I think that part was just a regular lapping day.Great documentary. Actually pretty incredible. Unless I missed it in the video, I'd assume by the last shot that he starts from the pits every race as he needs someone to hold him up?
I dunno how many of you realize that our very own member, "recidivist", owner of Competition Cycle in Whitby, is very much like the fellow in this documentary.
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and his newer steed, his "Criprilia RSV4", which he last raced at the nationals at Mosport last summer.
I dunno how many of you realize that our very own member, "recidivist", owner of Competition Cycle in Whitby, is very much like the fellow in this documentary.
Crashing his GSXR on a group ride in Muskoka, breaking his back and becoming paralyzed.
While still in hospital recovering, before even undergoing any occupational therapy to learn to live with his new situation, he was online buying repair parts for the GSXR and developing a method to convert that very same bike to be ridable by a paraplegic.
I lost count of the # of laps Dave has on his two "cripple bikes" as he calls them. One was the very same GSXR he was paralyzed on, currently raced by ZX600, and his newer steed, his "Criprilia RSV4", which he last raced at the nationals at Mosport last summer.
These guys don't throw in the towel.
If you watch the race start from earlier he started at the back of the grid with someone holding him up.I'd assume by the last shot that he starts from the pits every race as he needs someone to hold him up?
I'd have to agree. I truly don't believe I could have the positive outlook these guys do. But that's coming from someone with an able body and hopefully a full life ahead. For them, near death experience may have resulted in a new look, and find they took the good with the bad. In other words they could have died, rather are alive, with a hurdle in life.If that happened to me I'd say screw it, had a nice life, this isn't worth the trouble. Good on him for finding the motivation though.
Racing isn't cheap regardless. I don't see any major cost to running a modified bike vs a regular race bike other than initial build cost.
Why cant they have normal jobs? They are paralyzed, not dead.