You're on the track and your throttle sticks WFO just before a jump (what do you do?)

I didnt have time to react. I was on the ground with the bike 15 yards down the track still pinned before I even knew anythinghad happened.

I remember thinking, "man that bike is going to blow up...my arm hurts. Oh shit, MY bike is going to blow up!!!" Then running over and shutting it off. 

Killed it with the brake in the air?

I mean I currently hold a Canadian pro license, and couldn’t even do 1 lap with a dirt bike pinned wide open. Do you know how unbelievable it is to modulate the speed for jumps using your clutch? Especially for 20+2 like claimed?

Tumic did an entire 20+2 moto like that. Impressive right?

😂 pretty hard to believe that one

Yeah I'm also on the that's bullshit train. No further explanation needed.

Same bike, same throttle stick in 88, 2nd ride on new bike. bike sailed down the track and I limped over to shut it off. Small piece of sand in the slide. Cleaned it and it was fine but was freaked out for a while before I could jump confidently again. Never had that happen on my 10 previous CRs but WTH. 

I’ve heard from a few docs, that if the EMT’s hadn’t got me to the right hospital, I would be missing a lower leg right now.  I owe all the medical staff that took care of me so much.  

And i am an ex pro mx and enduro rider, have ridden world and european enduro championship races and have a second place in the swedish enduro championship series. 
 

There are plenty of things riders with lesser speed skills than me can do (like the fmx kid’s that look like goons on the bike but they can flip and do tricks). I would not call them liars just because i can’t pull that off.

In my world it’s no problem to ride a cr125 with stuck throttle on a swedish mx track for a full moto back in 2002 when this happened. 
 

And if a pro rider can’t pull the clutch and use the rear brake he has some serious training to do. 

Tuck and Roll.

Riding a hare scramble. The throttle on my '19 150sx stuck ON the jump face... I was going to try to downside this second bump before a turn so I held it on a little more than I had been and then when I went to shut off, it was stuck.  Bike hit the powerband on the jump face and basically looped.  There was nothing I could do... braking doesn't work when you're past vertical.  When I realized I was holding an upside down bike in mid-air, I let go and landed on my back.  I'm wearing a Zac Speed backpack/chest protector with a hydration bladder inside and that took most of the landing, along with a Fly CC helmet with the cool blue squiggy absorption things.  Friend ran over and shut off the bike and I was okay, although shaken. 

Turns out that ball end of the throttle cable hung on the housing inside the grip.  Wasn't technically WFO, but was about half-throttle...it was hitting the powerband unexpectedly that did the damage. 

 ...and just to be clear, you had no issue with the bike shifting, right?

 I rode a 92' Yamaha RT 180 with the throttle stuck wfo on about 3 miles of single track and five miles of fire road back to camp in Gorman. Put it in 4th, started it and used the clutch and rear brake, both got smoked but made it back to camp.  It was my wifes first bike, white and pink, even had a pink seat and fork boots. The fire roads were easy but the single track was tricky and I kept yelling Fuck ! Fuck ! Fuck....! fighting the thing. My friends thought it was funny as shit. From that day on the bike was known as "The Pink Fuck"  So it can be done. Of course I've raced in the over 30, 40, 50, & 60 novice classes for over 30 years and got a handful of podiums I gots some skillz.   But riding a bike that you know has a stuck throttle and reacting to an ill timed surprise stuck throttle is 2 different things. I suppose if you have super fast cat like instincts you could probably spontaneously react and control the rear wheel speed like some kind of moto ninja.  If it happens to me ?  My instincts will more than likely go into buffering mode and I'll eat shit.                   

I had the same injury 6 years ago with a femur and essentially every ligament and the first idea for them was lop it off. 

Then they called in a specialist LOL

I once bought a well-used CR250 in partnership with a friend.  We shared the bike for the odd days’ play riding and occasional race.

It had always been very reliable, but one day I had the throttle stick over a jump.  I instinctively pulled in the clutch and hit the brake. Because of the full gas launch, I was OJ-ing, and because the rear wheel was spinning so fast, the front dropped really quickly when I braked!  So I then needed to let clutch back out and in a couple of times, working clutch and rear brake against a flat-out motor, to keep the thing level!  But I landed it (several feet beyond the downslope of the jump).  Scary!  Afterwards, I did think how that could have been REALLY bad for someone not so experienced.

The throttle wasn’t stuck when I landed, oddly.  But it subsequently happened again down a straight (safely, if you can call it that) on another day.  

No idea what caused it.  I checked everything related to the throttle and carb and it was all fine.  I couldn’t see a cause or recreate it.  But it was scary AF.  We ended up getting an entire new carb and sold the bike on. I didn’t want to ride it again.

Just held my bike WFO for 20 minutes in the garage and it blew up...Thanks Tumic.

Liar, not even Tomac could do that

Think ya missed the joke

Wake up in the hospital and read a bunch of comments on the internet about how I just gooned out and don’t believe my throttle stuck. 

Years ago, our cross country series used a round transponder That was about 4 inches long. I had mine zip tied to the front of my chest protector. I was doing a little Moto practice, coming out of a left-hand berm into a short double. Leaning forward, my throttle cable hooked on, the transponder. My bike shot up the jump face like a rocket. The good news I got away from the Bike and landed without injury. The bike not so much, snapped off my pro  tapers, bent my subframe and silencer. My parts order included a motion, pro throttle cable that had crimped ends. anyone riding an early 2000 KTM two-stroke has likely had the pleasure of this happening. I had two fingers on the clutch like I always do, but it happens so fast. It’s hard to react.

Happened to me in 1978 on a CR250 Red Rocket...  It was right at the base of the jump and I chose to ghost it.  It sky'd and I sort of did too.  Landed on my ass and compressed my L4 and L5.  Still back issues from it to this day.

Must have hit your head pretty hard, but hey, it's your story.

You tell it the way you remember it.

I had my 1994 Cr 250s throttle stick as I was going to double into a set of whoops

No time to react,I just pushed the bike away

Seperated shoulder,twisted pelvis,,I don't ever want that to happen again