I only have "worse" days....
My least favorite in recent memory: Last track day of the year at Cayuga, early October. Mostly new bike, was looking to get a base line... new motor, re valved forks, a brand of tires I have never rode on before.
I was second bike on the track, about 9:15AM, I went into corner one DEAD SLOW, new tires, dewy track... AND I'M SLIDING ON MY FACE.
Seems the FIRST bike on the track, was a 250 2 stroke, came down from London on an open trailer, without the exhaust plugged and had a full tank, when he left London, so that full tank got sucked through the carbs and was in the belly pan... so when he went into corner one that 2 gallons of pre-mix got splashed onto the wet track, right in my path. THANKS.
I was pretty sure I had broke my collarbone AGAIN, but being the idiot that I am, not wanting to miss the last track day, I went back to the pits to put my bike back together. While I am trying to get back out, the TARD comes over to ask if I can help tune HIS bike.
As it turned out I didn't have a broken collarbone, I had just ripped ALL the muscles in my shoulder, AGAIN.
or:
Same bike at VRRA Mosport Vintage Fest., racing "Middle Weight Production". Dave Crussel and I were trading places back and forth. He would get me in 1-2-3 and then I would motor him on the straight. We did that for 3 or 4 laps. I got him coming out of 3 and was going to lose him after 5... till I went into the rhubarb in 5... OOPS. Came around the front to see the last lap flag. Time to lay on the coal... Chased him, caught him coming into 8, was on his tail at 9, I'm gonna stuff him in 10... WHACK THE THROTTLE OPEN... squeaked it. Gotta love two strokes! I went through 3 motors that weekend.
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At another VRRA Vintage Fest. I was racing a buddie's Gus Kuhn Norton (1970 Norton Factory racer) and as I crested the "bump" it tore the output shaft out of the tranny, dumping a quart of REALLY slippery (I pay EXTRA for the slippery stuff) gear lube on the back tire.
I woke up in the parking lot, tied up in a chain link fence, trying to figure out what just happened.
or:
At Shannonville for the VRRA Spring Fling. I was on a Yamaha TR3, a REALLY rare Yamaha production racer. It was raining and I was having the time of my life, coming down the front straight and hanging it out right sideways going into 1, like on a dirt tracker.
I came down the straight, hang it out, just like the many laps before, BUT THIS TIME it's the old SKY TRACK SKY TRACK SKY GRASS OUCH.
Scrape myself and what's left of my bike up and get off the track. while I'm dragging myself off the track I notice there is a THING on the track in front of me.
It turns out that THING was the stator off an EX500, that came off a bike... and it dumped it's oil... because the stator is supposed to be in the cases. How does the stator come OUT of an EX500??
Buddy with the EX500 thought it was funny. I totaled a 50 year old REALLY RARE production racer because he's an idiot that doesn't know how to prep a bike and has no business being on a race track, and he thought that was funny.