I wish Eddie, I wish. That is right in the MIDDLE of my exams. I won't even see daylight for two weeks.
I have basically no pain. I have a lot of atrophy that is slightly bothersome when I take my brace off to shower. It also pops on movement once in a while.(dr. Said this is normal) I get out of the brace on the 8th and I guess well see how I'm feeling. I'm 26, never get sick. I've been eating right, fresh fruits and veggies 3-4 times a day, cardio when I can. Plenty of sleep. I think part of it is the Dr trying to get under my skin. I have had a LOT of injuries for my age. I mean a lot.. I think he's trying to get me to slow down. Who knows.
Broke my scaphoid almost 3 years ago at Barber turn 3 and it's still not 100%. Nasty crash to. The bike somehow landed on my chest, broke cartalige in my chest and fractured 4 ribs. I was fighting off sneezes and farts for 2 months. I never really gave the wrist the time it needed to heal. Throttle brake hand to. I will eventually have to go in for surgery again to graph bone off somewhere else and add it to the scaphoid. The way I look at it you only live once and are going to be dead for a really long time. Despite the bum throttle / brake hand wrist I was still able to win the CCS expert thunderbike championship last year and the number 5 plate in the midwest. PIN IT... literally.
^This is how I feel about it. My plan is to race bikes because I've always wanted to race.. Racing cars is wayyy expensive. I auto crossed 240's and rx7's for years, then i turned to drifting (way more fun, yet more expensive and competing is stupid) So i figure I could try bikes out I have had 3 street bikes so im pretty comfy on a bike... I don't plan on ever getting far, but that's not the point. My Dr, my family and my co-workers all seem to worry about me getting hurt and dying.. The way i see it, I've experienced so many things with the hobbies I've had whether it be skateboarding, cars, street bikes. everything.. I don't regret any of the injuries I've had, and i definitely don't regret any of the experience. The day death comes for me, he isn't going to find someone who is sad because they didn't get to do the things they wanted. Instead I'm going to ask him if he wants a piggy back ride. lol Anyway though, back to the question. Pro-school day as a first track day?? benefits, cons? Thanks guys.
If it's your first trackday ever. I would say ProSchool probably wouldn't be advised. They don't offer a novice class, only intermediate and advanced. Now, I don't know you, how well you can ride, experience, etc. so please don't take this the wrong way. The day is fast paced, 30 minute sessions. If you've been injured and it's your first day back on the bike and first trackday. There will be some getting used to just being on the bike. Add in the pace, turns, picking lines and traffic and it could get to be too much. In addition to your own safety, you should think about the safety of others. At the pace some are running in pro school, things could go bad really quick. I would pick a different day, do a novice class, get used to the bike on the track, etc. and then go from there. There are plenty of STT days to do at a number of different tracks. Just my .02
Oz1 makes a good point. The weekend immediately following the proschool/wera races STT is hosting a full standard track weekend with special pricing for mothers day. Might not be a bad bet to hold off that extra week. A weeks worth of nicer weather to :rawk:
:amen: So my dad, who used to race cars, was having the 100th conversation with me about quitting motorcycles. I asked, "Dad, what's the worst I've ever been hurt? Was it the time I blew out a disc running a jackhammer at work and had to have spinal surgery? It's funny though, you've never encouraged me to quit working for a living. So apparently, physical risk is only acceptable if I'm getting paid for it." He had no answer.
My left looks just like this. I had a bone graft at the same time. Thank God my right wrist was a clean break of the Radius and only required a cast.
I had a pretty serious fracture of my radius last year. It wasn't displaced and I had the option of surgery or not (doc said for a not displaced fracture you couldn't get much worse). I chose no surgery and was in a cast for six weeks. I got the cast off on a Monday and I rode at Road Atlanta the following weekend. I was able to ride and have fun but it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do. I had several months of my left hand going numb when riding. The length of time it took before I started getting numbness increased for the rest of the year, and by the end of the year it was doing a lot better, but it's still not back to normal. I still have a lot of tingling in my hand (it's happening right now actually), and I still frequently get these electric jolts that run up to the tips of my fingers. I don't know if this is just normal or if I made things worse by riding too soon. I waited just over seven weeks from injury to to when I was back on the bike. If I had it to do over again I probably would wait another few weeks, but it was Road Atlanta. Hmmm, maybe I'd do the exact same thing again.
With advances in medical technology it is safe to say I can just get bionic arms later on in life. Right?