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If you are riding a 4-wheeler 40-45mph & hit a ditch it will flip forward, roll you up in a ball & land on you. It really, really hurts.

JR,
I sure hope your OK. Up until about a two years ago, I worked with a guy who managed to run over himself - very similar to your description. He's alive, but he'll never be the same. I live next to a wooded expanse, see these things and the accidents quite frequently. When you see that many brush themselves off and ride away, you sort of lose the respect for the danger. Fact is anytime there's speed connected with anything harder than Jello, someone stands a good chance of getting busted up. Again, hope your OK.

Barry

I've been better. It landed down on the grab bar on top of my left leg. It mashed my left calf down to the bone, cracked my sternum & a couple of ribs. Its a good thing I didn't have on a helmet... I would have been going faster. I had to go back to ER because the swelling was cutting off circulation to my leg. It kind of opened my eyes a little bit. I think it might be about time to slow it down a little???

Uh oh, I feel an "excuse" coming up for missing the Georgia rally again. Can't pull the old neuter ploy again now can ya. Gotta come up with a new one.

"Ow, my leg hurts, ouch, my arms hurt, I can't ride, My dog ate my keys, my back hurts from bikini waxing, I don't have any gas, I'm scared Phil will beat me up...."

Only if he does NOT show up!

Of course, Yota bashing was kinda' fun last year!!

Pat- I'll be there...What does Phil mean about Yota bashin'??? Were y'all talking about me or something??

Yota,
My friend had an "adventure" similar to yours. When I asked him how he was doing he said. " Well,I might get better but I'll never get well."
kennymc

Yota,
Yea, no excuses like last year eeh?

Pat-I love the pic! No excuses for this year except the ones we will hear from your candy-a** for haulin' the bikes down on a trailer.hehe.... If I'm alive & kickin' I'll be there.

Yota, you don't have to be going fast to do what ya did. I was going about five mph when an unexpected ditch jumped out of the dark and grabed me. Only broke the left ankle.I managed to push it off of me and rode it straigt into another ditch. I went home after that. A few hours later went to the hospital and got the dreaded news. Yea its broke. Three months later I was good as new. Still hurts sometimes when the weather changes. Having said all that I still own and ride atv's. Sometimes I ride fast, but not quite as much as I used to. But none of my adventures on atv's compare to my adventures on dirt bikes. There was this one night when a bush jumped out in front of me. Glad there weren't camcorders and digital cameras everywhere back then. But have you ever seen a dude still hanging on to the handlebars, feet straight up in the air,head somewhere's down in the bush, waiting for god. I was younger then. Then there was the time another ditch jumped out from behind a blind curve. I don't really like to talk about that one.

Trash- I hear ya....I guess it all is downhill from 30. I've been wobblin' around for 3 weeks now. Maybe I should get back into dirtbikes.

LOL...and have you noticed it's not one of those "hurts right away" pains either? It takes your body a few moments to comprehend what just happened, THEN it hurts

I quit riding dirtbikes after I had finally mastered the flying "W" dismount. It took years of practice to perfect the form and to consistently hit that one solitary rock in the ground with either a knee or an elbow. Ah, the memories of rolling around on the ground waiting for enough breath to let out that scream of pain.....
Would I do it again? youbetcha! Would I try it now? Not on your life.....

I remember those days! While you were working on that, my specialty was the odne, otherwise called the reverse endo.