It took something as small as the width of a motorcycle tire to change Jack Brucks’ life forever.
Brucks, then 10 years old, was riding a single-piston motorcycle in a flat-track training session — his specialty — in Texas when his front wheel struck a tire that was on the track as a marker, sending him flying in the air. When he landed, his right hip was virtually shattered.
“I hit a tire, did a front flip, landed, screamed, and I don’t remember much after that,” he said.