Worst Crash?

alexthebear

My shins are peppered with peddle pin holes and my right calf looks like it's been shot with a small shot gun from all the the times I've caught my chainring (pre bash guard), had several silly accidents but my worst ended with me crashing a cheap hire bike into a bridge half way round Loch Lomond and I had half a cheap plastic peddle sticking out my shin and a craked collar bone. Not an experience I wish to repeat

carlgulliver

I was riding across a wet wooden bridge next thing i know I ended up in a 4ft deep swamp when I happened to touch the front brake, needless to say I haven't been across that bridge again in years lol

tombrewerton

I have been plesently mostly broken bones free apart for braking my ankle in about 3 places.
I had enjoyed my morning ride so much I decided to go out again at about 4pm. I was standing up on the bike hitting a root to do a wheelee, I pulled the front up too much and came over the back. I put my foot down and it must of had such a large impact it broke the ankle in three places. I knew immediately I'd broken it and called my parents and brother who had to find me in the woods. My father managed to get a gate open by a pub manager and drive down to near where I was. An ambulance wasn't going to come for many hours.

I had a great surgeon who put two plates in and some phiseo. I was off for about two months.
I decided to get back on because it is some of the most fun you can have. I have become a safer rider still pushing my skills but with a degree of couciousness. I have had fewer falling offs since getting back on despite going down more aggressive terrain.

welshkev

worst crash was probably when I knocked myself out at FoD.

But most painful was going off a 5ft ish ladder drop, completely fecking it up and landing with my balls on the stem!!! I had a bruise from my belly button right down to my balls and the straight line mark of the handlebars across the top of my thigh.

the worst part was that my car was parked at the top of the hill which was a 30 min push away, trying to walk up there was agony

Northwind

My worst crash barely hurt at all... Rode off a little bit of a cliff in the pyrenees, got really annoyed being held up by a slow local, lost concentration, clipped a tree, fell off the edge... bounced about 40 foot and ended up on a conveniently placed avalanche fence. Walked away with a load of cuts and a bit of a sore knee, talk about spawny.

cj11

Had a few good ones, at present have a broken scaphoid in my right hand from an otb moment on a bmx (old enough to know better). Had 21 stitches in my shin last year after a minor disagreement with a pedal. The worst however was on a relatively small double in some local woods, have no idea what went wrong but the result was 2 Broken ribs, 1 missing tooth, 1 Broken wrist, A cracked pelvis, Cracked full face helmet and a very pi**ed off wife. Still have a limited range of motion in right thumb which i cant imagine will improve following the bmx incident.

Cookeh

I had a pretty nasty one at Cannock the other day...brushed a tree with my elbow and got a slight graze - I'm pretty hardcore, I know!

plugp7

Riding down road just before car park Cwmcarn about 15 years ago before the trails were built. Distracted and front wheel hooked into gully at side of road. Over bars at 25mph+ and landed on left buttock. Rolled forward and slid for a few yards on knees, finger tips and forehead of helmet.
Spent the night in hotel alternatively shivering and sweating in a state of shock with fingers and knees sticking out of bed!
Outcome, permanent nerve damage and numbness in left buttock.

Angus Young

Not one picture of disaster and gore? This is a very disappointing thread.

marcg868

Worst accident 2006 on motorbike fractured tibial plateau, fibula and ruptured ACL, LCL. 6 months off work.

Worst MTB accident 2010 slammed into a tree and dislocated my shoulder.
Didn't bother going to A&E got a mate to pull it back into place.

Fast forward to Nov 2013 fell heavily on shoulder again after front washed out. Visit to Gp a week later sends me for a Mri scan and I have a rotator cuff tear and some bone spurs pinching a tendon. Having a shoulder arthroscopy sometime this year.

Kowalski675

plugp7 wrote:

Outcome, permanent nerve damage and numbness in left buttock.

Yaeh, right - that's from too many years in BDSM clubs, I bet...

stubs

My cousin has just had his worst crash. Riding home on his MTB stopped at a junction put his foot down on a patch of ice, foot slipped and he landed on his elbow. He now has a elbow like a jigsaw puzzle and is having an op today to put it all back together with lots of pins.

gt-arrowhead

I had my worst one 2 weeks ago that also involved ice. I was riding infront of the group when we came out of the forest and onto a downhill stretch of road. By the end of it i must have been doing 25mph when i crashed. I saw the frost on the floor and used no front brake. Then i thought id just dab it very ever so slightly. Had a front wheel washout. I stayed onmy feet, slid off across the road and managed to come to stop on a bit of grass that was in the middle of where the road forked off.

Both me and bike undamaged somehow. Gave the people behind me a good laugh.

Kowalski675

GT-Arrowhead wrote:

I stayed onmy feet

That's not a crash then.

WindyG

Worst 2 I've had, last year clipped a tree went over the bars and cracked a couple of ribs but the other one was more embarrassing than anything else, crossing over a fire road the traffic on it had stopped to let me by and as I went to go between 2 posts to get back on the trail I washed out and headbutted one of the posts right in view of all the traffic, was a bit dizzy but had to jump back on like it was nothing, had to get over the hill before I could stop and check myself and bike over without the shame of the spectators looking(laughing) at me.

gt-arrowhead

Yes it was, i came off the bike at a high speed. I didnt even realize it happened until i was standing on some grass quite some distance away from my bike.

Windy, you should just stood up and put your arms in the air and smiled at everyone in their cars.

Kowalski675

GT-Arrowhead wrote:

Yes it was, i came off the bike at a high speed. I didnt even realize it happened until i was standing on some grass quite some distance away from my bike.

Still not a crash if you were on your feet

Northwind

Basically just a dab

mudsucker

My worst crash was at Cannock. Someone stopped in front of me at the end of a fast descent and braking hard went OTB and landed on then. destroyed my front wheel and completely skinned both knees and an elbow. Once the adrenalin has worn off it hurt like hell and I couldn't walk for a couple of days.

What hurt the most was though was the £95 bill for a new front wheel!

Most stupid crash involved riding in Colorado on my friends bike. Grabbing what I though was the rear brake (silly American bikes!) and flying OTB and landing on a rock in my stomach. Much to my friends amusement :-)

Kowalski675

Why did you have a rock in your stomach?

mudsucker

Because they taste nice and improve digestion :-)

Kowalski675

Don't they break your teeth?

mudsucker

swallowed whole I have no problem :-)

Angus Young

An un-padded right knee down onto rocks at 25mph (it was probably reading the speedo rather than watching where I was going that that was my undoing) followed by a head-to-toe in a big pothole filled with six inches of very brown, very cold farm water. Lots of blood and swelling and 2 weeks incapacitated, yet it's the other, unscathed knee that now gives me agro.

shigllgetcha

I broke my femur on a bike when I was 12, followed by a month in hospital in traction without being able to leave the bed.

I came around a tarmaced corner and there must have been chippings on it as the bike slid and I met the road

Soggz

This.And i knocked myself out for 3 days...Woke up to see a vicar at the side of my bed too.
Only went down the road to get a paper...ALWAYS wear a helmet now!

DanDax1990

That's a funny looking head.

Kowalski675

DanDax1990 wrote:

That's a funny looking head.

I was waiting for someone to say something like that.

Cookeh

Kowalski675 wrote:

DanDax1990 wrote:

That's a funny looking head.

I was waiting for someone to say something like that.

Im surprised you didnt!

Kowalski675

It seemed too easy.