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From a risk assessment standpoint, if you wanted to reduce injuries what would you eliminate or change in track prep and design locally?
It is obvious from the 3 pager on Tibial Plateau fractures there is a lot of experience with that on this site (and I broke mine in December too). We could even limit this to personal experience, but mine had nothing to do with a track feature (front brake endo).
I'm sure it's not cut and dry, and opinions vary. I'm don't think Pro tracks count. Just us weekend warriors that would like to see the sport stop trying to eliminate it's customer base. I've never been to LL's but I don't think they are constantly loading the helicopter there?
You would think in the only motorized sport with a starting gate it would be starts, but I don't think that is anywhere near the top issue.
It is obvious from the 3 pager on Tibial Plateau fractures there is a lot of experience with that on this site (and I broke mine in December too). We could even limit this to personal experience, but mine had nothing to do with a track feature (front brake endo).
I'm sure it's not cut and dry, and opinions vary. I'm don't think Pro tracks count. Just us weekend warriors that would like to see the sport stop trying to eliminate it's customer base. I've never been to LL's but I don't think they are constantly loading the helicopter there?
You would think in the only motorized sport with a starting gate it would be starts, but I don't think that is anywhere near the top issue.
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Most my wrecks and been cause by someone on jumps. I've had three in a 3 year span. First was when I was racing my son around this long left hand sweeper (War Eagle MX) and the ass end stepped out just for a second but long enough for me to dab my left foot in the dirt. Torn ACL.
The next one was at Monster Mountain and this wild child comes by me recklessly on the last lap of practice and swaps out going over a jump and into my direct line as I'm leaving earth. Broken right wrist, lacerated spleen and two broken ribs on the right side.
Last one was at War Eagle Mx again. Some guy decides to "get out of my way" and slams on breaks on the face of a jump and veers straight left right into my line. (it's like a little rhythm section) on the last jump. land on him and then into an embankment. Shatttered left acetabulum (hip socket) ruptured bladder (caused by a "violent rupture of an external oblique muscle" per Dr dictation), another couple broken ribs on left side this time and a foot peg thru the inner thigh down by knee. The broken hip nicked my sciatic nerve which as left me with left footed nerve damage (I can no longer shift gears in a traditional manner).
So 2 out of 3 where over jumps. 2 out of 3 were caused by someone else.
1. Poorly maintained track. Having been to Mini O's a number a times I saw first hand how there was little maintenance done throughout the day. Basically it was racing from sun up to sun down. You can't expect little bikes to handle the track the same as big bikes nor can you expect C class to run the same lines as the A class. Compound this with not allowing riders a parade lap and you are blindly sending racers to their doom.
2. Factory Bike Non-Factory Rider Parents will spend money on making a bike faster when they would be better off spending that money on working at least once a week with a QUALIFIED riding coach. Let the bike advance with the skill level of the rider.
Practice Tracks
1. I would suggest the track maintenance be on a schedule and that the head maintenance guy consult with some Pros and Ams to see where the major problems are and fix those first. We do this at the pro level wouldn't be to hard to do durning practice day.
At PRO SX MX level
1. I can't tell you how many times I have seen riders break themselves off suffering a season ending injury, often times needing a ride to the hospital and in talking to them find out the the only practice they get is on race day. These guys work or go to school full time and then drive all night to a PROFESSIONAL race. Some guys only race one or two races on the pro circuit. Some guys don't have access to SX track so they ride MX during the week and make adjustments on Saturday. This is crazy and I can't believe its allowed to happen.
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