What BONES have you BROKE while RIDIN' ? - Page 3

I have never broken a bone cycling, or doing any other activity.

The closest thing was one time that I was riding along a narrow paved trail in the moring, paved road had dew still. I was taking a turn a realized too late that I had taken the WRONG bike (took mtn bike with dirt tires). I ended up taking a spill that should have broke something, but did not. I had sprained my knee in a way that its not supposed to bend. It never really healed right, but if I brace up i can pedal fine as long as I do not deviate from normal pedaling (up and down, not any knee side torsion at all). I guess that I have been lucky.

Dislocated Hip requiring surgery and hip replacement

Almost broke a thumb once but instead...

I was on my old Trek 820, when I was about 16 years old, riding on the street to a friends house when I took a turn too sharp and biffed it. The bike stopped, I flew forward, and natural instinct being the stinker it is, I put both hands out. Only problem was that my right thumb was folded inward on my palm. Cut pretty wide open.

Fast forward 3 weeks, when it was healed over. I bumped it the wrong way and OUCH!! Hey there's something in there. Went to the doctor, and he fished out a shard of glass that had gotten in there. It had healed perfectly without any infection from the glass.

That doesn't even compare to the time I almost broke my right shoulder when some kid tripped me when playing tag football in middle school. 6 weeks in a brace for that one....

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so far none. I hope to keep it that way

Tame in comparison, but the worst I've done is break my elbow. VERY painful and had me off the bike for the best part of 6 months. Other than that just my ego a few times.

OK Organic, we've listed some quite impressive scars here, what is your fracture count?

I broke my collarbone for the second time in a bike accident about 5 years ago. I had to have hardware installed and removed to repair it. I fell again in April and didn't break anything but it had me off work for just over 3 weeks-couldn't raise my arm up and you need your arm to turn a bus wheel! Doh! I think all the working out and taking of soy milk helped me with this one-my bones must be strong to have avoided breaking anything since I crashed sooo hard! Whew!

Recently came of my bike and broke my collar bone - aside from that and a few bumps and bruises nothing too serious.

In high school, I hit a pot hole and broke my elbo.
In 2002, while riding a very familiar area but at a high speed, instead of "bumping" over a curb, I flew ass over teakettle and broke 5 ribs and my clavical. Exactly 8 weeks before my next long distance ride (following my PT's instuctions to the letter, I was able to be back on my bike in time)
Just last Sunday, after getting back from the LifeCycle ride: SF to LA, within 4 blocks from my home in Chicago, I took a hairpin turn on the lakefront bike path and shatered my left hip. Two steel pins later, I have 6 weeks of PT to get better and get back on my bike(s).
It's the place I feel most comfortable~

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Two major crashes. The first I broke my jaw and cracked my skull by riding off a man made cliff and landing on my head without a helmet. The second I broke my cheekbone in three spots by riding into the back of a car.

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fractured my right leg in kindergarten by taking a turn into my friend's blacktop driveway too fast--bike slid out from under me and leg got bent under the framework. my mom ran over after i started screaming and carried me home. she thought it was a bruise and i was over-reacting even though i kept telling her it was broken, so i sat around for an hour, screaming my head off. she put me in the garage because i was so noisy. she calls my dad...he comes home from a golf game...looks at my leg...tells me to stop being a baby...goes back to the golf course. one hour after the spill, she finally takes me to the urgent care center. they x-ray...confirm fracture...wrap it up tight...mom drives me to the hospital. doctor/family-friend does the cast...has to set the leg...it hurts...i punch him...he finishes...i come home. the next day, mom makes me write an apology note. i write it and say something like "dear dr. sadamii, i'm sorry i punched you in the back. but my leg really hurt....." was in a full leg cast for about 6 weeks, then got a smaller local cast on the fracture for another few weeks, and got the cast off on the last day of kindergarten.

in about third grade (i think), i was riding really fast again, took a corner, didn't see the pothole, flew over the handlebars, landing on my right arm, mess up something in there. this time my parents aren't taking any chances. we go to the urgent care center...x-ray...nothing broken, just a very very bad sprain. had to have a sling and splint for a couple weeks.

keeping my fingers crossed--don't really feel like being roadkill

Okay did I scare everyone off or something? lol

hehehe - I just (2 weeks ago) broke my left hip - intertrochanteric fracture, now have a plate and a pin - which gives me balance: it balances out the plate in my right ankle and the three plates in my face (all sustained in a car accident 6 years ago)!

Must say, though, that Pethedine vs. Morphine is like Chalk vs. Cheese.... Morphine is the real deal.... Just a ***** getting off of the stuff........

And the nurses are a devious bloody lot - the moment you ASK for Morphine, they switch you to Pethedine...

Ah well, another 3 weeks and I'm down to 1 crutch, and another 3 after that I'll be riding again.

, and another 3 after that I'll be riding again.

That suck's were you hit by a car,

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You ain't gonna believe this!!!!! My wife has just started cycling, so I booked her on the Beginner's course at Cycle Lab. She was stressing about going on the course, so I figured what the hell, and decided to do the course with her. Who knows, I could learn a hell of a lot, especially as all my cycling was self-taught trial and error kind of stuff, albeit nearly 30 years worth....

Anyway, so we sat through the lectures (picked up some really good stuff), and then they split us into 3 groups for practical. I was really enjoying it, riding round the 'track' (no cars), chatting to Kim Carter (pro cyclist), when I went through a puddle which happened to have a bit of slime at the bottom. Next thing I knew I was ****-facius on the ground with a broken hip.

Out of everybody on that course (lecturers excluded, of course), I probably had the most experience (commuting, etc.) and I was the only one to wipe out. I will probably never know exactly WHY I fell, but at least 70% of the problem was MTB tyres on tar - I was still waiting for my spare rims to be fitted with slicks... I have them now - fat lot of good they're doing staring at me while I write this.... hehe

Andrew McLean and everybody else at Cycle Lab were absolutely superb - within 10 minutes I was in an ambulance on my way to hospital, and Andrew even came to visit me in hospital the next day.

All in all, though, quite embarassing for me.... ((blush))

Full marks to Cycle Lab and especially Andrew - totally professional and top-notch. It's when something like this happens that you appreciate the value of trained professionals who know how to react in an emergency.