Nasty crash - British Superbike - NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH

**gijoe1313** · 2nd September 2007, 11:55

Crikey, to see the leg windmilling around like that...

But knowing these mad buggers, he'll probably be back on a bike again in a couple of months!

**Duke girl** · 2nd September 2007, 12:15

Terrible crash but thank goodness he survived it. Couldnt get over the marshall running out to pick up the bike while the riders were still racing. U have to wonder how much they value their own lives to do wat he did. Thought we were going to c another accident, just glad it never happened.

**Brian d marge** · 2nd September 2007, 14:41

Walk it off Reggie-Ray ,

Got to feel for Camier he was on for a good year ,,,,

Hop its not a career ending Injury !

Stephen

**Fat Tony** · 2nd September 2007, 18:13

Just looked on his site for an update and he's on the mend and hobbling about on crutches. He came away with a fractured pelvis and a femoral shaft fracture to his left femur (that's following the accident, not injuries received in hospital

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The accident sparked a debate about whether Cadwell is still suitable for BSB or not, or whether they should look at leveling out the Mountain a bit. Bloody crazy in my opinion. One of the best bits of tarmac in the country, both to ride and to spectate, and I doubt racers would have it any other way.

Hell, a few of them even had a bet on during practice to see who could manage one-handed flight coming off the top of the Mountain

Jonny Rea won that one:

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9...96largebf7.jpg

Some more quality photos here if anybody fancies seeing more superbikes in flight: http://londonbikers.com/galleries/ga...3-98d1c1562d58

**skidMark** · 2nd September 2007, 18:51

youchhhhh..i'm sure my motorway splitting superman at 80kph wouldve looked cooler tho

in seriousness though, hope he heals up and can get back into racing, anybody who can do that has massive balls.

**The Tazman** · 2nd September 2007, 19:27

I've ridden that track a couple of times and it's fan-bloody-TAZtic Have some on board footage on my old ZXR 400 and some front and rear footage on my Gixer 600

It's a real mix of a track and like you say I'm sure all the racers love it. These things always come up after an accident.

Thanks for the footage. When do you plan to be in NZ and where will you be?

Taz

**Fat Tony** · 2nd September 2007, 19:45

Originally Posted by The Tazman

I've ridden that track a couple of times and it's fan-bloody-TAZtic Have some on board footage on my old ZXR 400 and some front and rear footage on my Gixer 600

It's a real mix of a track and like you say I'm sure all the racers love it. These things always come up after an accident.

Thanks for the footage. When do you plan to be in NZ and where will you be?

Taz

Yeah, I've ridden Cadwell three times - absolutely fantastic. It's my favourite track in the country... and while the Mountain scares the hell out of me every time I approach it, I love it

As for when are we going to get to NZ? Jeeesus, seems like never with the speed that my wife's nursing reg is taking to get sorted. We're hoping to be over for the NZ summer, but it's all in other people's hands now. It'll happen when it happens

It might be that we end up having Christmas here and then getting over as soon after that as we can. Might even look at just sorting out work visas and sorting it all out from there if things don't speed up a notch soonish.

Where? We're thinking probably Christchurch. Loved it when we were over at Easter... though we said that about pretty much everywhere we stopped