David13

There was another thread about broke bike parts.
But in 50 years of biking (I'm 59) I only once broke one thing, a small triangular chip off my front tooth. And some nice scrapes on the face, and knees. Nice little over the handlebars. But the bike was fine.
Bike parts? None, really.
And I got my tooth fixed real quick.
So if this is the purple heart section, I probably don't even qualify.
I suppose if you are an urban combat cyclist, you have some broken bone stories.
I don't know if I have been lucky, or just knew what to look out for an avoid.
Any other stories?
dc

Ka_Jun

Cellulitis from a deep shin gash after attempting to clean a 3 ft wood ramp feature. ER visit & subsequent 4 days in the hospital on antibiotic drip.

Cuts all over (shins, forearms, chin), hematoma on the shins, swollen knees, trail rash on the palms of my hands. Bruises all over. Pulled muscles. Relatively minor, all things considered. I ride XC and commute, if that puts the injuries into some kind of context.

OP, you'd better hope the Freeride/Downhill folks don't stumble across this thread. You'll see some truly horrifying injuries. I saw one posted the other day where the guy's lip was all torn & bloody.

cyccommute 

Various road rashes. Pulled hamstring after riding through the local skate park in the snow and not knowing that the surface was coated...very slick

Bent my head a couple of times. Once when I let go of a grip during a jump...bad idea It's the only time I've ever been knocked out in any crash. Also did a Lougainis dismount (half somersault around my helmet with a full layout) at about 30 mph (the broken fork)

Worst was the self-induced surgery on my knee when I hit the side of a left turning car. Have about a 12" scar on my knee and no feeling in that knee because I severed the nerve. Very ugly.

Funniest noninjury accident was while mountain biking along Cherry Creek in Denver. I mistimed a dodge around a tree, hit my bar directly on the tree and was knocked off into the creek...about 4 feet below into 4 feet of water. Did I mention that it was March? And that I hit flat on my back, went completely under and came back up gasping for breath? Or that it was about 45 F? Or that a March of Dimes walk-a-thon was going by on the pave bike trail above the creek?

When I jumped out of the water with a huge gasp, a lady walking in the event looked at me and said "Did he mean to do that?". Seriously.

JoelS

Most of my injuries are non cycling related.

Cycling:
- Just road rash, some really bad, mostly when I was a kid racing BMX

From rock climbing:
- 9 broken fingers, multiple bones in most fingers.
- Arthritis in hands
- A shoulder that likes to dislocate
- Nerve damage in shoulders
- Broken foot/ankle
- 2 broken hips

From skiing:
- Lost 2 front top teeth
- Destroyed knees, both, major meniscus damage

From Snowboarding:
- Concussion, following which I bought a helmet

rbrian

The usual cuts and bruises that you expect from mountain biking, and I broke one of the bones in my left forearm - I can never remember if it was the radius or the ulna - in two places, a chip out of each end of the bone. I did the biggest jump I'd ever done, a good 6' up, and landed on my handlebars. I had to have a cast AND a sling for the next six weeks, and when the cast was removed I found they'd replaced my arm with some shrivelled hairy thing, less than half the thickness, and twice as hairy, as the other arm. I think they stole it from a baby chimpanzee, but I'm not sure. When the sling was finally taken away, and I gingerly straightened my weak and fragile arm for the first time in six weeks, it cracked loudly. For a moment I thought I'd broken it again, but it was just the same thing you get with knuckles.

Freewheeler

Tibia & fibula in my right leg & both front teeth when a Land Rover side swiped me 18 years ago.




It bent the frame on my under a year old Marin Pine Mountain.

JohnDThompson 

A couple ribs and a punctured lung after a crash.

Yan 

Lots of wounds on my shin and knee. Scrapped palms. Deep chainring cut on my right calf. Chip on my front tooth from running into a car (too small to repair). Nothing noteworthy really.

dcrowell

No broken bones in my life (yet)

I've had cuts and scrapes, and road-rash when I was young. I've probably hurt myself working on the bike more often than riding it. Hey, pedals can be hard to remove if they are over-tightened.

joe_5700

I guess I have been lucky and the only thing I have ever broken was my skin. I took a nasty spill years ago going down a hill and took a sharp turn in my neighborhood where my neighbor had overwatered his lawn. I dumped the bike and slid at an angle across the street on my hands, knees, hips and elbows and slammed into a storm sewer. My bikes cranks were bent into the frame. What made it worse was I had football tryouts the very next day.

Wino Ryder

Took my fair share of knocks when I was a kid. Bad road rash when I was 12 riding back home on my 'buzz bike' with an armload of groceries for mom. My brother (on his buzz bike) was weaving back and forth "Glory Stompers style", got too close, and hung his left pedal into my front spokes. Ripped out about half of 'em. I went down hard, skidding across the pavement on my face, right shoulder and arm, groceries flying all over the highway. Bad crash. Got banged up pretty good and was crying, but no broke bones.


My brother's response?


"uh..sorry man"

frankenmike 

Right collarbone from jumping and landing horribly, left radius which now has a titanium plate and six screws(I am cyborg). BTW rbrian, the radius is on the thumb side of the arm.

cyccommute 

Either you aren't trying hard enough or you are expecting me to take up the slack

Right arm
Right ankle and right fibula
Right fibula about 20 years later above plate (stress fracture)
Two ribs right side
Tail bone - 3 or 4 times


It's time for you to step up and do your share in supporting your local osteopath. I'm tired of carrying the water of all those "No broken bones in my life" people! Break something, damn it or I'll break it for you

dcrowell

I've been cycling less than a year... give me time.

Bob N.

Rib, didn't get it checked 'cause what are you gonna do about it....over the handlebars...dumb

cyccommute 

None of those were cycling related

Buddha4

non bike:
broken hip from getting hit by red light runner
broken wrist from snomobile wreck
broken collarbone from 3-wheeler wreck
broken collarbone- football
fractured cocyx-bad airborne landing
hairline fractures (both shins) another bad airborne landing
13 staples to the head -mototrcycle wreck

LWaB

Separate cycling crashes:
Left tib/fib, right femur, both ankles, left wrist, left knee, left shoulder - squashed by car
Left femur - MTB
Left wrist - pothole

I don't count scars or road rash.

Nermal

Single cycling accident: Fractured pelvis, one collar bone, two ribs. Oddly, no damage to the bike.

Damn, did I save lots of money by commuting, or not?

John1992

Collar bone, Shoulder joint all torn up - missing 25% on the joint bone, Nerve damage in my arm, which has half of my hand numb all the time. and my wallet but that is self induced.

Patriot

I broke a nail once.

JonnyHK 

Broken toe. Long jumping at school athletics meet.

SambaMixte

Greensticked my arm while riding a bike while eating tapioca from a bowl. (very young!)
Shoulder separation, back injury-Rugby
Numerous scars from pointy sharp instruments and 1 chainsaw
Concussion from a non-signaled right turning truck vs me on bicycle.
Dislocated pinkie toe high jumping.
Permanently disfigured 'cankles' from football.

mikewille

Left knee cartilage damage from a mountain bike/snowbank incident.
Hyperextension+twist=loud noise and crutches.

Wino Ryder

WOW that sucks! Did it hurt much? Did you break it down to the quick?

What were you doing for god's sake. Thats terrible!!