Best Accident
peabrain
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What was the best accident you have ever had on a bike?
Let’s hear all of your stories about them and upload you pictures of broken bones, cuts and any other injury you received while riding.
Let’s hear all of your stories about them and upload you pictures of broken bones, cuts and any other injury you received while riding.
if you can ride up it, its too easy
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The best accidents are the one's that don't hurt
"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." ~James E. Starrs0 -
i think that most of the time it doesn't hurt when it happens but when you wake up the next morning you can feel it.
if you can ride up it, its too easy0 -
About 2 days into clipless pedals. Stopped at a box junction in a bus lane and proceeded to fail to unclip my feet and go sideways in front of a (stationary) bus and about 30 other onlookers. :oops:"Bed is for sleepy people.
Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."
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No pics but was bombing down a farmers track at about 25mph in the twilight. Then, from about 3m away noticed a section of barbed wire strung across the path! Grabbed two big handuls of brake, sailed over the bars and landed on the wire. After I had freed the bike (first of course!) I pulled the barbs out of my thighs.0
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I like the way you attended the bike first
that's just what I would doif you can ride up it, its too easy0 -
April 26th last year (2008) doing a ride in Avonmouth (Bristol) on the Kona, the time was 16h10 exactly (thanks to my Garmin for timekeeping)
I see a little bump on the track and the opportunity to perform a "manual" (wheelie) and while yanking the bars, it goes a little wrong and the bike comes down sideways to the right
After the dust settles, I see a lump inside my ankle high riding boot, so I think "Hmmm dislocation" and start banging down on the ankle. The lump disappears, so I wiggle my toes, move my foot, There's absolutely no pain at all and I think "good as new"
I stand up and my tibula pops out the inner right side of my leg and gets stuck along side my foot in my riding boot,
Anyway, my army medic training kicks in and I pull the foot down and to the left and put the bone back inside the leg. That's when I felt the pain for the first time and it stayed,
The ambulance collected my broken legged @ss and took me to hospital. I was attended to almost immediately, XRayed and then they doped me and reset my leg properly. At 10PM I was operated on and am now the proud owner of 11 screws and a plate. I was discharged on the Monday afternoon, so a whopping 47 hours in hospital from admission to discharge
The Xray says it all
I spent 3 months on crutches. 91 days after the accident, I rode 25 miles with a friend on my newly repaired leg with no side effects other than a little swelling
I've always believed that healing is equally a mental process as much as it is physical.
On a final note, I was 45 years old when I did that and I still ride just as hard and (as) fast as my (now) 46 year old body will allow me to.0 -
Riding some boardwalk I just kinda gave up (at the end of the north face trail). I very very slowly started edging towards the side and thought feck it, i going over...
Rolled off and it was a bit more of a drop than what I expected... Smacked my nads on my top tube on the way down!
At whinlatter my bro failed to see a corner and went straight into/through a tree 0 -
Riding at Brechfa a mate's shock failed after about 40 minutes. He told us to go on without him but it was his birthday so we finished early and went back to his flat. His flatmate had made some simply incredible food for everyone. We all got drunk / stoned and watched a bunch of films.0
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on the purbecks 6 or 7 years ago...
bombing downhill through a fairly rough field on my (then rigid) cindercone, see a small lump approaching and bunnyhop it only to then see a ridge immediately afterward.
next thing i remember is sky, floor, sky, floor, bike flying through sky, floor, sky, floor.
finally get breath back after the worst winding i'd ever had (up until another incident while riding a yamaha R6 and having a GSXR750 try and enter me from behind on track :shock: ) to find the forks 90 degrees the wrong way and a 6 mile walk back to the car...
how we laughed!!! :roll: :roll:{insert smartarse comment here}0 -
Nice gentle grassy rollers, 25 mph and a new new full suss bike I didn't know how to ride. Front fork compress, rear shock extends and I'm airborne. Bike goes one way I go the other, ridding buddy is a spec on the horizon.
Got back on, rode another 25 miles. Felt a bit sore that evening, not surprisingly really as I'd cracked rib in the process.It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
I've bought a new bike....ouch - result
Can I buy a new bike?...No - no result0 -
I've just come back from a long weekend riding in the Sierra Nevada mountains courtesy of Switch-backs.com (write up and photos to follow). Unfortunately at the end of day 1 I lost concentration on a medium speed downhill rocky section and the handlebars turned 90° and I crashed straight into the bar end.
I can't upload photos as they would break decently laws however suffice to say I am bruised to the colour of black all over said region and practically everything hurts......
No bike they've all been stolen...0 -
speeding toward a cross junction, the lights change and a motorbike (rightly so) comes across so I slam on the brakes, fly off, and watch the bike fly over my head with cars either side.
i'm just glad the lights were red otherwise I'd have been road kill. I was a tad upset angry that no one asked if I was ok (except the man on the motorbike who rode all the way back down)0 -
My best aerial display came around 7 years ago out on the local trails. About mid-ride we decided to deviate from the route to try out a set of natural 'doubles' at the bottom of at a technical downhill. It was a race to the bottom between us and not being happy with being in second place I decided to make my move on the doubles. As I soon discovered, my bike handling skills were better when the wheels were on the ground and my next contact with terra-firma came when my front wheel folded in two jettisoning me into the side of the doubles. Over the bars I went onto my head and back, and thats where I stayed while one of the group went for help. Nine hours spent in A+E, one broken shoulder, 5 broken ribs and a collar bone that's no longer attatched to anything at the arm-end. And the worst thing? Eight weeks in front of day time TV.Society is like a stew. You have to stir things up now and again otherwise the scum will rise to the top.0
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supersonic wrote:No pics but was bombing down a farmers track at about 25mph in the twilight. Then, from about 3m away noticed a section of barbed wire strung across the path! Grabbed two big handuls of brake, sailed over the bars and landed on the wire. After I had freed the bike (first of course!) I pulled the barbs out of my thighs.
pretty sure you could sue someone for that...?0 -
hit and run on a country lane, just finished a thrash round a country park, guy in a green vectra hit me from behind, hit a 2ft high wall, got knocked over the side of a bridge and landed 20ft down on a river bank, 7ins "full thickness" (down to my bones, could see them and everything) tear in my arm, snapped tendons, had to climb back up the river bank and ring my own ambulance, luckilly someone reckognised me and took me to the local infirmary, they wrapped my arm up, ambulance came, took me to leighton hospital, nearly died in hospital when the doc took the bandages off then walked away and blood started pouring out rushed to re-sus, and tied up my veins anastetic hadnt worn in yet could feel the whole thing, 2 days later discharged with a further 3 months of phsyio right as rain again
never got a picture of the open wound, but my stitches and ruined tattoo...
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Ouch, im glad everything is alright now, did they ever catch the driver? Cant believe he just drove off and left you...0
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Mine was on the road- a car pulled out of a junction on me, unfortunately at the foot of a hill where I was doing about 30. Cantis and bald mtb tyres + wet tarmac = flying lessons, went through the windscreen of another car. Broke a couple of minor bones, sliced myself to bits, but really not badly hurt at alll. Hospital: "Your helmet saved your life!" Me: "That's great protection! It was in a cupboard in my house at the time!" But thinking about it now, brr. Very lucky.Uncompromising extremist0
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My best accident in over 20 years of riding would be....
http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12613159
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More of an embarrasing crash really. Blasting down a hill on the local common when i suddenly hit a wire fence that was put up to let cows graze on certain areas. The wire slowed me down as it pulled the posts out of the ground. Flew over the bars and landed on my back in a nice area of long grass. No damage to me but the wire almost cut right through the carbon headtube on my bike. :shock:argon 18 e116 2013 Vision Metron 80
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Blasting (for me :roll: ) down a trail for the first time and tried to jump the tractor ruts at the bottom. went from 22mph to 0mph in about 5 secs according to GPS. Came round about 10 mins later and decided to call it a day because head hurt, knee hurt and elbow hurt.
Pensioner ran into me on a roundabout on the way home!!!! Everything hurt and had to carry broken bike half a mile home.
Just goes to show that just because your day turns to sh*t, it doesn't mean it can't get worse!!0 -
This is nowhere near as bad as some on here, but...
I was commuting to work about 8 years ago and was one street away from my house. It was early morning in the easter holidays and the roads were quiet. I heard a noise from the front derailleur so looked down to see if the chain was rubbing.
The next thing I knew my chin was bouncing across the bonnet of a red Escort XR2i.
I had crashed into a stationary, empty car.
I don't know whether it was the shock of crashing or just the fact that I lived in a particularly rough area of town at the time, but I didn't even think about turning round and going home; instead, I rode it like I stole it for 7 miles to work and it wasnt until about half way that I noticed that blood had been streaming down from my chin the whole time. My jacket- and bike- were covered in it.
Anyway, I got to work and the horrfied expression of my friend made me think that perhaps something a bit more serious than a grazed chin was up. Snuck into the bathroom to clean up and look in the mirror to discover that I could actually see my chin bone, and what I'd thought was a lump of dried blood or something stuck to my face was, in fact, my face.
There's barely a scar left now which just goes to prove the best piece of medical advice I was ever given: don't pick it, you'll make it worse!0 -
Hah, I did that once when I was a kid, got distracted by the shadows of my wheels and rode straight into a parked van Uncompromising extremist0
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Not really an accident this.
Riding Coed Llandegla september last year.
shortly after going over the jetty section I reveice a shout from a mate that some one is moving much quicker behind me. I stop at the edge of a left hand bend to let this guy pass. Bit of a puddle on my riight but its ok i can see a little grassy knoll so put my tow on there.
It's not a gressy knoll it a tine pice of grass in a 3 foot deep ditch. I tumble in and bike falls on top of me. funny thing is that the ditch fits like a hottub, like i've got a seat. i sat laid back in the pool, my hand cacually resting on the crossbar.
guy looks at me as he goes past, i give him a nod and an 'alright'.0 -
I was riding at Brechfa, It was a sweet day and i was flowing, pumping, feelling awsome, really flying. then as i come up to a huge table top i get thrown of line by a stray branch, i take of and fly straight into a tree, my front wheel missed the truk by an inch, but my bars slam in to the tree, sending me flying, sideways, to land on my bum, no real injuries just a very purple behind!(and a lack of wanting to sit down for about a week!)
i know its not much compared to some of your injuries and crashes, but i still think hitting a tree at 20 mph was a tad, um, painfullI like bikes and stuff0 -
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Up the Irons !0 -
When i was 15yrs old - I had just fitted Bar ends to my original Raleigh Activator. Me and a few friends were blasting round the local housing scheme and we were coming down this hill, doing about 25-nearly 30mph when we came off a kerb, my "mate" cut in front of me and because I was stupidly going downhill holding onto my new Barends, I couldnt hit the brakes fast enough and went "A over T" and wrapped my right arm round a kerb!!! I remember the snap, then standing up and running down the road looking at my arm with the bone sticking out screaming "ARGH NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!" (I broke my other arm the year previously in Gymnastics in school)
I distinctly remember seeing the arm flopping like it had another elbow or summit in the middle of my arm.
Upshot was a 4 days in hospital to reset and pin the radius back together, reset my wrist as I had dislocated and fractured it and then subsequently 12 weeks in plaster for it to heal!!! Man than was the whole summer out of action!
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Suffice to say, I won't be fitting bar ends to any other bike I have! LOLIt's been a while...0 -
Tyre pressures a bit too high, dry dusty trail.
Front tyre slides out on a fast right hand bend, then grips again. I go high side into a tree shoulder first. littleandy0410 turned up about 20 seconds later (he's a bit gay, so rides slowly), picks me up and packs me off to hospital.
He said it sounded like a wounded bear in the forest.
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Have had two nasty accidents.
1) Going to darn fast on the Altura trail at Whinlatter and my front wheel slipped out on the wet roots that plaque the upper parts. Ended up with a seperated AC joint in my right shoulder.
2) Was at a jump spot with a few friends in the middle of January and right foot slipped off the pedals just before I hit the lip, ended up with ANOTHER seperated shoulder with 2 breaks, one on my shoulder blade the other my coller bone aswell as a compound fracture in my right wrist. Only just been able to start using my hand again.
Gravity is a pain in the as$!"If I Was Falling, YOU BETTER FREAKING CATCH ME!!!"
6 years riding bikes, 8 broken bones, gravity can be a b**ch
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Had to laugh at the Llandegla story, I know where you mean and the fact you just gave the guy a nod, ha ha.
When I was at Uni in Sheffield I used to ride my bike to get around. I'd been having a few beers on a fri afternoon in a trendy bar on Division st, came out of the bar a little drunk around 9ish and there was a big que of people waiting to get in. I unlocked my bike and decided to show off a few skills to the ladies in the waiting crowd. Tried to do a wheelie off down the road but pulled to hard on the bars and went straight over on my ass in front of them all - everyone was cheering and taking the piss and I was just left in a pathetic heap in the middle of the road!
Yep, I felt pretty cool after that one!!0
