Your Worst Crash...............so far.

pride4ever

I know the topic of falling off is somewhat a taboo subject amongst many but over a lifetime its a virtual certainty that it will happen at some point. Now hopefully we,l all brush ourselves down and get back on the bike so with that thought in mind what as been your worst crash? I haven't fallen off for what seems forever but about 10 years ago I came off on a sweeping, narrowing bend on a fast descent and survived with only bad leg rash. Crazily 2 months later I came off on the exact same bend and knocked myself out. On both occasions I was lucky that no traffic was coming the other way on that bend. So whats yours?...

thegreatdivide

Shattered right radius (and I mean shattered), broken ulna, metal plate and multiple pins, two operations, permanent nerve damage, brutal elbow road rash.

pride4ever

thegreatdivide wrote:

Shattered right radius (and I mean shattered), broken ulna, metal plate and multiple pins, two operations, permanent nerve damage, brutal elbow road rash.

The fact you went back to riding speaks volumes for the love we have for riding lol. Hope your better man.

TakeTurns

Whilst I was descending a hill, a parked car pulled out and I t-boned into it.

Written off bike, broken collar bone which had to be surgically held back together with carbon (I wish). They didn't specify which metal it was. Oh and also road burns, but they heal overtime, hardly noticeable now.

Sh1t happens, gotta' ride on bros.

ju5t1n

1990 – mountain biking - snapped my seat post in two – and the bit sticking out of the bike stuck in my stomach
1999 - mountain biking (in the dark) – bust a collar bone
2010 – road racing, got caught up in a proper Tour de France style pile-up during a bunch sprint, my most spectacular crash but no broken bones

upperoilcan

thegreatdivide wrote:

Shattered right radius (and I mean shattered), broken ulna, metal plate and multiple pins, two operations, permanent nerve damage, brutal elbow road rash.

That's it ??????

Mearly a flesh wound ole boy.

typekitty

ju5t1n wrote:

1990 – mountain biking - snapped my seat post in two – and the bit sticking out of the bike stuck in my stomach

Farrrrk! Decent effort!

aleslie22

Been pretty lucky so far, worst I've had is a wee bit of road rash on left leg and once I landed on my head and couldn't look left for a day or two.

upperoilcan

Nothing road related at present,

However in my Downhill MTB racing days i snapped both bones in my forearm and had metal plates put in.

Also had the misfortune of Maisonneuve Fracture to my left leg. (The most painful injury i have ever had).

noodleman

Collision with another cyclist. Broken cheekbone in three places. Severed nerves in two teeth, permanent nerve damage in nose and lip, torn gum and permanent memory problems. Dont want another one like that in a hurry

Bobbinogs

Injury out of all proportion crash...hitting the deck when pootling on my own at 5mph. Broken collarbone which took two ops (and some metal) to fix but is all sorted now.

One that has left me with nasty flashbacks crash...another low speed off when climbing around Dartmoor in torrential rain which left me with broken teeth, a badly grazed face, a chainring scar on my shin (which is kinda cool) and several other deep scars on my hands.

All looks rather tame though when compared to some of the major offs noted above.

mike6

T boned by a car on a roundabout. I was on the roundabout and the traffic from the inside lane of the dual cariageway stopped, the guy in the BMW in the outside lane did not and hit me at 40 mph, according to the police.
The only bit of luck I had in this was that he hit the back wheel of the bike, so did not hit me directly or indeed run over me.
Three weeks off work with concussion and bad back. Road rash on most of my right side, torn ligaments in my right shoulder, couldn't raise my arm much above torso level for two months. I still have no nail on my right thumb, but I consider myself very lucky, one of the witnesses from the inside lane cars said " I have never seen a man fly before".
Also the back wheel was crushed where the front of the car hit it. Could have been me.

Bozman

Another one T-boned on a roundabout, she didn't stop and carried on for a few hundred metres before she saw the light, my bike was written off and I was battered and bruised, the collision has kindly left me with Harlequins syndrome where I only sweat on one side of my face, during exercise this leaves me with a clear line down my face where one side is red and sweaty and the other isn't.......... Cheers dear!

The wife thinks that i should move away from two wheels because i have my fair share of offs on the pushbike plus - A car pulled out on me while I was travelling at 70mph on my R1, I didn't even have chance to brake but I walked away with a broken thumb and clavical.

cat_with_no_tail

Low-speed off when out on the MTB resulting in Broken tib & fib and grade 3 tears of both ACL and LCL.
6 weeks in plaster followed by 2 months of physio to make it strong enough for the surgery to rebuild my knee - 6hr op involving grafts taken from both hamstrings to repair the ligaments, some sort of plate/screw arrangement and about 50 staples to put my leg back together after (got some awesome pics of that btw ).
Worked my ass off and was back on the bike within 12 weeks.

Worst one on the road (so far) was early Nov, came off on ice and landed hard on my elbow. Plenty of road rash and I think I might have cracked the bone or something because it was still painful to put any weight through my elbow right up to christmas.

jagx400

Mine are minor compared to some here, Don't know what happened to this day, but 2 months ago I came off, knocked out for a few minutes, bad concussion, badly bruised and swollen hip, fractured wrist and cuts and bruises to my face.

I have no recollection as to what happened, I got back on the bike and pedalled to work, no idea how as I lost 7 hours of memory that still hasn't come back. Short term memory still affected. Weird feeling.

Pross

40mph in a road race going down a steep descent near Speech House in the Forest of Dean. A sheep ran out into the bunch, a few riders hit it and went down. I avoided the chaos by going on the verge and just as I was feeling smug I hit a drainage ditch cut across the verge and crashed down a 10 foot high bank and into a tree. Injuries weren't too bad - concussion, whiplash, a few cuts and grazes plus a tree branch impaled in the cheek of my ar$e!

dmclite-3.0

I had a crash in a Vets race in Basildon Dunton test track last summer. Bloke went down in the bunch, dominoed out to me, I hit a bike on the deck at 34mph, somersaulted and landed on the concrete on my back. Curled into a ball as my bike has slid down the road and 2 more rider slammed into my back. Result, 3 broken fingers on my left hand, chainring cut on left palm needing 5 stitches, left elbow cut, 7 stitches, dislocated left shoulder and a huge road rash on left shoulder. No damage on bike except the front tyre had split down the middle of the tread for about 8" right down to the canvas and was still inflated ! Fingers still give me jip when its cold and damp.

musa

:shock: ouch

just reading some of these

Secteur

Last March I came off on a fairly inocuous flat stretch of road, in good weather and at not especially high speed... Broke my right scaphoid spectacularly and needed it surgically screwing together. I posted photos of the xrays and the stitches at the time somewhere on here

napoleond

Fell of my Raleigh Strika when I was 7 and smashed my Thundergrip

CambsNewbie

Luckily no major offs as an adult, but as a kid on my Raleigh Boxer we used to cycle as fast as we could, slam the front brake on or hit a kerb and see how far we could fly. Knocked a front tooth out that way. Still, got 10p from the tooth fairy!

cat_with_no_tail

NapoleonD wrote:

Fell of my Raleigh Strika when I was 7 and smashed my Thundergrip

That's what they're calling it now is it?

Buckie2k5

NapoleonD wrote:

Fell of my Raleigh Strika when I was 7 and smashed my Thundergrip

raleigh strika, i was the envy of the street when i got mine lol. Then moved on to raleigh burner bmx and got knock down by a car on it. My dad straightened the top tube and it lasted me another few years. Dont make bikes like the used too.

boogi11

Well if we are going old school, me and my mates used to play a game to see how close we could get to the trailer being pulled by a tractor( we lived in the country) . Needless to say I won and still hold the record. I was about 2 foot away from the back of the trailer ,full pelt on my grifter, he stopped.......I didn't. Three front teeth, broken nose, and chipped chin bone. :oops:

moltryn

Not road related - but came off the DH bike back at the end of October - broke the collarbone in two places, broke three ribs, fractured elbow which also burst open like a soft peach and left some nerve damage, fractured wrist and considerable amount of internal bruising down the back and side, and opened the knee up to let in some grit and stones! Oh, and bruised a kidney as well :-) All damage down the right hand side of body, left side clean as a whistle!!
Everything pretty much okay now except the collarbone - bones have overlapped, had a CT scan on Monday and seeing a surgeon tomorrow with the (very likely) view of surgery next week to correct. Titanium plate and screws on their way by all accounts, but fingers crossed that that may yet be avoided!

Eleven weeks on and I haven't been on an MTB yet (let alone the DH bike!), have had a few short runs out on road bike recently and been on the turbo in the house. Looks like I've another 8-12 weeks of recovery ahead if surgery happens.. can we fast-forward to April??!! And fek' knows what biking I'll be able for again after all of this :-( !!

djhermer

Had several minor offs over the years - nothing major at downhill speeds (probably not letting myself go enough), but a recent one involving another, heavier piece of metal caused me the greatest problems.

Back in October some bint in a Fiat 500 pulled straight across my path - classic case of her being flashed across by the car on my side of the road and she took that as an "It's all clear love, come on through". Neither of them accounted for moi coming down the inside at a not inconsiderable pace. All i remember is shouting something, trying desperately to apply some brakes and then being picked up from the tarmac by a runner....

I'd hit her car head on just behind the passenger door (at i reckon 20mph). It was on a fairly busy road and i ended up on the other lane, having been thrown up onto the roof and off the arse end into the path of the oncoming traffic. To this day I am still amazed that i got off as lightly as i did. Bad whiplash, bruised elbow (no brakage but still hurts), dislocated thumb, dislocated finger, very sore wrists (even now i can't hold anything heavier than a pint for more than 30 seconds), impressive gash to my back and arse, road rash on arse and back, thighs. Full body stiffness for a couple of days. Bit shaken, but the bonus was there happened to be a break in traffic from the other direction...simple as that. I got off v.lightly.

Wrote off a pair of thermal tights, one Kask helmet (which took the full force of my noggin' slamming back first onto the tarmac.....), one pair of gloves. The damage to her car was pretty severe...as was my C'dale frame...literally bent to 30 degrees along the top tube and downtube. Also a completely buckled front Mavic Ksyrium Elite...try finding a single one of those to replace!

Whilst she was clearly at fault (and admitted it and her insurance paid out), I certainly learnt from it. Whilst not an inexperienced cyclist, on another day at another time i would have probably been looking out for someone pulling across me into the road on my side. I certainly do now...always.

vinnymarsden

My parents bless em bought me my first "racer" when I was about 10, and it was "handbuilt" by a fella who worked with my Dad.
It was put together with bits that the guy scrounged up from old bikes here and there and then he sprayed them up to look the dog danglers....to be fair it was great...for all of the 4 hours I had it before the first serious descent of Ewden Bank which is now going to feature in the 2014 TDF in the 2nd stage!!!
I descended at the frightening speed that only young kids dare and lo the bars came off in my hands!!! EPIC crash into the wall much road rash and crying but lots of laughing afterwards..still ranks as one of my most memorable offs...especially as my Dad passed away a short time later....bless him xx

napoleond

Oh, forgot to mention coming off at over 40 mph straight into the high verge breaking my leg in 3 places, my foot rotated 270°. 10 days in hospital for that one and a steel rod bolted in my leg.
And the time I broke my back and collar bone being taken out in a race. More metalwork...
But it's the Strika/Thundergrip one that sticks with me

clickrumble

Went over the handlebars after hitting a large bump while descending hill (probably carelessness no my part, not looking at the road); very badly squashed banana. Other damage repaired with a rather impressive bit of mechanical engineering fabricated from stainless steel and what looks like 8 5mm screws holding the top of my right arm to the the shoulder joint.

johnboy183

Ouch. That's all

kingofthetailwind

Must remember not to view this thread at home, or delete the history if I do!

If my fiancee read this I'd never hear the end of how dangerous "that f**king bike" is!