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A friend of mine once said 'every time we fall off while racing, we could be killed'. I never think like that. The only time I ever copped a serious injury, it was a dislocated collar bone, which could have easily been me neck. It is the only crash which has ever worried me and it makes me angry. It happened because of somebody else's stupid bloody ego. I have been off a couple of times at near 100 MPH due to locking drum brakes. If you don't hit anything, you usually walk away. But a nasty little crash at relatively low speed is sometimes a killer. I really dislike riding on public roads because some car drivers are homicidal. In racing the riders usually care for each other. To get killed while road racing, you usually have to be very unlucky. The most dangerous time is when you first start racing. After that, it is fairly easy.

<blockquote data-quote="acotrel" data-source="post: 468582" data-attributes="member: 4295"><p>A friend of mine once said &#039;every time we fall off while racing, we could be killed&#039;.&nbsp; I never think like that. The only time I ever copped a serious injury, it was a dislocated collar bone, which could have easily been me neck.&nbsp; It is the only crash which has ever worried me and it makes me angry.&nbsp; It happened because of somebody else&#039;s stupid bloody ego. I have been off a couple of times at near 100 MPH due to locking drum brakes.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t hit anything, you usually walk away.&nbsp; But a nasty little crash at relatively low speed is sometimes a killer.&nbsp; I really dislike riding on public roads because some car drivers are homicidal.&nbsp; In racing the riders usually care for each other. To get killed while road racing, you usually have to be very unlucky. The most dangerous time is when you first start racing. After that, it is fairly easy.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="acotrel, post: 468582, member: 4295"] A friend of mine once said 'every time we fall off while racing, we could be killed'. I never think like that. The only time I ever copped a serious injury, it was a dislocated collar bone, which could have easily been me neck. It is the only crash which has ever worried me and it makes me angry. It happened because of somebody else's stupid bloody ego. I have been off a couple of times at near 100 MPH due to locking drum brakes. If you don't hit anything, you usually walk away. But a nasty little crash at relatively low speed is sometimes a killer. I really dislike riding on public roads because some car drivers are homicidal. In racing the riders usually care for each other. To get killed while road racing, you usually have to be very unlucky. The most dangerous time is when you first start racing. After that, it is fairly easy. [/QUOTE]

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