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the stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me 
The Shop
Short story........
When i ran the Hindsight MX indoor areacross track up here in Oregon , we didn't allow quads for the first year or so , because they destroy the track and only made up about 1% of the actual people who wanted to ride there.
A group of these quad guys came in and asked for 1 night a week to be able to just ride their own class on the same night as the bikes. So i picked a slow night ( i think it was Wednesday?).
Anyways , Wednesday evening came rolling around and 9 quad guys show up. They started riding at about 5:00pm and before 9:00PM rolled around 7 out of 9 guys couldn't ride any more due to injuries. 3 OF THEM were taken out in an ambulance one at a time!
I stopped the quads coming in there for about 6 months , and then we let them have their own practice night during the summer. It seemed like almost every single quad night , there was at least one ambulance trip out of there.
I wish I had a camera, because there was a indoor race in Oklahoma last Feb. where a quad class got to race. I swear one guy looked drunker than a skunk. I doubt he was, but his body was just sloshing around all over the place going through the turns, and over the obstacles. He crashing multiple times a lap, and just going for it.
1. quads are for lesser skilled people that are unable to attack a mx track and hit 50% of the jumps (yes there are exceptions but only about 1% from what ive seen besides pro's)
2. they are not designed for that tight of racing
3. indoors especially if you land off axis you most likely are not going to enjoy the next 2-3 jumps if you make it that far
4. most people on bikes have a hard enough time controlling themselves indoors
i really don't think they should be allowed indoors for insurance reasons I am not surprised at your quota for injured couch jockeys either
!st : this one dude on a quad came in one night , with helmet , boots and gloves , wearing jeans and a flannel. After a while he started getting brave and decided to double into the big triple. Every time ( i mean EVERY TIME) he did it , it was either a little long or a little short....and coming off the third part ( landing) he was either going over the bars from the impact or whiskey throttle. Funny as hell. But get this........He got brave enough ( not really.....just stupid) and decided he was going to attempt the triple. HAHA!!.....well , he did try it! he came up just a tad short , but it didn't matter because he was standing the quad strait up and down with the front wheels pointing towards the ceiling , and when he hit....it was by far the best "Flying W" i have ever witnessed to this day! He must of been 15' in the air "after" the impact! He and a few friends loaded up the quad and left after that. He didn't get an ambulance ride.....but i know he was hurting!
2nd : another idiot came in there and was actually riding pretty fast for a quad on an arenacross track. He was clearing everything except a big triple i had in there. In this one timing section i had built , the bike were doing a double-triple-double. It was my own fault for placing it where i had placed it , but i didn't think about that until after he did what he did. He came into that timing section and was out of shape from the get go. By the time he came to the end of it ( right at my flag tower!) The quad was upside down and about 10' in the air coming right at me! I friggin' DOVE off that tower like WWF Jimmy "superfly" Snuka getting ready for a body slam! before i even hit the ground , i heard the quad completely destroy my flag tower and end up on the concrete floor outside the cage. Scared the living hell out of me!
Talked to the owners very next morning , and i banned those friggin' quads from ever riding in there again......at least as long as i was on duty!
1) I wish I could have seen that guys wreck.
2) I'm glad you made it out of that tower!
I'm really fascinated by the people who do that sort of stupid stuff. I guess it's just social/psychology in action. Maybe the males with little skill just feel like huge wusses inside, watching everyone with skill. Maybe they confused the two, and just try to prove themselves by going big. All it takes is holding the throttle down, unfortunately. I really have no idea, but I wish I could figure it out. Last time i went riding, one of my friends who just started saw me and another guy hit a decent sized step up. I guess my friend Chantz felt like a wuss, so he just went for it, even though I've advised him a million times not to do anything you're uncomfortable with, but he went for it, cased the hell out of it, and shot up in the air off the back of the bike. He jacked up his wrist, but other than that, was okay.
Found it:
It was some long haired douche' bag (looked like a methed out David Lee Roth) that video taped his own stunts , and he was like a small time radio disk jockey or something. He stood up a 20' ext ladder next to a pool and bungee corded the bottom and was going to jump from the top. When he leaped , the ladder flexed the bungee cords and he fell strait down about 20 feet onto the concrete. the moaning sounds that guy made were classic.......total dumbass!
Hank.......I'm glad i made it out of that tower as well! Would have been ugly for me for sure! And that other wreck....i could have made money with that one.....Best super huge flying W ever!
Honestly , after running that track for 3-1/2 years , i don't think a war veteran has anything on me. I have seen some stuff in there happen to people that was like watching a surgery channel. I taught kids and adults about the in's and outs of racing and riding. And i really got close to a lot of the kids.....i friggin' loved them all! I got burned out on the actual injuries , not so much the sport. But it made me walk away from the sport for a couple years. I was getting calls from some of the kids up to about a year after i left , wanting me to come back. Jay Whipple was holding his classes in there as well. I never did go back , but after a about a 1-1/2 years it closed down due to the economy and lack of construction. It was owned by my friend who owned a big construction business and land developing gig.
Pit Row
Having said that...there was a time (much younger) when I thought it was totally AWESOME to watch people break themselves...so carry on.
but i bet most of these videos had a 12 pack of PBR involved.
BTW, my thumb still hurts.
Damn you Hindsight!!!!!
No ambulance ride here though.... I caught a ride in a Dodge Ram with the worst suspension ever. I think I broke another rib on the ride to St. Vincents.
I kinda miss that place. Loud, smokey, kids jumping over my head.... good times!
Yep good times man , good times! When you mentioned the YZ250 crash , i must have missed that one ( was i there?), but saw another guy on a YZ250 that had about a 12 second ride that ended tragically! He left the start gate , was riding like a complete fool and about wrecked 2-3 different times...........then he got to the whoops!
Hit first one , launched about 3-4 in.....landed on his stomach and rode that sucker 2nd gear pinned all the way through the whoops , through the hay bales , through the fence and smacked into the office walls! I had to hold the fence up for about 20 minutes while the paramedics worked on his compounded femur. About a 140lb guy that had one femur that looked like two basketballs were stuck in his riding pants.
Yep....he was another guy who never came back. BTW PC....what number did you have on your bike?
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