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« on: August 23, 2011, 01:54:41 PM »
about 6 months ago there was a man in church that was telling a story about his son and it just so happened that his son rode. It was completely random that this guy started talkin to me not knowing that I ride, but anyways his son was an up and coming B class rider real fast sponsored by suzuki the whole 9 yards. Basically the kid railed and knew what he was doing on a bike. Well one day he was racing down here at this track Nocona mx went over the finishline table (its about 80ft) and from what it sounded like to me kinda like what happened to Reed at spring creek he got swapped out going up the face and bailed off the bike but unlike chad he kinda stayed with the bike in the air just behind it. The front tire hit first kind of making the bike stand up. He was riding a 2006 rmz 250 this happend in like 07 anyways as we all know the 4 strokes then had those long silencers. He landed right on the bike and that silencer popped him right in the chest and tore a valve in his heart he died about 30 seconds later. His dad told me that the doctors said if his chest protector would've been on he would've lived. Ppl argue about that stuff all the time I think it's cause they dont get the fact that no a chest pro isnt gonna save you from injury I heard they are designed to spread the blow out in all likelyness the kid would've had some broken bones but I'd rather have that than lose my life any day. I refuse to ride without mine one time I drove out to the track and didnt have it I packed everything back up and left told myself "well thats what you get for being forgettful" lol