whats your worst injury on a bicycle?

Question

i just want to know tell me the true stories to your worst bicycle injury

Answer 1

no one here yet has a damn thing on my injury, id take all your injuries over this one. Came down a hill and tried to jump a ditch without enough speed, cased the other side HARD, hard enough to rip me out of my clip ins and slammed down on my seat nuts first. My nutsack and surrounding area turned dark that night and was completely black the next day and for almost three weeks after that. Veigns were black and my sack swelled majorly for a day or so. I thought my nutsack was going to fall off completely. Amazingly enough i had sex that very night and have no problems to date except that my nuts dont quite hang right anymore, they still function fine though. I dont get scared over much but this scared the living daylights out of me.

...this aint nuthin compared to the time i was riding without a helmet, hit a brick wall and dislocated my shoulder and busted my head open needing 7 stitches in the forehead and 3 in the eyebrow, when your head bleeds....it really bleeds.

Answer 2

I was mountain biking down a trail doing 15-20 miles per hour. I round a turn and not half a second later my bike gets stuck in a rut and I go flying over the handle bars.

Fortunately I didn't break any bones, but I tore up my arms and legs to where I had gouges almost 1/4" deep in my arms and serious scraping (not nearly as bad as my arms) on my legs (through my blue jeans).

I was lucky that there was enough trauma that when I got up off the ground I could feel my sprained wrist but my arms themselves (where I ripped them up) felt numb. This was a very good thing because we still had almost 5 miles to go before we got back to civilization.

I have to say that I will NEVER forget getting home and picking pea sized gravel out of the palms of my hands with a dinner fork.

Answer 3

Me and my buddy once were messing around with some crap bike parts that we had. We managed to put the 10speed fork, wheele and handle bars into this old crappy 20inch frame. When we were done it looked like a ridiculous monstrosity. We proceeded to take it out on the street, I was riding the freak bike and my buddy was just on his 10speed. And of course I thought it would be interesting if we opened that ***** up. I'm peddling as fast as humanly possible and the freak speed proceed to fall apart. So I'm tangled in the frame and not rolling or anything more sliding on the pavement rapidly removing my skin from my knees and thighs and arms. So I'm lying in the street bleeding like I just escaped the clutches of pinhead from hellraiser. My road rash was so bad I probably should have went to a hospital and gotten skin grafts. No banging of the head or broken bones but the scabs where about as knarly as you could possibly imagine. So suffices to say my buddy and I's bicycle engineering days where over.

Answer 4

My worst injury has been a cracked collar bone and dislocated shoulder - had my front wheel bumped by a rider in front of me in a sprint finish on road bikes.

I used to work with a woman who had a horrific injury as a child around 10 years of age. She was riding on the handlebars of her dad's bike. They were coasting downhill and her shoelace got tangled in the spokes of the front wheel, sucking her leg in against the fork and stopping the bike instantly. Her dad was a large man - 6'2" and 230 lbs, so needless to say the two of them went down hard. She broke both bones in her lower left leg, had broken bones in her ankle that hit the fork, broke an upper arm bone from her dad landing on her and many lacertations from the skid down the sidewalk. I do not know how she ever got on a bike again - she raced a corporate challenge mtb race with our company team several years ago.

Answer 5

I have had two injuries as a result of bike riding. I was about 10 years old, when I was riding down a street, and then suddenly, an ugly, stupid looking, little poodle started to chase me down the street. I peddled as fast as I could, however, I lost control of my bike and then I fell on my knee, leaving a big stinging gash, that was bloody. The dog licked my shirt and then ran off. (pathetic I know). The second was when I was 13, I was again riding down a street, and I stood up on my bike to pedal a little faster. My foot, slipped off the pedal, and my chin on my right leg hit the jagged metal edges on the pedal. It stung, but i kept on pedalling. It wasn't until a few minutes later when I rubbed by hand on my chin to message my leg, that I realized that I was bleeding. Anyways, those were my worst injuries. I'm too much of a professional rider to get major injuries.( I'm just kidding)

Answer 6

I ride alot... I ride fast, I ride far... I bombed curvy mountain roads almost every day for years. I've never had a bicycle related injury other than scraped shins from coming off of my pedals. I am sooooo lucky. Oh, when I was a kid I hurt my nuts a couple of times. I'm also pretty careful.

Answer 7

I've got off easy considering I've been racing road and mtb since the early 80's. Over the years I've had separated shoulders (both sides), a broken wrist, and lots of road rash, cuts and bruises.

My worst injury on 2 wheels was a motorcycle crash...

Answer 8

Bruises from the beating of my stepfather for bending the front wheel after going down some steps (the big slab type ones). I was 6.5 Broke a bit off my front tooth at 7. Ripped my shins on 'bear trap' pedals in my early twenties, still have pitted shins from that episode. But worst of all was my pride, when on a motorbike i forgot to put the side stand out in my hurry. I landed unceremoniously on the pavement after managing not to have the bike land on me. I can laugh about it now.

Answer 9

I've had a couple of major crashes. The first one, got hit by a cab driver from behind. He hit my handlebars causing my front wheel to turn hard right then smacking the ground on my lower back. I went from having no back problems to seeing a chiropractor monthly. Cab drivers here in Chicago drive like total assholes!
Second time, again, a cabbie hit me from behind, same way, but because I was goin up a small climb, I smacked my head on the concrete putting a big laceration over my right eyebrow. OUCH!!! HATE CABBIES! Can't live with them, can't live without em. D'oh!!

Answer 10

I came off my brothers 10 speed going down hill when I was 16 I went over the handle bars my chin hit first took the skin off to the bone then my chest hit the stone worked threw my clothes and bra ah took one nipple off as well had lots off plastic surgery I'm fine now but Ive never been on a bike since