whats your worst accident

[Gimpster]

Couple quick ones.
Hauling azz down a trail come out of the trees to a medow of fresh foot of fluff. Someone left a fence corner post in the middle of the meadow. disguised as a slight wave in the snow 6" under the surface.
Speedo read 90 so I was actually doing around 60. Beautiful handstand with a half twist over the barz, feet stabbing the snow ahead of the sled that never seemed to slow down. Bumper tag right in the gut booted me foreward around 10 feet when the sled parked on top of me pinning my arms with the skis. Hot antifreeze saturating the coat and bibs from the broken cooler and the exhaust blowing into the helmet where the face shield ripped off.

Hit a deer with a 570 Exciter racing the boys back to the parking lot. Over in the black hills

Racing the boys, in the black hills with a '84 Yamaha Phazer. Cut off the trail to make a pass around a corner.... 4 foot high rock worked well as an E-brake

'nother race, pulled off the trail a little to pass 2 sleds, came off a 5 foot drop off to find a boulder on an 86 Phazer... tore off both front struts.


20 mile ride to a small town bar nice trail along the railroad tracks. Partied it up. Hauling azz back home on a '95 EXT Mountain cat. Wide open along the trail along the railroad tracks. While I was partying someone decided to pile their snow on the trail with a payloader. Hardpack, crested the hill, speedo was burried. Hit the snowpile didn't quite clear the highline wires, pitched me off the sled as it wildly endowed from the track hitting the wire. Laid there for around an hour gathering up my bearings then took the long walk home to get a truck and trailer to load the carnage.

Chasing 'yotes with a bunch of guys I never rode with before through 4 foot CRP. If someone spotted one they would stand on their sled and rais their hand... the race was on. What a blast ! One guy up front stood up raised his hand and pointed my way. I hammered the throttle only to find a 10 foot deep washout that I never made the other side of. Totalled that EXT.

Converted my asphalt sled to grass drag. Doing some runs in my back yard, tweeking clutching, hit a frozen mole pile, pitched the sled off track into a pickup box trailer I had heaping fill of steel. Totalled the sled, sheered the triple cylinders off, knocked the trailer off it's blocks.

That's just a few stories of havoc not to including any mountain riding adventures with cornices, blowholes, trees, creeks, reveenes etc...., or any stories of back in the 60's and 70's


----- Gimpster -----

 

[ace59]

Moon mountain near Bend several years ago.

700 wildcat full throttle up the face.

Hit a covered chunk of ice.

Rolled all the way down with an audience. Priceless.

 

[gravity criminal]

..tried a superman..my windshield and hood broke my fall

 

[jlowe]

2 for me.

first was an ill-advised climb in '98 on my 670X in LATE spring. big climb, lots of rocks and roll to the bottom. bruised spleen and kidneys (no tek vest).

second was shooting Elevation 1, i set up to shoot BK hitting a small jump but positioned myself right in his landing zone. the take off was blind and he landed his AC powder special on my entire left leg (completely blown MCL and thigh looked like a loaf of bread that my fat uncle mike sat on.) this happened at sundown 30 miles from the truck at 10K...that was NOT a fun ride home. but made for an interesting shot in our first, very lame movie.

jeff

 

[Rock Star]

Gimpster... well, this explains your name!!!! Please stay at least 500 miles from me. LOL. Jesus, You're either very lucky OR very unlucky. either way... WOW! you win. send him a prize.

 

[Nate]

2007 Cooke City in December on Turbo M7, went off blind cornice and azz over tea kettled. Broke steering post with my chest, bent bulkhead, bruised knee, fractured sturnum and a broken helmet.







Last ride of the year last spring and the start of my short term retirement to start a new sport. Below is minus the floats and turbo kit and a few other things

 

[Clarke673]

My worst wreck when i hurt the sled was i was climbing a shoot up cooke in late spring and i cut up the hill coming out of the very top of some trees and i hit a 2" stump and it cut the track in half. I was going so fast i flew over the bars and face planted in the snow.... Then i got to watch the sled coast down the hill bouncing off of rocks and trees.

My worst wreck was when i was jumping my 600 race sled on a track by Cooke city and i decided i was going to hit the 60-80 foot kicker. Told my friend to videotape. I was doing great and hauling azz. I guess the guy who was tearing down the track walked over ot them as they were videotaping me and told them we had to leave because they don't have insurance if one of us got hurt. Well about 5 sec after he said that one of my twin pipes cracked and i lost all power nose diving off a small 30 foot jump. I didn't have time to bail so i cased hardcore on the lip. Broke the jump, sled did 2 endo's and i broke my helmet and bar pad.

The worst part of all of that was that he shut the video off when I wrecked and threw the camera in the snow.

Only damage to the sled was a tore up bar pad and i lost the C in my SCS decal on the front bumper. It cracked the hood a little bit but lets see you do that on a Xp.

Damage ot me however was a little worse. Torn muscle and ligament in my knee, sprang both wrists, dislocated thumb, concussion, messed up shoulder and lower back, and i also tore some muscles in my neck. The best part was going to the dentist to have my 2 front teeth straitened. No wait, the drive home was fun as well.

 

[Caveman]

Back in Sheep by West Yellowstone I was floating over a group of nice rollers untill I wind up running right into rock face of a washout at about 50 mph.Sheared off the top of a King Kat with my body.Cracked vert. and ***ged up both elbows.Worst part was trying to get out.
Cave

 

[Gimpster]

Gimpster... well, this explains your name!!!! Please stay at least 500 miles from me. LOL. Jesus, You're either very lucky OR very unlucky. either way... WOW! you win. send him a prize.

hahaha, lot of good wrecks been posted on here. I've had quite a few since the mid 60's after first kicking a leg over a sled. More time = more accidents.
Worst old time wreck, doubled up with a friend on his dads brand new Scorpion Super Stinger wide open across a field. Center punched a concrete section marker cement post that was painted white while running WFO. Split the sled back to the seat. We were kids then, all we did was bounced after flying over the bars, rolled and laughed about it.
Lake running a Yammi GP433 and found a pressure point (the wrong way) after midnight.
Also a number of stories about an icy 'fiberglass hill' along the highway in the bighorns... That freekin' hill cost me some cash over the years !! Worst part... It looks easy from the bottom.

I gotta quit, the stories go on and on and on...

----- Gimpster -----

 

[bigflip13]

ouch those are some pretty painfull storys keep um comming

 

[Stuck]

Had a friend that flipped his Trx1 ontop of himself. Gas was running out onto his face and drowned him. His dad found him a few minutes later and resuscitated him.

My worst sled wreck, i was riding up bear creek early in the season. We had a big early snow, we went up a week later and it was hard as a rock. Was climbing a hill and hit a big mound in the snow. I tumbled with the sled and ended up with a shaterd collar bone and got my first life flight. That was my first ride of the season. Two surgeries and some pins later, I made the last ride of the season.

My worst wreck was on my cbr 900rr. I was riding straight east at 7am straight into the sun, couldnt see much except for the tail lights and silhouette of the truck I was following. I was about 50 yards behind him. A front end loader was aproaching the highway as the truck infront of me passed. The loader didn't see me behind the truck. I couldn't see the loader until he crossed into the sun in front of me. Barely even had time to hit the breaks. I smoked the bucket doin about 55. Crushed t9,10,and 11. I am 3/4in shorter now. The worst part was that they lied to the police about it was that they lied to the police about it. I had to sue them to get my bills paid. I won the law suit and they some how weaseled out of paying for all of my medical bills. I only got about half of my medical bills payed for. F'n BS!

 

[M.M. 700]

Had a friend that flipped his Trx1 ontop of himself. Gas was running out onto his face and drowned him. His dad found him a few minutes later and resuscitated him.

thats just f$%^ing scary............

 

[bigflip13]

hmm i hate liers

 

[XXX-APEX]

buried 3 feet down.

 

[crazyxprider]

10 yrs. ago... 2 broken ribs, 2 collapsed lungs, 1 bruised heart, went into code at the first hospital(means your heart stops),one way flight on S.T.A.R.S.(after i drove home for 4 hrs) 3 days in intensive care.

lesson learned...........buy a tek vest dumby
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08 xp 154
07 gsx-r 750
04 dodge 3500 5.9

 

[Stuck]

buried 3 feet down.

That looks like just before lulu on the east side. I saw someone that got dug out there a couple years back. We showed up just as they we starting to dig out the sled.

 

[TKswild1]

My Crash involves high speed's down the trail, about 80 or so. My buddy just ahead of me, Not an ounce of alcohol in me. Straight as an arrow, A little snow dust from the lead rider. All of a sudden the power pole guide wire. nothing I could do but hold on. It hit right between the ski and the A-arm. To my surpirize as I felt the Impact the wire snapped. The A-arm just bruised. Not even dented in, The wire snapped up and killed power in a small town im MI. Two Hour's later the Power company and police were on site. And I was relieved that I'm was still there to see the power company unwrapping the guide wire from the electric line's, instead of looking at a white ceiling.

 

[XXX-APEX]

That looks like just before lulu on the east side. I saw someone that got dug out there a couple years back. We showed up just as they we starting to dig out the sled.

it was new years of 2006/2007 they dug me out and i purposed to my girlfriend right when they dug me out, she thought i was joking and now i am getting married in cooke april 11 2009, so i geuss it wasn't so bad beside the broken hand.

 

[Rixster]

Labor day weekend 99. Missed the shift from 3rd to 4th and came up short on about a 85 foot double. Broke both arms AND crushed my right wrist. 2 plates 16 screws and a few surgeries later I am back in one piece. Have no movement in my right wrist, makes it kinda hard to ride bikes anymore. That pretty much ended my motocross career.

 

[Clarke673]

it was new years of 2006/2007 they dug me out and i purposed to my girlfriend right when they dug me out, she thought i was joking and now i am getting married in cooke april 11 2009, so i geuss it wasn't so bad beside the broken hand.

You must have of hit you head REAL hard to do that. How long were you under? Was your brain starved of oxygen?

lol congrats. Its funny how half the stories are form cooke.