How long have you went without injury?

You wrote "knock on wood," so it seems you understand the reason there are no replies in this thread. 😃😁

I wonder the same thing often! Everyone constantly talks about injury and it makes me feel like it’s inevitable rather than a chance.

What's the old cliche?  "There are two kinds of people who ride.  Those who have crashed, and those who are about to."

I made a 10 year stretch one time practicing and racing all the time.

11 years between a broken femur and broken ribs 

Until about 2 years ago unless you count bruises and cuts. 22 years. 

Raced motocross for 17 years, been road racing for 2 seasons. 

Had some absolutely enormous crashes but have never broken a bone, damaged a ligament or had a concussion.

I put it down to a combination of pure luck and knowing when to call it a day.

I've been 11 months and 1 week without injury. I had a big crash 12 months ago and haven't been on the bike since

04-09 without needing the er. Then 09-2021 without needed the er. And 2021-current.

There’s been a few crashes between that maybe were fuzzy whether I should have gone to the dr or not but they buffed out in a few days typically: my shoulder is still crunchy from 2021 it never healed right, and my ankle will never be right from 09.

I think your approach has a lot to do with your risk levels.

I try to ride like windham or let’s say Roczen. Smooth, no big moments, not drifting everywhere etc. repeatable smooth in control laps.

If a jump makes me question it, I just don’t do it. 80-% of the track I’ll do on the second lap, if it takes more than the 3rd or 4th to commit to something because whatever reason I just won’t even consider it again. Some of my friends and even I used to really get hung up on doing all the jumps or doing certain jumps and i see them even get frustrated and ruin their day if they don’t do them.

Next point is your comfort around other riders. This is a huge overlooked part of safety. I do NOT trust other riders as my default. If they roll a jump ahead of me 90% chance I roll the jump as well, I do not trust them not to swerve either on purpose or on accident into my line while you’re in the air.  Many people’s risk tolerance is high enough they will jump with small margins to other riders dozens of times per moto. I won’t do that.

My way doesn’t set the lap times on fire every lap, but it keeps you out of trouble for the most part.

Hope that makes sense.

I broke my arm/elbow 10 days ago, so that is my current uninjured streak. 

I refuse to answer on grounds that if I do, I'll end up on the ground this afternoon 

A long time, my secret is I'm always injured in some way.

Been 2 years and 5 months since my last collarbone. I'm on schedule for about every other year for some sort of injury. The majority have been collarbones though (8 in total) and I don't mind it. Bones heal much better than joints! Here's my most recent. It broke at the medial screw and healed on its' own.

Yea, I am not touching this question.   🤣

Almost 4 years since my last ER visit. I hope I'm not jinxing myself.

I think I made it about 10.  Seems like I'm due for a big crash typically about every 5 years seems like.

I’m on I’m personal best right now, it’s been a whole year of me riding, racing, and practicing every week. Without me getting hurt. That’s never happened which is kind of sad but hey I’m here for it. I’ve broke my collar bone , ankle, tore a ligament in my knee , busted my shoulder , and had 2 concussions. And now as I type this I see why some outsiders think I’m crazy! But hey I love dirtbikes 

they dropped me on my head when I was born in 1958. Injuries has been pretty much non-stop ever since 🤕

My family jokes I saved 10 years worth of injuries for a single crash.

At 14 I broke both legs, feet, ankles, & my right knee.....Even more ironically that wasnt even a crash. I stayed on the bike for 30 feet after the landing before I just fell over - 

Outside of that, I had concussions, but in 10 years practicing 2 days a week and racing 50 weekends a year, that accident was the only time a I broke a bone(s).

Dang! My worst one I didn’t fall either. Two tables back to back, I over jumped the first one into the take off of the second one and broke my ankle badly without even falling or coming off the pegs.

Which time??? 😆

Over my first 10 years It was 5 years from when I 1st started racing just about every weekend till breaking my lower leg. Then 2 years later I compression fractured my back. 1 year later a cracked my shoulder blade. Then 2 years after that in 1985 I beat the shit out of my body with shoulder dislocation and knee ICL.

One odd thing is my injuries have all been on my left side.

I consider an injury one that requires sugery. I went almost 17 years...then...snap...tib/fib both about 4" below the knee. That was uncomfortable. And, that was all she wrote on my riding. Had enough of the surgeries and hoping to heal. 

Both my son and I usually break the left side. Femur, collarbones, arm, wrist, shoulders, all left. We are right handed. At 62 now I’m paying the price for some of them esp the 2 discs that bulge on the left side. I stopped riding dirt at 60 after back to back concussions in 6 months. 

Yea thats about right - Ironically the big crashes are usually the ones you can roll out of....

I was an idiot. It was a step up out in Ocotillo that was all of maybe 50 feet. Saw a buddy hit it and never even did a speed check....What I didnt realized is that there was a heavy G-out at the bottom that robbed a lot of your speed. Went for it anyway, toes on the pegs trying to stretch out as far as I could. 

When I landed my tib/fibs shattered and actually went through the top of my ankle and went into my heels.

Rode out of it for just a few feet and then fell over in agonizing pain. Still had to ride back 5-10ish miles back to the truck considering my buddies didnt think I was hurt and they werent going to call a life flight for sprained ankles.....Its a long story but damnit if I didnt use up 10+ years worth of injuries in a 3 hour period 🤣

I went from 2002 to Jan 2023 without injury once. Also went from 2002-Jan 2023 without owning a MX bike. I slid out on a slick piece of wood the DAY I got the new bike when I was trail riding that day to get used to it. Had a nasty bruised hip for weeks. Then broke ribs soon after that on MX track. The only way to not get injured, is dont ride and dont read these type threads. Oh, and dont watch crash videos on youtube either. 

Pretty much to the day I stopped riding, I know, strange eh. My wife says its just a big coincidence.

I didn't start getting hurt till I figured out how to go fast enough to move up from the C class and be a top 5 B class racer.

Pushing the edge can have consequences 

This thread could be a Goocher

once in 45 years, hit deer on street bike back in 07 broke some ribs and collapsed lung

I feel like if I answer this, I will cartwheel my brains out in the next week. 😅