Got hit square off my bike by an accelerating car who didnt see me, flew over the bonnet and roof, not a scratch but my whee l got buckled.
Hit a stone/ root and had an epic tank slapper at speed somewhere on the zigzags. Had to decide between hitting a big stone slab or a big tree, decided trees are slightly softer and hit it square on. Massive endo which I somehow managed to avoid turning into a faceplant. Unfortunately though, I then slid down the top tube of my bike where the oldschool braze on cable guides gutted the inside of my left thigh and left a vein dangling put of my leg.
Tib & Fib, crossed someones drop kerb at an angle on my road bike, was only on the path as the road had been chip resurfaced the day before and I could see the unchipped part as I left my house, it was wet, didn't see the 5 metre long 25mm high metal bar they'd had fabricated to stop rain water running down the drive that they bolted to the kerb, slipped and fell, guess I clipped out at some point and my weight went through my leg, ouch
First day BPW opened after lockdown, and the first run at BPW hit a tree and almost knocked my hand off, the wrist was broken and the hand was pushed an inch to the side. It wasn’t the first time I’d hit that tree either.
When I recovered from that, back at BPW I messed up on the new popty ping and screwed my knee, had to stop again, no hospital but it felt shit for months.
Back in the day after descending Walna Scar we were heading down the steep road to the village and I got pretty bad brake fade. Somehow laid the bike down and crashed into the garden wall of the house at the bottom - bruised back but noting major. Very lucky!
Forgot to mention the joys of being married to a GP, no sympathy for self-inflicted injuries. Another fall a few years ago, washed out front wheel and gave myself nasty gashes on forearm and broken thumb, rode the half hour home one handed to be told to drive half an hour to after hours clinic as local A&E will be chaos (saturday arvo). She was well unimpressed when she had to drive me an hour to an A&E last year after doing my shoulder 16 km into a 100 km race, she went to the local beach while I sat in A&E in Geelong to be told I hadn't broken anything, cue relief till I found out the next week I'd torn the rotator cuff so was booked in for surgery, if it had broken would have healed quicker.
After racing MTB & CX most weeks for 3-4 months without incident, I went for a gentle road ride…
Front wheel wash out due to road surface and hit the ground hard.
6 broken ribs, 4 of which were flail breaks. Fractured pelvis in two places. Two nights in hospital.
Ooh I have some ok ones from 1989
I'll check back in with them
Best ever was a road crash- car pulled out, I t-boned it, went right over the front of it and perfectly through the back window of a parked car into the back seat, like posting a letter. I was covered in wee cuts and bruises but nothing worse, I think the driver thought he'd killed me!
I made Pinkbike Friday Fails when I smashed my wrist BMCC, I've had much bigger crashes offroad but that one had a combo of camera, a decent amount of drama, and my best injury
Oooh, you’re famous. Which crash is you?
Hope you recover ok, OP. 🤞🏻
OTB on the Cafall Trail at Cwmcarn 6 weeks ago resulted in a dislocated shoulder, smashed rotator cuff and fractured humerus.
Dislocation was relocated in hospital the same day but they waited a couple of weeks to see if the fractured piece of bone (the greater tuberosity) would stay in place. It didn’t so had an op’ to screw and suture it back in place 4 weeks ago.
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Not the worst one i've had, but probably the weirdest, this hole was caused by a part of the bike assaulting me, and i only noticed it after getting back on and finishing the run!
Oh apart from the 2 helicopter trips (previous page), I've done both my collarbones, both times just chipping the end.
First time was riding out to Ladybower to watch the Lancaster Dambusters memorial flypast - it was the time when the Canadian Lancaster was over as well so they were doing a double, the only time I'm ever likely to see that!
Was out with richpips, both on the CX bikes doing an off-road route. He was in front and on a descent I highsided the bank at the edge of the trail and landed on my shoulder. Kind of guessed what I'd done but eventually got up and limped down to the bottom of the trail where Rich was waiting completely unconcerned and having a sandwich. He assumed I'd punctured or something.
He asked what I wanted to do but as I could still ride (carefully) and certainly walk, we decided it wasn't a mountain rescue job and besides, I wanted to see the Lancaster flypast! So we carried on carefully out to Edale and Ladybower, fought through the crowds and pushed/carried the bikes up to a vantage point on the hill above the dam. Lancasters came, flew by, all good.
Then Rich was like "right, I've got to go get the kids from school, are you OK getting home?!"
So I rode/pushed/carried down to the cafe at Edale just to get away from the crowds then got the train home from there. I knew if I went straight to hospital they'd cut my top off and it was a decent Rapha one so I wasn't having that. Made it home, undressed and that was far and away the most staggeringly painful part taking the top off. Showered, got dressed (carefully and painfully) then got the bus to the hospital.
There followed an interesting conversation at A&E as they asked when I'd done it. Apparently the answer "oh about 6hrs ago but then I rode 25 miles to watch a flypast, stopped at a cafe for lunch, got the train home and got changed because I didn't want you to cut my nice cycling top off" wasn't what they were expecting...
When I was a kid I snapped my leg at the tubular and fibula in a trial, it was snowing and i lay in the snow for an hour waiting to be found, I also hit my teeth off my bars smashing them all over, I had to have braces, twice.
In 2018 we drove from North Yorkshire to Morzine, day two we rode to Morgins which just reopened, I came off on the baked ground so hard I nearly sh!t myself, I rode all the way back to Morzine with my arm hanging out, I paid £150 for an X-ray and was prescribed 1 paracetamol, turns out I separated my shoulder and to this day it’s an inch out at the top.
Last year I fell on some cobbles and tore a hole in my arm, there was loads of grit in it and my mate insisted he washed it out with his water bottle, I was a bit too dazed to stop him and nearly passed out, it was a pig to stitch and healed terribly.
In July i was riding DH in Les Gets with my daughters. I cased a big double and had a massive OTB landing on my head and popping my collar bone from the achromium.
Medical centre visit and i had a lovely x-ray of my displaced collar bone. However i also had a brain bleed. So having driven home and gone on to do lots of other stuff, i got admitted to hospital and a blue light ambulance ride to Stoke Neuro hospital, where i had two large holes drilled in my head and the bleed stopped and the clots removed.
About a week later i was back with a further bleed and bigger holes in my head including a drain.
Upshot is im still banned from driving by DVLA, and ive been told no more head bumps. So no more DH or enduro motorbikes for me.
Im 57 and was genuinely terrified as i went down for surgery. Take care out there please
Ian
1983, 12 years old. Hit a boulder in long grass, over the bars of my BMX. Land on collar bone and crack...
Not so special so far?
Walked home and told my mum, who had at least 25 years as a nurse by then. She proceeded to take my t-shirt off by the normal arms up over your head method, instead of cutting the t-shirt off...
That nipped a bit.
All a bit superficial really.
Last bit of downhill before I got married. 7 weeks before, just in case I crashed. 😂Somewhere around Moel Famau.
Knackered helmet. Significant gravel rash. Luxurious scabs.
Air ambulance called as it was in the area, but I ended up walking off the hill in the end. Couldn't see clearly out of the lower half of my eyes, but the top hemisphere was fine. That was odd.
Swipe for helmet / dodgy boxer shorts.
She proceeded to take my t-shirt off by the normal arms up over your head method, instead of cutting the t-shirt off…
That nipped a bit.
Yeah, I smashed my shoulder up a few years back, collarbone fractured in 4 places, shoulder dislocated and a few other bits, had to get the bike in the car and drive home an hour away “, can still remember the pain of using my right arm to do a 3 point turn as the road was blocked at one point!
4 ribs and a punctured lung. Ft Bill DH course. Last run of the day, obviously. Rode all the rocky stuff just fine and then managed to land on my front wheel on the first table top on the motorway bit. The noise of me trying to breathe captured on the GoPro after being horribly winded was grim. Managed to roll to the bottom. Had a bit of millionaire shortbread and a coffee, but even that didn’t cure it. Breathing was getting tricky and I was told I was going a bit grey. Driven to Belford by my dad in my not very comfy Clio 182 - damn those stiff springs! Couldn’t get out of the car myself when we got there.
The hospital were great. Despite (or maybe because of the morphine) I remember it was a very weird feeling as the chest drain went in…as the guide wire rubbed against the ribs it felt just like a brake cable rubbing against the outer cable.
Was meant to be the first day of a week’s family holiday. Oops.
Bloody hell this is painful... I had a pin inserted in a hand bone last year, they sent me home with loads of painkillers I didn't even use. Now I'm chomping through. co-codomol and it's still taking my breath away...
Some impressive crashes here everyone. stay safe out there...
