Kid injured at bithlow last WE

Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 1:31pm
Here is a link to TT he tells his story. Very lucky kid .

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showth ... p?t=607808
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2/21/2008 2:53pm
That kid has a great attitude. Goes to show how quick life can change doing this sport.
Thumpertalk.com has really done a great job moderating its forums and keeping the riffraff away. Great moto community helping this kid out over there!
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2/21/2008 4:35pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
I made a post about something over there, and got no responses and a couple hours it was on the 2nd page... So I said "bump" to get it to the top. Boy did I get reamed out haha. Apparently they don't do "bumps" there.
2/21/2008 5:15pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
I was there that day and saw it go down. All of us in the pits were really feeling for him, it took quite a while to get him off the ground and then airlifted, and people were saying "broken neck". Then I saw him post a few days ago on Bithlo's message board that really he's pretty much alright, it was mainly just a big scare.

I don't have a problem with people asking for help with stuff, like giving him a Leatt as his post implies, it's a free country and people can ask for or give whatever they want. Many times I have just given stuff to people I feel deserve it. But in this case I think he needs to earn it, or his parents need to pay. There's a lesson in there somewhere about having dodged a bullet, and he or they need to feel the cost of what it takes to prepare and protect yourself.

Has anyone offered MX safety lessons? He wasn't the only one to leave that day on a stretcher. At some point mini-parents in general are going to have to take this sport seriously
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2/21/2008 6:07pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
[quote="OldTiddler":nar1u7i2]I was there that day and saw it go down. All of us in the pits were really feeling for him, it took quite a while to get him off the ground and then airlifted, and people were saying "broken neck". Then I saw him post a few days ago on Bithlo's message board that really he's pretty much alright, it was mainly just a big scare.

I don't have a problem with people asking for help with stuff, like giving him a Leatt as his post implies, it's a free country and people can ask for or give whatever they want. Many times I have just given stuff to people I feel deserve it. But in this case I think he needs to earn it, or his parents need to pay. There's a lesson in there somewhere about having dodged a bullet, and he or they need to feel the cost of what it takes to prepare and protect yourself.

Has anyone offered MX safety lessons? He wasn't the only one to leave that day on a stretcher. At some point [b][u:nar1u7i2][i:nar1u7i2]mini-parent[/i:nar1u7i2][/[/u:nar1u7i2]b]s in general are going to have to take this sport seriously[/quote:nar1u7i2]

Man you are asking a lot there Tiddler. Mini Parents are now and have always been the bain of our sport. Not ALL mini parents but a disproportionate amount. I think we get all of the ones that are kicked out of little league sports.

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2/21/2008 6:13pm
some parents are really out in LALA land, Tuesday at bithlo, I herd a parent wanting his kid to jump the table to table, I looked to see his kid ride, if he would have tried they would have carried him out, he was just above beginner, I never look at jumps I always look at corner speed, hell jumps are easy, it is the corner before is where it all happens
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2/21/2008 6:18pm
Some of the worst mini parents are the ones who've never ridden or raced
2/21/2008 7:09pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
[quote="flarider":32uqisja]Some of the worst mini parents are the ones who've never ridden or raced[/quote:32uqisja]You should write MX fortune cookies.

Maybe RacerX would pick it up as a column. <img class= " title="Laughing">
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2/21/2008 7:15pm
Yeah, I know!
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2/21/2008 9:07pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
[quote="Trinitite":2o0gwrif][quote="flarider":2o0gwrif]Some of the worst mini parents are the ones who've never ridden or raced[/quote:2o0gwrif]You should write MX fortune cookies.

Maybe RacerX would pick it up as a column. <img class= " title="Laughing">[/quote:2o0gwrif]

EIfuscious write: "Man who drink engine coolant pee blue next morning."
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2/21/2008 10:32pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
[quote="flarider":3nphslqj]Some of the worst mini parents are the ones who've never ridden or raced[/quote:3nphslqj]

Spot on.
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2/22/2008 5:43am
I agree with Oldtiddler.
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2/22/2008 5:45am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
[quote="teggers":1s6kb7d5][quote="Trinitite":1s6kb7d5][quote="flarider":1s6kb7d5]Some of the worst mini parents are the ones who've never ridden or raced[/quote:1s6kb7d5]You should write MX fortune cookies.

Maybe RacerX would pick it up as a column. <img class= " title="Laughing">[/quote:1s6kb7d5]

EIfuscious write: "Man who drink engine coolant pee blue next morning."[/quote:1s6kb7d5]

Yellow and blue makes green!
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2/22/2008 7:27am
I don't want to know how you found that out.
2/22/2008 9:05am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:13pm
Art Class :shock:

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