You don’t need a long neck,to be a GOOSE!!

[Mick DMember]

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You’ll be right Mick. I spend fair bit of time in hospitals and I know they will look after you. Do I now feel like a bastard for making fun of the situation? Yep. :blush:

No worries Nigel, I would have taken the piss out off you ,if you did it..LOL

[Anonymous]

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Mate there is a lot to be said for fox 180 pants,I skidded at least 20 feet on my arse and not a mark on either my arse or the pants.

my fox pants get torn by passing leaves. i would hate to trust my bum to them in a flip.

at least you can sit down. obt should be a bit more active for a while now with your new spare time. i’ll post a story to keep you entertained.

[Mick DMember]

Got a 2 week doctor certificate.So I will be stuck at home for a while!! They have set my foot in a position that will make it hard to drive a manual car.

[Anonymous]

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i’ll post a story to keep you entertained.

Team champos’ adventure to the Bercy SX, Paris

With me dislocating my wrist whilst sweep riding at the final round of our CCDR. Caused by a combination lack of contact lenses, lack of attention and a lack of skill. I had to find something else to do for the rest of the year = Bercy

Last time Tracy and I were backpacking around Europe (yes we don’t have any kids) we were in the Netherlands during the MXDN. However we got too distracted to go see it. This time we were going to make sure we were going to go in an international MX event.

After the surgeon wired my wrist back together with some fish hooks (well that’s what it looked like in the x-ray), he said that I won’t be able to teach (I teach mechanical engineering trades at TAFE when not trashing wrists) for the rest of the year. Knowing that I would go nuts being stuck on the lounge, I asked the surgeon if Tracy could take me to Europe. He said that was an excellent idea and had a plastic cast made up. My head teacher agreed with the surgeon. soo.. With 9 weeks accumulated sick leave and Tracy having over 10 weeks annual leave to get rid of – off we went.

Ricky Carmichael’s last MX race was to be Bercy. However, with him developing chronic fatigue syndrome (that guy trains too hard, especially for someone retiring from bikes) RC was out. Unlike me James Stewart was a worthy replacement. Like me, he had trashed himself. However Chad Reed and Jeremy McGrath were available. Last time these two were at Bercy together, Chad and his Kawasaki, took Jeremy out of the race.

We decided to go to the Sunday version of Bercy. Due to Tracy only giving her boss a weeks notice of her going on holidays, the earliest we could arrive in Paris was the Saturday and we would probably fall asleep during the event; despite the noisy Bercy crowd. So we seeked tickets for the Sunday event. Unfortunately, Jeremy McGrath was racing a quad in the Baja on the following Tuesday, so he has to fly out of Paris on Sunday. Therefore he would not be there for Sunday’s event.

The event was sold out well before Tracy and I considered heading to Paris. So we found an English scalping mob on the internet, gave him our credit card details and told them to send them to our hotel in Paris. Stupid maybe, brave definitely. I felt that I had made enough precautions to feel confident that valid tickets would appear.

We arrived in Paris and found our way to our hotel. The guy at reception said that he had no mail for me. I rang the scalping mob and he said, in some English version of – ‘don’t worry mate, I’ll have them to you in a bit’. 10mins later, some guy rocks up to the hotel with the tickets. And they looked genuine.

After a jetlagged version of good night sleep (awaking at 2:30am ready to start the day) we were not ready to start the day. Bercy Sunday was also Remembrance Day, so first we headed over to Champs Elysees to check out proceedings. Now the French are really into security. Protecting the hundreds of military trained people at the ceremony, were, hundreds of military people. So much so the French police frisked us so we could proceed to the second line of barriers (some half a km from the actual ceremony at the Arc de triomphe.

As you may know, the Arc de Triumph is on the east side of the city. Bercy is on the west side of the city. A few hours walk through the Latin Quarter. This should get us there just in time for the first race of the afternoon. After passing Cinema Champo, we realised we would be late. So we had to pick up the pace. Checking with locals along the way, if we were still heading in the right direction, (Bercy is off the tourist map). We found that our pronunciation of Bercy was dodgy, much like our French. So if they were older French people we would ask how to get to the tennis arena. The French open was at Bercy the week before. When we asked a young guy in a hoody if we where on track. He didn’t know tennis; however he did know dirt bikes. Therefore we made it just in time.

The people sitting next to us couldn’t understand my French. They turned out to be Poms who came over to watch their favourite Pommy riders. I asked them who won last night. They replied “that guy on the No. 22 bike.” Chad was introduced with a tune played on a didgeridoo. The whole show was the usual over the top supercross style of presentation. You could see Chad was embarrassed. When the very excited French commentator grabbed the king of Bercy trophy and waved it in Chad’s face, saying that Chad really wants this, don’t you? Don’t you!?! Chad replied that he just wanted to ride, and ride really fast.

Myself not really being into freestyle motocross anymore and not knowing most of the names competing, I was keener to watch the racing. However, the freestyle MX riders were absolutely incredible. With the first competition being who could throw the biggest whip. These guys were completely turning their bikes inside out. The general freestyle comps were pretty much every variation of trick you could imagine, and many you couldn’t, up-side-down.

The Bercy race track was the usual unusual. The starting gates were on top of a small table top (it works brilliantly for Bercy), around a very complicated, tight and difficult on court track with difficult and peaky and varying whoops, step-ups and step-downs with staged take offs and landings, a tight S-bend that the riders could ride around as if barrel racing or hold it on and pitch their bike horizontal around the berms, flipping their bike from side to side a full 180 within a few bike lengths. Through an underpass and over the starting gates to choose one of the berms that set the riders up for different combinations of jumps to take them into the long tunnels that consists off hair pin berms and fast straights with small level changes under the spectator seating. Every body can see everything due to the four massive tele’s above the centre of the track. And there was a lot to see.

There were different events to win at Bercy. USA vs. France vs. the rest of the world, two riders at a time elimination series and the king of Bercy. Apart from the prince of Bercy (85cc) races, riders could race what ever engine and capacity that they choose. Therefore if you wanted to race a 125 you could. If you were good enough to race a 450, go right ahead.

Chad was not really challenged during the heats or the 2 bike match ups. When he made his way to the front of the final in the first few turns it looked like Chad would win again. However the race was red flagged due to the number of bikes and bodies lying in the track from the first turn free for all.

The restart saw Chad caught mid pack. Current AMA outdoor national champion Grant Langston took this opportunity to try to get away. He had showed that he had speed around the track up until crashing, he lead Saturday nights’ final. Chad on a mission had made his way to 2nd by lap 3.

The normally nutty Bercy SX crowd had somehow found even more enthusiasm. Reed circulating flat out slowly caught the South African. Grant seemed faster in the tunnels however Chad was quicker in the whoops. Chad tried numerous times to get pass the fellow Yamaha rider, however each time with out being able to make the pass stick. Each attempt got more and more ambitious. This went on for most of the race until Grant ether got sick of prolonging the inevitable or just went too hot into a section, and left a gap that Chad could get through.

Grant almost looked relieved that Chad was now off his ass as Chad went flat bickie for a few laps to build a couple of seconds to buffer a counter attack. Chad maintains this buffer for the remaining laps to be rewarded the, somewhat embarrassing, crown of King of Bercy.

Tracy and I planned to meet up with my brother and sister in law who were making their way around the world and arriving in Paris that night. So we didn’t stay around for the presentation.

Sorry KTM fans. We were keen to visit the KTM factory whilst in Austria. However it was New Years Eve and snowing. Therefore, we were once again distracted. However, I thought I would include a few other related photos though.

Champo and Raceytracy

[DavidMember]

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looks like its boof head of the week for you again mick

Unless the cast is off in a week I am going to get more than a week’s worth of teasing

things like….
It could only happen to a Honda after jetting ..they go so woeful with standard jetting,

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Come on Mick this wont get you sympathy sex

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Did you see 10 cents on the ground

Seriously Mate I hope all goes quick and if you need anything to be done give me a call …..and I will forward your call to lifeline …they really care you know

Second seriously….If you need help just yell mate, its a bummer being hurt, at least you managed to do it in the hot time of the year, Can I write Honda Goose Rider on your cast if it is not already there

[shaneMember]

Answer me this:

When you realised it as gone, did you let it go?

Or did you hang onto the bars and dance along behind…?:laugh:

Nevermind. Sit back and relax for a few weeks.

[Mick DMember]

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Answer me this:

When you realised it as gone, did you let it go?

Or did you hang onto the bars and dance along behind…?:laugh:

Nevermind. Sit back and relax for a few weeks.

The back mud guard was scraping the road and I still had my feet on the pegs trying to find the back brake.(First ride in new boots).
I then landed on my arse and still had hold of the hangers!! That is when the big girl bit me and came down on my foot.

[DavidMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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shane_vor wrote:

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Answer me this:

When you realised it as gone, did you let it go?

Or did you hang onto the bars and dance along behind…?:laugh:

Nevermind. Sit back and relax for a few weeks.

The back mud guard was scraping the road and I still had my feet on the pegs trying to find the back brake.(First ride in new boots).
I then landed on my arse and still had hold of the hangers!! That is when the big girl bit me and came down on my foot.

Never say die….you are a KTM rider under the red

[WayneMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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Got a 2 week doctor certificate.So I will be stuck at home for a while!! They have set my foot in a position that will make it hard to drive a manual car.

Mick,
I’m still trying to work out why you type with your feet at work? Don’t you do editing, proof reading etc. Why do you need two weeks off? Can’t you type faster with your fingers? I mean, I understand if Ollie used his feet, but you? What’s the go?
Crash

[Mick DMember]

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micknmeld wrote:

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Got a 2 week doctor certificate.So I will be stuck at home for a while!! They have set my foot in a position that will make it hard to drive a manual car.

Mick,
I’m still trying to work out why you type with your feet at work? Don’t you do editing, proof reading etc. Why do you need two weeks off? Can’t you type faster with your fingers? I mean, I understand if Ollie used his feet, but you? What’s the go?
Crash

I was lucky enough to get in to see the Polish doctor, DR Timeoff !!!

[ChrisMember]

Nuff said. Hope your recovery is short and unpainful

Chris.

[Rossco MckinnonMember]

Gday Mick long time no speak. anyway bad luck but as you no i did the same thing on the Bathurst 1000 weekend did a stand up mono that went a tad to FAR:silly: down my brothers in laws runway (whoops) guard snapped in half sub frame went too:blush: Broke my toe ( and wearing chinese saftey gear at the time Thongs and boardies):blush: :dry: anyway you what KTM is like had too allot half my pay to fix the old girl.
Anyway to fix you up i bring up a Nice big rolled turkey for you to chew on

Hope you enjoy

P.s picked up a 10 kilo kingy off Woolongong with the Myth:laugh:
Cya Saturday morning.

MadMacs

[Mick DMember]

Thanks Mac, looking forward to catching up. I wish I only had a broken toe. If the bike hadn’t hit me I would have gotten out of it real easy,but dems da breaks:(

[Anonymous]

There is types of men in life Mick, those who hold on to their machines when they go down and those who don’t. I’m pleased to see you didn’t let her goB)

[Bruce CurtisMember]

I s’pose after this little escapade Mick you now know the alternative meaning to thesarus, cause you have one:P .

I hate flipping hurts too much and makes you look like a Goose
(which as an old mate from yes bloody port-wauchope area reminded a few weeks ago used to be my nickname up until I left the roadbike side of things)

Blucee

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