View Poll Results: How many broken bones from track riding?

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  • No broken bones (yet)

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    2 12.50%
  • 2-4 bones broken

    1 6.25%
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Thread: Broken bones at track

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    Broken bones at track

    Curious to see how many people have broken something at the track, riding or racing. MX counts as well, as long as if it was at a track.

    I have broken 2 bones at the track, racing.
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    I broke alot of bike parts at the track, does that count?
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    Yeah, that was going to be my next poll!

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    I wish i would have broken my ankle vs. tearing ligaments
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    PPIR Claimed My right Thumb last year.

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    Gem City Bone & Joint

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    Dr Kieffer!!!!!!!

    That guy is a fixture up in Laramie. He did the surgery on my dad's hand back in the 70's.

    Good guy.

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    I'm in the "more than 4" category (13, actually) but I also imagine I have done a lot more track miles than most people on this board, so that probably explains it. The more you race, the more you fall. The more you fall....
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    yeah and Iv'e heard short guys are more likely to break stuff too
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    I am also in the more than 4 catagory! including both shoulders and coloar bone twice.I even fractured my wrist during the 2002 AMA national weekend without crashing!!
    I usually just settle for a concussion in place of more broken bones.
    If i crash it is either a fun little low side or a all out big as hell crash that should be on the TV show you gotta see this!
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    Well since I haven't gotten to play on a road course yet I didn't think I'd get to answer this but since you included MX, Nile, I get to
    Broken bones = 0
    Concussions = 3 including one that cracked the helmet about an 1 1/2".

    Twisted pelvis/lower back= 1 that still keeps going out(10+yrs later) and I didn't even crash! Warning to all: Don't jump a TT600 trail bike like it's a KX500 the landing is pretty harsh! :P

    And if I can include BMX (it's on a track ) add one complete shoulder dislocation
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    I wonder about this all the time...

    Skateboards have helped me break my Tibia and Fibula twice, dislocate my shoulder a few times now, one concussion, countless sprains, made for lots of floating bone pieces in my elbows, etc.

    Bicycles have sent me for stitches twice, and hurt me in non-hospital-worthy ways so many times it's just silly...

    Snowboards wreck me pretty regularly.

    Riding motorcycles on the street has been good for a bad back, mangled knee, lots of road rash, a severe concussion, and other stuff I've probably forgotten (see severe concussion).

    Two years of Roadracing and countless track days have given me.....NOT ONE INJURY.

    Guess what people tell me I shouldn't do because it's too dangerous?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 309


    Two years of Roadracing and countless track days have given me.....NOT ONE INJURY.

    Guess what people tell me I shouldn't do because it's too dangerous?

    finially someone else who gets that shit from people too
    Bryce Random racing #814

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    I hear you...

    Field hockey: broken nose, front teeth knocked out, twisted knee, multiple hand injuries
    Swimming: lower back and neck disk and vertebra degeneration
    Trampolining: see swimming above
    High diving: see swimming above, plus you can't believe how badly you get winded when you land flat from a high board
    Netball: multiple hand and wrist injuries
    Horseback riding: multiple falls, a dislocated thumb
    Ultimate Frisbee: assorted collision aches & pains
    Broomball: no injuries
    Water skiing: lower back issues
    Rugby: lots of bruises, no injuries
    Snowboarding: twisted ankle & knee, broken tailbone, concussion
    Skiing: no inuries
    Surfing: reef rash, bloody nose from board hit
    Scuba diving: no injuries, but probably some weird brain effects from breathing nitrogen under pressure
    Riding on street: no crashes, knee injury from deer strike
    Dirtbiking: bruises and a foot I can't put any weight on right now

    Motorcycle roadracing: 2 crashes, a few bruises, no injuries...
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    What's Broomball?



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    So Hanna I see you're the "stay at home" type...

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    What it isn't

    mra828 wrote:


    What's Broomball?
    I wouldn't have thought ..............


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    Quote Originally Posted by mra828
    What's Broomball?



    geoff
    5-a side game played on an ice rink with a soft squishy ball and sticks with a small paddle on the end - in tennis shoes, preferably after at least 2 beers. Aim of the game is to score as many goals as possible into an ice-hockey-like goal. Killer entertainment for those on the sidelines - have you ever tried to run on ice in sneakers???

    There's a Sportsmonster league, we play Wed nights at Cherry Creek ice rink. *We* don't take it very seriously, although some teams turn up with special broomball shoes etc etc
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    Quote Originally Posted by rforsythe
    So Hanna I see you're the "stay at home" type...
    Umm, yeah, that would be me....
    "Life is not a journey unto the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but rather
    to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out and leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by surfinspacegirl
    Ultimate Frisbee:
    You're scaring me.

    My only broken bone: Broke right arm @ age of 4 falling off one of those plastic horses suspended by coil springs... I was wearing a cowboy hat and my double holsters... I remember the cast, but not the fall. My dad reminds me of that everytime I say I ride a motorcycle...

    Several other notable injuries.
    - Mountain Biking -- AC3 seperation (ligament tear to shoulder) -- hurt like a mutha...
    - Snowboarding -- Torn ligament right knee
    - Skateboarding -- Road rash to both arms and face
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick T.
    Quote Originally Posted by surfinspacegirl
    Ultimate Frisbee:
    You're scaring me.
    The only "Ultimate" thing about it is the amount of beer that gets drunk after the game
    "Life is not a journey unto the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but rather
    to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out and leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by mra828
    What's Broomball?



    geoff
    I know! I know!

    Played it once, a long, long, long time ago. It's basically hockey without skates. And instead of sticks & a puck, brooms & a ball (those "sticks with a small paddle on the end" are supposed to be brooms - or at least they used to be, even though the "paddle" is now made of plastic ).

    Personally, if I have to be on the ice and I can't play hockey, I'd rather be curling - now there's a sport designed around drinking!

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    Quote Originally Posted by rforsythe
    So Hanna I see you're the "stay at home" type...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick T.
    ...falling off one of those plastic horses suspended by coil springs... I was wearing a cowboy hat and my double holsters...
    I'm sorry Rick, but...



    photochop to follow...

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