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1/23/2012 10:23pm
Planned this Thursday for a ride day with me and a couple buddies up at a private track today , and it was awesome! I just really dig the dirt in the fall with all the heavy dews in the mornings.
I was hitting this little 45' double all day which is kind of tricky to do. Not much of a landing ramp so you have to time it just right to land it smooth. Well , my last lap over it , I nailed it perfect , but was on the gas pretty hard when I landed. The front end just totally knifed over to the left , rear end started to pass me and i high sided at about 3rd gear , 3/4 throttle.
I smacked the ground pretty hard and knock the hell out of me. laid there for about 5 minutes before a buddy helped me get up. My entire right side of my body is friggin' sore! Supposed to go riding again on Saturday at the same track....which I will.
Holy hell.....that was my first wreck i have had since i came back to riding.....i forgot how bad that shit hurts when you get older. Gonna be walking crooked tomorrow for sure.
BTW....twisted the forks pretty good in the clamps and smashed in my right radiator a little.....but i can straiten it back out. So nothing needs to be replaced....I think. Check it out a little more tomorrow.
I was hitting this little 45' double all day which is kind of tricky to do. Not much of a landing ramp so you have to time it just right to land it smooth. Well , my last lap over it , I nailed it perfect , but was on the gas pretty hard when I landed. The front end just totally knifed over to the left , rear end started to pass me and i high sided at about 3rd gear , 3/4 throttle.
I smacked the ground pretty hard and knock the hell out of me. laid there for about 5 minutes before a buddy helped me get up. My entire right side of my body is friggin' sore! Supposed to go riding again on Saturday at the same track....which I will.
Holy hell.....that was my first wreck i have had since i came back to riding.....i forgot how bad that shit hurts when you get older. Gonna be walking crooked tomorrow for sure.
BTW....twisted the forks pretty good in the clamps and smashed in my right radiator a little.....but i can straiten it back out. So nothing needs to be replaced....I think. Check it out a little more tomorrow.
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I for sure know that feeling of the first real high speed crash after a long lay off. After I got through it though uninjured I felt so much better about racing. You remember you can take it and get back on the bike.
As far as soreness goes, i'm realizing stretching etc before playing soccer after years of not playing is really important! pulled muscles in the first 10 minutes of playing and couldnt walk properly for a day, lol, then played again yesterday, and now cant walk again..i'm only 25, what the heck? LoL....i definitely don't get that from riding, surprising what a simple run around with the legs can do to ya...
I notice you haven't posted anything (yet) on GODMODE's 'biggest jump you've done' thread. You weren't by any chance trying to land a big one at the private track so that you'd have something to boast about, were you?
Hahaha glad you are ok!
Funny...last Sunday I was lined up at Millville and the young guy next to me says, "Are you ready for the chaos to begin?"
Jeff- you are doing it right. Just remember if you decide to sell out cheap, I might be interested!
I wish I could of typed that at some point in my life. Millville is one of the few places that I always dreamed of racing at but never got the chance to.
I have done quite a few jumps since i came back that were a lot bigger and hairier than this set of double.....but i just made a mistake. About 6 years ago out at the longview MX track ( barlow MX ) i was out in the far back designing a huge double with the owner one day and kept telling him to make it bigger and bigger. He said if I cleared it , he would name it after me. Take off and landing ramps were about 10' and it was a 115' gap. I did about 15 good dry runs up to it , to figure out my speed , while about 50 people from the pits came out to see if i was going to do it. I finally got it , and hit it at about 4th gear pinned up to the face , let off and then blipped it a little up the face......cleared it perfect! That SOB shot me so high , i damn near shat my pants.
I went on to clear that thing about 50 times that day and flat spotted both front and rear wheels from the landings.....but he named the jump " Huber hump".......which was really cool.
I've always been known out here as one of the guys to try something first....and some times it doesn't go all that well.
Yesterday bummed me out. But it wasn't from laying on the ground being hurt.....it was because the track was perfect and i knew my riding day was over.
Sandberm : you are right......i'm hitting that SOB my second lap on Saturday.
Oh yeah.....i'm walking around ok , just really stiff. But my end of my collar bone where it attaches to the top of my shoulder is extremely sore. So glad i didn't break anything.
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