You Can’t Keep Riders Off Of Bikes For Long: Six Months After A Crash, Foggy is Back on the Dirt
“What I love about flat-tracking, I can bring my own bike down (here). Even with your old tires on a wet, muddy day, have a bit o’ fun, shuck it back in the van, take it home, get the wife to wash it off, and you’re on the road on it tomorrow,” said Carl ‘Foggy’ Fogarty after flat-tracking at Buxton Hitmen Speedway in Derbyshire, England.
Aboard a standard Street Scrambler, Foggy looked nothing like a man who had a punctured lung and broken shoulder blade and ribs due to a nasty crash at the Dirt Quake event in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, last July. Nearly six months later, the 52-year-old was back on the dirt like nothing had happened. Like the folks at Visor Down said, you clearly can’t keep a four time World Superbike champion off two wheels for long.
Fogarty is hailed as ‘the most successful World Superbike racer of all time’ with 59 victories and four WSBK championships, in 1994, 1995, 1998, and 1999. In 1998, he we was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). He also won the 14th series of ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’ four years ago and was crowned ‘King of the Jungle’.