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Took YZF and FZR out to do coaching day and cars and bikes meeting. Coaching day plagued wit mechancal issues and then rain. Practice on Friday it started raining on parts of the track and session was red flagged. After red flag I had big highside (they tell me) on YZF. Got home 5 days later nursing 9 fractures spread across both arms and both sides of rib cage. Out for the season with plenty of time to ponder things. Ouch!
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1994 YZF750R Race/Track Bike
1992 FZR1000 Race/Track Bike
Sorry to hear about your bin there Mike, OUCH indeed. Ribs and clavical are some of the worst breaks, especially without the medical "profession," and I use that term loosely, not being able to set them back into place and cast them.
Hope your healing goes well. In the mean time, just think of all the time you'll have to spend money you're saving from not racing on your machine!! Then you'll even have time to install everything on your machine too!! Always a positive side to things, usually anyways.
Hope you get well soon and that you're feeling better already.
Michael
Yes Yes I know, I said, I'm building a project YZF1070
Basement is done now, 850 finished and gone...
Gotta get the new siding up on the house.
Fixing the FZ1 up, cleaning up garage and then I might even begin
Hell! That's crap news Mike. Not the sort of thing we want to hear... Not at all. Good to read you have maintained your sense of humor! Heal quickly mate.
Cheers guys. I was in an altered state of consiousness after the crash and have not seen the bike yet but they tell me it is not too bad. My helmet and leathers just came home..helmet strap cut annd leathers also cut off me.
I'll get the bike back next week sometime. No hurry, won"t be doing much of anything for a while.
Ribs and clavicle are literally a pain but they will be right in a few weeks. The worry is the muliple fractures to the humerus. Country hospital debated for 3 days whether to pin it or not but didn"t in the end. Will get second opinion because i can feel the bone moving around.
I didn"t bounce very well
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1994 YZF750R Race/Track Bike
1992 FZR1000 Race/Track Bike
I know it sucks but if you hit your head hard enough to not remember then the helmet did it's job, cuz you woke up. And trust me, you wanted them to cut the leathers off instead of trying to take limbs attached to broken bones out of leather sleeves. Hope you feel better soon and get back on the horse again, it'll take the rest of the season to shake the demons though.
Definitely find a Doc that will pin your humorous for you as you DO NOT want it to heal out of place obviously. I had much the same injuries from the same dreaded, high-side, bike incident, and the end of the left side of my collar bone sticks out more than an inch, in hind-site, I wish they would've plated it. So, I'd push for them to plate your humorous for sure as that's a tad more important than the clavical I think.
Again, get better soon dude.
Michael
Yes Yes I know, I said, I'm building a project YZF1070
Basement is done now, 850 finished and gone...
Gotta get the new siding up on the house.
Fixing the FZ1 up, cleaning up garage and then I might even begin
Crap Mike!!!!
Mate get better & forget about the rest of the year.
Ive had a change of heart too. Im not taking my racing so serious anymore. Im just gonna enjoy it.
Keep your chin up buddy, rest & relax is what fixs most things..
Cheers Steve.
Ow son of a bitch, that sucks. Heal quick and easy, Mike.
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'95 FZR1040 '09 FZ1-S
"And they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with wheels and gears and perfect in every respect, and they lived on it..." -Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
Thats bad news Mike, but the good part is your still able to tell us about it - must have been a hell of a hard landing though.
I guess you'll be looking for ideas for a new paint scheme soon as well...
All the best, rest up and well see you back out soon.
“I venture not to cross that finish line in a neat, tidy well ordered bundle, but to slide across it sideways in a shower of spark’s, leaking oil, hissing steam shouting ..Geronimo !!!!! “
2005 SV996R SOLD
1988 FZR750/1040 race bike SOLD
1988 FZR750/1000 - the next project CHANGING THE LOOK AGAIN, BUT STILL ON THE ROAD
Now he's got a KAWASAKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nope - Sold that one too
Dang - he’s got a Triumph now
Nope - The Triumph got written off
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I guess you'll be looking for ideas for a new paint scheme soon as well...
No need apparently. Still havn"t seen it but not much damage. Wasn"t going fast. I just got a lot of air
Well that's another bit of good news
“I venture not to cross that finish line in a neat, tidy well ordered bundle, but to slide across it sideways in a shower of spark’s, leaking oil, hissing steam shouting ..Geronimo !!!!! “
2005 SV996R SOLD
1988 FZR750/1040 race bike SOLD
1988 FZR750/1000 - the next project CHANGING THE LOOK AGAIN, BUT STILL ON THE ROAD
Now he's got a KAWASAKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nope - Sold that one too
Dang - he’s got a Triumph now
Nope - The Triumph got written off
I had big highside (they tell me) on YZF. Got home 5 days later nursing 9 fractures spread across both arms and both sides of rib cage. Out for the season with plenty of time to ponder things. Ouch!
