People think this will never happen to them, life is precious .

After John, a friend of mine was paralized in a motocross crash I contacted David, and he imediately called him in the hospital. We spent the day at the Indy supercross with David. I later injured my back racing. It was just a herniated disc, I couldnt imagine worse. If you see this David, you made a diference with John. Thanks Jason #92

@sqd37l

7 ай бұрын

David Bailey has to be one of the most caring people ever. He makes the world a better place.

Man I was so pumped about getting out and riding again my brother is back after 12 years off and I just turned 59 and want to ride badly !! I was pro back in the 80’s but I guess I’m just gonna keep on fishin 😜🤪😜 David Bailey your are still my hero I love the watching you ride video !! Gets me tears every time!! No one and I mean no one will ever take your place as my hero!!! God bless and only god has control !!!

@foobarmaximus3506

Жыл бұрын

If you quit, stay quit. But please stay active! I'm your age and was a pro when you were. Hell, I probably know you. I've seen some gnarly ass shit - and lost a lot of friends racing vet pro in the 2000's. Not worth it. I wish none of those guys had ever raced. Most of them were not fast in the "old days". They got crazy brave when the 4-strokes came out. But their fundamentals were not good. I like your fishing idea. You already went fast bro - you have nothing left to prove.

@davidminjares9556

Жыл бұрын

@@foobarmaximus3506 you my friend said it perfectly!!!! But it’s in the blood I know better than to race I just want to go and sweat some of this fat off 😂😂😂😂 but I think I’ll just stay on my Harley and my fishing heck I just got my wife to go camping after 30 years !!!!!!we may just get a boat as well thank you for saying what you said it really soaked in god bless you 😊😊

my husband's brother, 28yrs old, broke c4 and c5 last sunday in a car crash in ethiopia. was airlifted to paris, where he is from. had surgery yesterday to put back the vertabra. he is tetraplegic and might need a trich for the rest of his life. we need to know everything and every possible rehab for this superman...

This video shows just how quickly someone's life can change with just one movement of their handlebars.

I want to make a thank comment to David Bailey,and also Davey Coombs one of the most sincerely nicest people,who I was lucky enough to actual meet,and he was as cool as he looks on tv.I been to motorcycles for a long time,mostly motocross,but,I turn out to be more of a "Steve Wise" type of rider,I had just done my first road race at Pocono raceway 1987,at the last race of the W.E.R.A. season on a Yamaha FZ-750,a little big to start a race career with but I pull it off,and even won a 50 dollar gift certificate,for third place in the open class,on a stock bike,the bike did everything I asked it to do,and you can't complain about that,but there was a few moments were it almost killed me...one in particular with everyone watching but I brought it to a stop five feet from a steel wall from 150mph. I get back to just riding it around and meet a bunch of new motocross buddies,one guy in particular who kept on about me getting killed road racing,but he did no how good I was,and just kept saying get off that and come race motocross with us,your gonna get killed on that thing,I never told him I wanted to go to the isle of man,he just selling the motocross deal so finally I gave in.Right away,my cockiness sets in and I start telling all his friends my plan to ride all 3 classes 125,250,500,not ever raced a real CR yet,on a tough track,all his friends were like oh really,most riders I found out relatively fast asking don't ride two classes,I stop I was in that kind of shape,and had the skill to pull it off but know now your body probably can't store enuf energy to do it,well I was luck enough to get a really awsum first bike thanks you guys des nations bikes,my 1986 CR 250 was the works production bike,and mine was dialed,I got it from a pro who's dad had been had been porting cylinders for 40 years tom marsh sr ,back to racing englishtown motocross track was my trial by fire,but all thru the pits there was this buzz about David Bailey,and I had know idea who you were and what they were talking about,for short while,but still had no idea of your tremendous talent on a bike till I watched the 86 des nations video,also I am a student of motocross as you are,I even asked Gary for job helping teaching MX,mainly to help new guys get going on the right foot.But that tape of David on the 500 was the longest I got to watch you ride and now I know why Davey Coombs acts like he want to shine your boots and wash and wax your cars and bikes,because you were really that good of a rider,even myself I can get on a 125 and do what john did,and I have at Englishtown in open class and prize was a DQ,for being on 125 huh,thanks for the video,now I know why my 86 CR 250 was my favorite engine,it was that des nations race ment a lot to Honda,mainly Honda didn't want to disappoint you,and Johnny and Rick,so they made their works bike a production bike,I never did figure it out till I saw youal ride in Italy,I was telling people Honda wanted to win those national titles,but they were think ing of the global market,sadly my bike was stolen and all the others are ice racing in upstate New York,what no really...I spent several years trying to locate 86 CR 250,porting guy even told me,when I asked him hey this is your sons bike you probably did a real fancy porting job and he leaned over and said hmmm,no just a little polishing it looked pretty good already...to my amazement.thanks for autograph at Daytona Dave,and Johnnie at englishtown.john signed my seat and didn't write Johnny O,he wrote Omara , and almost die when I told him wait that's not right,I made him do both sides of seat,we just laughed.thanks again.

@foobarmaximus3506

Жыл бұрын

Nonsense.

I was a teenager back when Magoo got hurt. My memory is that it happened outside the US and his medical insurance was only good for racing in the US so it went real bad for him.

@foobarmaximus3506

Жыл бұрын

I raced on the same track with Danny, twice. He was incredible. I beat him on a start in one moto and he passed me quickly. LOL Then he lapped me again and I finished 8th in that moto. LOL Damn he was fast. He blew past me on the inside on a crusty off-camber, and it was literally at that moment when I decided to find another goal in life. Not kidding - that was a real deal. Cheers and Salute to Danny. :)

Thanks for that little bit on Ernesto Fonseca,I heard nothing about his crash,and always loved his personality and efforts as a fellow racer,he was always impressing me and if I had my own team he'd have been on it...

c5-6 quad..injured 15 years ago..life sucks being paraliyzed

Thanks for making this video, In this life , we always think we have control, but really we have none. when It is all done , all we have is God. so trust him with all of your heart.

@scoremxcom

7 жыл бұрын

god is fake! The more a racer talks about the lord jesus christ, the more likely he is to T-bone your ass! Right Zach Osbourne? Right Cooper Webb? Right Trey Cannard, Right Ryan Dungey? Right Ricky Johnson??

@WS_00

4 жыл бұрын

Mark So can your god let these people walk again? And if not, why not?

@racerx143

3 жыл бұрын

A child born paralyzed at birth.... Which ever "god" you are referring to has one funny sense of humor.

dont forget doug henry

I can relate I was the half a lap and cloud of dust.went to flat track.high sided and got squeezed.ugly crash.got lucky.doc at gisenger hospital in pa.went from bed to walk out two days later.been 32 yrs.never been the same .pay every day but still walking.god blessed me.

The field of spinal cord surgeries and healing have gone so far, but there is so much research to be done.

@scoremxcom

7 жыл бұрын

Imagine what we could have done for spinal cord injuries - with the money we've blown on this "Holy War";

@mastrfreakincylinder1903

5 жыл бұрын

And the lord giveth that natural motocross talent to but a few and when they abuse it and are cruel to people actually fans that have done nothing but admire them cheer them on fans they don't even know....the lord taketh that talent and shove it right up their wazoo.

That’s a very true video w facts that still stand firmly today. I’m just wondering if anyone witnessed the 2006 San Diego Sx where James Marshall (myself**) broke c-2, c-5 & c-6. Because as having my crash live on television, gives equal credit towards our SCI (Spinal Cord Injury) community. They slept on me…. No uncle dB!!😞🤦🏽‍♂️

@foobarmaximus3506

Жыл бұрын

I was there James. I know you very well. You are not wrong. Keep strong bro!

That was a nice duel there between Ricky Johsnon and David Bailey.

Ernesto fonseca

EVERYONE WHO RACES WEAR A NECK BRACE! I compression fractured my L5 and couldn't feel my legs, but luckily for me the swelling pinched my spinal cord and didn't sever it, so the feeling came back after the swelling subsided. I GOT LUCKY. 800 dollars for a nice neck braces versus hundreds of thousands in medical bills and the rest of your life in a wheelchair is a cheap price to pay.

@scoremxcom

7 жыл бұрын

where is the science, the paper, to show these 'neck-braces' work?

@AlexEssex8

5 жыл бұрын

jstein639 You have to pay for a neck brace in the US? Would be free on the National Health Service in England...

@midway27272727

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlexEssex8 I'd rather pay for mine, keep the socialism over there

Danny magoo Chandler……the flying Freckle. R.I.P

Imagine being the person who camera flashed the first guy.. 😳😔

@brianbooher7318

2 жыл бұрын

I seen Magoo's whole interview about that deal. He goes on to say that he was showing out for the guy that flashed at camera because he know he would be there taking a picture of the finish-line jump he always was and he said he was showing out for him. So really it's not the guy's fault

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. I know this all too well. Trust in him and someday in heaven when you have a perfect eternal body the pain and suffering you went through on earth will seem like nothing. Jesus Christ is Lord!

The poor boy!

Very moving! You're truly an inspiration! bt bad luck all they gone do is blame themselves. smooth ur a.....s won twice

is there a part two ?

I broke my back in the USMC i gave out 30 years later. They fixed me did an ok job too paralyze from the knees down

i have spinal cord injury as well. but it was not caused by intense activities. it was caused by bacterial infection. man, its been 8 months, although i can walk and run normally, my lower body is still tingling when i bend my neck.

Would immediate cortisone in spine or SOMETHING have saved any of these? Is there any kind of back protection that might have prevented? I'm just wondering what is learned out of all this for "the next guy" ? Seems like until there are some amazing medical advances via stem cell research or whatever that the BEST right now is working on prevention....no?

@vintagemxer9165

5 жыл бұрын

MX racers should wear some type of spinal cord protection and certainly a neck brace - anything to lessen the chances of this happening.

@keenandwhat009 To say that you have to be stupid to ride bikes is a bit ridiculous. Its like saying its stupid to jet ski or drive a car. And Im sure that people that ride bikes are fully aware of how dangerous it can be.

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but ernesto fonseca is already paralysed?

@howieramzer oh come on. sure there are risks with everything even eating and drinking but riding a motorcycle much jumping a dirt bike exceeds any sort of risk that is reasonable. There is nothing wrong with doing these activities and no one deserves serious injury for it but the consequences should be weight more to most people who do them i think.

A camera guy basically cut one of the best Honda racers ever career and marriage short. Flash should be illegal.

@dougiequick1

5 жыл бұрын

Hopefully that person had no idea that could even happen .... Had it been me? I would feel like the worst pile of dog shit for the rest of my life ...like I do anyway for other things I did when young and care-less ....but to take SO much from someone who had so much? Man how do you live with that?

@vintagemxer9165

5 жыл бұрын

I doubt it.

@brianbooher7318

2 жыл бұрын

Jacob McVay I saw the whole interview with Magoo about the whole deal he said that he knew that guy would be standing there taking a picture of the finish-line jump so he was showing out for him is what caused the accident it wasn't the guy's fault necessarily