I want to start wearing an athletic cup when I ride...

[JoeyMac]

...after reading this article (warning, just reading this made me cringe in imagined agony!)

http://www.rockhillbikes.com/cyclist-has-testicles-ripped-off-during-crash-into-bush

[bmclaughlin807]

Ouch. :eek:

[ken cummings]

Several times I have ridden with an athletic supporter AKA dance belt. Maybe a bit less irritating then a cup but not by much and not to be repeated too often. Groan once then write the story off as a freak accident. I had a fully faired recumbent once with a built-in roll-cage. Get one of those. Steve Delaire had a monocoque recumbent made of sheet metal. Looked like a tank. Maybe try that?

[pirate]

I saw the headline and immediately closed the browser tab. Don't even want to think about that.

[ralph12]

Awful. D:

That photo is in bad taste...

[bikebuddha]

And people wonder why I ride so slow....

[tehdely]

When I was probably 8 years old or so, I crashed my little red bike in our backyard and smacked my nuts right on a fence post. The pain and bleeding was so traumatic for me at the time that I put down the bike and never rode again until I was 22 and just plain fed up with the pitiful state of public transit. Funny what we'll do.

I still regret that I didn't just grin and bear it and get back on. I could have had an enjoyable 14 years of cycling that I never did.

[Hickeydog]

ow!!!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

[dobber]

Some 30+ years ago I jumped my "modified" Schwinn off a curb. In this case, modified meant substituting the normal wheel size with something substantially smaller, maybe adding some nice gorilla hanger bars. Usually done on garage beaters or throw aways we'd found. Kind of predecessors to the modern MTB.

Anywho, chainring snags the curb. Gooseneck stem snaps off, the remnant of which ripped through the inside of my thigh, inches from the crucial daddy parts.

Took more than a 100 stitches to close it up.