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Crash Sequence from AFM race 3-28

Discussion in 'General' started by Richard Lesher, Mar 31, 2004.

  1. Richard Lesher

    Richard Lesher Well-Known Member

    http://www.garyratherphoto.com/141/index.html

    In the end the rider got banged up pretty bad. He's still in the hospital, but reports last mention is up, alert, talking to friends, and eating and breathing on his own.

    Anyway, it is rare such a sequence gets captured, so here it is.
     
  2. Chubby Huggs

    Chubby Huggs Guest

    Did 141 just fixate?

    To me it looks as if he's looking at the downed bike in almost every picture but one and could of just rolled right.
    [/monday morning quarterback]

    Sounds like he's OK and hope the best.
     
  3. danch

    danch Well-Known Member

    Ouch!

    Makes a good warning of the evils of target fixation...
     
  4. Sunny

    Sunny Banned

    Yeah, looks like target fixation alright.......... :(


    I guess it must've be the Dunlop #794 is using to cause the high-side................... :Puke:
     
  5. Richard Lesher

    Richard Lesher Well-Known Member

    You know what is funny.

    racers are racers no matter what part of the country.

    TARGET FIXATION was the first comment and is the flow of the conversation on the AFM list regarding this photo shoot.

    Actually, I like the FIRST picture the best. That has to be one of the luckiest moments in kodak moments. You can see the guy being tossed in the back ground (as he was not the focus of the photo at the time) From there on it just snowballs.

    But yea, looks pretty much like fixation to most of us.

    Remember boys and girls:
    Look in the direction of where you want to go, and NOT what you are tying to avoid.
     
  6. CrazyR6man

    CrazyR6man Well-Known Member

  7. IF!

    IF! Buford;02 Polaris&trailer

    I'll bet he was happy he had his back protector on!!!!!!!! (note contact with edge of rumble strips) Ouch.:eek:
     
  8. MarkB

    MarkB All's well that ends well

    Strange, I see all the novices were out in front with a bunch of "experts" right behind....

    Which guy was the more injured one. The novice seems to have gotten up by the last pic, wheras the expert is still down after a seemingly minor fall over the front....

    hope they are feeling better anyway.

    And who has the rights to these pictures??? Are we going to see another Barber fronts straight type thread??
     
  9. aod99

    aod99 Administrator

    Maybe he should think about using two fingers on that brake lever instead of just one as well....
     
  10. Richard Lesher

    Richard Lesher Well-Known Member

    The expert is hospitalized.

    Back protectors are required and they pat our backs to check before they let each of us out of the hot pit.

    Experts are mixed with novices becasue the AFM does not race them seperatly. We all race for the same trophies.

    Since this is the first race of the year grids are set by last years points. A novice with 1 point from last year will be gridded in front of Freddy Spencer for example if he were to race AFM.

    In the AFM a yellow plate means you have raced less than 6 weekends. That is all. Same goes for a white plate. It means you have raced 6+ weekends.
     
  11. jg54

    jg54 Well-Known Member

    BIG TIME. He never moved his head once. Good leason for all. Although its easier said then done. Hope they are both OK
     
  12. Trev230EX

    Trev230EX Put me in coach

    I noticed that too:eek:
     
  13. Lever

    Lever Well-Known Member

    i wouldn't look at his right leg all too closely in that last frame :(
     
  14. Ed Bargy

    Ed Bargy Well-Known Member

    AMEN
     
  15. CD176

    CD176 Well-Known Member

    The last couple of frames seem like #141 has fractured his left radius and ulna! :(
     
  16. B.Augie

    B.Augie Wera 930

    looked like some real pain set in after he stopped and dropped his head back on the tarmac!:eek:
     
  17. jnhrtmn

    jnhrtmn Oxymoron (ems racer).

    It does look like he broke his leg just above the knee. That would have been the one under the bike as it hit.
     
  18. Sunny

    Sunny Banned

    You are correct, it does look like he broke his right femur as he roll over his back and the right knee make a big impact as his lower body finally rolls around.......... :Puke: This is not good............ :( Hopefully we are all wrong and that he is ok and have no broken bones at all.
     
  19. Robert

    Robert Flies all green 'n buzzin

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