Former world enduro champion Taddy Blazusiak has been left with horrendous face injuries after riding on a trail that had been sabotaged with wire strung across it near his home in Poland.

He said: “Im posting this to let the entire Off-road community know that there are people out there that are unstable enough to intentionally hurt others just because they hate motorcycles. So here’s what happened to me, riding a trail on the way to my riding spot on Monday I caught a wire that someone intentionally hung across the trail.

“Thankfully somehow I caught it in an angle coming out of a corner so I took it on my right shoulder and between my helmet chin piece and goggles. If that wire had slipped down from the chin piece on to my neck most probably I wouldn’t be writing this post.

“All good here I got stitched up by a plastic surgeon so hoping my face muscles and the scar are going to be OK. I just cant stop thinking what if I would caught it straight on my neck. I cannot understand how someone could do something like this to another person.”