Winter Fun! Crash Tally Thread

[J Farrell / Speed Tech Motorsp]

I think this one will be a fun one. I would like to know how many crashes approximately you have been in while just roadracing.  :)

Me personally, I keep track of them all and I am now up to 53!! :o Well I have been roadracing for going on 12 years.

Lets see some numbers.

My worst injury was all in one crash at Mid Ohio in 1997. 2 broken bones in left foot, 1 in right, broken collarbone, 2 broken ribs and one heck of a bruised body!
Other injuries are only of last season with a dislocated pinky which still  bothers me today.

I have had some spectactular crashes in my day I'll tell you that. I have been one of the lucky riders who hardly gets injured. I'd better knock on wood so they say. I have managed to total 3 bikes alone at Road America.
Grattan has taken quite a few shares of crashes for me too. I miss that track. One of my favorites actually.

Funny thing is my worst injury ever was 3 crushed vertebras in my middle back area, 7 broken ribs & a puncture wound to my head back in 2000 while at work I fell off a roof and landed upside down on my head and back on a stepping stone in the grass. Ouch :o

Oh one other was crashing on a snowboard only 3 1/2 months after that and not remembering the whole day before that or 12 hrs after it happened. I couldn't walk for over 3-4 weeks. Lost my balance.
Hmm, maybe thats why I have a headache ???
Lets hear some stories,
Farrell

[G 97]

Hey Jason, where in Oshkosh are you located?

As far as crashing goes I think I'm around mid twenty something.   Worst was at BHF.  Inner cranial bleeding, two(C5-C7) vertibrea, clavical, scapula, seperated shoulder, and tweeked elbow. My left side took a beating.  ;D
Woke up at St. Anthony's in Rockford a day later.   ::)

[J Farrell / Speed Tech Motorsp]

Ouch! That sucked huh! :-/
My shop is on the Hwys 41 & 44. If your coming south down 41 through Oshkosh get off on 44 you'll see the shop on the off ramp right there. Can't miss it. You might even see all the grass ripped up from our lastest dirt bike excapade if it isn't snowing again.
Address is:
Speed Tech Motorsports
2300 S. Washburn St.
Oshkosh, WI 54904
I'm actually on west frontage street Washburn next to the highway.

[DanO966]

Well just this year
I fell down 12 times.  
I fell 4 times out of the lead of races this year.  
I should be able to make a few year without crashing now huh?? :-/

[J Farrell / Speed Tech Motorsp]

I guess I'm the king of riding the front tire hard into a turn. I just keep pushing it until it slides then I know where the limit is. Sometimes I have to fall to find it.
Funny thing is when I crash. I always say give me my bike or my back up bike now cause I'm ready to ride because I finally found out how much the front can take. I usually almost always go faster after I crash.
I'm the same way on a dirtbike. I just push the front until I lowside and I'll do it over & over until I get it right on the edge of sliding and losing it.
I have countless times of losing the front end and picking it back up and finishing the race.
-Farrell

[J Farrell / Speed Tech Motorsp]

Dan I saw your crash @ Gingerman this year. Spectacular! That was an interesting race to watch in lead changes. Many crashes in that race.
I usually don't crash while racing but trust me I've had my share of that too. That puts salt on the wound! >:(
Gotta say you can really throw a glove! I was waiting for the helmet to take a flying too!
-Farrell

[DanO966]

Gotta say you can really throw a glove! I was waiting for the helmet to take a flying too!
-Farrell

ya ya...I figured I better not throw a $700 X11...lol
I've cost myself enough..lol

I'm hoping next year (I'll either be on a 06 R6 or a 06 GSXR600) I'll have the front end issues sorted out and I'll quit falling on the front.  
This year out of my 12 crashes, only 2 times were totally my fault (once trail braking too much and the other time I got a false neutral and tucked the front).  The 05 R6 is good at pushing the front end thru a turn and I'm kinda like you I just keep going faster and faster...until I fall...
I gotta start taking tips from Larry D, he parks it in the turns but he's hard as hell on the brakes and awesome on the gas to make up for it.   He gets his bike in there fast turned and stood back up to get on the gas super fast

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Gotta say you can really throw a glove! I was waiting for the helmet to take a flying too!
-Farrell

WAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I second that!  We should send Mr. Ortega to DAN-ger managment training! ;)

I stopped counting.  I think that my current set of Vansons has 7 crashes on it.

[Mark Bernard]

I never keep count. But it gets less and less every season. My first season out I crashed out at least a dozen times... This past season it was twice. One my fault, one was not.

The one that was my fault was a really cool crash though. BFR in the rain, last lap, trying to overtake another bike at the line, didn't do it... got off of the race line by about a foot, hit the brakes at about the tower and down I went. I slid from the tower all the way down to turn one. Farthest slide I have ever had!

What I didnt know was that is was the final lap. I thought I had one more lap to go, thats why I was trying so hard to pass. (there was some confusion on the flags, I never saw the checkered)

Any how.. the bike seemed to tuck the front and just slid along with me till the bike hit the grass and it just tore the poor girl apart! Pieces went flying everywhere! I got to my feet realizing that I was directly in the race line of T-1. I popped to my feet, ran to the bike, the corner worker helped me get it up to no avail. It was just too damaged to continue.

Now keep in mind that I thought there was 1 lap left so I was a little more than pissed at myself for crashing out. So.... I tried to turn my gas tank into a golf ball!

Bottom line is that I finished in 5th place in that race sliding on my azz!

Some of you may rember that one. Kevin Clark crashed out in the same place I did (on or about lap 2 or 3.) So we had the honor taking the ride of shame together back to the pits.

(I told him to wave like we were riding on a parade float)  ;D

[Jeff]

I don't keep count, but I do write race reports for each weekend, so here it is:

2000 = 0
2001 = 4 crashes (out of 6 weekends)
2002 = 3 crashes
2003 = 3 crashes
2004 = 3 crashes
2005 = 3 crashes

Damn...  I'm in a rut on that 3 crash thing.  My worst crash was going head-first into the tirewall of T4 at BHF.  The spectators said I was still in the air when I hit it.  It was so hard I thought I hit the bike.  I was scared that I broke my neck.  Turned out to be a couple of compressed vertabrae in my neck.

Lots of bruises, pulls, strains & sprains, and one mildly broken ankle.  But thus far (knock on wood) nothing that I would deem serious.

[StumpysWife]

Damn...  I'm in a rut on that 3 crash thing.

Stumpy had 3 in one weekend in 2004 for cripes sake.  None too bad.  So don't feel bad about 3 a year!

In 2004, Stumpy fell 6 times in 10 weekends.  I don't remember 2003 except he fell twice at Road America that year, too.  

In 2005 he fell twice at Road America in April and once on his Giant TCR-2--the worst road rash he's ever had from a bike.

Heather

[DanO966]

Stumpy had 3 in one weekend in 2004 for cripes sake.  None too bad.  So don't feel bad about 3 a year!

In 2004, Stumpy fell 6 times in 10 weekends.  I don't remember 2003 except he fell twice at Road America that year, too.  

In 2005 he fell twice at Road America in April and once on his Giant TCR-2--the worst road rash he's ever had from a bike.

Heather

ha I fell down 4 time at daytona in the spring :P
nothin' nice