Cycling injuries

[CycleD]

Being fairly new to cycling 30 miles plus, on Friday a car squeezed me so close to the edge of the road I ended up hitting a pot hole and nearly coming off into a thorn bush. All I can say is thank god for padded shorts but I did end up with some cuts to my leg from the bushes...

So my question is...? How many times have you been injured as a result of someone else or yourself?

 

[vickster]

Too many! Worst thereof

A very knackered knee, my own fault...about 7 years ago

A nasty leg and shoulder injury as a result of being knocked off, both requiring surgery, 2.5 years ago, legal claim progressing very slowly

Other mishaps, a clipless fall, a slow fall, a mid speed fall, a faster speed fall. Luckily none of those resulted in more than a few scars

I'm sure there were more as a kid

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I've been hit by cars three times, every time I was lucky and walked away without a scratch.

Hit a tree root and had to have stitches in my elbow

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Fallen off a few times, cause my own negligence/distraction.
Just scrapes, bruise, once a torn jacket.

 

[lutonloony]

Clipping rear wheel of brother, lovely slide down the road, mostly pride hurt. Knocked off by very close pass, followed by caravan that was so close it was a hit. Most annoying part was that it ruined my new shorts. Loads of other mishaps but my fault. Pretty lucky that none of my offs resulted in broken bones, but loads of road rash

 

[lutonloony]

I've been hit by cars three times, every time I was lucky and walked away without a scratch.

Seems a bit harsh that the car hit you 3 times!

 

[gbb]

Dislocated finger after a slide off when passing over unexpected wet leafs...hand out as I came down, sharp wrench....ooh, that's done some damage I thought.
Otherwise not many injuries in 40 ish years of cycling, one instant off on black ice, a lump of skin taken off the side of my thigh...still managed another 20 plus miles, albeit a bit stiffly.

 

[13 rider]

Put me and my bike in a hedge the other week . Just lost some skin and a few scratches . My fault took a corner to quick in appalling conditions .
More gory my cousin came off his bike big style and the pedal punctured his skin in the stomach area thankfully no more than flesh wounds this is when we were teenagers about a mile from my house and he rode to my house on bike for help while I pushed his dear bike home

 

[HLaB]

I cant remember how many times I've of through my own fault I've come off. But I remember once being actually t'boned, once being nearly t'boned, once hit from behind and once being clipped causing me to come off. All times thankfully its been no more than bruises and to put it into perspective during that time I've cycled 100,000 miles +

 

[fossyant]

Worse one !

 

[fossyant]

A number of cars have hit me. Damaged shoulder requiring decompression surgery, broken ribs, and worse two broken vertebrae and 4 ribs (still recovering after nearly a year).

Crashed a few times myself, ice, slippy surfaces etc. Mainly bruising and lost skin.

 

[Diggs]

Cat shot out of a hedge in front of me. In A&E they were picking out bits of road from my shoulder, had to call me back two days later when they noticed my collarbone was no longer attached at the shoulder. Thanks in no small part to the lovely people here, I got through it quite well.

Before the bruising came out and I'll save you the gory pics and xrays

 

[mjr]

A few bruises but nothing much that I can recall.

 

[mjr]

Oh, and today our group had a few motorists attempting to overtake at stupid points. A few choice words and glares and they backed off rather than squeeze us to the kerb or verge. Except one. Came to a dead stop nose-to-nose with oncoming traffic. Bonkers! I think we turned right before seeing how he extricated himself from that.

 

[fossyant]

My most gruesome one was crashing on a bend on the cat and fiddle - hot day and milk had been spilt over the road from a tanker. Slid the full width of the road on my bum and hand. Proper TDF style injury. 6 inch square of my skin (and shorts) missing - had to ride 15 miles home with half my bottom showing (bright red mind). Gutted as I wrecked a good pair of shorts, took a big chunk out of my shoes and pedals. It didn't half weep for ages.

Latest broken ribs - not that the docs were bothered about (they had more pressing issues with my spine).