Back to square 1 after my accident recently

[Demondosage]

So now since dad won’t be riding moto with his son anymore, my son wants to get into racing drift cars. I’m like dude, can’t you just play soccer or baseball and do something fucking normal? Does everything have to involve speed and high risks like this?

 

[combover]

I won’t get back on the dirt bike after this, but the difficult part is my son looking at it like dad taking something from him that he loves. He associates riding with traveling together, camping, etc. But I have to stick around and stay in one piece for my family. And I don’t wanna see him ever go through this or worse, and what he doesn’t understand is that at the level he rides it’s a strong possibility. It just sucks, but I have to do the best thing for everyone rt now. There is no getting back on the bike and half assing it, I know myself, I would go rt back to riding as hard as I could

Sorry to hear about your wreck. What happened? Me and my son ride and occasionally race. He's 16 now and has had a few concussions. We wads himself up bad at washougal national amateur days.

I picked up a car this summer and haven't ridden my bike since shougie in Been hitting the drag strip. We've been riding forever and same thing, the camping, traveling, race and practice days, it always been our thing since he was 2. With age comes a cage and I'm ready to sell the bikes for car parts and maybe a project for me and him. I haven't even watched that last two mx national races and Ive seen every single race for the last 15 years, interest took a nose dive after him wadding up hard going up horsepower hill. Then tried to race later and ended puking all over himself while racing. Bike still has puke all over it lol.

What do you ride? I got a '19 crf450r and he's on a '19 crf250r.

My good riding buddies have already switched, one went to side by sides and the other to mini jet boats. There are still safe ways to get that adrenaline fix. Heal up brother.

 

[Demondosage]

Sorry to hear about your wreck. What happened? Me and my son ride and occasionally race. He's 16 now and has had a few concussions. We wads himself up bad at washougal national amateur days.

I picked up a car this summer and haven't ridden my bike since shougie in Been hitting the drag strip. We've been riding forever and same thing, the camping, traveling, race and practice days, it always been our thing since he was 2. With age comes a cage and I'm ready to sell the bikes for car parts and maybe a project for me and him. I haven't even watched that last two mx national races and Ive seen every single race for the last 15 years, interest took a nose dive after him wadding up hard going up horsepower hill. Then tried to race later and ended puking all over himself while racing. Bike still has puke all over it lol.

What do you ride? I got a '19 crf450r and he's on a '19 crf250r.

My good riding buddies have already switched, one went to side by sides and the other to mini jet boats. There are still safe ways to get that adrenaline fix. Heal up brother.

I ride a yz250f myself, son is on a kx85. At my level a 450 is just too much bike for me, especially if we do trails. We were doing both trails and tracks, both with a high level of risk rt? Thing is I’m sitting here in hospital now thinking abt riding, lol.
I love the gym though, plus being able to walk

 

[combover]

I ride a yz250f myself, son is on a kx85. At my level a 450 is just too much bike for me, especially if we do trails. We were doing both trails and tracks, both with a high level of risk rt? Thing is I’m sitting here in hospital now thinking abt riding, lol.
I love the gym though, plus being able to walk

Track or trail is a risk. High speed swapping and crashing in mx, or break your leg in the middle of nowhere on a trail. I probably won't sell our bikes but either way, getting faster and clearing more obstacles is no longer on my priority list.

 

[Demondosage]

Track or trail is a risk. High speed swapping and crashing in mx, or break your leg in the middle of nowhere on a trail. I probably won't sell our bikes but either way, getting faster and clearing more obstacles is no longer on my priority list.

I hear ya, it only gets worse when riding in a group because peer pressure sets in and we probably ride a lot faster than we should. When one person clears something the first thing he does is tells his buddy that he can clear it too. “Yea man, just make sure you are in the top of 3rd or bottom 4th and you’ll sail it” and this shit can lead to a bad day sometimes. Shit man, guy I was riding with that day has already called me at the hospital saying stuff like “yea, you’ll be back to riding soon, you’ll get back on the bike”.

 

[RGL90]

@Demondosage what were you riding ? 4 stroke? 250 450? 2 strokes ? Just curious , I ride myself

 

[RGL90]

@Demondosage what were you riding ? 4 stroke? 250 450? 2 strokes ? Just curious , I ride myself

Oh just read up and saw, never mind

 

[Demondosage]

@Demondosage what were you riding ? 4 stroke? 250 450? 2 strokes ? Just curious , I ride myself

Yea, I’m more of a 4 stroke guy myself. I like the broad range of power in each gear.

 

[combover]

4 stroke def easier to ride on track, got that smooth power delivery.
My 450 has 3 ignition maps, I ride it on the tamest map and it's still feels like it's on a gram of tren haha

 

[Demondosage]

4 stroke def easier to ride on track, got that smooth power delivery.
My 450 has 3 ignition maps, I ride it on the tamest map and it's still feels like it's on a gram of tren haha

I like the idea of the free ride program that eliminates a lot of the engine braking. One thing about yz’s is they have pretty significant engine braking, often making turns more difficult to run through with speed.

so basically I got fucked up due to going into a birm way too fast and losing my line, accidentally pulling more throttle and going over the birm and dropping about 10’ and landing straight on my back/shoulder and bike hit me same time I smashed the ground. It was one of those wrecks where I knew I was fucked, all I could do was brace for impact

 

[adamcarpenter]

You can always switch to 4 wheelers or jeeps. Playing in the mud and off roading isn’t the same as what you were doing but is relatively safe and tons of fun.

 

[Demondosage]

You can always switch to 4 wheelers or jeeps. Playing in the mud and off roading isn’t the same as what you were doing but is relatively safe and tons of fun.

For sure man

 

[MindlessWork]

After an accident like that, some reassessment surely is in order and I can relate as had a serious head injury that set me back years as had to relearn a few things and I've lost some of my sense of balance so had to adapt.

Any major accident surely will mean reassessing things...

 

[combover]

I like the idea of the free ride program that eliminates a lot of the engine braking. One thing about yz’s is they have pretty significant engine braking, often making turns more difficult to run through with speed.

so basically I got fucked up due to going into a birm way too fast and losing my line, accidentally pulling more throttle and going over the birm and dropping about 10’ and landing straight on my back/shoulder and bike hit me same time I smashed the ground. It was one of those wrecks where I knew I was fucked, all I could do was brace for impact

Damn, I hate that feeling once you're just along for the ride.

 

[Demondosage]

After an accident like that, some reassessment surely is in order and I can relate as had a serious head injury that set me back years as had to relearn a few things and I've lost some of my sense of balance so had to adapt.

Any major accident surely will mean reassessing things...

Oh I’ve definitely reassessed things as I’ve laid up in this damn hospital the past 2 wks! I’m hanging it up and buying a center console boat to go fishing

 

[MindlessWork]

Oh I’ve definitely reassessed things as I’ve laid up in this damn hospital the past 2 wks! I’m hanging it up and buying a center console boat to go fishing

Boating sounds like fun. My brother's considering buying one to go out on the open ocean.

 

[Delphi]

I know a lady who gave blood. She got dizzy and hit her head on the fall, and is now paralyzed from the hips down. What a reward for being a good person?

Look at the risks in life rationally, not necessarily based upon fear.

 

[Demondosage]

I know a lady who gave blood. She got dizzy and hit her head on the fall, and is now paralyzed from the hips down. What a reward for being a good person?

Look at the risks in life rationally, not necessarily based upon fear.

That’s horrible man! It’s hard to make sense out of things like that

 

[Demondosage]

Boating sounds like fun. My brother's considering buying one to go out on the open ocean.

I may go to the harbors with it, no way I’m experienced enough to go off-shore. Harbors aren’t as difficult to navigate and you can still land some pretty big fish harbor fishing

 

[Demondosage]

So I don't have the heart to hang up the bikes, I just can't do it. I sold my YZ250 this afternoon, and I'm looking at a Kawi KLX300R. I have this uncle that I rarely talk to, but he had been texting me lately and he has always been into snowmobiles and dual sport bikes. He doesn't ride crazy, but he enjoys himself. It sort of made me reassess the way we ride.

My issue was I was riding the wrong type of bike for me and it got me in trouble. Honestly, I rode tracks because that's what the kids wanted to do, and my idiot friend and I thought we were 15 years old again whenever we would hit the tracks. Well....I'm not 15 yrs old, and I like the gym, and it helps to stay in 1 piece to go to the gym!!

So then I thought, "I'll just stick to trails and tone it down" and I began looking at the KLX300 with the low end torque and slightly different power displacement and clutch response. So now I'm looking at that bike because I'm an idiot who can't stay off the bike!!

I got on my bike earlier and ran it up and down the street a few times before the buyer got to my house (since I hadn't started it since the wreck) and then walked back inside to argue with the wife about getting back on the thing 4 days after my hospital release.

Then when she overheard my plans to switch bikes and get a different one the argument got really bad!!

Sorry, but the pain of getting rid of something my son loves to do with me would hurt me more than 7 fractured ribs!! I can't do it. However, we did have a talk about the type of riding we would do when I got back on the bike and I told him that if it was a track day I'd be the grill master and bring my chair to sit in and watch, hahah