For the weak of stomach, this link is NSFL. There’s a wide and long, angry looking gash on this self-pic by a rider who, having not explained exactly how, has pointed out it was a rotor injury:

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HOW????

Would you not be in danger of losing an ear in the spokes too to get a cut there??

I just turned my bike upside down which has a 180mm rotor fitted, lowered my head onto the rotor and it will impact the rotor in the position in my scalp where his photo shows the injury. The tyre did scrape gently down my ear but not with enough force to deflect my head away from the rotor.

Ouch. If you will turn your bike upside down though… 🙂

why oh why was he not wearing a helmet?

darwin?

hub in a frame thats not built into a wheel with a rotor on it? Then he was looking too close?

But WHY?

I daren’t look at the link but have to fess up that I once bombed down a road hill on my mtb & wondered how hot the front rotor was after all the breaking on the bends. I lent over the bars at the bottom & put my fingers on the rotor – not a brilliant ideas, they burn yr skin.

/r/mtb, in my singletrackworld?

So if you do turn your bike upside down to fix a puncture keep your helmet on!

NSFL? Not Safe For Lunch? That guy is going to have a very odd hairstyle for a good while.

comb-over time…

Pmsl.

Sorry couldnt stop myself from laughing

Wow. You’d have to be spectacularly dim-witted to have that happen

whatever you do, don’t look at this thread:
http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=53933&pagenum=1

wide and long, angry looking gash

😆

I steeled myself for a bloodied gory mess with bits of skull visible and maybe some folded back flaps of skin, and now I feel like I’ve been short changed 🙂 There is blood, but its not going to make your lunch come back up 🙂

Edit: Thats more like it, Retro83 🙂

whatever you do, don’t look at this thread:
http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=53933&pagenum=1

oooh my, the human body really is a delicate instrument aint it?

That pinkbike thread really is……quite something! I feel a bit grim after the first page!

I feel a bit grim after the first page!

check page 9 🙂

That’s a nasty thread, here’s a similar injury as the OP

I had to close the pink bike thread, the spelling was making me feel all untoward.

The owner of the rotor wound finally returned to tell the story and posted a photo of his helmet.

He was riding down a hill and another lad was riding down the hill opposite and they didn’t see each other till the last minute, both shouted a warning but both turned into each other and collided. He went down over his bars and landed on the other riders rotor. The tyre marks on the side of his helmet, which incidentally pulled back exposing his scalp, show how feasible this freak accident is:

wide and long, angry looking gash

Complete headf**k!