Traction Control and high sides

Jolly Roger V4 said:

I have home pics of Go Show my friend!!!

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He was definitely a character

He had unbelievable talent on track and dirt too. Many scraps with Mladin back in Australia dirt biking and here with AMA. Too many lattes got him in trouble though!!

RickD996 said:

It's interesting, the 'feeling safe' mentality. In the UK, when wearing helmets became compulsory, motorcycle accident rate went up.

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It's said that the safest car would be one with a big blade sticking out of the steering wheel.
The way I see people charging around cocooned in their big SUVs on our tiny British roads, the more inclined I am to agree.

cl955 said:

It's said that the safest car would be one with a big blade sticking out of the steering wheel.
The way I see people charging around cocooned in their big SUVs on our tiny British roads, the more inclined I am to agree.

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In the big crash that did the foot injury I was in a car with a full roll cage. Rolled the car several times, When the car finally came to rest I remember looking around and saying to myself ‘woe, I’m still alive, and not even hurt, but my car is ...... up beyond repair :-/“. I didn’t even feel the foot injury…when the track worker came I was talking to him telling him I’m fine. The I go to climb out of the car through the passenger side window and when I lifted my legs up over the passenger seat to climb over there it was like a sink faucet with the water turned on amount of blood coming out of the back of my shoe. I think I was in shock but couldn’t feel the injury at all, no pain whatsoever. I’ll never forget the track workers eyes when I decided ti take off my shoe to see how bad it was, he was like ‘no don’t do it’, when I did the back half of my foot just flopped over held on only by my Achilles tendon (lucky that last bit, made recovery easier that my Achilles wasn’t severed, but an artery was…and when I took my shoe off blood started spurting like 8 feet with each heartbeat. The track worker’s face went white as bone lol.

The floor had buckled up in the tumbling, sheared into the foot, and pulled itself out all while the car was rolling.

Full roll cage, no other injuries other than some minor scapes and bruises. Had a Han’s device and everything.

Fk'n A fk'B, and fk'n C.
I just broke my neck once as my bike went into bits and I through 50 meters of blackberries. I thought that was a big deal.

Vbreeze said:

Fk'n A fk'B, and fk'n C.
I just broke my neck once as my bike went into bits and I through 50 meters of blackberries. I thought that was a big deal.

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Geezus man lol

Just a broken neck.


Could be worse, was there on a weekend where a guy killed his girlfriend while she was doing a ride along, no harness, just a regular seat belt in the passenger side where she was, she slid under the lap belt.

In the half mile racing events we do occasionally someone quite literally loses their head every couple of years where the car starts tumbling at 200 mph and at those speeds and torque forces the guys head pops off his body and goes rolling down the track inside his helmet.

Other than Isle of Man crashes bikes don’t do that stuff most of the time in controlled track or race environments.

Turn 2 sears missed the downshift (and the apex). Had been dicing with a guy who kept coming back by on the straights. Rolled it on a gear high. Knucklehead. Red mist bs. Corner worker jumped out of the way so he didn't get landed on. Wish he'd stayed in place. Big air. I've caught more highsides than have been spit but the wheel speed differential when it spooled up hopeless. Mid neck vertebrae (still reminds me) but managed not to break my neck. Least the bike and I were on different paths. Brand new helmet literally first race (my race partner warned me). The thing that always bugged me, you low side the helmet was never touched and regardless they cut the straps off.

DCPanni said:

High sided way back in the day well before TC, going into turn one at Summit Point Main on cold tires for morning practice. Before TC nasty highsides were pretty common. Was on Dunlop D364 tires.

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D364's. I was thinking I was the oldest guy on here.

baggerman said:

D364's. I was thinking I was the oldest guy on here.

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Well I’m 52, can’t be too many of you on here older than me lol

Met a guy at Autoclub Speedway that was 74 years old, and faster than me by a good margin

In all fairness though he had been racing longer than I’ve been alive lol

Steven31371 said:

Well I’m 52, can’t be too many of you on here older than me lol

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I'm 60 this year, started riding 1975 only just stopped after a dirt bike accident last year.

There's a guy on youtube at the nurburing on a V4. He's about 70. Seriously fast, tidy guy. When I turned 65 I gave all my dirt bikes away.

baggerman said:

D364's. I was thinking I was the oldest guy on here.

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I ran those takeoffs on the street. 1988 Ninja 600