5th off there. There was a wet weather spring so the bottom was deepruts. The damn quads had run before us and tamped it smooth hiding the ruts.
The bike digs in and I cartwheel a long ways. I wake up to litz talking to me,get up staggering around looking for my bike. They hand me a suzuki and I tell them that ain't it. He says yeah,you're riding this today watch that throttle it messed up.
I get fired and start the normal way and he yells ,no,we are running it backwards. I figure I'm to messed up and head to the truck. My friend is all materialistic and they pour over their new bike totally fubar.
Im hurtin and get loaded but can't get out so I lay down a minute in my van. Next thing i know everyone is gone and I can't see out my left eye hardly my right and my collarbone appears broken now that I've come off the adrenaline.
I drive home wobbling and get pulled over. The cop thinks I'm drunk so i got to open my trailer. But i cant remember the combination to the lock. Finally get it open and he lets me go.
Bad bad concussion and separated shoulder. Called my buddy and cussed him out for letting me sleep because he was mad about the fubar bike.
And there was that time I snapped both my ankles on a SX triple....
FYI: This is me without a broken face
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A poor start on the 250 had me about eigth when we got a few corners in to an area where they had a split in the track allowing 2 totally different lines. Everyone was bottlenecking to squeeze through the short line so I pinned it and went around it all. Next corner where the lines came back together I had passed quite a few people but their line was carrying a lot more speed at this point and I got drilled. If that wasn't bad enough, the resulting highside and tumble was even worse. Ambulance ride out of the pasture was rougher.
X-rays showed my rt. foot had a broken big toe, got it taped up. Rt knee was fugged with a torn ACL and other misc. rt clavicle was snapped in two and all my right ribs were severely bruised but none broke. ER doc told me they would hurt a lot more than if they were broke and for the next six or so weeks, I truly believed him. Unable to use crutches with my rt. arm in a sling and a brace on my right leg we headed back to our condo we were staying at. Up 4 flights of stairs with no elevator....aaaarrrggghh. ACL replacement and had to get the shoulder screwed back together twice. Pretty brutal recovery getting that leg to move and flex again.
Exactly one year later I snagged my left foot in a rut, twisted my ankle and broke my leg.
They gave me morphine though for the hip.
No, it didn't help (much)
I did that and I crashed... landing a jump, worst year of my life and am still paying...
and after that, 3 months later had same bones broken(by a skilled orthopedic) and repaired properly...
My worst was probably a broken tibia I got from casing a double on my own practice track. That was stupid too, but at least I didn't crash.
Worst as far as the actual crash would be at raceway park new jersey in 2006. Anyone that's ever been there knows there's a little drop off out of the first turn. I'm running 3rd out of the first turn and the guy in second clips my front end and I get hit from behind right before the drop off. Over 20 guys crashed. I have yet to meet or talk to anyone else that was involved. My bike was destroyed. Smashed silencer, brake lines cut completely, engine case cracked, bars destroyed, broken sub frame, and broken clutch lever. Most of the plastic had to be replaced. I think they hauled 3 or 4 guys out in an ambulance. Races had to be put on hold because all the ambulances left. I just ended up with a broken collarbone. First question I asked my dad was "did you get it on tape?" And he did. I'll dig it up here
But in 93 I broke my right femur (broke left one in 91) two places compound fracture, 5 ribs, punctured lung, both bones in arm, wrist, ac separation, two teeth, KO'd 2 minutes all in one crash due to a "false neutral" over a triple I had jumped over a hundred times!
Pit Row
From when I first started racing at 10 to age 18, I broke my collar bone twice, dislocated my shoulder and snapped my humerus at the same time, then broke my wrist. Then broke my femur the next year. Then broke my wrist again. Then I said fuck dirt bikes and went to college and for a real job.
Then 5 years later after having the fever and buying all new shut too look cool, I hop back on it and try to huck a decently huge triple at the end of the day because I was feeling confident. Come up short and break my wrist again. come onto vital and talk shit for the rest of my life.
Their first class probably shows motocross fails video.
Worst injury would be a torn kidney from landing on a tyre bundle lining the track.
Worst recovery was broken hand and damaged ligaments in my arm from being run over in a first turn crash
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