Dakar 2026 (No Laverda content)

Charley

Charley

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Dakar 2026 stage 11 I can't be the only one watching the Dakar.
Brilliant.
These guys are real motorcycle heroes. (Nutters?)
Daniel Sanders from Australia is riding with a broken collar bone and sternum and is still fourth.
Battle in the 'Original' Motul bike class looks fun.
 
Those 2 resent crashes in the dunes were UGLY. Both got caught by unseen lips on the dune edge. I once cracked, I bet there is a big difference between cracked and broken, a collarbone skiing. The skiing after to get down wasn't hard, 5 minutes for me.2 days off-road, not a chance in hell. Taking clothes off and sleaping was not fun.
 
Vince said:
Those 2 resent crashes in the dunes were UGLY. Both got caught by unseen lips on the dune edge. I once cracked, I bet there is a big difference between cracked and broken, a collarbone skiing. The skiing after to get down wasn't hard, 5 minutes for me.2 days off-road, not a chance in hell. Taking clothes off and sleaping was not fun.
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Possibly some journalistic word play.
As you say Vince, big difference between broken and cracked.
Broke my leg, was waiting for ambulance reading a bike magazine. 36 cms of titanium rod and half a dozen screws testify that it was broken.

Broke some ribs onboard ship. MediVac off and breathing farting sleeping was agony. Ride my motorcycle? Not on your life.
 
I broke my collar bone & scapular ( in a crash) and picked the Guzzi up off its side..I can remember the graunching sound! Watford general Hospital didn’t have a sling , didn’t notice the broken shoulder blade on x-ray and I was sent on my way home after being told “ you’ll have a lump when it heals but it’s not like your going to be modelling bikinis !”
To top it off I was ten minutes early for work, so wasn’t “at” work so wasn’t entitled to sick pay!
I do know Gary Havelock ( world speedway champ) broke a collarbone and didn’t know, carried on for rest of season until it was noticed by a Doctor during a medical - it had healed by then.
 
Exmoor beast said:
I broke my collar bone & scapular ( in a crash) and picked the Guzzi up off its side..I can remember the graunching sound! Watford general Hospital didn’t have a sling , didn’t notice the broken shoulder blade on x-ray and I was sent on my way home after being told “ you’ll have a lump when it heals but it’s not like your going to be modelling bikinis !”
To top it off I was ten minutes early for work, so wasn’t “at” work so wasn’t entitled to sick pay!
I do know Gary Havelock ( world speedway champ) broke a collarbone and didn’t know, carried on for rest of season until it was noticed by a Doctor during a medical - it had healed by then.
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Workers compensation in most countries covers the entire trip to and from work.
Lots of people have continued with busted collarbones and ribs, racing with them must be absolute agony. Price rode almost an entire "Dakar" thousands of miles from Dakar in Sth America, with a broken wrist didn´t he? Super humans. Ribs are the most painful I have had, done rib/s four or five times, and both collarbones, and wouldn´t have been riding until they had set. A huge shame for Chucky but it happens to the best of them.
 
I loved to see the story of that Italian bloke in the Manny Motto class or whatever they call it, he rode from Italy to Paris on the Bike he raced, so he could start there and experience how it felt when the event began back in the day. I love that idea. Rode the whole event with Panners fitted. Thats the Dakar spirit.
 
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