Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - What Scars do you guys rock and How'd you Get it!?

Dang guys, I'm bored.
So brag to BF and show us what MAD scars you have and how'd you get it?

Here's one of mine:
I got it by the end of Grade 8 in Design and Tech class. I didn't use the C-Clamp with the Drill Press which was loaded with a 3.5" drill bit.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/Keithipoo/fcaa615d.jpg

1 on my left shoulder and 1 on the knuckle of the index finger on my left hand from rear ending a cab with my bike in NYC 2 summers ago

got a nice one accross my right ankle from getting t-boned about a year ago. My ankle went right into my chainring... the next day I found some chunks of flesh covered grease in my chainring.

here's a shot of my shoulder after rotator cuff surgery. I was hit riding in Brooklyn, Prospect Park of all places.

http://popdan.com/images/shoulder.jpg

My most prominent scar is the one I've got one right between my eyes from a frisbee during an Ultimate game last winter. My bike related scars are limited to a little bit of road rash from a couple of 0mph falls this summer and nicks all over my hands from general maintenance.

[edit - re: cuff surgery]

holy gross.

Yea.
Thats sick. yet so manly... all at the same time! ahhh.

not too many visible. two circular small scars on my hand from pins when i broke my hand. dude threw his car door open as i was passing him on my motorcycle. some scars on my left leg from this time i got run over by a truck, on my motorcycle.

motorcycles are bad mmmm'kay.

I've got a whole bunch on my leg and a few on my arms.
Here's what the last accident looked like, you can see where it sheared through most of the layers of skin, through the fat layer, and into the flesh underneath.

nice. I got some injuries that looked like that when I slid down and fell off a roof.

and am I right to assume that many of us in here have the classic chainring-puncture row of scars on the back of their calf? because I do.

Two small scars either side of knee from traction pin. Hit by car fractured femur in three places.
One about an inch and a half long on my left knee from a chainsaw incident. Above that are lighter ones where the bar kicked off my knee cap and climbed up my thigh a bit.
One about an inch at the knuckle of my right pinkie where a lock back knife failed to stay locked.
Numerous small ones on my chest from hitting a barbed wire fence.
One on right wrist from a jagged lip on a fender
Couple of crooked fingers from breaks(Or is it brakes?) Same with a couple of toes.
Gouged my shins up from trials. A couple of them you can still feel the groove in the bone at the scar.
Best one is in my retina from a steel sliver. In the right light I can see it(from the inside)

I win:

http://www.crywolf.ca/images/miscellaneous/DSC00002.jpg

... and that's not even me.

As far as my scars go:
- I've got a nice one on my left index finger. I almost cut my finger off with pruning sheers when I was a kid (I saw bone and thought it'd heal fine w/ just a bandaid - nope).
- There's about a 4" long one on my left shin from a tube of toothpaste. Remeber the oldschool tubes that were made of metal? I was in Cub Camp or something and it was sticking out of my backpack pocket. I picked up my backpack and it opened my shin up like a razor. I didn't even feel it.
- My right hand has some scars across it from putting my fist through a wall (the wall won in retrospect).
- My stomach looks like a ****ing jigsaw puzzle. I've been opened up more than a dozen times and there's a foot-long seam running up me (about an inch wide), with a few more nearby to compliment it. I don't even have a belly button anymore. That got lost along the way at some point.
- My junkie scars. I had a mainline threaded from my artery at the elbow right into my heart. That was in for a few months until it got infected (if you've seen Requiem for a Dream ... ya, like that). The rest of my arms over the veins are covered in little i.v. scars, but they're starting to fade.

My dad's got some good ones ... multiple surgeries ... knife wounds, accidents. My mom's got a dent in her shin from a car accident - a bucket that was sitting between her legs crushed part of her shin bone.

... and my sister had her big toenails ripped out. No, seriously - they don't grow back.

- eyefloater

I dunno... I almost had my right leg removed when I was a kid -- broke the tibia and fibula in 2 places each, only thing holding my foot to my upper leg was the main artery running to the foot and the main nerve cluster. The entirety of the skin on the front of my leg was removed. Took six months of surgery to fix it up... and I still have a leg, yay.

The grafting was so bad that they couldn't internally fix the pins on the bones -- needed to do external fixation. Yeah.

Holy ****
Thats disgusting.
*blarg* get me a bucket.

this thread ROCKS!

(jk I am about to puke.)

which reminds me. I have a pretty sweet hole in my shoulder where I had a rock stuck in it. Not my biggest scar, but I am always surprised when I see it. The concussion erased all memory of how it happened, but I am pretty sure it involved a bicycle.

Am I the only one that has a couple sprocket wounds on the back of his right calf? (aka reasons for me to love single speed #578 and #579, or 578-590 if you count each gear-tooth wound individually). I got those when I was pretty young, if I had to pick a "favorite" sort of wound, puncture wounds would be it. No stitches, no pain, no blood.

I have a scar on the inside of my arm (opposite of my elbow) from when a car ran over my arm while I rode my bike. I was 6. The driver was intoxicated.

Niiice.

i have a scar on my upper lip from my friends skimboard popping off a wave and hitting me in the face when i was going for a wave. i have another above my right eyebrow from some f'ing bro *** hitting me in the face with a ring while my window was down after the bar. i also have one going along my ankle for about 5 inches from surgery when i was younger.

This is the "inner half" of the scar. The outer half is a bit worse, but gives you an idea. Mind you, this scar is like 16 years old at this point ;)

Being run over by a Ford Bronco -- who then backs up -- is not a good time

http://boxwood.subtle.org/se/legscar.jpg

I have vatious road rash scars, a couple on my back from a barb wire fence, and my lower lip still has a bunch of scoar tissue in it from when I endoed and bit through it, literally all the way through, my teeth got pushed in pretty good to.

Holy crap... if that's not you who is it?
Looks like spinal surgery..
I don't ever want to see that pic again... *PUKE*


I win:

http://www.crywolf.ca/images/miscellaneous/DSC00002.jpg

... and that's not even me.

As far as my scars go:
- I've got a nice one on my left index finger. I almost cut my finger off with pruning sheers when I was a kid (I saw bone and thought it'd heal fine w/ just a bandaid - nope).
- There's about a 4" long one on my left shin from a tube of toothpaste. Remeber the oldschool tubes that were made of metal? I was in Cub Camp or something and it was sticking out of my backpack pocket. I picked up my backpack and it opened my shin up like a razor. I didn't even feel it.
- My right hand has some scars across it from putting my fist through a wall (the wall won in retrospect).
- My stomach looks like a ****ing jigsaw puzzle. I've been opened up more than a dozen times and there's a foot-long seam running up me (about an inch wide), with a few more nearby to compliment it. I don't even have a belly button anymore. That got lost along the way at some point.
- My junkie scars. I had a mainline threaded from my artery at the elbow right into my heart. That was in for a few months until it got infected (if you've seen Requiem for a Dream ... ya, like that). The rest of my arms over the veins are covered in little i.v. scars, but they're starting to fade.

My dad's got some good ones ... multiple surgeries ... knife wounds, accidents. My mom's got a dent in her shin from a car accident - a bucket that was sitting between her legs crushed part of her shin bone.

... and my sister had her big toenails ripped out. No, seriously - they don't grow back.

- eyefloater

this thread ROCKS!

(jk I am about to puke.)

which reminds me. I have a pretty sweet hole in my shoulder where I had a rock stuck in it. Not my biggest scar, but I am always surprised when I see it. The concussion erased all memory of how it happened, but I am pretty sure it involved a bicycle.

Am I the only one that has a couple sprocket wounds on the back of his right calf? (aka reasons for me to love single speed #578 and #579, or 578-590 if you count each gear-tooth wound individually). I got those when I was pretty young, if I had to pick a "favorite" sort of wound, puncture wounds would be it. No stitches, no pain, no blood.

no, you're not the only one. on a geared bike, i was riding on the smaller inside chainring one night and a little inebriated...when i got off my bike, i noticed my leg was bleeding. when i cleaned it up, i realized i'd been impaled in the back of my leg by the outer chainring.

yeah, i hear you on that one.

i have a couple of small, msyterious scars on my left hand. no idea where they came from. it just looks like a couple drops of acid rain hit my hand or something. those are my only scars. i also have a chipped tooth. i'm just glad the wrecks that messed my face up for a couple weeks each didn't leave scars on my face.

http://sultanik.com/hostedpictures/CutFinger.jpg

That's my left index finger. The scar is hard to see now; it's been almost 10 years. Cut through the bone with a bowie knife. Luckily, I missed the joint by a couple millimeters. I have no loss of functionality, other than some nerve damage. I used to be able to hold the finger over a candle indefinitely, but since I've regained some nerve function.

These days I just blame the scar on a drivetrain accident ;)

man, some of these pics remind me of death metal album artwork. is there a ss/fg goregrind band in the making?

hmmmmm.....looks like they also had a chest tube or two, and some lung surgery done; or they had to approach part of his spinal stuff more anteriorly maybe. ;) hee.

scars all over my legs/arms from off road riding and getting whipped by branches. me tan is a funny sight, as i have all these scars that don't tan. lots of little burns on my hands. some suture lines on the underside of my chin (8) and lover lip. matching on my knees and elbows from laying bikes down offroad. some road rash lines on my hips and sides of my calves. one long one on the underside of my left arm - play/fighting with one of the cats as a kid; her claw gut sort of stuck, and dragged a nice furrow into me. nasty weal on top of my right foot from a seatpost break - tossed me off the back of the bike and that foot somehow went into the rear wheel while i was wearing teva sandles. a few half round drag scars from downhilling at keystone two summers back; bike broke at top and down tube, and the ends nailed my chest. scarred up even though i was wearing a full chest pad. none really warrant pics; a few big long ones, but most are small. i just have alot of them.

and the best for last!

human bite marks on my right wrist. from a patient that went a little wackjob one night. hand was numb for about 6 months; the guy had crunched down on my radial nerve a bit too much......

bike broke at top and down tube, and the ends nailed my chest.

why does that sound like the most painful one of all?

When I was first getting into biking and knew nothing of bikes, I bought an old used one that wasn't in good shape but I thought would get me from A to B. Anyway, I was riding home one day and all of a sudden I wake up on the ground with a bus driver talking Swedish to me (I was on an exchange in Sweden). I looked over at my bike and noticed it on two pieces. The front fork snapped right off just below the headset and I ended up doing a complete face plant into a paved trail. I didn't even have time to put my hands down. Other than my face, the only part that had any injury was my shoulder with a small amount of road burn.

I was taken to the hospital where I ended up spending 3 hours in surgery to clean the gravel chunks out and sew my face up. I ended up getting 65 stitches in total. I have a scar that goes from the side of my right eye to my ear that was taken down to the skull, another scar going perpendicular to that going from my eyebrow on my right eye down to about half way down my cheek. I also got some stitches to reattach half of my ear and then a few other little spots on my face. On a positive note, no broken bones or concussion. I am glad I drink a lot of milk after that accident.

I also have two other minor scars, one from a incident with my brother and a garden hoe when i was three (on the left temple) and another from a car accident where they had to sew part of my scalp back on at the top of my head.

I now only need 15 more stitches to make it to 100 in my head. I haven't had a single stitch or any injury other than my head (knock on wood).

Some of these other stories are just gruesome. Yikes.

I've got some fun road burn marks on my shoulder, hands, and arms from an incident where some drunk frat boys rear ended me while i was riding home at bout 3 in the morn....

Truck full of fratys + me unsuspectantly riding home thinking people are mostly nice and good = clipped rear wheel leading to random burns all over. funfun.

Still have never found that truck in any frat parking lot. it was the fraternity Sig Ep though. Through personal investigation i heard that they were bragging about the incident. I still to this day maintain that if i ever meet them or there car it will be..

Me angry + U-Lock+ Bragging fellas = Lots of blood and new scars...

why does that sound like the most painful one of all?


oh it was, it was. it also *was* a custom curtlo Mountaineer. my one and olny custom i've ever had. cest la vie.

oh it was, it was. it also *was* a custom curtlo Mountaineer. my one and olny custom i've ever had. cest la vie.

agh! so there's your pain, that's healed, and the pain of...well, the custom bike that won't heal.

agh! so there's your pain, that's healed, and the pain of...well, the custom bike that won't heal.


well, it served a good life, and well at that. replaced with something a bit burlier. ahem. that i actually like the ride of more than the dearly departed.

We've pretty much all seen it by this point, but certainly my most visually interesting.

http://static.flickr.com/29/48530053_e6b0cd34c4.jpg

Keep your hands and feet inside the bus at all times. I've also got one on my retina where I shot my eye out with a BB gun. Actually, it was a pellet rifle. I had such deadly accurate aim that the pellet hit my target and flew straight back and into my eye. My now messed up vision also ruined my dead eye aim that was the cause.

On top of the hemorhhaging into the globe of the eye which was unpleasant enough, when all was said and done, I had to have the retina laser welded back onto my eyeball and still have a hole in it that I can see under the right conditions.

OMFG.... Did you not get the tip sewn back on...

Don't lie.. that icicle got you good...


We've pretty much all seen it by this point, but certainly my most visually interesting.

http://static.flickr.com/29/48530053_e6b0cd34c4.jpg

Keep your hands and feet inside the bus at all times. I've also got one on my retina where I shot my eye out with a BB gun. Actually, it was a pellet rifle. I had such deadly accurate aim that the pellet hit my target and flew straight back and into my eye. My now messed up vision also ruined my dead eye aim that was the cause.

On top of the hemorhhaging into the globe of the eye which was unpleasant enough, when all was said and done, I had to have the retina laser welded back onto my eyeball and still have a hole in it that I can see under the right conditions.

I got those when I was pretty young, if I had to pick a "favorite" sort of wound, puncture wounds would be it. No stitches, no pain, no blood.

yeah, but on the flip side of things, greater liklihood of subcutaneous infections.

due to a mishap involving a fence and a flimsy pair of shoes i got a puncture wound in the bottom of each foot a few years ago--each one all the way up to the bone. to ward off infection they had to put me on Cipro for ten days so that i wouldn't lose my feet.

Cipro completely ate everything that felt good about having a body. it's like nausea, except of your whole body, not just your tummy.

Actually my cover story on the BB gun was I was flipping a pencil and whacked myself in the eye.

As for the finger, you know, watch all your bits when working on a track drivetrain. I didn't quite take off enough to be able to reattach it.

http://static.flickr.com/26/43349609_bf4ff11b84.jpg

Theres a slightly longer scar on the underside of my arm for the other bone. Happened while riding down Haight St in San Francisco, another bicyclist cut me off and stopped about 7 feet infront of me while I'm going full speed. I went flying, and broke my forearm in 3 places.

ew. ew ew ew. you guys are all shredded up. gross. good work!

this is the best i have to offer. a girl hit my back wheel from the side (while running a red) and i fell right on my head.

I have a 6-inch long scar on my left shoulder that I got from falling in the shower. It hardly bled at all, didn't even need a band-aid, but is still there to this day. I like to tell people I got it from a drunk with a broken bottle when I was working as a bouncer at a jazz club in Worcester.

Jazz clubs are so mellow they often hire 5'10" 140 lb college kids as bouncers.

I've got a 2 inch scar across the bottom of my chin (not visible
under beard) from sliding up 161st st in queens.
Have a nice 1 inch scar down my middle finger where a piece
of torn metal tubing got pulled outta my hand (don't ask, 17 and stupid).

Still have never found that truck in any frat parking lot. it was the fraternity Sig Ep though. Through personal investigation i heard that they were bragging about the incident.
+1
I've had a few run-ins w/ Sig Eps too. They're pretty mighty when they outnumber you 5 to 1. Mighty enough to cheap shot you. Not so mighty when it's 1 on 1 or you're armed with a crazy pipe swinging Spaniard.

I've got a small scar on my right wrist from broken bottle during a street fight. The bottle wielder has a scar on the back of his head where he landed when I threw him on the ground after he cut me w/ the bottle. Believe it or not, I was 6 at the time.

Right across the end of my chin. It involved beer and a bike (loooong time ago). I was skidding around on a wet lawn outside a Mormon Church, and caught the rear wheel in full slide against a sprinkler head. I launched, and broke my fall by landing chin-first on another sprinkler. Only a flesh wound, but it felt like i broke my jaw for a few days.

Scar inside the left elbow is from a motorbike crash. I had bits of sand and gravel coming out of that puppy every now and again for, like, five years.

hands: many on each hand from fights, one on my left palm from getting snagged on the top of a chain link fence, one on left pinky from a broken bottle...
head: forehead, half under the hairline from a fight, a few small ones around my eyes from refusing to wear goggles when i spent four days cutting steel a few years ago, under my chin from skating way back when...
legs: three on my right knee from surgery, two small and barely noticable, one big and gross cuz it got infected, big one on the back of my right knee from trying to get into a house thru a broken window when i was younger... up until a couple years ago i still had the sock i was wearing the day i did that, which was entirely covered in blood and stiff as a board...
there's probably more i can't think of...
i'm a mess...

damn you guys.
I went korean barbeque last night and came home to log onto BF and after looking at the hand w/ a missing finger, I ran off to the bathroom and barfed spicy tofu outta my nose.
(I also barfed cause I lost the last rounds of bets and had to finish the 4 extra dishes of spicy tofu)
I think many of you guys should be LONG dead by now.
ya freaks!

uuuugg.....uuuuuuugghh.........b-b-b-b-b-b-b-barrrrrfff!~

Five "fake" teeth and a scar above my lip.
All of which happened in various accidents involving curbs in my early 20's.
I guess I hadn't mastered the art of drinking and riding yet.
Don't know what hurt the most...The falls, visits to the dentist, or the bills.

my webcam is a joke so i won't bother taking pictures, but i have two scars running the length of my left forearm, with staple marks. the second time i broke my arm skateboarding (doing bull**** tricks and just falling down-- no cool story) when i was 15 (nov 1999) i shatter both the bones; they were broken in pieces. so they had to cut me open and line up plates along both bones and connect them with something like 13 screws each. the scars are pretty sweet and people ask me about them all the time. the plates are still in my arm. i wish i had a copy of the x-ray... it was badass.

i hope to not gain any bicycling scars.

ps: that was the day i officially quit skateboarding. i am a wuss like that. though i imagine if i fall off my bike and am still able to ride, i won't quit. this is too amazing of a thing happening to my life right now to ever give up on it. i think it's safe to say i'm in for the long haul.

i hope to not gain any bicycling scars.



you probably will. not drinking and riding will greatly reduce your chances of that....but who actually refrains from doing that? drinking and walking? lame. drinking and driving? beyond lame. even while riding sober, i'd expect to get hurt sometime.

I have a fist sized scar where a bunch of skin got torn off on my left calf. I was finishing up a longish ride with a stop the Fullerton beach boathouse, didn't pay attention and ended up trapping my calf between the concrete ledge and the bike. The hair and skin sticking to the ledge was dramatic, but it didn't hurt that much. I lost the first layer or three of skin and the scar is a nice dark pink color.

That mother****er leaked plasma under the bandage for weeks. I remember changing the dressing at work and having my sock full of crap.