[xiamenmom]

Add my boyfriend to roll call of MX riders who were injured doing what they loved the most. He became a T12 incomplete in 1988 during a race in the DC area. He also still loves the sport and follows it on TV and occasionally attends a race - we're going to the US Open SX event in Las Vegas in October. I asked him if he'd still have raced if he knew that he'd end up in a chair from it, and he says yes, it was worth it do something he loved for so many years.

[MxDisasterGrl]

Hi, I'm April and my bf is the one that has been riding since he was a kid. It's pretty much his life as well. He still rides every weekend or chance he gets. It scares me and makes me terribly jealous all at once. I got really interested myself a couple of years ago. And started taking it up. Didn't take me long at all before I was hurt. I'm a single mom of two kids, and now i'm far from being a normal mom. My injury was a T12 incomplete. Really close for me as well, but i have read (if you want some hope) in some places that there still is a chance for a small % of complete injuries. I don't personally know about it, but I would have to believe that anything is possible. MY injury was over a year ago, and things look better than the docs ever said they would; however, you never really feel the same. No matter what people say to you. I miss riding on my dirtbike (RMZ250), my horse, working out, and just staying active, but i have to keep on to the mere thought that one day down the road it will come back. Some may say i'm not grasping reality, but i think that reality is that when you give up hope, you give up a part of yourself, physically and emotionally. I've had 5 people give me testimonials since my accident. All of which were terribly hurt w/ similar SC injuries. One man was shot in his spine by his ex-wife (i live in the south, lol), and I forget his level of injury, but he was all jacked up. It took him 4yrs in a wheelchair, and lots of painful water therapy, but he said w/out it, he never would have gotten better. All this coming from a 24/hr wrecker driver that lifts heavy things, and walks all the time. I was shocked! Another good friend said his brother fell from a latter really high up. He was broken from his C4 down. 3 years later, he's married, having kids, and working full time just like all the other normal people. There are ways to ride dirtbikes and still be parapalegic. Look it up. What else do we have to lose, right??? Just some insite.

[MxDisasterGrl]

glamisgirl, on Jun 3 2009, 12:49 PM, said:

I also crashed at Pismo Beach. In August it will be 4 years. I was riding my 450R quad. Hit a kid berm track went over the bars, then my bike drove over me. Really really miss riding. Still camp though. Any other girls that crashed bikes out there?

Yes, I did. I wasn't even good. I was just trying to learn my new RMZ250. I thought it was too big. I was my first bike ever!. Well actually i bought an old 2001 RM125 2stroke. It was a piece of junk, so i got rid of it and my bf insisted on the 250. I thought it was too much, and too heavy and just too tall for me. He assured me plenty of other girls rode them. But i'm pretty little, so i was skeptical. Still i rode. I wish i never would have felt that fear, becuz that's what hurt me i think. I just paniced w/ 3rd gear wide open. Flew over 100ft or more at about 2-3 stories high. Went off the track and into the dirt, pine treed parking lot. Landed the worst way possible. Flat on two tires. Didn't put one scratch on my bike. I remembering thinking man, my bf will be so proud!! I was so inexperienced my bf said i didn't even know how to crash. I was like...huh...didn't know there were certain ways. But i wasn't even jumping, i was taking it super slow. I also remember seeing my children playing in the sand while i was at my peak in the air. just praying to god for me not to leave them so young. If you'll just let me live through this. There are lots of days where i have thought, "man, i should have been more specific..." It hurts living this way, but i haven't given up hope yet. I'm seeing some progress, and my kids still think it's possible. I'm not married, and i really want to just walk down that aisle one day, ya know???

[Proud Wife]

My husband became paralyzed a few months ago during a casual weekend ride on his dirt bike (Incomplete T10 ASIA A). It was his favorite hobby, and he was a skilled rider who had bikes since childhood. Tell your fiance he is DEFINITELY not alone! We welcomed our first child, a baby boy, just five weeks after my husband's accident, so we experienced life's ultimate highs and ultimate lows in a very short timespan. It has been heart-wrenching to watch him mourn life as he knew it, but I guess that is why I totally undertsand why he's still watching all the darn motocross races! (even though he did sell off his two bikes). Some of the most inspiring people I will ever have the privledge to learn from are now living in a wheelchair, my husband included. I put together this montage as a reminder to my hubby how far he has come in his recovery and that he is never alone.

http://www.onetrueme...tm_medium=email

[AussieBrad]

Yes I am another "MX TRAGIC" shattered T3-T5 classed as a T4complete Asia A...

Their just words,I am still the same person as I was before my accident.
Riding my YZ250 2stroke flat out across a paddock, didnt see the 2meter deep 10meter wide gully..ouch!!!
My wife and mate heard my bike stop,ran over and my mate had to resuscitate me. I was gone for all money.
Woke up a 5wks later in ICU with no idea what had happened and my wife standing beside my bed with a smile on her face..Best site in the world.

I would love to go back riding but I Know the Wife would be gone!!Love her to much for that to happen!!!

[Chairman7748]

Jessesgirl511, on 19 March 2009 - 06:13 PM, said:

Hey guys- not trying to kill the mood of all these other topics, but I'm just curious of who all was injured from riding dirtbikes? My fiance, Jesse, was riding out at Pismo Beach Sand dunes here in Cali when another rider jumped over him (by accident) and his back tire caught his helmet and flew him off his bike, snapping his neck back. He is considered a C-4 ASIA B Incomplete.
He does not resent the sport at all, we still watch AMA races almost every weekend and watch his 7 y/o nephew practice his new 65. It breaks my heart to see him watch though, he misses riding so much! It was his life. Well anyway, just wondering if there are some similar stories out there and just want to tell him of some so he doesnt feel so alone.

Thanks
Sierra

P.S. Honda riders represent!! LOL

[Chairman7748]

Yes. On April 20th 1986 I took out two trees with my shoulders out in Texas Canyon off highway 14 in so cal. I am a t-2 complete with rods from t-1 to t-11 and another plate in my neck and also a hip replacement on my left side . I race cars NHRA and have a 19 year old son . I have had all kinds of surgeries and still keep trucking, been divorced twice now and I think I won't be getting married again. I love shooting and having fun.

I was on my xr 600r when I crashed. Should have been on my Harley oh well
You can do pretty much anything u want to just takes more time hang in there and be cool

I can be reached if any questions , I have been through a lot from anemia to chrones to stenosis of the spine and I have a colostomy bag to boot .

I manage to stay pretty healthy don't drink anymore but need fentanyyl pain patches to survive
Steve





Steve

This post has been edited by Chairman7748: 04 May 2011 - 06:17 AM

[Racerx159]

I'm broke at t9/t10. Morning practice for a points race, throttle got stuck over the grandstand jumps WOT in 4th gear and hit a retaining fence post head first in the air and to top it off the bike landed on me. That was in 2002, really turned my life upsidedown. I'm about to start riding again and want to try to qualify for the Xgames within the next couple years. I gotta say the ricky james inspired me to get going again, when I saw him jumping and all that I was totally stoked. I also have to say thanks to ricky's dad for sending me picks of rickys bike setup and I hope to see you at the Xgames Soon.

[RZ94]

YEP, 8 YEARS AGO......CR250 PIPED.....DIRT BIKES AND HARD ROADBASE DON'T MIX. TO MUCH NADS AND NUFFIN FER THE BIKE TO GRAB ONTO.

[harlton]

Hi Jessesgirl,

I don't know if this is any consilation but I was originally injured, in a roadrace crash at mosport, turn 2. # of guys had gone down ahead of me, bikes and bits everywhere, I don't know what happened exactly, but I remember seeing the front wheel in front of my right toes, at about 125mph and thinking oh shit, just before being thrown over the handle bars. The next thing I was sliding across the track on my face shield, before it heated up and grabbed the asphalt and my body was pitched up in the air again. I remember going up, but not coming down or going over the wall. The bike and I slammed into the hillside. Turn 2 is known for being bad, especially in those days, so I was very lucky. I know it's not a dirt bike, but it is a bike. Best wishes Ian

[dewittmxracer29]

injured in 2009 while racing at my first arenacross event, bike threw me 10 feet onto my head and for some reason broke my back instead of my new, guess i was lucky

[richo]

YES unfotunitly im in your club too.australia day 3years ago out in the bush,by my self,middel of no where.on a450CRF honda,crusing up a big sandhill,then diddent see it a cut road in the hill,about 2foot deep over the handelbars i went.soon as i hit the ground i new i had broken my back coulent move,for some reason could hardly move my arms at the time ither.was a stinking hot day,T shirt on,sand was burning my guts,but that wasent the worst,the ants had me donefor they were moving in for a feed on me eyeballs.i was lying there thinking this is it,never see me kids again or family,you know over.i did tell some freinds were i was riding,but i ended up miles away from there.anyway felt like hours and hours lying there a farmer drove in and found me.T4 later.


But tommorw if i could i would get on that bike and keep on enjoying life.RICHO

[s_lynn]

i think the original post is quite old but anyway.. yes injured on a bike but on a sportbike. i rode dirtbikes as a kid if that counts. (and Honda all the way) I don't resent 'bikes' but like your bf its a love that hurts very much. I dont watch any motogp races and ive quietly separated myself from a group of friends who i used to ride and hang with. Sad but its too hard when bikes is what brought you together. i plan to go back now and read everyone's posts in this thread. im sure there are similar stories. peace