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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:
[url] http://moregeoffwarnock.fotopic.net/c1753602_1.html [/url]
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
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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.