Crash stories...

[yenrod]

Got any good ones...

I remember when all (teh family) had gone away for a break 'cept me...

So, was down the local woods jumping and messing around and there is this jump, still there actually called a table-top: big air is possible from this ! so i'm on the run up to it and I know I'm gonna FFFLLLLLLYYYY...

..which i did massively only to land real nice !

SADLY I was travelling REAL fast too and rode into a girl.

I got up looking a total mess !!!!! Yet still said to the girl 'are you ok' - i was thinking her parents where going to hunt me down and kill me...

Though, she seemed more shocked at my state than her not too bad injuries.


Anonther time I'd been racing around with a few friends off-road...'nother big air jump: cept a kid decided to ride in my landing area/where I was gonna land = I braked in mid-air (why I dont know totally rediculous thing to do ) so overthetop I went, doing a superman and broke my collarbone: that really hurt

For about 6 weeks.

 

[buggi]

i had one but can't remember it

but i can remember the pain after... broke collar bone. it really F***ing hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kirstie]

I was taken out on a roundabout by a car, broke my back and got a bad concussion, but it didn't hurt, much. Everything just turned into marshmellow land and I kept everyone entertained by talking sh1te!

I've had too many mtb crashes to mention, but my worst was dropping off something in the dark, getting it wrong and landing on my head. Whilst in Vancouver I also managed to fracture two ribs and a thumb, but kept riding for 3 days!

My husband did the 'gunning it at a jump with no skill or the proper equipment' and broke his jaw in three places, as well as dislocating and fracturing his elbow. He was in agony, and it took him 9 weeks to get better. He had his jaw wired up, and I became an expert in mushy foods. I now have two blenders to show for it! Funniest was him having to suck peanuts in the pub and then spit them out - he loves peanuts but couldn't eat them as it made his jaw flex all over the place. Eeew!

 

[Crackle]

Lots of minor spills but only one serious one.

Downhill into a roundabout at about 20/25mph, hit some gravel that had come off a builders truck, no chance to react, my head hit the floor first, which I didn't think possible but it did. The bloke in the car in front stopped because he 'heard' the impact. I lay dazed before being helped to the middle of the roundabout whereupon I then refused all help, got up and walked the mile home in the most intense pain ever.

At home, no-one in, I tried to clean myself up but was in deep shoot by this time, uncordinated, in agony and confused. Luckily a chance phone call from the future Mrs. Crackle saw an emergency dash to the hospital with me pleading not for them to go fast around bends. They took one look at me in casualty and I was whisked straight to x-ray and onto a ward. It was the worst night of my life. I was checked hourly but allowed no serious pain-killers. I'd fractured my skull around my temple and suffered dizziness and low blood pressure type attacks for several months afterwards.

It's highly debatable whether a helmet would have protected the area I hit but I've always worn one since and that was before they were common, rare enough for people to shout abuse at me for wearing one.

 

[mondobongo]

You know when your brain starts going this is going to hurt. Not the worst stack I ever had but the only one I have a photo of. Made a hash of the line in, head was screaming don't go for it brake brake ignored it and went for it whoops.

 

[yenrod]

You know when your brain starts going this is going to hurt. Not the worst stack I ever had but the only one I have a photo of. Made a hash of the line in, head was screaming don't go for it brake brake ignored it and went for it whoops.

Mondo - I'm sooooooooo sorry but you've made me laff !

You've got real class to post a pic of yourself crashing.

Though its better to try than not

 

[campagman]

I was taken out by a big truck when cycling to work in 1994. I don't remember the crash as I was knocked out for 8 days (over 6 hrs is classed as severe head injury). Luckily I was wearing a helmet, I didn't used to wear one all the time but I do now. I was actually very lucky as I could easily have died. The Orthopaedic surgeon would not operate on my broken leg until my brain showed signs of recovery. I'm rubbish at my job and don't have many friends but I am still cycling.

 

[Kirstie]

That's cannock chase, that is... I know exactly where you stacked!

 

[Joe]

When I was a kid I tried to ride cross handed...my brain didn't quite get the fact that the steering was now the opposite way around and I went straight into a parked car

More recently I got hit by a right turning car and landed on my head. Don't remember the impact but I cracked my helmet and had a mild concussion. Also had to have my ear glued up where it had slid along the concrete

 

[Headgardener]

Hi all. Havn't had a major crash but did have a clipless moment not long after going clipless so I don't know whether it counts. Car in front stopped to allow oncoming traffic to pass at a pinch point, I unclipped my left foot to steady myself and the bike leant over to the right and I went into panic mode trying to put my right foot down before crashing the ground with my right foot still attached to the pedal. Took the skin off my right elbow and it was even more embarrasing that it happened in front of a friend from Church.

 

[starseven]

Friday last week my first injury in years, entirely self inflicted.

On my commute I have taken to using a messenger style bag and being a Friday it was quite full. The bag was slipping a bit so I decided to fasten the waist strap Im on a flat bit of road its about 9pm and the roads pretty quiet.

I dont want to stop so just reach around (both hands) undo the strap whilst thinking I better not drop this strap or it'll go in the wheel. Of course I did drop it and it did go in the wheel.

The buckle instantly jammed the rear wheel and I was thrown off.

Still nursing a few scrapes and bruises but nothing worse unless you include my damaged pride.

 

[pabstblue]

When I was 16 I got my first mountain bike and I was pumped to try it out. It was early March so the snow was beginning to melt and spring was around the corner. I went out on some trails that I knew well behind my parents house and about half a mile away was a small stream. I was confident that I could quick ride through it and keep cruising on the other side. Well, I was wrong. Right when my front wheel hit the water it caught in the mud and threw my over then handlebars and into the cold snow melt. I was completely submerged and my pride was hurting a bit. I dragged myself out of the water and started heading for home but to add insult to injury a stick made its way into my front wheel sending me over my handle bars once again. Being wet, cold and now covered in mud, I went home, dried my bike off and waited for the snow to melt before riding again.

 

[red_tom]

Ooh there's some reet nasty one's in here. I've never managed to fracture anything on a bike but have spilt a fair amount of claret. Best to date.

Melon in an Alfa Romeo heading towards me and turned right into my path at the St John's Street crossroads in Clerkenwell. Jam on the front brakes, over the handlebars, bounced off his bonnet and stacked into the road on the other side of his car. Limped round the to great nurse practicioners at St Thomas' and got four stiches in my chin*. He was worried that I'd scratched his car.

Smidsy door opener in Walthamstow. Kebabed myself on the top corner of the door and fell into the road in a heap. Thought I'd broken a rib or two. Ambulance turned up, and the paramedics lifted up my jersey. 'Strewth! That's nasty' was their great response. Scooted off to Whipps Cross where I proceded to bleed over things. No broken bones but some more stiches and a nice scar on my chest. Chicks dig scars, don't they?

* This nicely complemented the rather messier scar I have on the other side of my chin. I got that after falling off a skateboard one evening when I was about 16 and my parents were away. I should have gone to hospital but just went home and rinsed everything with dettol. Then I fell asleep. I woke up the next morning with my face knitted into the pillow. Then the really stupid bit. I stood up, holding the pillow next to my face, counted to ten and ripped it away. I passed out from the pain.

 

[Fnaar]

My worst 'off' is really silly... going round a bend, summer afternoon, a mile or so from home after 35 miler... blinded by sun, front wheel hits kerb... wobble wobble ... hit kerb again ... slip... slide... ooyah! blood... cycle home dripping blood from arm and leg... youngest child is first to see me... gets a bit of a shock.... just scrapes though, nowt broken.

 

[Hilldodger]

I've been over the front of my Penny a couple of times and I can assure you it 'kin hurts!