This is the end,beautiful friend

Good luck Hillbilly.One day this will happen to all of us I suppose.And like you we will all be able to look back and remember good times and good friends weve made through Moto.Sounds like your Daughters have a pretty cool old man.

Damn sorry to hear your hurt, HB. I hope you get through the injuries with only scars. Sounds like you have brought your kids up in the real world, ready to handle the hand that is dealt, just like you.

Take the time to let things heal up and reassess how you feel after the Doc says you're clear. It may be hard to believe but trail rides can be pretty damn fun.

Hang in there hillbilly. get well soon.

Best wishes Hillbilly.

I, for one, hope you take some of your free time, while you're laid up, and post here some more. This place is always more interesting when you're around

damn shame. Not the hanging up the boots...that happens sometimes. But, real sorry to hear about you getting jacked like that. Hope you heal up ok.

Sorry to hear that, hope everything goes well with the healing up process.

good luck and best wishes hillbilly. heal up quick.

i just turned fifty and my next injury will be my last.

Sorry to hear about your crash man....that sucks.

Hope you feel better.

After lots of broken bones I've thought about this more than a few times. I've had some really bad crashes and for the most part have been really lucky to never have had real serious injuries. I say that having broken my back, tib/fib, collarbone/ribs/punctured lung, pelvis and various others on different occasions.

To me those have all been minor. I'm always one to jump up and get back on the bike and finish the moto if I can stand. Which brings me to the question in my mind, how bad is it going to have to be for me to actually quit? I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that really.

Hang in there Hillbilly, you're core mx man. You will get the itch to ride again and eventually, that leg will heal up like all our other mx injuries do.

Damn, bad luck. Heal up and reassess later. Like others have said, you can just go out and ride without racing. If you decide to hang it up, you have 3 things to look forward to:
1) Wife
2) Two wonderful little girls
3) your health!

Damn HB, that sucks. Glad it wasn't worse though. It's a disease what we got.. a sickness. You've just been involuntarily entered into rehab. We dance with the devil and sometimes she kicks our ass...

get well. I know the feeling (sort of).
Sold one 4 wheeler and selling my second one right now after 10 years of owning it. I have a wife and 3 little kids that are too important to me. Many "almosts" and several bruises. Just not worth the risk at this point in my life.

Glad it wasn't worse, Get well soon Hillbilly.

This is sad to hear, I hope you feel better soon HB.

I don't know if I've taken my last ride, but I do know the time in between rides, is getting longer.
After feeling the thrill of speed on a dirt bike and being scared to do that anymore, makes riding less appealing.

Damn Billyhill!! Heal up quick, take it easy... Drink some of that shine, that will take the pain away!

Goddamm Dave! Sounds like a helluva week. Call me for any questions you think I can help with....and ignore that message I left on your phone yesterday. No wonder you didn't answer!! ;-)

Seriously, call me if you have any questions they're not answering for you.

MR

First off, sorry about your injury, get well soon.

I'm a 46-year-old father of two myself and just don't know if the risk is worth the reward anymore. I think 88sdad summed up my feelings exactly. I love MX, and I'll always be a fan of the sport, as well as a rider (to some degree), but I'll never enjoy it as much as I did when I was younger. Simply too much at stake now to be breaking myself up.

Good luck with your surgery and getting healed up.

Never say never. :-)

Sounds like you have strong ties to the sport in the way you are helping some of the kids, keep that up.

The toughest part would be your kids taking part. Been there, and also on the other side of the equation since I have a boy and girl racing with me. They were both banged up in the past month, and can't wait to get back on.

Get well soon!

Sorry to hear that HB.... Hope you heal soon and find that next hobby you can enjoy with your family.

I feel ya HB. In 2000 I shattered my ankle and split the Tib up the middle. Being self employed at the time, I was out of work for 9 months. No unemployment or disability really put the hurt on myself and my family. Not to mention that the Dr. who did my 2nd surgery took out bone and botched the surgery. Durning the 3rd surgery, the Dr. said that he might be able to fix it, came out of the operating room to talk to my wife, my wife started to freak out, because she thought he was going to tell her that I died on the table. Origanally the surgery was supposed to last an hour and a half turned into 4 hrs. I had grinded the cartilige into nothing and they ended up fusing my ankle. I could not put my family thru that again. Especially my wife. I have 3 girls myself and cant take the risk. So I just bench race and fish now. Cant get hurt doing that. Trust me I've tried. Heal up brutha.

Really sorry to hear about this Hillbilly, hope you're up and around soon. Good Luck!

It sounds like with your in good hands. Take it easy......heal up.....and see how you feel about riding months from now.

I cant count how many times I have retired and come back.

You are just now entering a different portion of your life. Other things can be just as rewarding as MX. I suspect that there is more to you than this one thing. Sometimes we put so much into it that it takes away from other parts of our lives.

Get better!

I'm with Tracie, time for shine. Best of luck for a quick and full recovery.

Sorry to hear you're hurt again, Dave. Keep enjoying bikes however it comes to you.

Hang in there. when in doubt, swig the shine for the pain.

Sorry to hear that. Get well soon.

Get well soon Hillbilly.
Sounds like you have got two great kids there.

Dang Hillbilly I hate to hear these kind of stories.

All I can say is NEVER SAY NEVER...

Hope the surgery goes good & you feel better soon.

Sorry to hear hillbilly.....

I tore my ACL last month (not nearly as much pain as yours I m afraid)

When I was laying in the mud holding my knee as I heard 40 bikes go by, I thought thats it......no more.

4 broken wrists, 1 ankle, knocked cold more times than I can remember, stitches ect.....

Then I saw the last RacerX renthal add......"its not if you get knocked down.....its wheather you get back up"

Take your time and like Lumpy said, see how you feel about it in a couple months.

Good luck man