Injuries you have done to yourself......?

[roadrash]

Removing a stuck seatpost I placed the back wheel between my legs and proceeded to twist the seatpost with both hands clasped tightly around it and pulling up at the same time. After a few attempts at this I put some real effort into one last go before opting to try something else, well it gave way unexpectedly and I whacked myself with the seatpost between my right eye and my nose.

Gashed my eyebrow and the side of my nose, blood everywhere and the following day I had two lovely blackeyes ...told everyone who asked, I was in a fight

i bet you also told em you won , just imagine what the other guy looked like

 

[roadrash]

aged about ten or eleven tearing down the street on a friends 5 speed racer with big wide cowhorn handle bars, towards my home made ramp ,consisting of three house bricks and a pice of wood, thinking " well if evil kneeval can do it " i mean... how hard can it be.well , when you hit the ramp and youre left with the stem and handle bars in your hands NOT ATTATCHED TO THE BIKE its the landing thats hard

 

[djb1971]

Couple of years ago.
I slowed and stopped to have a waz.
Unclipped my foot to put down on the verge, except the where I put my foot down was a hole covered by long grass. .
Went straight down, bike on top of me. One very painful sprained ankle and off the bike for a few weeks.

At least it was only your ankle you sprained!

 

[uphillstruggler]

Accidentally punched my cassette.

you have to elaborate!

Edit: read a bit further but still, punching a cassette - bet you didnt look at your hand for a while

 

[uphillstruggler]

I've posted this one before: I was trying to separate the two halves of a multi-tool by pulling very hard, when they suddenly flew apart and I smacked the back of my hand on this:
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that will teach you for keeping spiky things at possible hurt level. i would have to put that up on a shelf right out of the way.

 

[Matthew_T]

My feet used to slip off the pedals when I was younger. I always ended up with a great bit scratch right down my legs.

Nowadays the injuries I normally get are the odd cuts and scratch on my hands from doing things with my bike.

 

[byegad]

Moving junk valuable recycled cycle parts in the shed a pair of pedals tied together with string was hanging from a peg, I unhooked the top one and tried to move it towards me. The lower one caught on more junk valuable recycled cycle parts and then sprung out catching me in the middle of the forehead narrowly missing my glasses. Result blood ran down into my eyes, blinding me completely, a grope into the house to call my wife to come and take me to hospital and three glued staples in my forehead!

The nurse in A&E wanted to write it up as a cycling accident and I flatly refused to let her, the Sister was called and told me I should have been wearing a helmet. Heated words were exchanged, with my telling her that my helmet didn't cover my forehead down to the top of my glasses and since when did I need to wear a helmet to tidy my shed? She wrote it up as a Cycling injury, with my not wearing a helmet.

So when the helmet nazis quote accident figures I remember just how my accident was recorded!

 

[Herr-B]

I think bricks and wood should probably get their own injury thread, seems popular for us kids of a certain generation. Do kids today not have the same fun we used to?

 

[Mapster1989]

When I was 16 I was on the local BMX track (Bole Hills, Sheffield if anyone knows) and went over the first triple a little too hot, feet came off and pedal swung round hitting me in the back of the leg. Hospital and stitches please.

 

[kipster]

Aged about 11 pulled a wheelie on a mates bike and the front wheel came off, no option but to put the forks in the grass, had to buy him some new forks, I lost skin from several parts of my body. A little older, 14 or so, tearing around roads and paths in the rain, got a corner wrong, brakes wet so didn't work and went through a garden fence. No damage to bike, I had a few splinters and had to buy the fence owner a new panel. It was a fairly rotten and flimsy 4ft fence panel, thankfully not a sturdy 6ft one!

 

[TheDoctor]

While going down a big hill near a school, I collided with a young child.
Kid was OK, I totalled my bike and my collarbone.
And after a long ride, I had a nice relaxing bath and slipped as I got out.
I woke up a few moments later with a dislocated shoulder. It was not fun.

 

[bluemint]

I dislocated my lower leg while stepping back to take a photograph. I slipped on a muddy bit of verge and out it popped. I was on my own but fortunately it didn't take too long for someone to turn up. I'd just gone from Edale in the peaks, over Jacob's ladder and into Hayfield where the incident occurred. It looked horrible with my leg adjacent to my knee, . Eventually the paramedics turned up and slipped it back into place. The worst part was cramp kicking in once I'd got to my feet.

I always check where I'm stepping now.

 

[HLaB]

Ive done the knuckles on the chainring thing a few times

And before I went clipless the pedal in the shin thing, particularly sore with Titanium pedals

 

[smokeysmoo]

I drifted into the kerb as a kid on my Raleigh Budgie*, (at least I think that's what it was, it had solid tyres I remember that so please correct me if I'm wrong).

Anyhoo, the pavement wasn't the flagged type, it was sort of pebble dashed affair that promptly flayed the left side of my body, arm and face

I wasn't fair from home so walked back and can still remember being sat on the kitchen drainer and getting the TCP treatment from my Mum

You had to love being a child in the 70's

I also cut my knee to the bone when I was 7 whilst sliding down a banking on my knees, (Graham's Gang anyone? OK just me then!), and when I limped home and announced what had happened my Dad wasted no time informing me, "If your joking lad I'll bloody paste you!), great innit?

Yup, it was TCP time again,before admitting defeat and getting me to A&E.

So for any more children of the same era have a look at this, I think you'll like it

 

[ColinJ]

Lots of daft things but here are a few cycling ones:

• Made a sudden decision to u-turn my bike on a very narrow road to go back for a pee in a wood. Came to a dead stop and toppled onto my left knee. It hurt so much that I almost blacked out.
• A few days later - I tried to set off up a slight slope to a t-junction while not properly clipped in, and distracted by the beauty of the two young women in the open top sports car next to me. Came to a dead stop and toppled onto my right knee. It hurt so much that I almost blacked out. And it was bloody embarrassing!
• Did a rapid descent on my MTB, then dismounted to open a gate across the bridleway. Branded a leg with the red-hot brake disk on my back wheel.
• Got into a panic when a wasp flew down my jersey when out on my road bike. Failed to kill it when pummelling my chest, but succeeded in knocking down the front of my bib shorts. Frightened a nearby farmer who witnessed me pummelling my nether regions while screaming "die, bastard, die!" Suffered several painful penile stings and a severe bruising where it really hurts! (I eventually despatched the wasp, though, so it wasn't all bad news. )
• Started the New Year as I meant to carry on. A Jan 1st MTB ride in very cold conditions soon went wrong. I was descending to the gate where I had burned my leg on my disk brake and had just formulated the thought that it was rather shaded down by the gate when I hit a patch of ice which had remained there in the shadows, and hit the ground hard. I got back on my bike, continued and promptly crashed on another patch of ice. I remounted again and headed down another fast descent when I observed a group of people attempting but failing to drive some 4x4s up a slope. The fact that the vehicles were sliding backwards should have been a clue ... More ice! I crashed and slid past the people on my back, followed by my bike. I ended up in a ditch to howls of laughter from the bystanders. They were even more amused by my irritated observation - "Thanks a lot for your concern, folks!"

I could go on, but I'll give someone else a turn ...