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I've fallen off motorcycles (not including dirt bikes) twice.
Once was at a racetrack doing about 180 Kms/hr. The handlebars broke me left thumb and then hit me in the chest and cracked two ribs. Next day on a 24hr flight to Europe.
This was after my wife telling me I shouldn't go, you can imagine how it went when I got home!
The second one was a high side doing about 20kms/hr. Went straight up in the air and landed right on the point of my left shoulder. Smashed my collar bone in four places and broke the scapula as well. My shoulder was hanging off!
I can remember the ambo pulling me up by my shoulders and fainting and then again when the nurse at the hospital tried to straighten me up.
Those injuries don't give me much grief now but my knees certainly do. I've had partial replacement to both and when I get old enough I have to have a full replacement of my left one. These are from playing contact sports for about 40 years.
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