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posted November 29, 2008 07:19 PM
Bike Wreck in Prescott, AR (ZX13R)
Shawn Covey, (ZX13R), went down across the finish line today at Prescott. He is okay, but has a broken wrist and ankle. It was scary, he had a 5.9 something dial, and the car he was racing had a 5.5 something......, glad he will be okay.
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posted November 29, 2008 07:24 PM
what happened? slippery?
hopefully he has a quick recovery
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posted November 29, 2008 07:31 PM
No, track was tight when I walked on it..............
From the looks of it, he applied the brakes too hard, but I was on the starting line watching......,, was not the time to ask him what happened......
Hopefully he will be back soon........
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posted December 01, 2008 05:01 PM
It was nice meeting everyone down there this weekend and damn dude your the ice cream man not superman so no more flying off your bike!
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posted December 01, 2008 11:06 PM
Glad to see that he will be ok.
I learned to stop hitting my brakes on the top end when one time I hit the front brakes by mistake and my wheel turned (skidded) at 150 MPH. I luckily recovered, but haven't hit the brakes since. All I do now is close the throttle to avoid breaking out.
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posted December 02, 2008 07:07 AM
Glad it wasn't worse and hows the bike???
I hear that Ninjaboy!!!
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posted December 02, 2008 08:02 AM
Not bad, meg and final y pipe on brock pipe look like a pancake......, everything else Mike and Bonnie at Catalyst can replace with better parts..........
Same to you Gr8Pumpkin
Shawn called me yesterday. His wrist is in a cast, his leg in a boot. He is doing as well as he can at this point..........
Maybe some blue bunny ice cream will make him fell all better........lol
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posted December 02, 2008 08:26 AM
good to see he's up making calls.
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posted December 02, 2008 08:59 AM
Thanks, for all your prayers! I'm doing alot better today!
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posted December 02, 2008 11:59 AM
Ah, pecking on the computer with the one good hand......, thats the spirit..........
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posted December 02, 2008 12:13 PM
 Edited By: Shane661 on 2 Dec 2008 20:14
It happens. My girlfriend Racheal had a get off after the traps at our local 1/8 track. I think she came through the traps at about 115 mph....and lost the front end in the shutdown area. Luckily her gear protected her from any major injury.
The scariest part is that they continued to send bikes down the track. Fortunately she was able to get up and off the track. I'd hate to think what would have happened if they sent one of those 150 mph cars through after her.
At any rate, glad you're ok! 
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posted December 02, 2008 02:54 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIieDH8JtiY
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posted December 02, 2008 03:59 PM
Shawn,
It would have been really cool if you had won the race while sliding across the line... 
But seriously I'm glad you came out O.K. ......It could have been a lot worse !!
I don't grab the brakes at the stripe just for that reason.....Get well soon. Roy
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posted December 02, 2008 05:54 PM
Yeah, they all looked at me like I was crazy when the first thing I said was "Did I Win?" LOL, it was a double brake out. I was looking at the video tonight and noticed a lot of leaves on the ground at the finish line, and you can see them start fly up right when i went down...
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posted December 02, 2008 07:16 PM
Watching the video, looks like you grabbed a ton of front brakes, the bike nosed over when you hit them. I think it would have done the same thing at any track.
Glad you are ok.
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posted December 02, 2008 08:09 PM
Glad your up and moving, but next time just drop and roll . . . 
and don't try to get up till your done sliding
I've made the same mistake, only once and never again, my lesson ended better though.
Take the winter off, time to freshen the bike up anyway.
Heal up quick
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posted December 02, 2008 09:16 PM
damn that was tuff to watch! where do i get the pics from this weekend. i want to get a copy of the video of me breaking one off in 1969ca lol
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posted December 02, 2008 11:08 PM
Glad you are ok !!!
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posted December 03, 2008 05:17 AM
How about some pics of the suit and helmet so we can see how well they fared?
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posted December 03, 2008 10:49 AM
Thats funny u had to use the the shit to beat the fat guy on a 14 hahaha
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posted December 03, 2008 03:16 PM
quote:
Thats funny u had to use the the shit to beat the fat guy on a 14 hahaha
My half track bottle pass with 500psi in the bottle went 5.47 and i also treed you. your bike on the bottle went 5.82 the night before remember lol. i member and so does my time slip. he you said if you line up heads up all out..................
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posted December 03, 2008 03:18 PM
quote:
Thats funny u had to use the the shit to beat the fat guy on a 14 hahaha
This should be good.........
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posted December 04, 2008 07:12 PM
i know what slideing across the end zone is like. at maple grove i went down due to a tank slapper caused by a tad bit of air shifting to 4th. hit the track at 130mph and ran a 1253 i think at 56mph ON MY ASS. the first thing i thought was this is not too bad. after i rode a H1 and H2. then it got fast and dumped me off. i stayed flat on my back arms out feet in front hands up. my crappy vid seams like it took 12 sec to stop and get up. we hit the wall and everything.(bike and i chaseing after it). i am glad there is not as much rubber from the 1000ft area on through.
all this cause mike said to get a damper and i did not have one. 1500 bucks later i have one.
i am glad you are going to be ok also i am glad we both have injected bikes. if it would of been my zx11c i would of been sliding through gas dumping from the carbs and maybe fire.
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posted December 04, 2008 09:58 PM
Rule #1 Never try to stand up until you are absolutely sure that you have stopped sliding :P
You almost had a backflip though
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