Broken Bones....

Charles B. Summers said:

Aww man, they wouldn't let me have my X-Rays....

Why not?
--
Westie

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Broken colarbone twice once back in 78 and just two
years ago. Broke both legs and an ankle in 76 and they had to be pinned.
Broke my skull in 62. Broke my foot in 78. Broke my hand in 79. Broke my
wrist in 71. Broke my finger in 62. Broke three toes in 96,get this
knicking a rat in half like an open double barrel shot gun. Broke a knee
in 67. Thats broken bones.

It's also a hell of a way to keep Paris in the plaster business...
--
Westie

I think you need to take up another hobby!

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Broken colarbone twice once back in 78 and just two
years ago. Broke both legs and an ankle in 76 and they had to be pinned.
Broke my skull in 62. Broke my foot in 78. Broke my hand in 79. Broke my
wrist in 71. Broke my finger in 62. Broke three toes in 96,get this
knicking a rat in half like an open double barrel shot gun. Broke a knee
in 67. Thats broken bones.

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Just wondering, which bone(s) have you broken while riding, and what was
the
worst?

I did my ribs once when my disc brake pads had become contaminated. Was
doing a nice downhill section and had no brakes!! I bailed and landed ribs
first on a nice stump.

Then about a year later my front tire kicked out going over a wet wooden
foot bridge and successfully broke my collar bone.
Both rank rather high in the pain department.

Westie said:

Quoted message said:

In 10 years of MTBing, I've never broken anything. Part of it is careful
riding, part of it is living in a place that doesn't have a lot of exposed
rock.

Trust an expert, even exposed earth and leafy humus can hurt if you hit
it right! :-)

Hehe, I never said it didn't hurt!

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To e-mail me, unmunge my address

Never was lucky enough to get anything but plaster.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:19:45 -0700, Charles B. Summers wrote
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Quoted message said:

Just wondering, which bone(s) have you broken while riding, and what was the
worst?

pelvis and clavicle, pelvis was the worst

paul

Westie said:

It's also a hell of a way to keep Paris in the plaster business...

Isn't it something like "plaster of patriot" now? 😉

gabrielle

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Quoted message said:

Just wondering, which bone(s) have you broken while riding, and what was
the
worst?

I broke my first bone last night on a jump. Stupid mistake, but my
handlebars were the culprit. They slipped on me on a landing causing me to
slip foreward and come down on the upper bar. Broke my pelvis in two
places.
All I can say was, it hurt!

Cracked ribs a few times. Best biff though broke all the ribs on my left
side in 2 places on each rib, and smashed my left collar bone into 5 or 6
indistinguishable pieces. Slept in a recliner for 6 mos.

CDB

gabrielle said:

Westie said:

It's also a hell of a way to keep Paris in the plaster business...

Isn't it something like "plaster of patriot" now? 😉

gabrielle

Yeah! That'd be right! LOL.
--
Westie

I broke my elbow (cracked humerus) test riding a mountain bike in a
parking lot, does that count?

Penny ;-P

small change said:

I broke my elbow (cracked humerus) test riding a mountain bike in a
parking lot, does that count?

Penny ;-P

No, it doesn't ;-P

But we'll give you half credit :-D
--
Slack

small change said:

I broke my elbow (cracked humerus) test riding a mountain bike in a
parking lot, does that count?
Penny ;-P

One of the guys I ride with did about the same thing. He broke a bunch
of ribs, in a parking-lot crash. Not as bad as Cbro, maybe just 3
broken? That had to hurt. Another riding bud suffered an even worse
injury on the trail -- on the easiest portion you could imagine. I've
been lucky so far. My crashes in easy spots have just been
embarrassing, not painful.

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small change said:

I broke my elbow (cracked humerus) test riding a mountain bike in a
parking lot, does that count?
Penny ;-P

One of the guys I ride with did about the same thing. He broke a bunch of
ribs, in a parking-lot crash. Not as bad as Cbro, maybe just 3 broken?
That had to hurt. Another riding bud suffered an even worse injury on the
trail -- on the easiest portion you could imagine. I've been lucky so
far. My crashes in easy spots have just been embarrassing, not painful.

This oughta give you a laugh. Or at least a pause to say, hmmm. It was the
end of a long day, and we were finally coming down off the mtn, and hooked
up to Corral's from higher up, came down the reverse way, and took the
singletrack (called "advanced singletrack" for some reason) off to the right
near the end, and I took the lead. Somehow crashed on my left side at
28mph, bounced off the trail to my right, and came to with a dog licking my
face. End of a good season in 2004. Lots of firsts that year. First trip
to Moab, first Barking Spider race, first biff to rack me up so bad I should
have remained unconcious... for 6 mos.

CDB