MTB injuries...

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Many.....Many.....Many endos....face plants.... but the two most memorable....uummm... painful)

1) Fairly new to MTBing.... Finally got convinced to put on clipless pedals. Was goofing off in front of the house while the guys were loading up the truck to go for our Saturday morning ride. Pulled a wheelie....... F:censor:ing feet do NOT come off pedals because of clipless pedals.... Land flat on ass and back in the middle of the street with my feet straight up in the air, still clipped into the pedals with the bike in the air....in front of all my riding buddies....

2) Last Jump I ever did on purpose.... Went over a jump and landed in a huge rut. Bike and me went straight down on my right side. I landed directly on my right ass cheek and scraped my arm bad.... I knew immediately that if I didn't get off the mountain quickly that I wasn't going to make it. Nothing broken from what I could telll. My right ass cheek was completely black and blue... and I mean completely... I could not sit in a chair or ride in a car. The 27 mile commute on Monday was a complete bitch. About three weeks later I was still hurting and the back of my knee was hurting, I went to the Dr. and he said that it was Blunt force trauma and my knee hurt because of all the blood pooled up behind it...... huh???? I looked at the back of my knee and there was a huge blue pool of blood on the top and bottom of the crease at the back of my knee. He said there was so much blood from the fall that it ran down the outside of my blood vessels and pooled up around my knee.... How I didn't break anything I will never know.....

Been lucky on the many miles of road riding... so far... knock on wood...haven't met pavement yet.....
Sorry for the long story..
 
I rode in to work this morning: floor exercises, body lifts at a playground, and ten miles with a some easy curb hops. Now my back is wrenched, hurts every time I stand up, wtf? I used to roll down cliffs without feeling this bad! When did I get this frickin' old??? :crybaby:
 
i have had two concussions, stitches in my forehead, picked gravel out of my cheek, cracked my knee cap and had a compound fracture on my right wrist. Biking sure was fun though.
 
I finally took myself out on the road bike. This is my first year on the road bike and I've logged almost 1900 miles so far. In those miles I've had some close calls with different sized vehicles, potholes and animals. But what finally took me down was sand!

On Thursday I went out for a lunchtime ride. A really quick 10 mile route because I didn't want to run. About 4.5 miles into the ride I glimpse at the computer to check my speed before entering a turn. 22 MPH. I look up and start leaning into the right hand turn, and then I noticed the road had a nice covering of sand. It was too late. The front wheel had already washed out. I threw my hands out in anticipation of the fall. I hit palms out and with my right knee. Not sure how far I slid but I have road rash from my shin all the way up to my armpit, my forearm and palms. Good news is my head never hit. It was a slow ride back, and luckily my company has a medical facility. I had a pleasant time scrubbing the rash to get the sand out and cursed the gloves I had left in my locker.
 
My buddy and I where bombing down Downieville about a month ago. We left the trail head about 10 am and where supposed to take the shuttle back up at 2 pm. We where about 1/4 of the way down and my buddy crashed pretty good. His rear brake lever broke and he hurt his pinky finger pretty bad.

So now he has one brake but it is the front. We are 5 thousand feet up in the middle of no where. I end up changing out the levers so he can use his rear brake. My bud makes it down the mountain in pretty good time and we continue camping for another day with no more riding. We fish all the next day and go home. He goes to the doctor a few days later and finds out his finger is broken bad!

Going down that trail with two good hands is hard I couldn't imagine a broken finger and one brake!
 
Torn ACL and stiched up miniscus... a year ago....back in the saddle now !!!
 
Did a lot of riding this season and had some pretty good spills. The worst took place outside of Avon. Launched the second jump 30 some feet into the face of the third (going a little to fast). I made a sweet S bend in my crossmax sx front wheel, cracked my helmet up the middle from my forehead to my ear then down, broke the tip of my middle finger, knocked the wind out of me, and my shoulders were both sore for like a week. Probably the hardest impact I have ever been involved in, car wrecks included.

My favorite wreck of all time was in college. I was coming back from campus which is on top of a really big hill. I would normally take the corner at the top of the hill above 20mph, shift to the highest gear and hit 40-45 mph on my speedo before grabbing the brakes and diving into the ally that backed up to my place. Well one day the street was a little damp and when I grabbed my brakes the bike instantly washed out. I just remember trying to keep spinning and tumbling for a long time. Somehow I was able to get back on my feet and slid on my cleats for a while. I was lucky I was able to stop before the next street. I had tumbled and slid about a half a block. I gathered my bike up which was only like 6-7 feet from the next street and walked it home. There was a guy sitting on a porch in the perfect spot to see the whole thing. I walk right past him and into the ally and he didn't say a word. So I yelled "yeah I am ok" as I got into the ally way. Lucky for the the wet street I didn't do hardly any damage just a scrap on my ankle and one on my elbow. It did grind through a carbon bar end. Keep on pedaling.
 
I've had a few bad wipe outs since I started the sport. I've chipped my knee cap in one accident, but didn't bother with the doctor and last summer I hit some rocks while screaming down a single track. The impact hurtled me airbound, upside down, still attached to the pedals. I landed on the rocks on my back, with the bike on top of me. I was able to extricate myself and consider myself to be lucky I'm not in a wheel chair. I know I banged up two vertabre(?) as they were stiff for weeks and I had some type of fracture on one of the bones in my hand. My hand was sore for a long time. That wreck kept me off the bike for a couple of weeks, although I did spin in the gym until I got my confidence back for the woods.

This year, I have not had a single wipe out and I have at least tripled my ride time in the woods. I'm sure I've had a better year once I switched to the Rocky Mountain Element. Dual suspension takes out the rough hits and brings some extra control.
 
Over ten years of ridding and my worst was broken ribs, in emergency getting dirt scrubbed out of my head was not much fun, prior to helmet laws and plain common sense.

One time on a ladder 5 feet high on a down hill my front tire slid out so fast I did not have a chance to think and went prolly 9 feet too my head and walked away without even a sore neck. My buddys were yelling not to move as they thought for sure I broke my neck.

On a trail called the Hit Man, I ate poo on a technical down hill, so steep and slick it was not even walkable.
 
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