Went riding this weekend. First real outing on the TXT300. Performed wonderfully and no starting issues at all.

Anyway, we were out tooling around in the woods when my buddy went to clear about a two-foot log. He went to goose it for the initial lift and his rear tire spun in loose leaves so he only got about halfway up the log. His inertia kept him going but not in what you might call a controlled fashion. He and his bike wound up on the ground on the other side. He popped right back up with no damage to the bike and just a sore hand. But the more we tried to ride the more his hand started to hurt. So we headed on back. Not that I was complaining, I was getting pretty tired by that time. And I hadn't even refilled my tank yet.

He went to the doctor the next day and it turns out his hand was broken. He's in a cast for four weeks. But with the weakness of the dollar, he's just happy the bike wasn't damaged!

John

CRM114 said:

Since I started riding again I have been going the opposite direction- I have given myself some two-week-no-ride injuries and usually from trying to save the bike. Now I have been trying to teach myself the screw-the-bike, I am alot more expensive to fix! That and I just hate it when a minor injury keeps me away from my short riding season. Hope your friend recovers fast!

Yeah, I messed up my ankle pretty bad last October riding trials. Just playing around and a small vertical climb that the experts were blasting up, and I thought I could hang with them...got a little too confident and tried a line that was over my head...ended up throwing the bike and having the the rear tire clip my right foot while the bike was flipping around engine wide open in second gear. Worse sprain Ive ever had, took a good 6-8 weeks to be able to walk on it with out pain. And that happened while wearing a pair of thor moto-x boots (Im pretty guilty of riding in work boots when playing around the house, lucky I wasnt wearing work boots that time)

I did kind of the same thing exept when my tire spun I hit a 6ft ledge head on. I got lucky cause all I hurt was my left leg, hit the middle of my shin on the foot peg and scraped it up to the knee. Now I'm laid up with a badly broken right leg from a climb I've done several times before. The scarry part was wondering if the the EMS was going to be able to find me because I was by myself.

Whoa! Dude. Glad they found you! I guess that is why they call it the splatter technique, huh? Keep it elevated and iced. That'll get it well faster than anything else.

John

Not sur eif it still counts as trials, but I was riding the trials bicycle, and I slipped and fell, somehow hitting my kneecap on the slate that I was riding on. It burst open through jeans and caused quite a bit of pain. That was on New Year's eve, and it is still sensitive to the touch.

Also on the bicycle, I have taken so many chunks out of my shins with the pedals. These things are metal spikes sharpened to a point, and they fly into your shin with starteling regularity. 2 days ago, I lost about a square cm of my shin to the pedals, also through jeans. :banghead:

But the wonderful thing about shins is that they don't really do anything except support your weight. Between riding around in tennis shoes 'for fun' and playing soccer for 33 years, my shins are about 90% scar tissue and really don't have much feeling anymore. So look at it on the good side, next time you whack that currently missing chunck, there will be no nerves left to register any pain!

well, *I* certainly never said trials wasn't dangerous (i hope i didn't, anyway).
i won't bore you with the list, but some of them were from trying to save the bike, and let me tell you, a new ACL is much more expensive than bike parts!
I still have trouble tossing the bike to save the body, but i'm trying.

and hey 1992yz, i don't know how much biketrial exp you have, but shin/knee pads are highly suggested for the first few years. eventually, you learn to save the shins when riding without pads (i've got lots of bad experiences and scars from that, too), but i'll bet you learn faster with shin pads than without.

The worst shin whack I ever got, aside from a blast from a big German defender in the goal box, was when kickstarting an XR250. My foot slipped off the starter and made violent love to the footpeg. There was cussing and everything. I still have that scar. One of my better ones!

JB