R u tuff?
 

http://msn.foxsports.com/cycling/sto...1911?gt1=39002

that guy is.

i think his legs are NJS, only explanation i can think of

Mother of God thats one hell of a sliver...

Beast and adrenaline mostly....

BAMF is all I have to say

That is hardcore.

I don't get it.



Follow up:

mother**** that hurt me just looking at it.

That's no splinter. That's a wooden spear.

Hey guys, check out my new track bike piercing.

yeah, it's just a new silly hipster trend.

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I passed out from vertigo looking at this.

Just another day at the track...

Don't scare people away.

Wrecks at the track are rare but they get a lot of press. All of bike racing has wrecks (BMX, Alleycats, Road, MTB, CX, etc...).

a splinter in the leg is worth two in the back

...speechless...

I'm definitely giving Vixtor some space on the track ;-)
I've seen worse mountain biking. Odds are you'll get shot on the way to 7-11 before getting a splinter like that on the track

You should bring shin-guards next time, Aaron. :P

I think I'm competent enough on the track to not cause a catastrophe.

Ouch! Did he break the track by any chance? ): Carleton, What are the tracks made of?

Wood, obviously.

Oh good, I thought they where made of adamantium

Lots of tracks are made of some certain Russian hardwood or something like that. It's hard, fast, and doesn't warp easily with temperature and humidity changes.

The splinter was probably exposed by a rider that went down in front of Awang and that rider's pedals, bars, or axle, etc... took a chunk out of the wood exposing the splinter for Awang to slide into. It's (obviously) a freak accident.

Hahaha.

So my partner and I are in the shop taking a break and jawing about injuries... he's 76 and used to race professionally and has logged half a million miles... he has crashed a few times.

Says that he has never broken a bone in his life but has required a few stitches.

So he says... I crashed during a time trial when another rider went down in front of me, after he tried a stupid manouver, and ended up hitting the pavement pretty hard but picked myself up, saw my bike was okay. So I got back on the road and was feeling fine... and I was in the lead.

A few miles or so down the road I look down and see blood all over my leg so pull off and check to see what happened as I can't feel anything wrong and there is nothing to see and then I look at my hand.

Squeamish people should skip the next part...

When I looked at my hand I saw that when I hit the ground during the crash that I had torn the skin and flesh off my fingertips and could see the bone tips on a few of them.

So I asked him what he did...

"I wrapped up my hand with my shirt and kept riding as I was still 20 miles from a hospital".

This happened in the late 50's so there were no cel phones... if something went sideways you would hope that you were close to a farm or could wave someone down.

I can tell you all that the distance from the top of my foot to the bottom of my kneecap measures 18 chain ring teeth... :D

The mtb forum has the best accident footage and tales... this is where I have taken the biggest hits.

...passed out again.

He tells these stories in a very matter of fact way... like the time he opened up his thigh with a cutoff wheel and was amazed that there was no bleeding as it was pretty deep and about 5 inches long.

Said he realized that the heat of the cutoff wheel had also burned through and cauterized the wound so he drove himself to the hospital.

But this was no splinter...

http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/q...0631_0_0-2.jpg

Reminds me of the first time I used a grinder. Burned through a fingertip in a quick second. Learned a lot that day.

Kudos to this guy for hopping back on the saddle and finishing.

...haha got me laughing there. tracks will no longer be made of wood but instead of laminate "wood" xD

The new London velodrome for the 2012 Olympics is made of Siberian Pine.
http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/01/07/...er-first-test/

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...t-velodrome.do