A worrying divy up

P-Jay

Just chatting to one of my riding buddies, he's smased his little finger up on his Race Motortbike at Castlecombe and had to have skin taken from his arse to graft to it and they've stitched to another finger for it bit, got us talking about injuries as I'm off riding for a bit too. In the last couple of years our little riding team as suffered from MTBing:

A broken Clav
A 'wrongly' dislocated shoulder
A badly broken upper arm needing 3 pins.
Two missing front teeth
A missing finger joint.
A fractured skull
More rib breaks than we can count
A broken wrist which needed a plate
A badly broken Elbow which needed a plate, and maybe an Elbow replacement.

At a rough estimate, we have more Ti in our bodies than on our bikes.

Hundreds of cuts, bruises, sprains and what-not

Christ, I'm never doing it again, counting injuries that is.

Anyone else brave enough to have a count up?

I think the goverment should re-think the whole cycling is good for you thing!

Uncle Peter

My nuts had a right kicking when my missus found out I didn't 'swap' my Superlight for a Merlin XLM.

In '98 I partailly severed my right palmal artery, nearly died trying to carry out Spiderman stylee web slinging with my own blood, luckily I was right near Selly Oak Hospital, took nearly a year to get back on a bike. Apart from that just the usual big ring bites out of my right calf etc.

saltyman

a few injuries i remember:

shattered knee cap
dislocated knee cap
broken wrist
skull fracture

countless cuts and bruises........