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#61 ·
If commuting counts I got run off the road into a lamp post.

Knocked the **** out.

Bike's fine, get up and ride 3-4 miles home literally pouring blood.

16 hours in the hospital, had to see the trauma surgeon, brain surgeon and the plastic surgeon.

Bleeding on my brain, fractured orbital and a broken nose with eight stitches across the bridge. Had to take antibiotics that give you terrible diarrhea.

My nose still hurts two months later. :thumbsup:


Tom
 
#66 ·
Nothing special here. Took a very small jump, landed, brake failed, bike went in to tree, bent wheel and frame, beat wheel straight enough to get it rolling, and went home.
A few days later was riding new bike on trail.:thumbsup:

Could have been much worse I guess.
 
#69 · (Edited)
Went OTB and landed on my back while screwing with my relatively new Contour camera on the lower part of a DH trail early last year. Lucky for me, I tucked my head to the max when I realized what was happening. If I didn't, prolly would have been ugly exfoliation of the face, collarbone or better snappage, etc.

I miscalculated speed and one last jump that I thought I had already passed (I was going very fast at the top and actually slowed down for a bit fore amping it up again just before this happened. Seemed like I slid forever when I bit it. Definitely knocked the wind out of me and gushed my helmet sufficiently to chuck it after the ride. Other than a broken stupid gene (that took a few months to grow back) and a nice cut down the middle of my lower back, no long term damage.

Found the video and made it 1/4th speed for more viewing pleasure. My front wheel never touched the ground so it was more boomerang style endo. :D

Mountain Bike NoFrontWheelTouchy / BoomerangEndo on Vimeo
 
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Henrik93 said:
I must admit my worst crast of 2012 actually was on my racing bike while driving down a hill at 70 kph. Some bumb appeared and well it cost me a couple of days in bed so well, no real bad crashes :)
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Racing bike as in moto, or road bike? Either way, 70kph sounds painful!
 
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#72 ·
My worst crash was at all of 3 mph! :eek:

This summer, I hit a rut going uphill on my singlespeed at low speed, ran out of momentum, and found myself falling. During the fall, I had that famous sensation of time slowing, during which I was thinking about how this crash was "no big deal".

I somehow fell directly on the end of my bar, which struck to the left of my sternum, just over my heart. I had previously lost the end cap for my ESI chunkies on that side when I clipped a tree gate, and my jersey nearly had a circle of fabric punched out of it. For about 30 seconds, I sincerely thought I was going to have a heart attack by the side of the trail, but I recovered and limped home.

When I got home, I had a yellow and purple bruise the size of a softball over my heart. Damn thing hurt every time I took a truly deep breath for 6 weeks or so.
 
#73 ·
Broke my left collar bone when my front tire lost traction after a small dip in the fast corner I was taking. Slammed my shoulder HARD on the hardpack and almost knocked the wind outta me. Got up and tried to dust myself off and heard crunching sound in my left shoulder. That and the dull pain confirmed I broke it. The long walk back to the trailhead SUCKED!

This happened while on vacation, a couple days before my family reunion. Good times and bad times all in one go. Thankfully more good than bad. Keep the rubber side down and good dirt y'all!
 
#74 ·
Last year was the year of crashes for me...No less then a dozen...Funny how it always happens on relatively smooth trail and not the technical sections. I am happy for that though as injuries could be worse!

In May I broke my hand climbing an icy boulder, front tire slips out and boom...I did go wash my bike and have three beers before I went to the doc.

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Probably the most painful was caught by a buddy on film

I was all speedy like on a descent....Fast as fast can be never catch me....braap!!

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My front wheel glances off a rock....and at 30 mph I hit the dirt with a resounding BOOM!!!

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Which left my right knee looking like this

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My right arm looking like this

Arm carnage

and my hip looking like this

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#75 ·
Going up hill over a series of water bars on a somewhat steep section. Missed getting the front tire up on top and the bike came to a screeching halt. As I started to go OTB the bike shot back down hill and my right had punched the water bar dislocating my right ring finger and breaking my 3rd metacarpal.



 
#76 ·
I had a few big spills that only resulted in some lost flesh and donated blood. Weirdly enough, one of my milder spills is what I got injured from.

I was in Moab for my birthday week. I was going down some hill on some trail in the Brands system, and caught my front tire in some of the soft red dirt. Went down, impacting left elbow first, which jarred my shoulder. My elbow swelled a good 2" with fluid. I didn't think much of it, rode the rest of the day and bought some wound wash and band aids and cleaned up at the hotel. The pain in the elbow continued, and I had one of the orthopedic docs at work check it out and he told me I had tissue pieces floating in there and most likely cracked the tip of my elbow, which there is nothing to do for. Xrays confirmed it. This was mid October, and I'm still having pretty bad pain here and then in my elbow, and also my shoulder has started giving me trouble. Oh well! I bought some elbow pads for further adventures...

Here's a photo right afterwards with me making a dopey sad face.
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I have a pretty nifty scar now!
 
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