Motorcycles don't hurt riders, riders hurt riders. Sorry, that was dumb.

I grew up racing all kinds of different things. Four-wheelers at first, then on to bikes. I have ridden for 20 years now and I will be turning 27 this Sunday. I've raced motocross, enduros, hare scrambles, arenacross, supercoss, heck, I've even barrel raced bikes in rodeos. I've raced bmx, go-carts, and even r.c. cars.
I have broken a lot of bones riding, including my back, but my worst injury didn't come from racing at all. It came playing the cruel and deadly game of golf! Before you laugh, please let me explain. You know how they sometimes have ropes on the ground at driving ranges that you can't hit the ball in front of? Well I caught the rope right after I made contact with the ball as the club was upswinging. I hyper-extended my wrist and broke it along with a bone in my hand. No big deal, huh? Well that very bone has a very important tendon stuck to it that goes down to your middle finger and controls all. When the bone broke it tore the tendon about 90% of the way through. Being in college at the time and without insurance, I elected not to have surgery. That probably would have helped. All I can say is that it hurts very badly all the time. I quickly forgot about my back pains after this injury. I now work on a computer all day and that just adds to the wrist pain, but the track ball mouse has definitely changed my life for the better.
So, the moral of this story is that golf sucks!