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Yes I recovered pretty much 100% and was in good enough shape to go on and break a lot more bones LOL. I jumped back on the bike in late January or early February of that year, I believe. It wouldn’t have been very long after learning about my cast induced injury. I had to have venous ablation (RFA) or radio frequency ablation, where they insert a device into one’s veins and using radio frequency, they heat the vein up until it collapses and fuses together so blood is no longer returned to the heart through the ablated pathway. This stopped the significant swelling that remained far longer than it took for my fracture to recover. Such swelling is the result of small valves inside of the veins which act like a check-valve and prevent blood from flowing backwards in between heart beats. My valves were permanently damaged as a result of swelling inside the cast. I had a nerve velocity test done which showed only minor differences compared to the opposite lower leg, but it’s so negligible that I haven’t noticed it.

That ankle injury was the first of many injuries that occurred during my first 3 years of motocross and it was the least invasive of all. I would go on to break my left wrist, have my right shoulder ripped out of the socket into a posterior dislocation that ripped two ligaments of the bone and though not nearly as severe, I tore up the opposite shoulder which along with the right shoulder and left wrist, required its own surgery. All of which came from a single crash in Colorado you can find on my channel. Another gent hit me from behind at a high rate of speed and ended up knocking him out cold. I then made it quite a while before the most lame crash gave me the worst injury of all. I fractured three of my thoracic vertebrae and would go on to have a 5 level fusion that drove two screws through my spinal canal and required two more surgeries to a) remove those two screws and b) re-do the entire fusion for a total of 10 vertebrae. That surgeon made his own mistakes, including using the skull clamp to move my body (a big mistake) that ripped the clamp off of my head and left three deep gashes that required something like 9 staples. You could say I have had a lot of bad luck with orthopedic and neurosurgeons. I could start a channel on spine surgery alone. It’s been a tough go but my ankle doesn’t bother me in the least bit.

Thank you, much appreciated.

Sorry for the delay, it didn’t take that long. Fortunately I needed fuel badly when this happened and I don’t believe I pumped too much (it’s been about 5 years or more).

You are very welcome. Don’t feel alone, this video turned out to take over as my number one of all time. Crazy how that works. We are in good company.

Accessory is the position where your key is turned but does not engage the starter and the vehicle is not running. In a keyless vehicle you usually just hit the start button once and you will hear the dinger going off telling you the keys are in the ignition.

Yes, it resolved about 99.999 percent. I can’t tell a bit of a difference, however it is very slightly slower on the nerve velocity test. Considering I have neuropathy in my hands and feet badly, I’d say that’s more than I could have hoped for. I moved on and graduated upwards in the energy game by breaking there vertebrae in my thoracic spine and had a surgeon drive a couple screws through my spinal canal. Believe it or not, that was just the start of it. This back injury is going to be that one injury in my life I may never recover from. 4 years after the fractures and I am still in intense pain. Makes life interesting 👎😂

Sorry for the late reply, but to your point they definitely publish thread locker part numbers that are challenging to import into the USA. I’m a huge proponent of the torque wrench. I use it on nearly all fasteners I touch if not for just applying even force over the head bolts or those in the fork tubes but because I have a problem I like to jokingly call “over-torque-itis” LOL . Like the times I skipped the torque wrench on the bolts that hold the clutch and front brake levers in position and snapped the top side of the half circle that clamps over the bottom half.

Hey I’m a bit late in reply, sorry ‘bout that. The shelf life is going to vary between products but I’ll tell you that it’s not nearly as long as I’d hope it to be. I bought a rather sizable supply of the one that led to me doing this video and looked at the shelf life which I don’t think was more that two years out from when I received it but it could have sat on a distributor’s supply for a while before I got it. I’ll say this, anytime you buy it from your local big box home supply or auto parts stores, make sure you look for that date before leaving the store because I’ve seen expired tubes before.

Hello, I’m not sure how I missed your reply so I apologize for taking so long to respond. The good news is that my foot recovered and has remained recovered 99% where I only say 99% because a nerve velocity test showed minor slowing on the peroneal nerve that’s responsible for foot drop. Back when this happened I jumped right back on the bike even though the foot dropped had just been diagnosed and the swelling was bad. Each time I went riding I noticed the swelling dropped dramatically for a couple days. As it turns out, the pumping motion of the calve muscle helps to push blood back toward the heart and also help reduce other fluid retention. However, I had to have ablation of the major blood vessels (veins) because the valves in the veins that act as a check valve, were permanently damaged from swelling up inside the cast. This swelling is really the only true leftover issue from that injury that still rears its head to this day. If I am on my feet 18 hours a day for a week or so straight I find that I need to wear compression socks to prevent swelling that can actually become quite painful. My big struggle these days is the pain leftover from a bad crash in 2019 where I broke my back in 3 places and then in 2020 a surgeon drove 2 screws into my spinal canal and I had to have another two surgeries in 2021 where the third one didn’t go so well either. Hope your recovery is going well. How is everything going for your own injury?

Hello, I am sorry for the delayed reply, its actually late now and I was on RUclips searching for information on how to do something unrelated and saw the notification from your message and another. I am curious what happened to yours such that it would not start. You mentioned possibly burning up the fuel pump and hopefully that was not the issue. The fact that you drove it to the gas station makes me have a gut feeling your fuel pump was fine. Maybe you had air in your lines? I believe it can be a pain in the tail if you run it out of fuel. Anyway, thanks for saying hello and letting me know it helped. The day I did this, I was already running late for the motocross track so recording and sharing the video was more time consuming but I had a feeling I was not the only person waking up on the wrong side of the bed putting gasoline in my diesel. By the way, the truck is still running great after all of this time and has never broken down on me, knock on wood. Though I'm sure a mechanic wouldn't appreciate my method, it was much cheaper than what they would charge (unless I blew the engine, LOL).

Alex, you are quite welcome. I’m glad it’s useful to someone and hope that if you did the same thing as me, this will get you back and going again. After I drained it, I filled my truck to the max with actual diesel and still own this truck today and have never had a problem with it, runs great.

I’m a bit short on inspiration right now. I’d do a lot to be back there with that broken angles again!

@@jtbrower that is hilarious 😆

So after they took the cast off and I realized my foot was paralyzed partially, I had to find new doctors because my insurance changed. This delayed my treated nearly 3 months from the time I learned I had paralysis so after a month of waiting I decided to get back on the bike and continue riding motocross as a method of recovery. I fully recovered, have no ankle pain today and I credit PT and me pretending as if nothing was wrong and using the foot as much as possible. I did have to have veins ablated because the cast pressure damaged them and was causing severe permanent swelling (though every time I rode the swelling dropped for a couple days because the heavy use of the calve muscle pumped blood out of the lower leg back upwards). Since this injury I had many more including breaking my back in 3 places, having 3 back surgeries in 9 months because the first one sent 2 screws into my spinal canal and fused me hunched over. I also had left wrist surgery and both shoulders rebuilt plus an ulnar nerve transposition since this ankle fracture which was actually in 2016. I can say that numbness is a normal part of the healing process. Out of all of my injuries and surgeries I began using the broken part as soon as and in several cases sooner than when the doctor said “go” with exception of my back. The back injury is the only one that continues to haunt me, cause me severe pain daily. I truly feel that using the leg asap is the key to full recovery along with PT and trying to pretend as if nothing is different about your leg. They wanted to give me an orthopedic shoe to help me walk and I thought it was silly because even though I couldn’t lift my toes and foot upward, I could compensate with my knee and eventually it came around (might have taken 6 months or so I can’t remember exactly). The body is absolutely amazing at healing. Our bones can even heal without casts and surgeries though it’s safest to use them to prevent misalignment and permanent arthritis. I have zero pain in my ankle when I walk. Two EMGs after I fully recovered did show minor slowing of the peroneal nerve but I don’t notice it at all. I have a 12” plate in right femur from 1990 and knock on wood never have issues and that sucker was about as numb as numb can be after a complex surgery. I had two ulnar nerve transpositions since 2015 (one since this video) because it was pinched at the elbow and caused severe numbness and loss of muscle in my hands and I made a full recovery from that even though I have chronic peripheral neuropathy going against me (pain from that too). So out of all those injuries and more, my back is the only one still causing issues but it’s only been 10 months since the last surgery (talk about numbness, my back is missing feeling in a very large area but somehow it joins in on the pain with the rest of my thoracic cavity). Your going to heal up great. Follow doctors orders, don’t be afraid to question them, especially if things don’t seem right because my paralysis was caused by them not listening to me that my cast was too tight. Jason

Hi Trish. I am two weeks out from bimalleolar surgery. How are you progressing?

This injury feels like yesterday for me but sadly in hindsight it was a piece of cake recovery compared to the fight I have been facing for the last 2.5 years after breaking 3 vertebrae and have a surgeon send 2 screws directly into my spinal canal while fusing me on an angle classified as a deformity. Two more surgeries after that and I’m still struggling but fighting and I can still walk 🤣. I shouldn’t laugh at that as I have gratitude but between this paralysis, the back fractures and two of three surgeries jacked up and a 10 level fusion and I’m still freaking walking. So hearing you benefited from this old video actually helped me realize how I need to keep fighting through this. The ankle injury was a 100% recovery and zero pain or problems since. However, I did have to have deep veins ablated because this damaged those and caused massive swelling for a long time. Now I’m good though. Sadly the back injury has been impossible to recovery from. BTW the iwalk pirates 🏴‍☠️ peg leg is awesome! It’s amazing at how well nerves can recover. Half my back is still numb though because I’ve been sliced open so much. If only the damn pain would go away. It’s rough man, the pain is so intense and unrelenting every morning I wake up my chest is on fire. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger even if you didn’t want to be this strong in the first place!

@@jtbrower whiskey tango foxtrot brother! You're a warrior having fun in life. Double hats off to you. You have to keep getting up... i intend to recover 💯...just need time so I'm patiently impatient meaning I'm the driver not the passenger in my recovery. it's a little hard to rely on my family so much to drive me places etc. I'm used to being independent like that. oh well. i don't think my teens realize how much I've recovered or what really entails breaking bones? So, yes ...keep pushing indeed. Never give up. Everyone is different and depending how strong and stuuborn your will power is may determine your healing. Right cheers brother.

@@VikingRasbornStrong cheers friend!

You dont no.the #70 fuse to power runs the pump.

I agree fully. I miss seeing you and your son, I miss smelling the dirt in the air, feeling the enthusiasm that I felt on the way to the track and while gearing up to ride. I miss experiencing adrenaline pumping things I never in a million years thought I’d be doing on 2 wheels and believe it or not I even miss slamming into the ground hard enough to caution me by just shy of being out of the sport while recovering. I had a bad luck window between June of 2017 and Sept 2019 with injuries that led to 6 significant surgeries, plus a torn MCL/Quad, Broken Ankle and broken ribs that put me in timeout too. Until Sept 2019, not one injury made me second guess jumping back on the seat until I spent time in the ICU watching other people recover and I decided to quit to save my parents heartache. Yet after a couple months I was already wanting to return and then the sudden and serious pain that began late December of 19 or early January 2020 took the thought out of my mind while leaving the chance on the table to return. Then nothing drove the nails of not returning deeper than the treatment I have received from January 2020 through to present day. I never thought western medicine would lead to such complications in two of three surgeries where some could have been avoided. I never thought it would be so tough to get help based on the fact that my injury was risky for a surgeon to repair. I always felt that a doctors duty was to help patients. I understand that they want perfect surgical records and outcomes, but it every surgeon had that philosophy, only patients with marginal pathologies would be treated. I have been trying for one year to have a muscle biopsy performed as requested by multiple physicians. I even switched insurance to make it happen, finally got on the appointment books with the neurologist and they cancelled indicating that the insurances referral was no longer valid when in fact a call to them indicated it was. That reminds me. They hadn’t responded to my patient portal message, I better give them another call and see if I can scurry this along. Never in my lifetime would I have thought an injury 6 days shy of 2.5 years would still be holding me back. I can walk and act normal so nobody would ever know how much it still affects me. I have recovered from countless serious injuries in my lifetime, yet this one has been a real challenge. Somehow I am confident I’ll get back to “normal” or maybe I should say I have blind faith I’ll not live in serious pain daily, once they figure out why my back, ribcage and stomach burn like fire with such intensity it dwarfs any myalgia I felt in the worse workout recovery from my prior ex-NBA trainer who kicked my tail in shape. Something is seriously off; I don’t know if it’s just damage from the 3 surgeries packed into 9 months or my muscles ripping on the three rods you can easily feel under the tissue. Back to riding, I really miss it, miss seeing you guys, but the medical care I have gotten / not gotten is what I fear the most should I ever fully recover enough to where I second guessed quitting the sport. I never say never though.

Thank you for the nice compliment, I’m always relieved to learn there are other people who care enough about proper maintenance to dig into this. Indeed, I can confirm I have been able to apply enough torque by hand (without any sort of cheater bar) to overcome the bond that both of these products offer. I can also confirm that nothing I have used these on broke free on their own; i.e. they do their job so long as directions are followed. I ended up breaking my back and had three surgeries over the last 2.5 years. I bring this up to note that my memory of all of the fastener sizes and applications I used these products on (both on my KTM and with other unrelated purposes) escapes me at this moment. What I do remember is the relief I felt when I needed to break the fasteners free and realized that my prior taught fears of “red” loctite was without justification. With that stated, I could see the break-free torque needed to bust a fastener lose being greater than the force needed to twist the heads right off some fasteners where the size of the bolt is small and the metal is soft. Since it’s been a while since I watched this video and produced it, I don’t remember if I mentioned that I used the stronger one on my breaks as well. I figured that I’d rather risk a nightmare fastener removal than taking a trip over the bars due to breaks coming lose. On a side note, you have one amazing bike in that 1290 Superduke. Back when my garage had 4 SX/EXC models, I figured that those provided so much fun in my life that adding a 1290 would top it all off. Enjoy that bike John and have a good weekend.

It doesn’t drain every last drop, but pumps it about as dry as you would see letting your truck run out of fuel. I figured any remaining gasoline in the tank (already diluted in my diesel) would be further diluted by the additional 30+ gallons I added and remove my concern of damaging my engine. It worked out and I’ve never had any issues with this truck.

@@jtbrower i poured diesel from a pump and it contained a lot of water. Truck was not happy, and ended up being in limp mode. I plan on doing this without dropping the tank and hopefully it will drain most of the water out.

My ankle recovered pretty much 100%. I never have ankle pain, it is strong and even though a more recent nerve conduction test shows slight slowing of the nerve, I don't notice any issues. That said, this injury was quite the learning experience. My leg remained swollen entirely too long after the cast was taken off and they identified that the valves in my veins had been damaged caused venous reflux leading to blood pooling. I had to have those veins ablated with a long catheter they inserted at my ankle and I believe they used a radio frequency to permanently "fry" the vein so blood would take a different path back to the heart. I think one of the keys to my recovery was physical therapy along with the fact that I went right back to using my leg as soon as they took the cast off. Technically I was using it before the cast was removed because I recently saw a video I had shot where I was rowing and walking on the treadmill in the garage. I am now recovering from a much more serious surgery. I have had 3 spine surgeries in the last 9 months with two of them being fusions. The second fusion and both the second and third surgeries were to correct issues that happened in the first surgery. I am now 36 days outside of a 10 level spinal fusion that went from the bottom of my neck through 75% of my thoracic spine. It makes my ankle recovery feel like a walk in the park! I promise you that the human body is amazing and when it comes to your ankle, I am willing to bet that you make a full and swift recovery. I really do think the key is PT and even at home exercises. Also, I went right back and started riding the bike again shortly after they removed the cast. The firm boot protected the ankle while the motion of my calve muscle moving through bumps and jumps pumped the blood back to the heart and actually reduced the swelling for a few days after each time I rode. I am not saying that this is truly good advice, its just something I did.

@@jtbrower what happened to your spine? We love bikes but we have to be carefull u may even go motion less some day. Watched some of your videos you have nice fluency to talk. Patience. Thank you for responding. I am feeling a tingling in the bone I hope it is the healing. Never broke anything my life was going kind of good now this. This is very humbleing I really hope I can walk fine because the bone part that broke is so little I feel like it won't glue. Your strong and smart if you want to talk more about those surgery in video we would like to watch i bet. Have a nice recovery you and me

@@jofephclimber3104 thank you for the nice comments, they really help my spirit right now as it’s been a tough two years for me. I believe it was September 8th of 2019 I was riding at a local US based track in the state of Oklahoma. I was actually training for safety that day and having the time of my life. I hadn’t slept well the night before (typical back then) and had been riding for about 7 hours in the near 100F temperatures. Needless to say I pushed it a bit hard that day because I was having so much fun. There was a simple roller section in the track right out of a 180 degree left hand turn that was sandy, had one wet spot between the rollers and the edge of the track had been washed out due to rain. I had actually pointed to that spot in the track earlier that day and told a local pro, “if I go down today, it will be there”. Not because the track was bad, just because it added a bit more challenge that we expect when we ride some of these great practice MX tracks. So, there I was deciding to do one more Moto. Just having fun as an amateur and sure enough I spazzed out and was off balance when my front tire hit that wet spot. I began to lose control of the bike due to fatigue and let’s face it, I’m no pro. Trying to save it from crashing I headed off track where I hit a drop off from the rain that washed out the sand. This catapulted me head first into the ground like a lawn dart, cracking the top of my helmet where the Garmin camera was mounted and causing compression fractures to my T3,T4 and T5 that had about 30%, 50% and 70%-80% height loss to the anterior side of the vertebrae. I sat on the ground for about 15 minutes, then walked back to the RV I owned at the time, took a shower and friends helped me load my RV Toy Hauler up. I then drove back to my home state in Texas, 1.5 hours away, unloaded the trailer, got something to eat and walked into a local emergency room telling them “I think that I broke my back”. For obvious reasons they didn’t believe me but multiple x-rays and CT scans identified the seriousness of the injury so they transferred me to a local university hospital that was better equipped to handle the issue. I spent two days in the ICU, was doing so well that they discharged me to head home to heal. It wasn’t until a doctor cleared me 4 months later did I realize how bad the injury was. I have been in intense pain since about December of 2019. This led to 4 injection procedures, two rounds of PT and 3 surgeries all in under 2 years (with the 3 surgeries happening in the last 9 months). I’m far from being healed up, now just over 5 weeks from the third surgery and 10 level fusion. I have decided to permanently give up riding motocross as this injury and the difficulties obtaining a health care provider to help me even while having insurance have made it not worth the risk. I use to think that the medical system would always be there to help me. Instead I learned that even when the system makes mistakes and harms me, it’s even more difficult to find someone to help. I had to become my own healthcare advocate. Even though I was in that intense pain, fatigued from fighting it and lacking proper nutrition because I hurt too bad to eat, I had no choice but to push on and keep fighting for my “life”. That’s what it felt like to me, I was fighting for my life because in the long term I couldn’t have lived in that much pain. It’s too early to tell if this third surgery will reduce the pain. However, it did correct issues from the first surgery which would have caused me more issues as time progressed. My story is unique, I don’t want it to deter anyone from enjoying the sport. I played really hard and rode a lot. Although it’s dangerous and can have life changing consequences in a split second, I had a lot of bad luck that didn’t help me once I became injured!

@@jtbrower oh my god! It's allways the last go isn't it? You seriously feel like a good dude I hope so much for your recovery! As we do the stuff we do I feel like we don't really care about the future and until the consequences hit us. If you have kids they must be very preocupied but u must win this even if you don't. You broke or back and still did all you did that day must have gotten worse after that. But it does not matter. Just be a little more chill. And probability stick to the asphalt roads from now on or even if you do the dirt bikes forge about pushing it! Even cats have only 9 life's!. For me I am a delivery driver for an app here in Brasil called Ifood. It was the first of the day the app gave me 10 minutes to get to downtown I knew I shout have not been going plus 60 kmh on the city yet I was. A lady came though a crossing with out looking. To make things even worse I have an old Honda with out break discs, I have the old breaks. And they were All used up. I used my hornes but to no effort, she wasn't paying attention. I took to the left the best I could but did a front collision on the back of the vehicle. My left foot got stuck and I was propelled to the other side. Broke a chunk the de medial malleolus. 25 days pós surgery. After hearing you break you stuff again after what happend it makes really thing: take things slow. Slow. Or else. Any way. When I get better I will tell u. And u if you want tell me too. =D About the doctors. Yep, they are humans just like you and me. They fix us just like we fix the bike it's just a little more complicated. Get a good doctor if you can. Like a good mecanic work wanders. Here in Brasil we have universal healthcare. But we don't choose it's just hand out. Best thing is never to go to the doctor any way. Am right. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I really hope I run again and u stop feeling pain. Amem

@@jofephclimber3104 I thought I replied to your latest message, but apparently I failed to finish it! What I wrote before was much more detailed, but I wanted to let you know that I am glad you made it out alive from your crash and that you too seem like a great dude and I am glad you are not injured much worse. I promise you that you will heal up and make it through this. Just know the more you begin to walk, run and etc, the more you will notice things that are concerning. Whenever you are at the point where your doctors are confident that the fracture is healed enough to begin applying more force, EXERCISE is the common denominator among all of my injuries that have healed up without permanent consequences. It doesn't hurt to eat healthy, but I admit that one time when I tore my MCL and Quad I was partying with friends a lot and my diet was not the best. The surgeon (I didn't have to have surgery) told me that I healed up as well as what they would expect out of an 18 year old football player and that knee has never bothered me. After about 8-10 weeks passed I went back to riding bikes again and maybe that exercise is a big reason why I have had no issues today. My back is really one of the only injuries that hasn't recovered. YET!

Yes I made the video back when I first jumped into motocross.

Balls of the feet is an entirely different topic but your right.

Thank you, that helps make it worth all of the time I obsessed trying to figure it out!

LOL, “cow horn handlebar” is about right! Glad I changed eventually. 😆

@@jtbrower sorry with my english i m french. I m taller and i use the windam. It s total différent . Your footpegs is low i think 🤔

@@typrall9028 no problem, some English speaking ppl just automatically expect the entire world to speak English too; I wish I knew more spoken languages. I know a lot of programming languages but that doesn’t count lol. It’s been a long time since I made this video and my personal preferences changed dramatically along the way. I stopped making these mods to get lower to the ground and it helped my cornering a lot. I didn’t get there overnight though. Trying to remember back, more than likely I did either use lower pegs or just slid the KTM pegs to the lower position (I haven’t watched this video in years). The KTM just feels like a more compact machine to me compared to the Japanese bikes, but once I got use to it, I began reversing these mods.

Its been quite some time since I used those tall seats but I do believe that I was shooting for the tallest one they had at the time and assume that is what I had here.

@@jtbrower thanks for reply. 🙌 You're not using such modyfications any more?

@@JanASS1991 your welcome friend. I eventually stopped using those tall person modifications as I gradually became comfortable feeling cramped into the bike and no longer was willing to sacrifice the way it made the bike corner “top heavy”. I really noticed it on motocross tracks when I bought a new bike that didn’t have the mods yet and after being too excited to wait to put them on, a one day trip to the track made me corner so much better. Of course, I wouldn’t have been able to do that until I just got use to feeling cramped in place. Out of all modifications I did in this video that were the worst, it was how high up I had my handlebars, but I had to do that to match the seat or else I felt even more uncomfortable. It summary, it worked for me in the beginning but eventually I rode a stock KTM completely comfortably.

@@jtbrower thanks for shraring Your experience. I've got Husky which is suited to short riders in stock trim. I've already put higher handle bar blend and are aiming for taller seat. But might go only with 20 mm taller. I saw that many pro riders are using taller seats at Husky. Best regards and have fun on the track!

@@JanASS1991 same to you, enjoy the day.