botto 

warning: if you're somewhat squeamish - like me - you might not want to see the pic below.

btw - not me.



































chainring meets forearm in a mass crash.

Greg180

For a minute I thought the law of averages caught up with you.

botto 

it did over the summer, but with more superficial results.

classic1

Those 53 chainrings are dangerous bastids IMO. It wouldn't have been as bad if he'd only been buzz-sawed by a 52.

waterrockets 

I wonder how often someone gets tangled in the ring on a track bike in velodrome crashes. That could be bad too. This one looks pretty rough though.

Hocam

I miss the good old days, when things were safer

Jynx

what compels people to post images of wounds on a bike forum?

botto 

1. not my wound.
2. not an open wound.
3. freak incidents deserve special attention.

substructure

A racer in these parts had stitches in his head (between his eyes) from a chain ring that nailed him.

Bob Dopolina 

oh snap?






I don't know. I never get that right.

botto 

apparently.

rruff

I'm missing a rather important hamstring muscle (tendon was cut) due getting run over in a mass pileup in a crit many years ago.

HigherGround

Damn... A few mm in either direction, and that would have been much, much worse.

Many years ago, when helmets were covered by spandex (think Giro ProLight) instead of plastic, we inspected a friend's helmet after a crash in a Juniors race. There were chainring teeth imprints directly across the top of his helmet.

big john

I have a chainring scar on my left calf. Not quite sure how that happened, it was a solo crash.

Kai Winters

Whew brutal injury...

jwible

That's a good one. How long before he got back on the bike? Looks like he's 10 days out from the crash to me.

Sixty Fiver

I have a nice chain ring scar that runs right down the front of my right shin from the bottom of my knee to the top of my foot... the chain ring hit bone all the way down and had I been a little left or right my leg would have looked like that guy's forearm.

This happened while mountain biking and coming down from about ten feet and required the use of all the first aid supplies I had to stop the bleeding.

Then I had to ride back 20 km.

botto 

don't know, but the dude is a hard man: a 50 + racer, who's obsessed with arcane world records, and a cancer survivor on top of it.

Sixty Fiver

botto - that is some truly arcane and awesome stuff.

I am guessing this accident might delay his world record attempt... and that gearing is unbelievable.

botto 

hour attempt is old news.

Flatballer

Since most of the chainring is covered by the chain, wouldn't you have to get into the back of the ring somehow? Or do track rings stick through the chain since they're so tall?

Either way, I have a chainring scar on the back of my calf, from a solo crash, while tooling around a gravel lot before a race.

waterrockets 

Yeah, on the back of the ring, but a finger in there, with a still-spinning wheel, would leave you only able to count to 9 by the time the crank completed its half-revolution.

Flatballer

Oh, yeah, it keeps spinning. Duh. That would suck.

Sixty Fiver

A fixed wheel can be a really dangerous thing at either end as there is nothing to relieve chain tension if something like a finger gets caught and the momentum from the wheel will keep things spinning.

I can still count to ten using my fingers.

Some folks can't.

It ain't pretty.

ccrnnr9

"He’ll be using a bike with a massive 68 x 11 gear and 205 mm cranks"....I don't know what sounds more painful, the scar or that gearing!!!
~Nick