Interesting weekend at the track

Started by honcrf150, Nov 08 2009 04:12 PM
19 replies to this topic

  • honcrf150

Posted 08 November 2009 - 04:12 PM

#1


Between saturday and sunday I:

1. Fell numerious times in corners like it was my job
2. Had a gnarly crash attempting a 70' table for the first time...
3. Dropped my bike while getting it off the stand: curled up F brake lever
4. tasted some more samples of dirt
5. MASTERED that 70' table wooo
6. My last jump on the table, I landed and accidently ran over a ~40y/o man that had crashed :(
7. and last but not least locked the keys in my effing truck.

Not a weekend I will soon forget...

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  • MXandy63

Posted 08 November 2009 - 04:34 PM

#2

:crazy: I have had those days.Not in that order but just as bad.At least you left(after a locksmith) under your own power........MX is Murphy's Law some times.Glad you're alright.

  • mxkid12

Posted 08 November 2009 - 04:52 PM

#3

Too bad least your not in the hospital or your bike does not require anything (unless you hate bent levers)

  • MX813

Posted 08 November 2009 - 04:55 PM

#4

I think everyone that rides has a day or days like that....BUT...you are walking and not broken so in my book, that counts for something.


Yep, the eternal optimist here.

  • emerybrian

Posted 08 November 2009 - 05:18 PM

#5

It's not a bad race when you don't have to stop for x-rays on the way home!

And the key thing... I put my keys on the ground in front of the tire because I ALWAYS lock the doors when I close them out of habit, which doesn't turn out well when keys are in my jeans pocket inside.

  • 98rm250_90cr500

Posted 08 November 2009 - 05:34 PM

#6

sounds likw my last weekend took like ten good diggers in the muddy corners face mask full of mud fried to scrub some long low doubles only to come up just short and my croch ait a bunch of handle bar, went over the bars and got ran over by my own bike then a few others turnded out i left my lights on and drained my batteries dead don't have jumpers and no one elce did either got a tow out of the gate from a guy and had to wait 2 hours for a buddy to come with jumper cables finaly got home and reolized i forgot to put the dogh out and had to clean up pooh, it happens to us all so now i got jumper cables a note on the frige to remember to put the dog out and a big bottle of alive for all the crashing bike still runs and no hospital trips so all is well and on the bright side it will probubly be hard to have a worce weekend ride next time out. nock on wood.

  • peski111

Posted 08 November 2009 - 05:45 PM

#7

Remember, a BAD day at the track can sometimes be better than NO day at the track.........:banana:

  • honcrf150

Posted 08 November 2009 - 07:29 PM

#8

all true guys...just the thing that crossed the line was running over the guy, I run square right over him...words cannot explain how bad i felt after that...there was nothing i could do but still :banghead:

  • HrcRacing

Posted 08 November 2009 - 07:37 PM

#9

Jeez man, and I thought my ride was bad. One fall with trip to ER which I drove to after dropping off the bike at the house. I'm feeling pretty blessed now. :worthy:

Glad to hear you're ok and, hopefully, the 40 y/o is too or will be. :thumbsup:

  • emerybrian

Posted 08 November 2009 - 07:41 PM

#10

HrcRacing said:

Jeez man, and I thought my ride was bad. One fall with trip to ER which I drove to after dropping off the bike at the house. I'm feeling pretty blessed now. :worthy:

Glad to hear you're ok and, hopefully, the 40 y/o is too or will be. :thumbsup:

Oh no! Is your brand new bike OK?!?! Or on a more serious note, are you OK?

  • tparscrf250r

Posted 09 November 2009 - 04:52 AM

#11

Like everyone has said, it could have been worse... You could have gotten run over by the 40 yr. old instead of you running over him.:thumbsup:

  • JamesG1019

Posted 09 November 2009 - 06:10 AM

#12

tparscrf250r said:

You could have gotten run over by the 40 yr. old instead of you running over him.:thumbsup:

:lol::cry::lol::cry::lol:

The guy is alright though? What part of him did you run over?

  • 5Guys2Go

Posted 09 November 2009 - 08:55 AM

#13

LOL, if that was considered a bad weekend, wait until you have kids racing.

I had one weekend in 2008 when anything that could go wrong went really wrong. I have three kids racing and i was so busy working on broken/bent bikes, my wife was actually hand feeding me so I did not have to wash up to eat, I just kept working on bikes while she shoved a sandwich in my face.

That is the weekend that I began to really understand preventative maint. This will not fix the crashes, but will save time wrenching for stupid stuff at the track. I spent the better part of two weeks until the next race going over the bikes after work to make sure that did not happen again. So far so good.

As for the key thing, always keep a spare located outside of the truck/car. Another lesson I learned the hard way.

  • revitup

Posted 09 November 2009 - 10:22 AM

#14

honcrf150 said:

Between saturday and sunday I:

7. and last but not least locked the keys in my effing truck.

Not a weekend I will soon forget...

Time for a keyless keypad entry installation. We got one installed on our used truck when we got it. Throw the keys in and lock it up :thumbsup:

  • JamesG1019

Posted 09 November 2009 - 10:51 AM

#15

revitup said:

Time for a keyless keypad entry installation. We got one installed on our used truck when we got it. Throw the keys in and lock it up :thumbsup:

My truck has the keyless entry system. Man what a lifesaver that can be.:thumbsup:

  • honcrf150

Posted 09 November 2009 - 02:38 PM

#16

Well I found out last night he had multiple fractures of the pelvis...right where I hit him :(

:banghead:

  • emerybrian

Posted 09 November 2009 - 02:54 PM

#17

honcrf150 said:

Well I found out last night he had multiple fractures of the pelvis...right where I hit him :(

:banghead:

No offense, but you're whining about some trivial things here, meanwhile the other guy is in a wheelchair for a long time if it's anything like when my buddy broke his pelvis.

  • psylo535

Posted 09 November 2009 - 02:59 PM

#18

and where there the flaggers ? why would you hit someone if they had a flagger telling you someone was down on the other side of the jump or were there no flaggers

  • honcrf150

Posted 09 November 2009 - 07:37 PM

#19

No flaggers, it was a practice/club ride day and i was just going in circles jumping that tabletop, everytime i went around the corner I would look to see if it was clear but I must have not looked good enough. Its a blind jump.

To be exact its the finish line table at budds creek.

  • HrcRacing

Posted 09 November 2009 - 10:09 PM

#20

emerybrian said:

Oh no! Is your brand new bike OK?!?! Or on a more serious note, are you OK?

Just some scratches so, hopefully, she'll be ok. :smirk: But seriously, they said nothing is broken but I really question that with the level of pain I'm having. Oh well, I'll get back on that horse as soon as I can. :thumbsup:

honcrf150 said:

Well I found out last night he had multiple fractures of the pelvis...right where I hit him :(

:banghead:

Wow, that is some serious stuff there. My buddy had to be life flighted (internal bleeding) from one hospital to a trauma hospital. He very nearly died from his broken pelvis.

Don't beat yourself up over it man. It's a dangerous sport and stuff happens. If the tracks would worry more about safety (have flaggers on practice days) and less about $$ those things would happen much less frequently.

Be a man about it though and go see the guy, give him your best wishes, etc.



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