OUCH!

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Still raced the next day with two broken ankles , I love motorbike racing, it's the stuff of hero's

[MultiMat]

Almost as tough as that great Aussie Mick Doohan. I wonder if Pedrosa would have raced I reckon his a bit soft IMHO.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Almost as tough as that great Aussie Mick Doohan. I wonder if Pedrosa would have raced I reckon his a bit soft IMHO.

Mick always was one of my hero's (hence my user name) and that guy was enormously tough

I dunno pedrossa has raced with a few nasty injuries, but yeah he's not the toughest bloke out there, I think that honour goes to Melandri

[cryptrick]

Thats vid has been removed now mate, but its the one where he's going round a chicane and the bike chucks Mr Chupa Chops into the air isn't it?

I think you'll find most of them are tough cookies in that sport. And yes Melandri rides with broken bones, nothing stops that guy!

Another sport I really like is Speedway (the UK one not the US car one). You'll have probably seen it Mike, and a load of them ride with broken collar bones etc. Does anyone here watch Speedway in the UK, as 99.9% of people I speak to have never heard of it

[ducktapehero]

I like it when athletes play through pain and injury. Pro Football here in America used to be like that, and on occasion you'll still hear of an athlete toughing it out. Like Chris Simms

Here's a quote from Wiki

Simms suffered a season-ending injury in Game 3 of the 2006 schedule. On Sunday, September 24, he was taken off the field after taking hard hits from the Carolina Panthers defense. Simms returned to the game and even led a successful scoring drive, but remained in physical distress and was taken to a nearby hospital after the game. Tests revealed a ruptured spleen, and Simms immediately underwent emergency surgery. In the aftermath, Simms said he lost five pints of blood before the operation and conceded that another 45 minutes without treatment could have been fatal.

  I'm not a huge Chris Simms fan but that is tough right there.

[Benner]

Football here is very very different.    The players here are quite pathetic TBH.

[ducktapehero]

Football here is very very different. The players here are quite pathetic TBH.

They can't be as bad as baseball players.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Thats vid has been removed now mate, but its the one where he's going round a chicane and the bike chucks Mr Chupa Chops into the air isn't it?

I think you'll find most of them are tough cookies in that sport. And yes Melandri rides with broken bones, nothing stops that guy!

Another sport I really like is Speedway (the UK one not the US car one). You'll have probably seen it Mike, and a load of them ride with broken collar bones etc. Does anyone here watch Speedway in the UK, as 99.9% of people I speak to have never heard of it

Yep, even seen it live a couple of times (you have NO idea how load the bikes really are

And yes you were right it was the one where Lorezo get's pitched over the high side 

And if you think speedways mad have a gander at this...



Just imagine riding a two wheeled chainsaw

[MultiMat]

Thats vid has been removed now mate, but its the one where he's going round a chicane and the bike chucks Mr Chupa Chops into the air isn't it?

I think you'll find most of them are tough cookies in that sport. And yes Melandri rides with broken bones, nothing stops that guy!

Another sport I really like is Speedway (the UK one not the US car one). You'll have probably seen it Mike, and a load of them ride with broken collar bones etc. Does anyone here watch Speedway in the UK, as 99.9% of people I speak to have never heard of it

Yep, even seen it live a couple of times (you have NO idea how load the bikes really are

And yes you were right it was the one where Lorezo get's pitched over the high side 

And if you think speedways mad have a gander at this...



Just imagine riding a two wheeled chainsaw

Did the old guy in the video say something about Lager, I rekon they get the riders to drink their body weight in "lager" say their last goodbyes & race.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I'd have to be very drunk to throw my leg over one of those , although before my boy was born it would have been a different story

[MultiMat]

I'd have to be very drunk to throw my leg over one of those , although before my boy was born it would have been a different story

Sad yes my GpZ 900 went when Jodie got pregnant. I think it was a wise move but I do miss that feeling you get when you give a bike the berries. Friend at work has a Hybusa , he really loves it. I do enjoy moto GP . One of my favorite bike moments was watching the original Micky D at Phillip Islands going flat nackers into turn one and he lost the front , he  held it up for what seemed like ages & had smoke coming off his Knee slider!! He lost the bike but the way he almost held on defied belief , every other rider would have let go long before their  knee slider melted.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I'd have to be very drunk to throw my leg over one of those , although before my boy was born it would have been a different story

Sad yes my GpZ 900 went when Jodie got pregnant. I think it was a wise move but I do miss that feeling you get when you give a bike the berries. Friend at work has a Hybusa , he really loves it. I do enjoy moto GP . One of my favorite bike moments was watching the original Micky D at Phillip Islands going flat nackers into turn one and he lost the front , he  held it up for what seemed like ages & had smoke coming off his Knee slider!! He lost the bike but the way he almost held on defied belief , every other rider would have let go long before their  knee slider melted.

Mick was somethng special, the way he would absolutley destroy his opponents was just increadable

Not to mention the fact the he's still the only rider in history to intentionally slide the front , I can still vividly remember everytime I lost the front (for the non bikers, it scares the crap out of you), sod doing it on purpose!

On a side note, I still rate GpZ 900 as one of the best looking (and perfoming) bikes of all time , those things were gorgeous