Your Worst Crash

larryb

11 March 2006... i had a head on crash with a motorcycle.

http://www.cyclingforums.com/t329024.html

my recovery is in what i think are the final stages, after a hip replacment on 23 Jan 2007.

hopefully i will be back on a bike later this year... after i get off of blood thinners and build a bit more strength and balance.

for another story of a nasty crash, see
www.dieseldavegalloway.com
click on 'sign my guestbook' and
'diesel dave updates'
to send best wishes and read of Dave's progress.
he has just gone home from the hospital after his 17 Dec 2006 crash.

cu,
larryb

wineandkeyz

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Biker Mike

Just had my first crash, almost 4 full years in the saddle. I live in rural Wisconsin, finally had decent weather last week to ride. I have a nice hilly 18 mile out and back route that I was using last week, rode the out portion into a stiff wind. Shortly after turning around I noticed a farm tractor approaching me in the opposite lane. The young operator of the tractor stopped to make a left hand turn across my lane; I proceeded as he had stopped for me(or so i thought). When I got about 25 feet from the tractor, the operator suddenly turned out in front of me! I was doing about 25 mph(downhill with the wind!); hit the front wheel of the tractor, flew 30 feet and landed in the grass. I sustained numerous severe lacerations (over 100 stitches to close) that took two surgeries to clean and close. In the hospital for a week. My bike was broken in two.

I will be back out as soon as my legs mend and I get a new ride!!

webbhost

Hope that tractor driver gave you a good bit of compo.............

bigpedaler

flip a coin....

2001, trail riding w/ my nephew, flew off a small (SMALL!) kicker on my URT w/ powergrips, lost a strap on the right foot, yard saled across the dirt, rolled up against a tree that bruised my ribs. nephew thought i'd killed myself, about shat himself. a moment or two later, i was able to get up, and slowly climbed back on and rode home w/ the right hand only -- left wrist broken.

or:

2005, riding home from work, a beautiful july afternoon -- a car pulls out of an alley (one-way alley, he came the wrong way), i sprawl across his hood before teetering over the other way. broke the right wrist on landing. (dipsh**)

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PartisanRanger

My worst crash to date happened yesterday. I was racing at WVU, coming down a very fast and technical descent. I was banking hard left and hit a spot of gravel, making a slide on the pavement. I have some nasty road rash on the left side of my body (knee, lower leg, hip, elbow) but it could have been worse. Luckily, my bike wasn't seriously damaged.

jcthomasjr

Hmm, had a couple but the worst was in 2001 when I put my head down and was flying through this intersection and when I looked up a car in front slowed down to make a right hand turn. I braked and tried to go around him to the left but slammed into the left side of rear bumper and flipped upside down over the corner of the vehicle. Came down on my head and shoulder with bike still attached. Could not move, could not hear, could not think - head was numb and took a minute to get my bearings. Cracked helmet, scrapes to face, body, and dislocated left shoulder. Many people stopped except for the car I hit. Eventually got on my bike and rode the approximately 15 miles to my home, had trouble getting undressed, took a shower , and then called someone to take me to the hospital. Shoulder is still messed up but I still ride and have not gone down since. Man, it still hurts thinking about it!

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carpediemracing

I'll bite. I have a lot of cracked helmets and such but those crashes tend to be less spectacular and more hurt. I hate hurt.

On that note, this is my spectacular crash.

A long read but overall nothing bad really happened.

Enjoy,
cdr

webbhost

Really enjoyed reading that one! good job on the blog. Sounds like it was 1 hell of a day for you lol.

Julian G.

Happened friday the 13th (lol) in april... My bike has the downtube shifters and (had) strapless toe clips... I was doing a bit of a sprint coming out of a corner, went to shift while still out of the saddle...

The bike jumped forward an extra gear (turns out the part where the shifter cable goes around the bottom bracket was full of gunk from the winter of riding - which seems as though causes the bike to auto shift), left foot slid out of the pedal, I tried to lift my foot back up... nope... Went down with my arms still on the drops...

The one bone in my left fore-arm bent around the top of the bars, severe road rash on my chin, left knee, right palm (had the skin torn out) and really bad road rash on the left fore-arm right around where it broke (down to the bone where the break was).

Arms still a bit screwed up... but I've got like 98% of the function out of it so there's no way I'm letting the doc's touch my arm to try and fix it.

Only damage to the bike was a somewhat bent handle bar and screwed up handle bar tape... Riding it now and haven't replaced either, but switched to toe clips with straps so my feet can't fall out (well not as easily), and took care of the auto shift problem. Also, now I never shift while out of the saddle, always always sit.

pieralberto

AFTER A 60 MILE FAST 25+ RIDE, WHEN IM READY TO WAVE BYE TO THE PELOTON i HIT A ROAD REFLECTOR WHILE HOLDING THE HANDLE BAR WITH ONE HAND AND WAVING BYE WITH THE OTHER, RESULT NEED A NEW FRAME AND ................................................................. http://owebmail.bellsouth.net/agent...e=daddy_003.jpg