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<blockquote data-quote="ossagp" data-source="post: 212330" data-attributes="member: 1650"><p>Well, sooner or later you are going to give up being a "racer". I mean I can name people who are probably still going out to the track you mention, and still riding around and signing up and paying entry fees. At the point you got hurt, you were still growing as a racer (I am betting). So you feel you are going to short change yourself if you don't go back to it. Very understandable. You may be the exception. I thought I was. When I was 12 I was put into a coma in a 'friendly' fight. My skull was fractured and the bone depressed and settled against the brain with all the abrasions and bruises that come with that. I fought again. I boxed again. Never thought about what could happen.</p><p></p><p>When I was 17 I started racing and did well (I lived in calif then). When I was 20 I got hit by another bike (first trun crash). My legs went numb, feet went numb, I couldn't stand and I was afraid to talk. About the time they got everything untangled I was lifted up and my friend told me he had my bike running and almost put me on it. I could feel my feet by then, but my head was not exactly working. I rolled to the line, we restarted (TT race) and I ended up 3rd and went home. My next race was 7 weeks later, and I hadn't forgotten about that feeling or how much it hurt to move for weeks. I went over a jump practicing for a race in West Germany, landed badly and roughly, and my legs were lost to me. I didn't crash, but fell over when I stopped since my legs weren't working. That time I went to a hospital. Broken transverses and disks split horizontally. I went back to racing, but it was never far from my mind. I went at it for two more years, still in the pro and expert class. I wasn't really a racer anymore. I just couldn't get past that feeling. I have been back on various kinds of tracks, but each time I think about what can happen and I just don't feel like pushing the envelope anymore. 46 years hasn't erased that, or the fun and the faith I had in myself. Maybe it kept me alive.</p><p></p><p>We all know our time to get out is going to come. There isn't a number you can put on it, if you are me. Maybe it is time for you to find a new way to enjoy a motorcycle with less risk. Maybe it staying off the street. Maybe it is time to find that thing you will try to replace motocross with. Good luck, and I am not hard to find.</p><p></p><p>Andy Thickstun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ossagp, post: 212330, member: 1650"] Well, sooner or later you are going to give up being a "racer". I mean I can name people who are probably still going out to the track you mention, and still riding around and signing up and paying entry fees. At the point you got hurt, you were still growing as a racer (I am betting). So you feel you are going to short change yourself if you don't go back to it. Very understandable. You may be the exception. I thought I was. When I was 12 I was put into a coma in a 'friendly' fight. My skull was fractured and the bone depressed and settled against the brain with all the abrasions and bruises that come with that. I fought again. I boxed again. Never thought about what could happen. When I was 17 I started racing and did well (I lived in calif then). When I was 20 I got hit by another bike (first trun crash). My legs went numb, feet went numb, I couldn't stand and I was afraid to talk. About the time they got everything untangled I was lifted up and my friend told me he had my bike running and almost put me on it. I could feel my feet by then, but my head was not exactly working. I rolled to the line, we restarted (TT race) and I ended up 3rd and went home. My next race was 7 weeks later, and I hadn't forgotten about that feeling or how much it hurt to move for weeks. I went over a jump practicing for a race in West Germany, landed badly and roughly, and my legs were lost to me. I didn't crash, but fell over when I stopped since my legs weren't working. That time I went to a hospital. Broken transverses and disks split horizontally. I went back to racing, but it was never far from my mind. I went at it for two more years, still in the pro and expert class. I wasn't really a racer anymore. I just couldn't get past that feeling. I have been back on various kinds of tracks, but each time I think about what can happen and I just don't feel like pushing the envelope anymore. 46 years hasn't erased that, or the fun and the faith I had in myself. Maybe it kept me alive. We all know our time to get out is going to come. There isn't a number you can put on it, if you are me. Maybe it is time for you to find a new way to enjoy a motorcycle with less risk. Maybe it staying off the street. Maybe it is time to find that thing you will try to replace motocross with. Good luck, and I am not hard to find. Andy Thickstun [/QUOTE]
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