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Sonoma, SM, Rain, One hand ... Crushed it

Killin_ix

Killin_ix

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Joined
Aug 2, 2004
Location
SF - fog city
Moto(s)
Ninja 400
Name
Eric
This has to be someone on this forum. To ride a supermoto at Sonoma, in the rain, passing expert riders with one hand.

:wow:hail:hail:hail:applause:applause

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RightCoastBias said:
Is he missing an arm, or showing off? Either way, cool video.
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He lost his arm, see the post on reddit for more

First, thank you to all of you that have challenged, supported, and encouraged me. I've worked hard to get back on the bike and to then eventually get back on the track. Even the most driven, dedicated people get discouraged and can feel defeated or that their effort to persevere isn't worth it. My friends, family, coworkers, and the members, like you, of /r/motorcycles have been there to keep me going, even when I felt like quitting because riding with one arm was too hard, too painful, or too stupid to do.
Sorry I didn't reply to a lot of the later comments in my last post. I was busy getting the bike, gear, and tools ready.
The day was... sub-optimal to say the least. It was cloudy until they started the first motorcycle session. (The schedule was setup like this: A group cars, B group cars, A group bike, B group bike). It started raining just as the the motorcycle A group started. When the B group got going there was a crash on turn 3 of the first lap and then 3 crashes on turn 2 of lap 2. The hill-side of the track was VERY slippery. For that reason, I decided to only ride at around 75% for the whole day and not get off the bike too much... kind of a mixture of sport and sumo riding style.
By the end of the day the track was only damp in a few sections. It was never dry enough for me (or almost anyone) to feel comfortable pushing it too hard. I would've been a bit more aggressive but they required passing on the outside only with a 6-foot gap.
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edit: Yeah, what SmashAllen posted.


I saw this last night on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycle...ights_from_my_first_1armed_track_day_with_z2/

In the comments the guy seems to have an incredibly positive attitude and he links to some other videos, images of the bike and I think his story.

At one point, I believe he says he sped some of the video up, which made me happy because I was like "this guy is way faster than me at Sears and he's riding in the rain and with one arm!"
 
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He only has one post on BARF but he's from Richmond. Cg_Ops is his tag. Looks like he has run with a group ride back at the end of March.
 
Wow. That's awesome!
 
Little moment on the grass at the end, but wow. Well done :)

Must have humbled a few people that day :)
 
Jason's a badass. I've known him for a bit and he's always had a positive attitude about the injury and life in general. That was the first time he's been on the track since his accident. He was absolutely ripping and the conditions didn't seem to phase him one bit.
 
Was an honor to share some track and conversation with him Saturday. Fun guy to be around and the story behind his arm was :shocker

Glad he came back out and rode well :thumbup

He does have the clutch lever and front brake both on the right bar. He said it gets a bit complicated on turn entries but he seems to have it dialed well enough to ride around the outside of me :)
 
Lazerus said:
Was an honor to share some track and conversation with him Saturday. Fun guy to be around and the story behind his arm was :shocker

Glad he came back out and rode well :thumbup

He does have the clutch lever and front brake both on the right bar. He said it gets a bit complicated on turn entries but he seems to have it dialed well enough to ride around the outside of me :)
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Read the story on Reddit and the injuries to his arm are nuts... Absolutely nuts...
 
^^ yeah, I got on reddit and read the story. Pretty intense.
 
I am a fan boy. :hail

Amazing. Humbling. Awesome.
Good on you man. Keep living.
Obviously you never give up. :thumbup
 
Here is a crazy excerpt from his journal, you can find the rest here

Cg_Ops said:
Once at the hospital, I went directly into the ER. On the way into the emergency room my only words were a mantra “Am I going to die, am I going to die…?” directed at the first surgeon I laid eyes on. For 8 hours they operated on my injuries. They put the bone back into my leg and what they couldn’t put back, they placed in a cup instead. They tried with no success to stop the bleeding in my chest. When I had nearly bled to death, with a team of 5 surgeons working on me, a radiologist poked his head in and asked if he could be of assistance. He quickly analyzed the situation, noticed I was within a couple minutes of bleeding to death and inserted a catheter into my groin, working his way up to my brachial artey. Once at the tear, he inflated an angioplasty balloon in the artery and stopped me from bleeding to death.
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He's riding a WR250X and passing sportbikes on the outside?

What? Just what? Huh?

Clearly everyone needs to ride in the rain more, good god.
 
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