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mattk	21 Apr 14:53
Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 116 Bike: My Profile	Went out on the weekend and my front wheel got wedged in a 4x4 track and my feet were locked in - I went over and my handle bars turned... managed to wind myself by landing on the bar end and now have a nice bruise on my ribs!
My Latest Route: Feb 2010 National Cycle Network 15 NCN

nicola	23 Apr 11:04
Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 17 Bike: My Profile	Sounds painful! A while back I went on a mud trail with a cycling buddy who decided to suddenly stop to ask a 4x4 driver for directions. I had the choice of ploughing into the 4x4, my mate or bailing the bike. I chose to bail but kinda wish I hadn't. My shoes were locked into my pedals and I ended up sandwiching my thigh between the ground and my bike resulting in a ginormous bruise about 20cm diameter that stayed for about 2 weeks, as well as scatches and grazes all down my arm and leg. Ouch indeed!

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Sounds painful!

A while back I went on a mud trail with a cycling buddy who decided to suddenly stop to ask a 4x4 driver for directions. I had the choice of ploughing into the 4x4, my mate or bailing the bike. I chose to bail but kinda wish I hadn't. My shoes were locked into my pedals and I ended up sandwiching my thigh between the ground and my bike resulting in a ginormous bruise about 20cm diameter that stayed for about 2 weeks, as well as scatches and grazes all down my arm and leg. Ouch indeed!

skudupnorth	24 Apr 17:03
Joined: 01 Feb 2009 Posts: 48 Bike: My Profile	All four corners ! Knees and elbows plus palms of hands and one broken collar bone ....cycling is great !

happy	24 Apr 17:21
Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 302 Bike: Orange P7 with Rock Shox, Michelin Wildgripper Lites, XTR Chainset My Profile	@skudupnorth ouch!!! how'd u break your collar bone? happy
My Latest Route: Oct 2010 Livingston to Ayr Avoiding A71

happy	24 Apr 17:31
Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 302 Bike: Orange P7 with Rock Shox, Michelin Wildgripper Lites, XTR Chainset My Profile	@nicola ahh its character building stuff that! doesn't do anyone any harm falling off now and again, unless you break your collar bone :P happy
My Latest Route: Oct 2010 Livingston to Ayr Avoiding A71

skudupnorth	28 Apr 09:27
Joined: 01 Feb 2009 Posts: 48 Bike: My Profile	Hi Happy,airbourne overt the bars !!! Not done that since because you cannot ride afterwards !!!!

mattk	28 Apr 09:33
Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 116 Bike: My Profile	Hi Skudupnorth, Do you mean you can never ride again - surely not...? If not how long do you have to wait for it to heal? Sounds seriously painful!!
My Latest Route: Feb 2010 National Cycle Network 15 NCN

happy	28 Apr 09:34
Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 302 Bike: Orange P7 with Rock Shox, Michelin Wildgripper Lites, XTR Chainset My Profile	@skidupnorth ouch! I've only gone over my bars once as well. Was racing my brother through a forest. He threw more caution to the wind and was a bit away from me. We came up to this blind corner which my brother went round before me. When I got round he was no where to be seen, but across the path was over grown bushes. Assuming he had gone straight through them so did I... Needless to say the bike stopped dead in the bushes and I went for a little fly and tumble down the hill. My brother had some round the corner and decided to sensibly go around it. good times.
My Latest Route: Oct 2010 Livingston to Ayr Avoiding A71

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@skidupnorth ouch!

I've only gone over my bars once as well. Was racing my brother through a forest. He threw more caution to the wind and was a bit away from me. We came up to this blind corner which my brother went round before me. When I got round he was no where to be seen, but across the path was over grown bushes. Assuming he had gone straight through them so did I...

Needless to say the bike stopped dead in the bushes and I went for a little fly and tumble down the hill. My brother had some round the corner and decided to sensibly go around it.

good times.

My Latest Route: Oct 2010 Livingston to Ayr Avoiding A71

skudupnorth	28 Apr 12:50
Joined: 01 Feb 2009 Posts: 48 Bike: My Profile	Oh no i can ride again,just meant i had to wait till the bones bonded again but i have a nice lump where the join is ! Now you cannot get me off the bike either on road or off,i even sold my car because it got so little use !!!

mattk	28 Apr 13:04
Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 116 Bike: My Profile	Glad you weren't permanently injured... I bet it took a while to heal tho! Cycling is a much cheaper way to get around, but I couldn't do without my car - bit of a car fanatic... but I love a good bike ride in the countryside - keeps you fit too!
My Latest Route: Feb 2010 National Cycle Network 15 NCN

Cycling Dude	29 Apr 21:32
Joined: 29 Apr 2009 Posts: 38 Bike: My Profile	being a cycling instructor, I know how accidents happan and how to stop them! my accident was when one of my lights went out, and I crashing in a bridleway gate (he high long ones) and yea it kinda hurt, so in the future am taking abit extra care!
My Latest Route: Jun 2009 Silkworth and Herrington Circular

avcon	02 May 17:57
Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 6 Bike:	My most recent cycle injury obtained was my fractured pelvis! I got it after being hit by a car right outside my house as I was turning in after a morning ride. Bloody excruciating!!!

dudley	04 May 12:00
Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 498 Bike: My Profile	over the bars aged 10 - broken collar bone fast car overtook on a country lane, 'stout twig' came off his rear wheel and spun through my front forks - over i went. nobodies fault - unlucky accident. other than that, i tore off a hang nail removing gloves a few weeks ago!
My Latest Route: Nov 2009 Forth Estuary Circular

mattk	05 May 12:01
Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 116 Bike: My Profile	Hey Dudley, Thats pretty unlucky - what are the chances? And how'd you manage to rip off a nail from taking a glove off?... I think its sometimes better if your injury is your own fault - nobody but yourself to blame and I guess you should learn a lesson from it - but with nobody to blame how can you learn from that? By not being there at all?
My Latest Route: Feb 2010 National Cycle Network 15 NCN

Kevin Algar	27 May 17:35
Joined: 25 May 2009 Posts: 4 Bike: My Profile	I was overtaking a car in a cycle lane a few months back, the car drifted into the cycle lane (like they do) I went over my handlebars and got my front teeth broken, my chin split open and a my elbow fractured. I feel like a fully fledged member of the cycling fraternity after that.
My Latest Route: Jun 2009 Ipswich to East Bergholt

norrymerrida	04 Jul 20:46
Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 4 Bike:	me and mt brother got new bikes ( hadnt been on one for years ) went striaght out for a 4hr cycle and couldnt sit down for a week, what happened to the old griffter seats lol

Cycling Dude	04 Jul 21:10
Joined: 29 Apr 2009 Posts: 38 Bike: My Profile	If you guys live in sunderland email me plz stealthcycling@hotmail.co.uk
My Latest Route: Jun 2009 Silkworth and Herrington Circular

asleep_by_the_road	05 Jul 23:45
Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 5 Bike: My Profile	Cycling round a roundabout - Sunday morning, car pulled out along side me and side-swiped me - Went flying, tore/pulled lots of ligaments and tendons in my shoulder. - That was sort of nasty.... Other than that went halfway over my handlebars when my front wheel went down a broken drain cover (completely my fault) - Lumps on both thighs where I hit the breaks (racing bike)
My Latest Route: Jul 2009 Scunthorpe Circular via Alkborough

davetheconvert	19 Jul 14:00
Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 4 Bike: My Profile	I had an altercation with a wet roundabout. On turning right my backwheel overtook me- not a good thing. I took the fall on my chin, resulting in my chin splitting- it was a nice deep gash about 1.25 inches long. I also suffered some whiplash type injuries to both shoulders and back from my head bouncing off the tarmac (I hope you're not laughing!!). I was knocked out briefly and very badly winded. Two days later my left ribs started hurting, and it transpires I broke some ribs. I cleaned my bike yesterday and found blood in all sorts of strange places, and it hurts when I laugh, sneeze, cough or breathe in sharply. I have just cycled 30 miles it now hurts even more. However a broken rib or two will not stop me!!!
My Latest Route: Jul 2009 Abbots Bromley to Blithbury Circular

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I had an altercation with a wet roundabout. On turning right my backwheel overtook me- not a good thing.
I took the fall on my chin, resulting in my chin splitting- it was a nice deep gash about 1.25 inches long. I also suffered some whiplash type injuries to both shoulders and back from my head bouncing off the tarmac (I hope you're not laughing!!). I was knocked out briefly and very badly winded.
Two days later my left ribs started hurting, and it transpires I broke some ribs.
I cleaned my bike yesterday and found blood in all sorts of strange places, and it hurts when I laugh, sneeze, cough or breathe in sharply. I have just cycled 30 miles it now hurts even more. However a broken rib or two will not stop me!!!

My Latest Route: Jul 2009 Abbots Bromley to Blithbury Circular

Ridededog	19 Jul 16:04
Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 1 Bike:	I had two events, the first one, went down a hill and had a sharp turn coming up, back brake failed to work so used the front brake, turned a little, skidded, fell over, pedal went into my right thigh, into the muscle. The second one, went around a medium-sized roundabout at about 25mph, skidded on a manhole cover, fell, almost got ran over by a taxi who was close behind me (lucky he braked hard), pulled a ligament in my right knee. The strange thing about this event, there was something like 20 people standing around me, wondering what to do, it was only by the offchance that two police officers who was on foot walking past, wondering what all the fuss was about, came over, noticed me, got me up and over to the side of the roundabout and called an ambulance. The thing is the police arrived 10 mins after I had the crash! Due to these two events, being 3 days apart, I'm now unable to straighten my right leg and this was 5 years ago. I still cycle but with a lower saddle

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I had two events, the first one, went down a hill and had a sharp turn coming up, back brake failed to work so used the front brake, turned a little, skidded, fell over, pedal went into my right thigh, into the muscle.

The second one, went around a medium-sized roundabout at about 25mph, skidded on a manhole cover, fell, almost got ran over by a taxi who was close behind me (lucky he braked hard), pulled a ligament in my right knee. The strange thing about this event, there was something like 20 people standing around me, wondering what to do, it was only by the offchance that two police officers who was on foot walking past, wondering what all the fuss was about, came over, noticed me, got me up and over to the side of the roundabout and called an ambulance.
The thing is the police arrived 10 mins after I had the crash!

Due to these two events, being 3 days apart, I'm now unable to straighten my right leg and this was 5 years ago. I still cycle but with a lower saddle

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