Ridiculous injuries

[Jonathing]

I was wondering what the most ridiculous injuries people have suffered in a bike related context. Things which you really shouldn't have managed to do but some how, have.

I'll start, I've just broken my finger taping my handlebars.

Your turn.

 

[ianrauk]

I sprained my ankle getting off my bike to have a waz.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

When I first came back to riding fixed four and an half years ago I managed to trap a finger between the cog and chain when checking the chain tension, someone spoke to me and as I turned my head to reply bang ouch.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I now have a scar across my thumb from checking my tyre pressures.

 

[Globalti]

Removing a pedal the allen key suddenly moved and I stabbed my finger with a gear tooth. Should have seen that coming, really.

 

[RaRa]

I was trying to pry a tire off the rim when it suddenly took me by surprise and flew off. I punched myself in the head with considerable force and ended up with a lovely black eye and bloody nose.

 

[Simba]

I was trying to pry a tire off the rim when it suddenly took me by surprise and flew off. I punched myself in the head with considerable force and ended up with a lovely black eye and bloody nose.

I would have paid to see that.

 

[RaRa]

I would have paid to see that.

My husband laughed so much he had to leave the room because he couldnt breathe

 

[ColinJ]

Removing a pedal the allen key suddenly moved and I stabbed my finger with a gear tooth. Should have seen that coming, really.

I can beat that. I was going to take my right pedal off and I actually thought to myself "Be careful not to gash your hand on the chainring if the pedal suddenly comes loose." I ignored my own advice, put a lot of force on the pedal spanner, the pedal suddenly came loose and I gashed the back of my hand on the chainring, as anticipated!

I was trying to pry a tire off the rim when it suddenly took me by surprise and flew off. I punched myself in the head with considerable force and ended up with a lovely black eye and bloody nose.

I was talking to someone during a short break on a forum ride. Conditions had warmed up so I decided to take off my arm warmers. One came loose rather suddenly causing me to punch myself in the face!

I found out why they put those little alloy caps on the end of brake and gear cables. One reason is to stop the cables fraying. The other is to avoid injuries like stabbing your calf muscle with one ...

This hasn't happened to me, but It has happened to others so beware ...!

That's an apple corer. The ends of handlebars can do the same thing to you if you don't remember to fit end plugs! Like this!

 

[Globalti]

"I am not blaming Bury Council for building the skate park at all...."

Well there's a relief.

 

[Blue Steel]

When I was a lad (well that puts this tale firmly in the 1970's then!), a friend and I were playing at being World War 1 fighter aces on our bikes. I recall I was the Red Baron. I was riding on the drops and as I came in for a high speed, and rather close pass, the sleeve of my jumper hooked itself over the end of his handlebar. As we seperated I got dragged sideways, fell off, and skinned my left elbow right down to the bone .

 

[Nosaj]

Fractured elbow after hopping up a kerb that was an about half an inch high (I still do not really know how this happenned)!

Slicing my finger trying to remove a very small cable tie from the bike computer.

Not really cycling related but bikes were in the summer house/shed/log cabin type of thing. Leaving my thumb on a window sill whilst my (even more clumsy than me) brother put in a small window pane. My thumb broke its fall though so that was OK.

 

[Jonathing]

[QUOTE 1792118, member: 9609"]I had what I guess was something similar to a clippless moment. I stopped on a very narrow road to let a car past, my shoe lace sort of got all tangled up in the pedal and I fell sideways attached to bike into a blackberry bush - with shorts and t-shirt on![/quote]

That reminds me of the time I pulled up to some traffic lights near my old university. Rather then unclip I put my hand out to lean on a handy piece of street furniture, except I had rolled forward and as I leant over, I missed. Ended up laying on the floor next to the lamp post, still attached to my bike and most profoundly confused.

 

[G-Zero]

I was wondering what the most ridiculous injuries people have suffered in a bike related context. Things which you really shouldn't have managed to do but some how, have.

I'll start, I've just broken my finger taping my handlebars.

Your turn.

Other than some severe damage to my bank account, I'm doing ok for the time being

 

[MisterStan]

When i was a young lad of around 10 years old, i was out cycling with my brother, my BMX' front wheel went into a dip in the grass - hidden as the grass wasn't mowed recently and the bike stopped, the handlebars turned 90 degrees and hit me in my belly - cue a trip to the hospital, a suspected hernia and a frantic days spent in hsopital waiting to find out if i'd be released so that we could go on holiday the next day. I had a lump the size of a tennis ball sticking out of my abdomen.