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In our clinic we are seeing way to many SCI's related to mx/motorcycles...and we are only one clinic...sad
The good news is, it seemed to hit home with at least a couple of the guys that he was talking to in it.
Jimmy Button's response on MT was impressive.
maybe people will listen to david...maybe they won't. but why the fugg doesn't the stewards of the sport, the overseers, the captain of the ship make it mandatory to wear it or another approved device for racing mx/sx...especially sx? make it a rule.
there's not many things more asinine than sitting on a metal wheeled projectile speeding over very rough terrain, but breaking yer neck when a device that is available wasn't used is even more asinine.
fact is after you are permanently disabled nobody realizes the shit you go through day in and day out until you go through it yerself...you think you might know but you don't. just like you think you might know what it's like when you die...but you don't...until you do.
so listen to this man...I sure hope they do.
The Shop
Thanks GuyB, for the kickass video.
Doug Forstner
Beyond that, SX riders should be considering their own safety above and beyond style and sometimes even comfort. We are hearing more and more about SX only contracts to prolong the careers of top riders. Why not add more safety to what they are doing to give them an even greater chance to remain in the sport longer? As David Bailey stated, four strokes came in and took over. There had to be an adjustment period in switching from the 2 stroke bikes, so why not an adjustment period for getting comfortable with additional safety gear?
I think that was $.04, so I'll step off the soapbox now.
As the owner of WMM Partners Ltd. Canada (Leatt-Brace Canada) and the exclusive distributor of the Leatt-Brace in this country (www.leatt-brace.ca), the video more then choked me up. Over a year ago my four boys started racing and before they did I went on a global search for neck protection where I met with Chris Leatt. I wanted to insure that every motocross rider out there put one of these on just like they do a helmet. We even took on the distribution before we had the price list and production costs ... this was not about business this was about safety and appropriately outfitting our kids and others just like them.
I am amazed with David's video and thank God for his initiative. One of our racers, Derek Zaplotinsky, on our race team "CHUNK Racing" in Alberta was paralyzed on a poorly designed track last year after another mxer landed on him while executing a triple that should have been banned. My heart breaks each time I witness this and it makes me feel terrible that we, as adults and as knowledgeable individuals, cannot prevent it.
David has ran onto the dance floor kicking his legs and waving his arms - you don't need to walk to do this when you are a true Hero. Although a poor dancer, I'm kick’n up my heals to the music that will sooth our sport. Let’s put a stop to the bs with dangerous tracks, lets put a stop to promoting the dangerous aspects of our sport by pushing kids beyond their limits, and lets get the ambassadors that we all respect - and our kids look up to - to realize their responsibility in the roles they have earned and encourage them to set the examples we so desperately need in the sport we love.
Thank you David from my family and God Bless you for your initiative and the humanity you choose to display while you shine in the sky of so many sets of wondering eyes. I never had the chance to line up with you on the start line in the 80’s but know that I am handlebar to handlebar with you on this one and I am not letting off.
IF you felt what I felt - I guess your are lookIing for a better neck brace !
It's funny I have had an EVS neck brace for two years now and I always felt that this
thing is not good enough !
T H A N K D A V I D --- The guy cares !
I hope that one or more of the riders he "called out", will step up to the plate and start wearing one of these.
Until that happens, it's unlikely we will see the needed changed with safety equipment on a wide scale. If we continue to see our hero's not wearing so much as a chest protector, the masses will think "wrongly" that it's OK for them to do the same.
Its 2007 and finally we are going to get an advancement on the equipment that was designed in the early 1980s.
- Nealio
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