This was my first year of racing and it seems like more people crash than do not. I know I did and was just curious about everyone else.
Anyone make it through a full season this year without crashing?
Not me.
I didn't crash in 2006, 2005, and 1992.
:cheers: I did not crash any in 2007 Knock on :jerkoff: for next year. Crashing sux :boink:
I didn't even run off the track. And had just a couple close calls.
Anthony Dean didn't-Congratulations on that by the way!
There are two kinds of racers:
Those that have crashed, and those that will crash.
And yeah, crashing sux. Big Time.
Not me. I went down twice at Blackhawk this year. Low slide at Turn 4 and high side at Turn 6. So the left side of my bike got really beat up. Good thing Mark & Kyle at RRP is fixin things up! Now where's that Visa card at? :spank:
Not me...
Twice at Road America, and the bad one at blackhawk :banghead:
I wish I could say I did... because that would have meant I got to race at least one more time this year. SHORT season for me :wah:
Maybe next year I can fall down :biggrin:
Crashed twice. once in an MCRA challenge series race, highside coming out of the chicane, and once at road america, lost the front wheel making a pass for the lead, easy lowside into a triple barrel rolling double back flip that the russian judge screwed me on and gave me a 7.2
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oh yeah, congrats to Anthony for not crashing so he could help fix my bike
oh and since its so close to Thanksgiving......does anyone have a turkey basting pan
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Quote from: Jason748 on November 16, 2007, 10:52:19 AM
Not me...
Twice at Road America, and the bad one at blackhawk :banghead:
Yeah...developing sort of a LOVE/HATE thing with BHF.... :banghead:
Quote from: wolf44 on November 16, 2007, 12:40:32 PM
oh and since its so close to Thanksgiving......does anyone have a turkey basting pan
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All that wasted vinyl.....
tell me about it
Quote from: wolf44 on November 16, 2007, 12:47:25 PM
tell me about it
Don't worry Dano....We just ordered A BUNCH of vinyl...we gotcha covered :thumb:
hey, i'm trying to keep you guys in business...shall I put you guys on salary?
Quote from: wolf44 on November 16, 2007, 12:40:32 PM
oh and since its so close to Thanksgiving......does anyone have a turkey basting pan
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Who let that bike thru Tech???? :wtf:
I'm sure it didn't look like that when it got a sticker!! :ass: :biggrin:
Quote from: Burt Munro on November 16, 2007, 01:07:03 PM
Who let that bike thru Tech???? :wtf:
I'm sure it didn't look like that when it got a sticker!! :ass: :biggrin:
"Hello, my name is Rick and I am a professional shit disturber. :biggrin:"
You know, Rick...its no fun smitin' you anymore...so I just give you + karma instead! :thumb:
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Mandatory apparel for all racers!!! Guaranteed to reduce your healing time by 5%! Or at least make the time go by faster. Sure conversation starter as you hobble around on crutches!!
You can order them here http://mcraracing.com/documents/apparelorder.doc
(but they don't show the price for the long sleeve version)
I never got mine with my membership :whine:
you workin the Blues game tonight? No spongebob tonight, rollin with a guy from my office.
Quote from: wolf44 on November 16, 2007, 12:59:39 PM
hey, i'm trying to keep you guys in business...shall I put you guys on salary?
Mark did say something about starting an automatic payroll deduction plan!! :ass:
Quote from: tstruyk on November 16, 2007, 01:20:37 PM
I never got mine with my membership :whine:
you workin the Blues game tonight? No spongebob tonight, rollin with a guy from my office.
Yup... big night tonight - Al McInnis Hall of Fame ceremony.
Is Patrick going to let you borrow the big fuzzy earmuffs so that you can play the bitch??? (or at least the pink sunglasses??) :ass:
Quote from: Burt Munro on November 16, 2007, 01:22:49 PM
Mark did say something about starting an automatic payroll deduction plan!! :ass:
I like it! :thumb:
Quote from: wolf44 on November 16, 2007, 12:40:32 PM
oh and since its so close to Thanksgiving......does anyone have a turkey basting pan
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LOL!!! That pic is too funny! Seriously, now I'm trying to explain to my coworkers why I'm laughing so hard when I'm "working".
I had a good record of one a year until this year. :wah: Good thing my leathers have a credit card pocket.
OOo, I almost forgot. Does anyone happen to have any pics of me crashing? I've always wondered what it looks like.
I crashed once in 06' when I went straight off turn 7 at Blackhawk. Thank goodness for the ant hill. No crashes for 07. Although I had a few close calls at Road America. :cheers:
BTW Alexa not everyone crashes. My Dad raced 86-88 for ccs/ama and brought home his share of 1st-5th place plaques and didn't crash once. :biggrin:
Quote from: backMARKr on November 16, 2007, 12:45:42 PM
Yeah...developing sort of a LOVE/HATE thing with BHF.... :banghead:
Yep... that place has claimed both of my collarbones!
You forgot one, the last race at MAM, turn 1 in the rain. :spank: You still owe me parts from that one. :biggrin:
Quote from: wolf44 on November 16, 2007, 12:38:42 PM
Crashed twice. once in an MCRA challenge series race, highside coming out of the chicane, and once at road america, lost the front wheel making a pass for the lead, easy lowside into a triple barrel rolling double back flip that the russian judge screwed me on and gave me a 7.2
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I haven't crashed in the last 4 seasons, but I'm also going slow for an Expert racing a GSXR 750 (1:16 - 1:18 at BFR).
No crashes for me!! KNOCK ON WOOD!!! a couple run offs in the same weekend and a couple slips in the rain but no bad luck from any backmarkers or from me doing something stupid!!
I did pretty good this year with only one wreck. though it was a roughest get off i've ever had by far. on the front straight of all places.
i had a good time though. had some close calls, got sideways, and swapped paint several times this year and kept it up and out of the grass.
fatboy
The championship means you were pushing hard with no crashes as an Am. Congrats and that is impressive.
Court Jester,
How did you crash going straight? Sounds dangerous because we all know straights are where we go the fastest.
i have no clue what happened. i let off the gas and waiting for the guy beside me to hit the breaks before i hit mine. don't know why but the bike started hopping side to side before i touched the breaks and i did a 135mph face plant and 80 to 100 yards worth of flips. went away with a concussion, busted blood vessel in my eye, and a broken ankle. Not bad considering the speed and how many times I flipped.
no crashes in '05 or '06. probably did close to 90 races total. '07 got me though
Quote from: Redbuell on November 16, 2007, 08:54:28 PM
fatboy
The championship means you were pushing hard with no crashes as an Am. Congrats and that is impressive.
Court Jester,
How did you crash going straight? Sounds dangerous because we all know straights are where we go the fastest.
Thanks for the comment..i think i missed the opener at daytona and CMP..i just knew that i needed to ride hard to win a championship and sitting in the pits working on the bike while everyone else races is NO way to win!! Congrats to all, fast or slow, that didnt "eat it" this year..
Quote from: GSXR RACER MIKE on November 16, 2007, 05:18:39 PM
I haven't crashed in the last 4 seasons, but I'm also going slow for an Expert racing a GSXR 750 (1:16 - 1:18 at BFR).
Mike, in your case it would be more of a 'tip-over incident' than a crash!! :kicknuts:
Quote from: Burt Munro on November 17, 2007, 10:35:24 AM
Mike, in your case it would be more of a 'tip-over incident' than a crash!! :kicknuts:
The next time your cowering in my presence (down on your hands and knees just to look at me on my bike :spank: ) I might have to remember to have a 'tip-over-incident' just for you! :thumb:
No crashes for me in 10 events this year which was my first expert year. I made good progress throughout the year missing my first expert podium by a wheel length (I was on a 600, and a 750 which I had passed only 15 seconds earlier motored me at the line)
Quote from: gpz11 on November 16, 2007, 02:33:55 PM
You forgot one, the last race at MAM, turn 1 in the rain. :spank: You still owe me parts from that one. :biggrin:
What do I owe you? I thought I gave you my rearset?
Quote from: Burt Munro on November 16, 2007, 01:07:03 PM
Who let that bike thru Tech???? :wtf:
I'm sure it didn't look like that when it got a sticker!! :ass: :biggrin:
well larry sure as he!! didn't want to let me through. Kevin came by and talked to me and said since I crashed the day before i had an "exemption"
the best part was after larry got done chewing my ass for wasting his time bringing my bike through tech, kevin looked at him, pointed at me and said "give him a sticker"
I'll never forget the look on larrys face
I used to be pretty good about not crashing. Didn't fall off between 02 and 05. The last two years have had 2 crashes each. I think I am done with crashing now though.. ;)
Don't go to MAM Spooner!
I hear mam is notorious for having swingarms break
NOPE! only once this year, in the rain, Daytona-ASRA Thunder bike...... Put me out the rest of the year. Come'on MARCH!!!!
Quote from: wolf44 on November 17, 2007, 07:59:21 PM
I hear mam is notorious for having swingarms break
brake levers too, but that may have been before you knew Nick. MAM does hate Nick, the brake lever was at the end of the straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Les Lambert on November 16, 2007, 09:40:04 AM
:cheers: I did not crash any in 2007 Knock on :jerkoff: for next year. Crashing sux :boink:
I didn't even run off the track. And had just a couple close calls.
I tried my best but Les rode right through it. :)
You did ride off the track though. :p
once a year 05 06 07 put me out since april. one good thing i got for $240,000.00 in hospital bills was a found this forum . can't wait for daytona.
i did not crash in 1990, did not start racing till 1991 though, only crashed once in 07 and 07, i thought that was pretty good
Quote from: Super Dave on November 16, 2007, 09:34:52 AM
Not me.
I didn't crash in 2006, 2005, and 1992.
Really? i could have sworn you crashed in front of me when you hit an oil spot in the chicane at RA!!
I didn't crash all season.
No crashes 1991 thru 2001 (tank slapper & near crash at Summit Pt in 1999 didn't count), Highside at MAM 2002 - many broken things & surgeries, none 2003 thru 2005, 2006 Crash at MPH following Polen around - collarbone, 2007 no crashes
In the 1 CCS and 1 ASRA events I competed in - I didn't fall off.... In the 3 Moto-St events I competed in Zero crashes..... In the 11 AMA events - I don't know for sure - I think I fell off 10 times... But considering the amount of times your on the track running 2 classes in AMA - I don't think it's that bad.... Some were my fault - some were due to other people and some do to track conditions.... The way I look at it - It's ok to fall if you know why you fell... You continue to learn all the time and if you can learn why you fell - you know what to do differently next time your in that situation....
Quote from: Mike829 on November 19, 2007, 10:42:37 PM
Really? i could have sworn you crashed in front of me when you hit an oil spot in the chicane at RA!!
In 2007.
Oh and I didn't fall off at the MX track the other day.....
2002=0
2003=1
2004=1
2005=2
2006=0
2007=0
My car crashed once in 2006, by someone and I'm not naming names, who will probably not live it down until the potatohead award goes someone else.
crash free in 07 and cant wait till 08!
Quote from: Burt Munro on November 16, 2007, 01:22:49 PM
Mark did say something about starting an automatic payroll deduction plan!! :ass:
well~~ I love it!
I have been pretty lucky... been racing since 1992 and had my last wreck in 1999 on my old Hawk in the rain at Summit...
zero wrecks with my 2000 SV-650 from 2000-2005 (though it fell off the stands my last weekend in 2005 at Summit Point Shendoah in the rain.. ugh!)
Swtiched to a GSXR-600 last year and have had a couple of close calls but have kept it looking nice til an amateur hit me at Summit Shenendoah this year.. nice scratches to show for it but no wreck...
Just trying to keep it in one piece every time I head out there..
No road crashes, but I did low-side Bob's (B&E Motorsports in MD) dirtbike last Sunday in my MX debut. (Not a race just tooling around)
Almost binned it again too...... came MIGHTY CLOSE to doing a front flip coming down from a little double. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!
I need to stay away from dirtbikes...... Uh oh, new hobby.
Quote from: Jason748 on November 16, 2007, 02:29:56 PM
Yep... that place has claimed both of my collarbones!
BHF - what's there to like about the place??... crashed once during a F40 race avoiding someone in front of me that cut my line which killed any chance at a SS championship, crashed in the rain during a GT light turn 6 and turn 6 again in practice - came up on a heavyweight that had already turned in. Cannot complain because I did not get hurt... No problems at RA or Topeka and I miss Gingerman and Autobahn
I can explain it easily. You can flying up the inside of me after I was turning in. You cleaned off my swingarm spool, dented my muffler and mid pipe. I remember braking for 6 and starting to turn in when out of the corner of my eye, I see a front wheel. WTF! The next thing, the back of my bike is sliding opposite of where I want to go. So I countersteer and go off into the grass. I stopped at the cornerworker station outside by the road. I look back and there you are lying in the middle of the track. I am glad that you were't hurt though. Shoot, if I remember correctly, I even helped you fix you bike!
Quote from: SV88 on November 28, 2007, 01:47:25 AM
BHF - what's there to like about the place??... crashed once during a F40 race avoiding someone in front of me that cut my line which killed any chance at a SS championship, crashed in the rain during a GT light turn 6 and turn 6 again in practice - came up on a heavyweight that had already turned in. Cannot complain because I did not get hurt... No problems at RA or Topeka and I miss Gingerman and Autobahn
Quote from: gpz11 on November 28, 2007, 06:43:03 AM
I can explain it easily. You can flying up the inside of me after I was turning in. You cleaned off my swingarm spool, dented my muffler and mid pipe. I remember braking for 6 and starting to turn in when out of the corner of my eye, I see a front wheel. WTF! The next thing, the back of my bike is sliding opposite of where I want to go. So I countersteer and go off into the grass. I stopped at the cornerworker station outside by the road. I look back and there you are lying in the middle of the track. I am glad that you were't hurt though. Shoot, if I remember correctly, I even helped you fix you bike!
This could be a good one, I better get the :pop: :biggrin:
Quote from: funsizeracing on November 28, 2007, 11:51:15 AM
This could be a good one, I better get the :pop: :biggrin:
Anybody else see a common theme here? :banghead:
Quote from: Burt Munro on November 28, 2007, 12:22:17 PM
Anybody else see a common theme here? :banghead:
Scares me to think how grumpy we are all going to be once it snows and winter REALLY sets in..... :ahhh:
Oh, it's all good. We need the downtime to recover and regroup for next year!
Crap, who am I kidding? Let's Race!
Quote from: backMARKr on November 28, 2007, 12:28:22 PM
Scares me to think how grumpy we are all going to be once it snows and winter REALLY sets in..... :ahhh:
Racing, only one unintentional dismount this year. I got taken out by a guy trying to run up underneath going into T3 at BHF in the Sep. round. Damn shame because I got a decent start and was hoping to get away with the fast guys and break into the :13s.
I can't tell if its a good or a bad thing overall because it kept me at 394 points by taking me out w/ no points for that race and the next one I was signed for.
I did well in the hand-full of races I entered this year. I had no issues even in practice. I am 42 years old with two kids and strictly ride in my comfort zone. It went to crap last weekend at a private track day put together by a friend. My comfort zone got way quicker. I lost the front in turn 2 at Jennings. Destroyed my left femur and broke my left arm. My new employer fired me just in time for Christmas. I am a total ass. I will pull through, but my kids pay the price. Be careful out there!
Quote from: Kelly Daniels on November 28, 2007, 06:34:22 PM
I did well in the hand-full of races I entered this year. I had no issues even in practice. I am 42 years old with two kids and strictly ride in my comfort zone. It went to crap last weekend at a private track day put together by a friend. My comfort zone got way quicker. I lost the front in turn 2 at Jennings. Destroyed my left femur and broke my left arm. My new employer fired me just in time for Christmas. I am a total ass. I will pull through, but my kids pay the price. Be careful out there!
Man, that sucks that you got fired!! What kind of asshole boss fires someone for an accident let alone right before the holidays..Get well soon!!