Your Worst Crash

mysrh

Just want to share my recent bike crash, happened 1 week before easter. I had broken wrist, concussion and made in induced comma, also put in breathing machine, I don't remember anything until now what had happened, I only know from what the witnesses have been telling me. So it's a good thing, because I don't feel any trauma.

You'd better see the video, It's really a painful way just to get on news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckeZ-wHZc4c

Galley22

My old high school cross country coach was involved in a horrific accident at the end of a bike race during the 'dead sprint'. Two cyclists crashed in front of him and he had no where to go, ended up going head or bars and right on his neck. The crash fractured his C3 and C4 vertabrae and he is paralyzed from the shoulders down. This happened in early June so he has been in hardcore rehab for the past couple of months. Some good news though, it was discovered that the crash did not destroy any part in his spine so there is still a glimmer of hope he may be able to take care of himself in the future; they also were sending electric shocks through his biceps and one of them started pulsating with each shock. This guy is a great coach, a middle school teacher and incredible teammate.

If you want to see a blog of his recovery phase, than visit the site below
http://www.morristrucking.com/race/race.html

jagler

just experienced my first crash today since I've only been riding for a couple of weeks, so I guess it's my worst.
I was going about 35-40 mph down a hill, approached a curve and a car came around the corner. I was riding towards the middle of the road and had to swerve over so I wasn't too close to the car and take a chance of hitting it. I lost control trying to get over (going that fast it's kinda hard to make any sudden movements) and skidding off the road onto gravel and crashed into some bushes. My bike seat got snapped off in process and the sharp edge that resulted from it snapping off cut up my leg pretty bad.
I was lucky with what happened. I thought it was going to much worse than that.

I couldn't even find my bike seat (it was useless even if I did find it) and had to ride 15 miles back home standing up.

cyclingheroes

The worst crah was over 20 years ago, i had a serious head injury and it took me almost 2 years to recover. I was flying about 10 meters (riding on a descent) and landed on my head. My speed was too high on the descent.. or the curve was to sharp... Ofcourse i didn't wear a helmet, i started to wear helmets about 3 years ago after another crash which wasn't really bad but it reminded me....

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craigdurkee

fell of last night got caught in the tram tracks in melbourne


went ass over tits and broken my ffront and rear lights

and my legs kill

craig

ryanspeer

After years and years of cycling I've actually never had any real brushes with death or even bad physical pain. A buddy of mine that I used to MTB with encountered it often though. We used to ride HARD on some local trails. We'd ridden one particular trail so many times that we knew the perfect line through every corner of the entire mile-long length. The first half mile had an elevation drop of about 350-400 feet, which we both loved. There were often hikers on the trail, but this particular day left the parking lot near-empty. Fortunately, even if there were people on the trail it was open enough that you could see reasonably far ahead of you so that you wouldn't surprise anybody. Anyways, we saw the empty parking lot and started bombing down the trail, my buddy Kevin riding in front. He took one not-too-sharp turn but didn't quite pull up enough on his front tire to make it over a partially-submerged water-diversion log. His front tire glanced off of it at an angle while he was doing probably 25-30 mph, which sent him crashing to the ground and his bike doing multiple flip after flip after flip in the air between bouncing off the ground and doing more flips. He did probably 4-6 summersaults into the bushes himself, ending up probably 30+ feet away and got up holding his shoulder and groaning/moaning really loudly. I was concerned he'd broken his shoulder or collarbone, which he didn't, but only then did we turn around and see the kindergarden/1st grade teacher with her class out on a nature walk with every one of the kids standing there with their jaws on the trail and eyes the size of dinner plates staring at us! We had some good laughs about it later, but that was one long and agonizing ride home for Kevin . . .

HenryLaRoy

I was out on a club ride. We went up a big hill and turned down a sidestreet to begin the descent. Everyone took off like rockets, but I was hanging back being a timid descender. As I started to feather the brakes, I lost control. Evidently the front brakes grabbed and the rear brakes did not. Why? I still don't know. Perhaps the rear tire went flat, or maybe there was some other issue. All I know is that the back of the bike started to wag back and forth as I struggled to keep control. Just then, I saw a tree.

The next thing I remember is that I was carried out of the woods on a stretcher. I was just discharged from the hospital after 6 wks in rehab. I have some good movement in the right leg and the left is starting to respond. No one can say whether I will walk again, but I have a lot of faith and hope.

Wear a helmet. I was. If what happened to my back happened to my head, I don't know what would have happened.

friedmikey

Told my group of guides off for overlapping wheels, then proceeded to overlap wheels and tip over at 1 mph, breaking my brand new carbon bars.

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Yojimbo_

Just bumping this up ......

mopar

My worst crash hasn't been any that bad. I don't remember most of it though. I hit my head on the ground (wearing a helmet) and had a minor concussion, I knew it was because I was sick to my stomach when I got up. It sucked. I had to quit the club race we were doing and I finished 24th of 25. The crash took out one other rider, and I was positioned ahead of him on the ground, so that's how we finished.

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cader

my worst crash isn't aas bad as what sone of you have experinced but i was doin off road on bike and i sort of crashed into a tree and then me leg was stuck in the bike and it continued sliding we were about a metre from a sheer drop and the bike came to halt i was $hitten (hope that was alright to say it that way ) myself and when i stopped i was like pheww i had to go to hospital for fractured shin but that was it. I was with my bro and he was laughing his head off and now when he looks back he nows it was wrong to laugh.

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dougadam

I was riding in a parking lot. And I was hit hard from the side. I broke her grill and but a big dent in her fender, and I think her head light was broke.

But I was fine

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mopar

Funny.

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Cycler6n

I've never fallen on my road bike, believe it or not, but before I got the road bike, I rode a mountain bike. One day a car was coming my way, and I had the brilliant idea that my mountain bike could hop a curb. I tried to but fell over the curb, on my face. I couldn't bare to see the people laughing at me, so I stayed in the position I had fallen in till it passed. I felt so stupid!