Page 1 of T T riders. A breed apart.

Ian Hutchinson

For those with a strong stomach or at least not if you've just had lunch.

Snaps

They are mad and a breed apart, never been there in person to see it, but always watch it televised 

PS.......A very interesting video to get a hold of to see the lifestyle and the fanaticism behind a TT rider is .....

'TT closer to the edge' by Guy Martin, who may not be a number one TT winner, but knows how to break every bone in his body with spectacular crashes and survive, unlike many of his fellow riders.

looked like he avoided a narrow miss by the next rider as well!

a guy I used to work with was in a motorbike accident, van pulled out in front of him, he went flying over it, skidded along the road, narrowly missed a tree, went through a bush.

he's young, and they thought they may have to amputate leg below knee, but there was a chance that they could remove the parts of the bone totally smashed up, leaving a gap, but use a frame so it would grow back together, like in the link above!
Difficult decision, as he said if they amputated then, they'd fit an artificial limb, and he'd be walking fairly quickly.

the other option would take months, a lot of pain, a lot of exercise, physio etc and may not even work.

he went for option b, and last time I spoke to him things were going well, the frame had been down sized a couple of times, pretty amazing stuff, not sure he was going to get back on a bike again :)



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Years ago in Oz I used to take my old man to the artificial limb clinic in Sydney to get a fibre glass leg fitting, mind you, things have moved on in making legs a lot lighter, his weighed a ton.

Anyway getting to the point, the three most common reasons why people were getting artificial legs, were diabetes with blood clotting/blood circulation problems (re: my old man) , smoking same as diabetes, and finally motorbike accidents requiring limb removal and new artificial leg, where most of these were young drivers.