[Closed] Strangest biking injury

i got some spots under my helmet strap once

I was up near kinder right on the top of the moors and there was a girl in a bikin, I couldnt belive it or take my eyes of her, not something you see every day, well I should have taken my eyes of her because next news head first over the bars and grazed all my face, I looked a right nob / perv

I never heard the last of it from my mates who were behind me

I think I might win...
I caught my handlebars on a gatepost, the bike stopped, I didn't. My 'family jewels' slammed into the back edge of my stem, right in the middle of my 'twig'. I shouted in pain quite a bit!
Minutes later while drinking a cup of tea, I felt a damp patch in the front of my shorts. I had a look - blood! Coming out of my japs eye!
It did heal up and everything still worked (tested it later...) but it was a bit scary at the time!

My old house mate went riding with a group of his mates in South Wales. One of them had a serious accident and was rushed off to hospital in a helicoptor with broken ribs, a punctured lung and various other injuries. The doctors had to operate on him and discovered what amounted to be a partially formed person (twin) in his chest cavity. He never knew it was there in the first place. Mental!

my son did a jump on his bmx, landed it wrong landing on the front wheel.
he landed on the crossbar and slid forward onto the cable guide.
split his scrotum and had to have surgery to tuck his nads back in nice and tidy.

Brilliant guys I'm impressed my ear injury fades into insignificance. it's wrong to laugh at others misfortune but he he he

I broke a fingernail once.. That was REALLY bad.

[i]discovered what amounted to be a partially formed person (twin) in his chest cavity.[/i]

Oooh, a parasitic twin, that's unusual.

I felt the end of my handlebar go under my ribs on Sunday.

Oooh, a parasitic twin, that's unusual.

My mates nephew landed on his handlebar and split his liver nearly in two.

I broke a finger in the car park at Glentress, tightening up the rotary dial on a Thule 591 bike rack.

had to have surgery to tuck his nads back in nice and tidy

Grim.

pburgess81 - Member
...The doctors had to operate on him and discovered what amounted to be a partially formed person (twin) in his chest cavity...

Was your mate a one time famous bike racer?

I pushed fat back into PimpmasterJazz after he put a hole in his side with a BMX brake lever (knobbley ended type, punctured his body cavity I think), falling off it riding the clunker classic.

Good job because my rod brakes had started to fail and I was far to drunk to see the trail anymore. Bl00dy tequila at lunch-time.

i suppose the handle bar that ripped a 90degree hole 7"by7" in my thigh was-is quite a weird one,week and a half in hospital 😕

How long have you got?

Read 'The Hard Way to Become a Poet' in issue 23 for the edited highlights

Had a trip over the bars recently. Face brake sort. Scarred face, right arm, right hand, chest/stomach, both knees.

It is my left shoulder that is still shafted 2 months later even though it was the only part to not make contact with the ground.

I heard a story about a degloved penis at glentress once.

I came off on The Road of Death in Bolivia managed to break my arm, dislocate shoulder and stab myself in the leg with the brake lever but came to stop literally on the edge of a 90metre drop looking down at a bus that had previously gone over.

Then had to have surgery at 4000m above sea level with loads of morphine had some very strange dreams!

Biggest mistake was admitting at Heathrow customs that I was flying from Bolivia and admitting that someone else had packed my bag, spent a while being searched.

I was road cycling once years ago - long fast descent.

A small bird, sparrow or similar, flew into my chest. Bird was killed instantly, lots of red stuff.

Very painful bruise to chest and a bit freaked out.

Sounds like bs I know, I swear it's true.

the parasitic twins,good name for a band.

Can't beat the parasitic twin, but my teammate was found lying at the side of the track during the last 24hr race. Didn't know who he was, wher he was or what day it was.
Recognised his other teammate but not his girlfriend. Cue some mickey taking...

At GT on Saturday, my mate wouldn't ride a rocky bit. I went down it, fell off, tried again, rode it fine. Told him to stop being a pansy and get on with it.

He went about a foot into it and came off, managing to stub his toe.

He kept complaining his toe was hurting later on.

The next day his toe, and most of the inside of his foot up to below his ankle was black with bruising. No idea why, but whatever he did stubbing his toe caused lots of brusing

@pburgess- was that Shergie?

downshep - Member

I broke a finger in the car park at Glentress, tightening up the rotary dial on a Thule 591 bike rack.

hahahaha - I remember that ! 😆

That's mad Spando!!

I did exactly the same thing last october but the branch snapped off while it was wedged in my ear canal. The force I needed to pull it out was unbelievable. Funnily enough I've just had a checkup at hospital today and I've got most of my hearing back and it's all healed up ok, just the high (8000) frequency I'm missing now. The pain when I did it was probably worse than when I dislocated my shoulder the first time because you can't do anything to help it.

Doing a steep climb in Hanchurch woods in the early 90s the bike came to a stop in the muddy glue. A bit of balancing ensued but then gravity got the better of me. The bike teetered over but the SPDs wouldn't unclip so I ended up in a heap on the floor, still attached to the bike.

What I hadn't spotted was that the TT cable guide had cut out a perfect triangle shaped flap of flesh on my shin down to the bone when the bike keeled over.

Formal H&S "complaint" to Keith Bontrager in Bad News 'zine netted a pair of proto ti bars. Pretty good deal I reckon.

I need to know more about the chest cavity twin!!! Did it have hands? Did it have a face? Did they remove it? What did they do with it? Pictures?!

I'm not writing it all again but I've slipped down a concrete embankment after getting knocked off by a dog and broke off the saddle with my arse. I was penetrated and had to lie on my stomach for a few days before finally going to the hospital to get the bleeding stopped. Nobody there believed how it happened.

I need to know more about the chest cavity twin!!!

You might already know more than you want to - he posts on here, but can you guess who it is?

@Ambrose- was that Shergie and his Parasitic Twin? Yes it was, good guess! He has shown me an awesome scar that goes from top to bottom down his chest! Great guy! What is mental is that he didn't realise he wasn't able to take a full breath due to the mass in his chest until after it was removed! Crazy!

The day I ran myself over...
Flew over bars, tucked and rolled, slid on my back to a stop.
Then a 1989 Raleigh mirage weighing 30+ pounds fell out of sky, rear wheel landing on my chest.
The rear wheel broke some ribs and left a clear tyre print on my chest.
Weeks later I could show my chest to mates and they could name the make and model of tyre.
A tioga Mud dawg if I recall rightly.