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...that seriously needs a straight jacket. He races a stretched Suzuki GSXR1000, last I saw it ran 8.1 at 175mph, makes 180 on the motor and he is spraying it with 140 shot of giggle gas. He is bugging me about going to Walla Walla with him in a week or two....his plan is to hit with a 200 shot of nitrous.
He recently turned the boost up on his street bike. He is now pushing 16 pounds of boost thru his Hayabusa. His Mom lives in CA, he decided he was going to go visit her and stop at a few race tracks along the way. Sent me this slip a few days back.
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He went to the only Friday night event Spokane has held this year thanks to the weather...I caught this shot of him....
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He has another bike that will be a drag bike sooner or later. His goal is 7.0....This guy needs help....
 
how does the saying go...get busy living or get busy dying
 
Has he ever been down on any of his bikes?
If he hasn't...he will.
When I started riding, my bike-riding friends told me it is only a matter of time before you go down. Of course I didn't believe them and was going to be the exception.
Well, I wasn't.
I rode for well over 30 years and went down 3 times. Fortunately, with nothing worse than bumps and bruises and one totaled bike. I was lucky!
I wish your friend well.
 
ocdart said:
Has he ever been down on any of his bikes?
If he hasn't...he will.
When I started riding, my bike-riding friends told me it is only a matter of time before you go down. Of course I didn't believe them and was going to be the exception.
Well, I wasn't.
I rode for well over 30 years and went down 3 times. Fortunately, with nothing worse than bumps and bruises and one totaled bike. I was lucky!
I wish your friend well.
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Ever try dirtbiking?
I'll go down 5 times in one trip...and somehow the bike gets heavier each time I drop it
 
Back in the early 70s, I had a 71 CB750 that used to fall down all the time. But I was very young and healed very fast. But after one event, after I healed, and a few years later, a couple of nuggets worked their way up under the skin just above my hips. After a bit of butchery, I popped then out. They didn't look like gravel so I bopped them with a hammer and split them open, and surprise; inside were some tiny stones. That was the worst bike I ever owned. But hard to kill. Well the bike wasn't thaat horrible, but the tire technology was crap, yeh that's it; the tires were crap,lol.
 
That's badass. He is crazy though.
 
AJ/FormS said:
Back in the early 70s, I had a 71 CB750 that used to fall down all the time. But I was very young and healed very fast. But after one event, after I healed, and a few years later, a couple of nuggets worked their way up under the skin just above my hips. After a bit of butchery, I popped then out. They didn't look like gravel so I bopped them with a hammer and split them open, and surprise; inside were some tiny stones. That was the worst bike I ever owned. But hard to kill. Well the bike wasn't thaat horrible, but the tire technology was crap, yeh that's it; the tires were crap,lol.
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Had a buddy go down in a freakish accident. He was only wearing a t-shirt, gym shorts and sneakers. He slid thru some gravel on his back. When I went to see him in the hospital they were picking the gravel out of his back...least what they could. Did not see him for a few years...when I did we got to talking about that day. You could see some of the gravel in his back. He said every now and then he wakes up to a small puddle of blood on his bed...and in the puddle was exactly what you described.
 
RustyRatRod said:
That's badass. He is crazy though.
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Skip sent me a time slip from a few weeks after I took this picture. It was the week he hurt the drag bike. He went .001 red. Was .003 short/.4mph short of being the quickest bike to make a pass at what ever track he raced at.
I rode his Busa thru the pits. Bike was very docile feeling, but with it only having a few inches of exhaust off the turbo it sure did not sound all that docile. I gassed it a bit, tach hit about 4500rpm and it started to pull...hard...
I think one of his stops during the trip to see his Mom was going to be at a standing half mile track. He is hoping to hit 200mph.
 
Not if, when. It took about 28 years of riding before I really got smashed. SUV hit me. I wore all gear all the time even in the south in the summer. It took 28 years of wearing my gear for it to pay off. Still my body got wrecked, but if I wasn’t wearing that stuff.......

I loved that Buell.......
 
1973Barracuda said:
Not if, when. It took about 28 years of riding before I really got smashed. SUV hit me. I wore all gear all the time even in the south in the summer. It took 28 years of wearing my gear for it to pay off. Still my body got wrecked, but if I wasn’t wearing that stuff.......

I loved that Buell.......
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thats what i tell all my riding buddy "wear as much protection as you can afford"

back when i was 17, i came across an intersection at the exact same time a VW eurovan did
the driver of the van said that he never even saw me coming, and that he saw me going way to fast (mull that one over for a minute)
i hit the front end of the van, just before the wheel and went flying
it took me 2 days to wake up from that one, and 6 months before i could walk again
snapped my femur clean in half and almost bled out internally
if i hadnt been wearing a helmet i would not be telling you this today, and even with the helmet on, i managed to break my skull in 3 different places



here is another fun picture
i was out trail riding some 5 years ago when my foot slipped off of the footpeg
before i could get it back on, it got caught in a treeroot and twisted back
ever try shifting a dirtbike with a broken ankle?
downshifts arent too bad, upshifts on the other hand

i was wearing fox comp 5 boots at the time, needless to say, i got some alpinestars now

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