When Rossi broke his leg, I thought "Sit the season out, or at least
three races!" What has he got to prove? He doesn't need to hurry
it. Why on earth would he get back in there any sooner?

Then I realized that he's a motorcycle racer: where else would he be
but on a MotoGP bike? I remember seeing Doohan riding early, falling
off, and standing up and climbing on with that leg at a horrible
angle. Wasn't there a Japanese rider who raced the day after breaking
his ankle, and fell in the race, and got up and continued?

Has anyone got a favourite memory of a "hero" return under painful
circumstances, to share with someone who was in plaster for six weeks
for a bust ankle, and who limped for a year??!

Poor bloody infantry asks:


> Has anyone got a favourite memory of a "hero" return under painful
> circumstances, to share

DuHamel 1999? on crutches and won Daytona superbike and
supersport.

Ricky Carmichael 2004, ACL reconstruction then won every
moto in the AMA motocross season.


Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.

On Jul 14, 8:31*am, sturd <mikesturdevant...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Poor bloody infantry asks:
>
> > Has anyone got a favourite memory of a "hero" return under painful
> > circumstances, to share
>
> DuHamel 1999? on crutches and won Daytona superbike and
> supersport.

Ah, Duhamel --- there was a documentary wasn't there, in his trailer
he peeled off the top of his leathers and pulled off a bandage to
reveal that a pin-repaired collarbone had started to poke out of his
skin --- but he was going to race that day. A hard man.

Toughest guys that spring to mind right away:
Duhamel and Doohan: like everyone else, amazed at these guys.
Yanagawa- back on bike 3 weeks after coma inducing wreck at Laguna
1998.
Marco Melandri- 2006
Ricky Carmichael- Pontiac 2002
Any rider that's ever sawed off a cast to race (1970's)
Jay Springsteen- stomach issues (internal are horrible)
Wayne Rainey, running a Moto GP weeks after paralyzing himself.
Shinya Nakano- 190 mph high side at Mugello when tire blew out in
qualifying. Raced next day. Puig, by contrast, quit after similar
accident.

"Wayne Rainey, running a Moto GP weeks after paralyzing himself."

I meant "team"... TEAM...

Don't have the stomach for it myself. If Rossi falls on the right
(wrong) leg it is sure to re-break, I don't quite understand what
makes these guys risk permanent health problems for a weekend buzz.
Its not like I've never raced but I've never broken any bones and when
I came close to breaking my leg at a local race track I packed it in
for the rest of the season! a voice inside me said "That fu**ing hurt,
I'm going to think long and hard about why exactly I should work up to
National racing and I'll take more than a year to do it"... some
role model eh?

> Yanagawa- back on bike 3 weeks after coma inducing wreck at Laguna
> 1998.

That was amazing, and under-reported indeed.

> Shinya Nakano- 190 mph high side at Mugello when tire blew out in
> qualifying. Raced next day. Puig, by contrast, quit after similar
> accident.

I seem to recall Puig suffered a brain injury?

Other notable injured riders: Pat Hennen (70s). Barry Sheene (did he
ever race without an injury?).

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:23:12 GMT, Mark N wrote:

> pablo wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall Puig suffered a brain injury?
>
> Well, that explains a lot...

heh, sometimes you just nail it.

On Jul 15, 5:20*am, Champ <n...@champ.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:46:59 -0700, Michael Sierchio

> >Clavicles are so unnecessary. ;-)
>
> So the docs told me! *My town has a local horse race course, where
> they jump over fences, and so the hospital is very used to treating
> jockeys with broken clavicles. *Apparently, some have broken them so
> many times they've had them removed!

Treatment for bone spurs in the shoulder is - you guessed
it! - remove 2" off the end of the clavicle. Shoulder seems to work
just fine.


Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.

> >If Rossi falls on the right (wrong) leg it is sure to re-break
>
> This assessment is based on your detailed medical expertise, yes?
> --
> Champ

Healing time for a tib & fib fracture is 6 - 8 weeks. Rossi is still
walking on crutches and it looks very painful. My experience of wound
healing is that if it is still painful it ain't back to strength.