FREESTYLE CRASHES
Freestyle motocross boasts
some of the most radical jumping ever. Some of the crashes associated with these
endeavors are to be remembered. Following are some of those memorable crashes.
1. Travis
Pastrana, IFMA contest
at Lake Havasu - short, cased, stuck, separated spine from pelvis
2. Kenny
Bartram, IFMA Las Vegas
$75,000 Final - came up short, KOd, fell off back of bike, slid down to base of
jump, bike squirted over the lip - Kenny's helmet that covered his chin bent the
Renthal crossbar down about 3/4 of an inch to one inch, and the crossbar clamp
slid about 1/2 inch down the handlebar from his face impacting the bars.
3. Dan
Pastor, Eureka, CA - bar
hop, snagged throttle cable with foot on the way over, throttle stuck wide open,
he ghosted the bike and landed the downside. Bike went wide open for 100 feet
before it stuffed into motor home beween the body and the rear bumper and lodged
there
4. Carey
Hart, X Games '99 -
short, case, endo during practice
5. Justin Homan - hung up doing
trick, crashed and hurt legs
6. Chris
Garwasiuk, Orange County
- short, looped out, bailed, landed with foot under his posterior
7. Grant
Steele, Cow Palace, San
Francisco - landed in row C in a guy's nachos
8. Grant
Steele, Air MX Challenge, Mesa Marin Raceway, October 2000, came up
short, cased, endoed to 15 feet below on hardpack, broke 5 ribs, punctured lung,
broke scapula, collarbone
9. Mike Metzger at Winchester
Arena - short, case, stuck where he landed - then had to drive cross country
that night to begin the Warped Tour
10. Kenny
Bartram, Irwindale WFA
event - flatlanded, ambulance ride
11. Caleb
Wyatt, Las Vegas demo
12. Tommy
Clowers, X Games '99 -
short, broke wrist
13. Carey
Hart, Warped Tour,
Phoenix - went long, landed on ramp, broke ramp deck, rear tire buried in ramp
until swingarm made dents on both sides of the tire hole in the ramp deck; also
pegs and frame stamped deep marks in the plywood. Carey fell over and slid out
14. Seth
Enslow, Crusty Demons of
Dirt - Dune jump flatlander that made him famous. Went 4th gear instead of 3rd,
overjumped downside dune, flatlanded in sand, head hit bars as his whole body
flowed over the bars like a waterfall to a headplant in the sand, big jump, hard
crash
15. Micky Dymond on dunes - short,
endo. Was riding with Cinqmars, Cinq was hitting this big double in the dunes,
but there was a hump before the launcher. Dymond tried it in 3rd and came up a
little short, then went back and tried it in 4th. He came up even shorter! Why?
Because the hump made him go airborne too long, he landed too close to the
launcher and actually lost speed. He would have gone farther if he hadn't flown
so far off the hump!
16. Micky Dymond road jump
overjump
17. Seth Enslow on dunes - landed
on McGrath's bike and others
18. Carey
Hart, Gravity Games 2000, full gainer flip - overrotated and compressed
his spine and fell over.
19. Robert
Distler, long flatlander on sand dune, slapped throat across crossbar,
severed trachea/esophagus, April 2001
20. Dylan
Creamer, long flatlander at contest in England, slapped throat across
crossbar, severed trachea/esophagus, April 2001
21. Brian
Deegan, short on 90 foot gap in Aspen, Colorado, Winter X Games, January
26, 2004. Landed on all fours and broke both wrists and a femur.