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An RC51 bites the dust
A friend of mine had made a video of his "get off" at Thunderhill in '04, and he needed it compressed for the web with some slow-motion edited in. Thought you might get a kick out of it. The bike was destroyed, at the scene he looked down at his arm and saw blood dripping from his sleeve. Compound fracture!
RC51 video (52 MB)
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Wow, scary ****!
Is he still riding?? X-Triple 
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Ugh!
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Sure. Latest trackbike is a GSX-R750. He's got a Speed Triple that I'd love to snag when he gets tired of it. Black with an underseat exhaust and properly reworked suspension.
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Mmm RC51 - Close to the top on my "bikes to buy" once I hit the lottery. What happened?
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Bummer. Did he break his left arm? Looks like it was out from his body as he rotated onto it in the sand.
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Unbelievable.
 Too bad about the bike. Can't really understand why it happened other than he must have leaned it right into the asphalt.
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Leaned into the asphalt, slide out, or dumped the bike going to hot into/out the corner. Lowside is always preferable. Looks like a slide out from seeing the rear sweep around the front as it went down.
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1st lap, tires are still coldish, been there done that in my youth!
It's just money and a some metal in the arm, been there done that too! The RC51 is a sweet ride by the way, too bad its riding position is way too radical as a street bike. And yes a lowside is much more preferable than a highside. Kenny Sr. refused to wear shoulder padding, his rationale: "If I highside I deserve to get hurt".
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Ouch! i had a similar fracture years ago while in the army. it's still sore 15 years later...
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 fortunately your friend wasn't hurt. Sad to see the RC51 go down, again, but glad your friend got out OK, that's more important.
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that looked like a little to much throttle coming out of the corner, spun up the rear while leaned over. Ahh the excitement of racing.
does your buddy race AFM anymore? I don't remeber seeing that # on the open twins grid in 2005? I was gonna say glad he wasn't hurt to bad, but really that was kinda bad. I'll just say glad to see he is still riding. eddy
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That spill finished his '04 season, and he didn't feel well enough for '05. He'll be back this year on a GSX-R750.
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