I rode into a wasp yesterday evening which stung me inside my lip and on my gum. top that.
I've had that happen as well... ****in hurts don't it!
yep, that was up there on the pain o meter
we need piccys of your suffering to understand what you mean
and no I would never ever (ok occasionally)laugh at other peoples misfortune
Mate of mine slipped down a muddy slope while shouldering his bike & managed to insert his chainring into his bicep! right in front of me while doing one of the old 'No sweat' races back in the early 90's.
The scar's impressive - looks like some wierd MTB tattoo.
the single slippiest off-camber rock on the one 5m stretch of tree free mountain in the alps a few weeks ago = bike bouncing 70-80m down a few cliffs... cue an abseiling trip to get it back (mucho thanks to Stevo from The White Room)
Wow, that sounds agony!
I was riding a local DH track a couple of weeks ago and I crashed hard into a chain that was across the trail. Totally wiped out but no injury. Opened my eyes and was literally eye to eye with an startled goat. The gypsies have moved into a derlict house there and tied their goat across the trail. Poor thing had been sleeping when a stupid mountain biker almost broke it's neck.
I scuffed my pedal on the tarmac whilst pedalling round a mini roundabout on my way to the bike shop. I was flipped off the bike and landed in the road. Went to get up and noticed a bit of pain in my right ankle, looked down and my foot was pointing at 3 O'clock. It would be three operations and nearly five years before it was anything close to normal again. I'd managed to more or less completley smash the joint to smitherines - hurt quite a bit too.
Kev
crikey 😯
while standing on the sill of my car with door open, in order to reach up to the roof rack to tighten the bike on there, I slipped off.
As I was wearing sandals at the time my big toe nail was protuding just enough to catch the sill on the way past that I managed to rip it half off. Blood everywhere.
>in order to reach up to the roof rack to tighten the bike on there, I slipped off.<
Similar tale but stood on top of wheel ( Discovery) then jumped off backwards but caught wedding ring on part of bike the rack thus almost severing my finger. Cue surgical removal of ring and lots of stitches
toes (including damaged one) truly curling up at that one^^^^
I once walked backwards into a wall mounted kitchen cupboard whilst wearing a helmet. The helmet rotated forwards and broke my Oakleys over the bridge of my nose. Busted Oakleys and claret everywhere without leaving the kitchen.
Not the World’s worst accident, but a contender for one of the crappest.
Well there was the time I was practising bunnyhopping a large candle and slipped off the back of the bike.....
The folks at A&E were very understanding 😉
Rode round GT black without incident then broke my finger tightening the rotary tensioner thingy on the Thule bike rack. Silly arse.
Riding in the French Alps rooty forest trail, too slow to get over the next root but fast enough to go over the bars, down a big drop maybe 10-12 feet and landed on one foot. Was briefly looking at the sole of my shoe from a standing position. Very painful.
I know the local doc in Vallandry and this was the diagnosis - Your ankle, she is ****ed.
Was back on the bike 8 weeks later once everything was reattched so all's well.
I once took a tumble while riding up a gentle grassy slope at walking pace. Impacted my thigh onto a wee pointy rock. Finished the ride and went home...
Spent the rest of the week in hospital plugged into an IV drip as a consequence of a massive haematoma.
Also: Head butted a bat last week with it glancing off my helmet, but I'm fine.
Wasps hurt!
crispin I know your pain. I spent more than a week in hospital thanks to a rugby-induced haematoma this year. Awesome scar on my thigh from the emergency fasciotomy to drain it (a second time after the first surgery set off the bleeding again).
Keva's ankle takes the biscuit so far 😯
It's not a mtb injury but when I was about seven my dad built me a bike rescued from the local tip. Riding it along the pavement the first time out and I built up a fair bit of speed when the front wheel came out.. I went face first into a lamppost, smashing my lovely new front teeth.
Doug - goat story made me chuckle!
Mate got stung twice on his *ding-dong*end in the space of a week...quite amusing!
Not my injury but a snapped leg for the transvestite that we helped stretcher out the woods.
I got a branch through my upper arm...ran <1mm from my main vein/artery) in just above my elbow on the inside of my arm and stopped about 3" short of my shoulder...was mighty impressive but the only evidence are 2 tiny holes - one where the branch went in and the other where they cut my arm to retrieve the snapped off piece.
About 1 year later I manged to scratch my outer arm so I now just tell folk it went in one end and out the other!
Concussed myself on a child's aerial slide...went off for a ride and then rode home - on the wrong side of the road - 24 miles like that including round roundabouts the wrong way!
Concussed myself and cracked my bike helmet a few years back - misjudged an overhanging branch and skelped it good style!
Large screen of mobile phone heating nicley in bright sunshine whilst stopped at a village cafe in south of France. Phone rang....
3 hrs later - discharged red faced and ear very sore from local clinic.
Harry_the_Spider - Member
I once walked backwards into a wall mounted kitchen cupboard whilst wearing a helmet. The helmet rotated forwards and broke my Oakleys over the bridge of my nose. Busted Oakleys and claret everywhere without leaving the kitchen.
Don't tell TandemJeremy!
The most ludicrous injury I've heard of was a friend who recently punctured his eardrum by falling off bike and getting dried grass into his ear, through said eardrum.
There was a friend who got a wasp down his bib shorts......
I was witness to another friend who tried to ride over a cow that was lying across the trail in front of him - he thought it was a large rock!
to expand on the account I posted above, I was in a bit of a rush(!) and was nipping through a gap in the traffic on the mini roundabout. As I cranked the pedal round I under estimated how much I'd leant the bike over and hence the pedal hit the tarmac, 'cause I was accelerating quite hard it must have hit with quite jolt, although it didn't really feel like it.
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When my foot rotated 90' (somehow) the tibia and fibula broke, also tearing two of the main tendons in the process, but also, when the pedal struck the floor the talus bone crunched into the botton of the tibia which then fragmented bone into the cartledge. The first operation was to plate and pin the fibula and wire up the broken parts of the tibia, the second was to take it all out eight months later. The joint was still not moving properly and no amount of physio was getting it to move, was also very painful, I walked with a limp for three months. Eventually had an MRI scan which revealed all the fragmented bone in the cartledge between the talus and tibia, and then had an arthroscopy to remove it. It took about three and a half years after the arthroscopy before I could run on it again. 10yrs after the initial break it's still not the same as it was before, don't get the same range of movement on it and I get all kinds of niggly foot injuries (in both feet) from running - probably slightly unbalanced.
Not bad for a rushed trip to the bike shop.
Kev
I rode into a wasp yesterday evening which stung me inside my lip and on my gum. top that.
I have helmet cam footage of me riding into a very large bee in the alps, it going down my top and sticking between my bag strap and my sternum and stinging me. I crashed and took about 15 seconds to get the damn thing out. That did indeed hurt.
I wasn't injured, but it was a very close call. Long time ago a fag end out of a car window got caught in my buff type neck warmer thingy. So glad it got caught there and didn't end up down my jumper or in the vents of my helmet.
My other half's best one was falling off a log ride and having the seatpost quick release jab into his leg and open with the fall. Cue one nasty puncture wound.
Spent the rest of the week in hospital plugged into an IV drip as a consequence of a massive haematoma.
How big does ones bruise have to be for one to be hospitalised?
I went out for a boxing day ride and cleared a cracking jump, only to land on some leaves and lay the bike flat. Knelt on the top tube as the impact happened and split my shin open, about 10 stitches worth right through to the bone.
My haematoma was measured at 9cm x 7 x 5.
That's equivalent to a Coke can of blood trapped in the thigh muscle. The risk is then that you suffer compartment syndrome - where the blood supply to the muscle is cut off. This requires immediate surgical intervention, as with B17.
Don't do it kids!
(the best bit was the in-laws were visiting from Canada. I spent almost their entire visit in hospital and was released within hours of their departure. How I chuckled....)
i had a bee fly into my mouth and bounce off my top front teeth,as i was riding my bike.well i think it was a bee.have caught my big toe under a door and bend back the nail. one time i was out with my friend riding on the marlbrough downs,and we had stopped whilst he took some pics on his mobile phone. as i was waiting for him,i noticed a sheep looking at me then walking towards me.i thought it was readying itself to headbutt me.it then proceeded to try and eat my bike tyre,then the spokes. i just wanted to add that one 🙂
Trailmonkey.
You were there at my most unlikely incident...the postbridge tea room stack!
Spent a Sunday jumping at local BMX track in 1996. All good fun, no issues.
Rode to work on Monday, pinged off a kerb, landing on the road. Both stanchions snapped instantly resulting in mashed fingers/knuckles/chin (still holding on to bars) and crushed my windpipe on the stem!
It sounded like my voice was breaking for eight weeks after and i was just achieving puberty in my early twenties. Now that is humiliating.
I had an interesting injury a few years ago, racing DH and falling off catching my bars in my groin, just above where you have a load of glands.
Swelled up like a squash ball at the impact site, and I needed to have quite a bit of fluid drained off, as Id ruptured a vein. A week later I had what they described at the hospital as a secondary bleed, where the vein dribbled a load of blood into my thigh - I ahd a deep purple bruise that grew an inch a day until it was below the knee, and wrapped 75% around my thigh, From reading this thread that was a haematoma considerably worse than the one on the wikipedia page 😯
Was told to rest, but was between cars at the time, so commuting 54 miles a day for 2 weeks with it probably didn't do much good. Looked freaky as hell sticking out the bottom of some cycling shorts....
Cheers, Rich
Crispin, I had the misfortune of having just about the biggest haematoma my docs had ever seen... 22x8x3 as I remember. Funnily enough I never had a visible bruise, it was completely trapped under my thigh muscle, and all clotted by the time I went to hospital. They drained it in a first little surgery, but made it bleed again. They reckon I lost nearly a litre and a half back into it and had the emergency surgery in the middle of the night because of the compartment syndrome it caused. Not an experience I'm in a hurry to repeat. If anyone fancies some gore I can post pics...
turboferret, as I understand it's only a haematoma when the blood is trapped in a pocket internally. I guess yours would be the bruise of all bruises.
friend who tried to ride over a cow that was lying across the trail in front of him
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Best I've managed is hooking a foot under a length of fence wire while riding between two old fenceposts - just like catching the arrester wire on a carrier landing. I did a sort of reverse superman while the bike kept going...
B17 - yes it does need pictures!
*chuckles thinking about sharki*
I have helmet cam footage of me riding into a very large bee in the alps, it going down my top and sticking between my bag strap and my sternum and stinging me. I crashed and took about 15 seconds to get the damn thing out. That did indeed hurt.
I had exactly that, but out on a road ride down a long steep descent doing about 50mph. It took a LONG time to stop.
b17, understood, maybe my bruise didn't count as a haematoma, but the way it grew and was a solid deep purple colour meant it was the biggest baddest mofo I've even had, and hope never to have again!
Cheers, Rich
too fresh on fotopic to post directly, but anyone who wants to see gory pics of just what a dead leg can produce can look here:
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got a cut above my eye brow from the handle bars. picked up the bike to carry it up hill and the bars/wheel spun with the bars swinging up from below. bled quite a bit considering it was only a small cut.
the best/worst one has to me my old friend Bradley.
we were about 8/9 and had been swimming. Bradley didn't bother to get changed and so wore his swimming trunks on the short ride home. don't know exactly how he managed it but..... he was standing as we slowed down for the lights. think he pulled the front brake too hard and went forward over the bars. when he stood up he was screaming and holding his crotch, blood pissing everywhere. he didn't say anything and left his bike in the middle of the road and proceeded to run home. i picked his bike off the floor and wheeled it home. by the time i got there no-one was home.
phoned him up that evening and his mum said i should come round. what i saw was shocking.
he'd almost lost his penis. it'd got caught inbetween the brake lever and then scissored when he fell and let go. he said his penis was hanging off by a strand of skin.
never kept in contact long enough to find out from him whether it worked properly after that. horrible though. makes me feel ill thinking about it.
Drove a brand new 5 Spot and Zesty into a 'No vehicles above x height'
metal barrier yesterday. Both on roof of car... gutted
😯
What damage ?
I was changing my brake pads in a lake district car park, I put my hand into the boot of the car where i'd put the new pads and one of the leafs of the pad spring went straight under my nail, about half way in.
I've also experienced an anal tear from landing on the point of the saddle. That was an embarrasing hospital visit.
Came off a bike test riding it, suspension collapsed, pedal hit road and flung me off the bike. Bruises all over and a large cut on elbow and a cable tie cut in to the muscle on my calf, the first lot of 'glue' got wet an septic needing it scrubbed out before re-dressing. I got some odd looks when I limped back in to the shop! Luckily no head/ road interface as no helmet.
Car's ****ed! Zesty's fine (was facin other way) but my 5 spot's new Floats took the impact. Stanchions scrathed to bits along with the arch(?) of the fork. It basically ripped the whole of the roof rack clean off and ended up on the floor behind the vehicle! Think i may be insured so might look at claiming for the forks? Was a disstrous end to a great day up Cut Gate.
I owned a dalmatian, now sadly departed, went with us on most mountain bike trips, great dog but clumsy.
Riding along a stream about 8 ft wide and 6ft deep, the dally decides he wants to cross but pushes me into the stream, I fall in and as I standing he jumps across using my head as a staging post/additional leverage. Catches my ear with his hind leg ripping my ear, rode back to the car like evander holyfield. The nurses who put the stitches in did laugh.
Riding along the dog get a whiff of deadness and starts to shoot off, he was about 16 months old and had got lost whilst tracking down dead rotten carcasses so I decided to cut him off, mis judged it hit a rut in front of him over the handle bars and ruptured my knee ligaments! He stayed with me as I hobbled and cursed.
Hell I miss that dog!
I have to stop reading this thread...... 😯
I've also experienced an anal tear from landing on the point of the saddle.
weirdly, despite all the nasty stuff on this thread, that bothers me most of all...
THIS IS A BIT EMBARRASSING BUT I ONCE OVERJUMPED A JUMP ON A BMX JUMP, BENT MY NEW TITANIUM HANDLEBAR WITH MY BOLLOCKS AND RIPPED MY SCROTUM OPEN.
Well I'm not going to mention my MTB crash which hospitalised me, as it was neither particularly unusual or interesting. However if it's allowed I've got a few others which are far more interesting - one when riding the tandem (on road), one running.
To come back to the original theme, I got a bee sting in the corner of my eye. Not too horrendously painful at the time - the big problem was that we were touring, and by the following morning I couldn't open the eye - not really too clever trying to pilot a tandem in France when you can't see out of your left eye! What's worse we had a fairly tight schedule with only a few days to make the airport. Got some strong drugs from the doctor (stuff I understand isn't licensed over here), took a bus to get to our next hotel (fortunately that was due to be probably the most boring day of the trip), and the next morning I could just about half open it, so we set off for a nice trip through the mountains of the Massif Central!
At the start of the Bristol Rat Race a couple of years ago - literally within a few minutes of the start - I was just behind somebody else running along the pavement. Being the team nav, I wasn't despite popular theory looking at the map, but looking off to one side to see if a little cut through went. Anyway, chap in front stepped to one side to avoid a railing. I wasn't looking, and first thing I knew of it was when I ran flat out into the end of the railing. Not that this was any old railing - it had been bent down so that it ended in a point! Now let me just say that less than an inch to one side it would have been a lot worse. As it was I simply hit something pretty vital in the muscle/ligaments which you use to raise your leg at the hip. This resulted in my getting AA relayed home the next day as I couldn't lift my left leg to use the clutch (bizarrely I could still cycle, though it wasn't very comfortable).
I took my helmet off after a hot summer race in 1990 i think it was. Bell helmet with a hook clasp thing. Went through my spokes, flicked me off, fractured skull - didn't have a helmet on see ....
Mountain bike holiday in Chatel. Back to chalet early evening, ditch helmet, armour, etc. then ride for 20mins up the road above the village to go for a wee rock climbing session. Finish climbing, late, dusky, tired, whatever. Pull out onto unmarked road to ride back down. Pull out on left-hand side. Accelerate to 40mph. Have head-on collision with car.
3 broken vertebrae and a shattered frame through the leg later...
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All my MTB injuries are ordinary. Worst was a broken bone in my hand, or possibly lying unconscious on a dirt track for ten minutes before recovering my wits and finishing the night MTB ride to the local pub.
The road hurts more.
I rode my road bike to the top of the mountain on a beautiful spring day. It was so warm that I took off my jersey and tied it under the saddle with my spare tubular. I started coasting down the mountain, faster and faster. I was doing 40-45 kph, and then...
The sleeve of my jersey caught between the brake and the rim and stopped my rear wheel without warning. In effect, the bike was jerked right out from under me.
I went OTB and skidded on my bare chest down the road surface, honing off a major chunk. I was 30 km from home, I was alone, and now my bike was damaged also. It took a while, but I made it home in pain and thought I could tough it out, but later had to report to the hospital for bandages and pain meds.
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Sitting on a step,forks between my knees whilst fitting a tight crownrace with a slide hammer. Took a few hard taps and still not seated, decided a few really hard and fast smacks should finish the job, and on the return stroke the slide hammer slipped off and I had the steerer twang into my upper lip. Still got a scar 10 years on (and wonder how people manage to fit them with a bit of plastic waste pipe as recommended so often on here).
this clip is pretty hilarious.....
...nearly garrotted by the lethal invisible electric fence, and caught on headcam too! (Just Forward to the end of the clip)
(no cows were injured in the making of this movie!)
http://picasaweb.google.com/trailaddiction.ltd/Video#5373087638316798210
Where is that,I want to go there?
Ian
Where is that,I want to go there?
Ian
Looks like Mont Jovet. Those electric fences are a bugger. One strand of white cord. How the **** are you meant to see them? I've annhialated a few, fortunately they're usually at head-tube height and you go straight through them!
thejesmonddingo ....its in Les Arcs, well sort of! (Its not exactly IN Les Arcs, but this clip was filmed by guys staying with trailAddiction in Les Arcs, on one of their backcountry trips.)
By the way, that trail carries on for, oh, about 30km in total! And yes, it is indeed as good as it looks!
Boo hoo Im now crying into my keyboard, I want to go back! 🙁
freeride_addict: It's ****ing miles from Les Arcs, but worth the trip! I actually prefer the other descent from the top, which has loads of (ridiculous) switchbacks. That one almost gets kind of dull after a while... 😉
It was a weird accident tht got me into MTbing - my mate came to work with his face all smashed in and a big black eye. He was fiddling with his gears and went face first into a gate. "I want me some of that fun!" I thought.
My oddest one was working in my garage. Wife's old Cannondale frame decided to fall off the wall and cut my eye open. Very nearly knocked me out. Sold it (to Zedsdead, IIRC) shortly after. The bastard (not Zedsdead, the Cannondale).
Hmnm, Stevomcd I dunno, not THAT far from "Les Arcs". Well, where we were staying (with trailAddiction) which is kinda on the RHS (on the trail map) of the system, it took about 2 hours to work our way over using the lifts (taking in some other superbly sweet singletrack on the way I must add!) with a bit (read: significant!) of a climb at the end. yeah, it IS MILES from Bourg St maurice / Arc 1600 though if thats what you mean.
actually one of those other posts reminded me of the time a mate crashed off the side of a steep forrested hillside. It didnt look that bad, but by GOD he was screaming....
.....then we realised the poor guy had crashed into a wasps nest - infact he had crashed THROUGH it and ripped it off the tree. they were none-too-happy wasps, quite obviosuly.
His whole face swelled up like a melon where they got inside his full face. OUCH.
Man, I have nightmares about that stuff.
Hmnm, Stevomcd I dunno, not THAT far from "Les Arcs". Well, where we were staying (with trailAddiction) which is kinda on the RHS (on the trail map) of the system, it took about 2 hours to work our way over using the lifts (taking in some other superbly sweet singletrack on the way I must add!) with a bit (read: significant!) of a climb at the end. yeah, it IS MILES from Bourg St maurice / Arc 1600 though if thats what you mean.
Ah, I didn't realise the TA guys rode that one during the chairlift season. We usually only do it as a backcountry week trip, driving round and all the way up the dirt road to the refuge.
I love that trail, it's got to be the longest continuous strip of singletrack I've ever seen.
Came home from a ride. Leaned bike against wall of house by only its handlebar end. Turning away I saw in my peripheral vision that it was starting to fall. I lunged towards it to catch it by the saddle, but all I did was thrust my forefinger into the saddle with a force that couldn't have been worse had I tried to jab the brick wall. Cue temporary agony and huge bruising and swelling. Even today (3 months later) that finger is stiffer than the others.