I would just like to express my feelings about safety gear and how important it is. Yesterday my friends and I were out riding the local motocross track and one of my friends took a jump and lost his footing. When he landed his foot came off the peg and got sucked under the rear wheel. We rushed him out to the closest hospital to find that he broke every bone in his ankle. He had to have immediate surgery to put his ankle back together. The doc said that it will be at least a year before he rides again if he ever rides again. All of this wouldn't have happened if he would have listened to me and bought a set of boots. He used to rag on me and call me a pretty boy for all the riding gear that I wear. Looking at him in the hospital bed I ask "Who's the pretty boy now?"
Please wear all the safety gear that you can. And for those people that ride without helmets, they need their bikes taken away. I have knocked myself out with a helmet on. I probably wouldn't be alive if I didn't have one on.

 

How you like your LRD? Is it a topend or bottomend pipe?

 

it's very torquey and responsive on the bottom end and helps out a little on the top.

 

My kid had exactly the same experience, but he WAS wearing a brand new pair of A* Tech-8's. They saved his bacon. I would rate a chest protector real high too. Years ago, during the 3-wheeler craze, a friend of ours went over the bars and broke a rib. It punctured her lung, and she layed there in the dirt and BLED TO DEATH while her family watched helplessly!!! A little chest protection would have saved her life!!! Get every piece of protective gear you can find, and always wear it!!!

 

Also, especially if you are going to jump a lot, a set of nerf bars will keep your feet out of harms way if you come off the pegs.

 

While head injuries remain the most serious life-threatening ATVing injuries, the most COMMON serious (requiring professional treatment/hospitalization/"lost time") injuries are feet/ankle/leg injuries, according to the ATV Safety Institute. As examples on this topic point out, the design of ATVs puts feet and legs in front of the rear wheels, in their path in the event of accident or upset.

Over-ankle leather boots with steel toes seem like a good way to eliminate or minimize foot/ankle/leg injuries, especially compared to sneakers, running shoes, loafers, etc.

Tree Farmer