JAMES Shanes will be walking on egg shells after being ruled out of riding next season!
The Redcar star, who had great eggspectations for the new campaign, faces a year out after specialists discovered a second serious bone-weakening infection in his fractured right arm.
They have warned the 25-year-old Shanes, who also works on his wife’s family farm in Essex helping to look after 8,000 egg-laying chickens, that he will only be able to do light work.
He admitted: “I have had the arm put in a brace for the foreseeable future and I have got to be very careful with what I lift on the farm.
“Eggs is the main part of it, we are selling around 3,000 a week and I have been helping on that side of it.
“We have got 8,000 chickens at the moment and that will go up to 15,000 before too long.”
Shanes, broke his arm in a grasstrack crash in Holland last July and hasn’t raced since.
He added: “It was a clean snap, I went to hospital, had a three-hour operation and was back at home the next day.
“But I caught an infection which spread into the bone and the metalwork and they decided to take the pin out and put a plate back in it.
“It was all looking good, I had built up all the bikes for the new season and was ready to go in a few weeks’ time. I feel fine in myself and was looking forward to racing again and was looking for somewhere to practice.”
But after studying x-rays of the healing arm and analysing blood tests, specialists discovered the infection had returned and have told Shanes he will be laid up for months recovering.
Words by Holeshot Media.
Image by Taylor Lanning.