A bad break for Grant...
By TMX Archives on 19th Mar 09
SCOTTISH motocross championship winning mechanic, 23-year-old Kahlum Grant now remembers why he stopped racing motocross and turned to the spanners for top Scottish team, TWMA. Kahlum crashed hard and broke both legs during the second Class C race at the Scottish Motocross Championship opener at Tain, on Sunday.
Grant, who wielded the spanners for both the 2008 Scottish MX2 champion, Sean MacDonald, and his team-mate, series runner-up, Joe Garrick, bailed off his TWMA Kawasaki KX250F when he knew immediately I'd got it wrong! landing with straight legs. He then had his machine land on them fracturing the femur of one leg and both the tibia and fibula of his other leg.
Grant from Methlick, near Ellon, Aberdeen-shire, had to be air-lifted to the hospital in nearby Inverness where his injuries were diagnosed.
The likeable mechanic, who finished in second place in the first Class C race, will have to wait for up to four-months before walking unaided, or so he has been advised by doctors at the hospital.
Grant's positive attitude kept him perky this week and he said: The drugs (morphine) do work and the doctors and especially the nurses have been great, so thanks to them for all their help following my crash.
The pilot of the helicopter that brought me here, Rob Short, is a former rider himself, so he knew to be gentle with me during the flight.
Everyone in Scottish motocross send their best wishes to Kahlum for a speedy recovery.