How do you think this felt?

[houndog]

Hey guys while reading through this board I got almost queasy reading some of the bad stuff you guys have endured. The knee thread hit home....never had work done on mine but for about a year decades ago I twisted it (both actually at different times) and it would lock up. Wore a brace. Fixed itself...oh they are not hooked well together but no pain. Anyway, here are some images to amuse you, they are the result of sheer stupidity. The first is of my knee...I ran into a big c clamp hooked to my electronics bench in the middle of the night. Dead on the knee cap. I think I "broke it". This was several days after the hit. Notice the round bruise that formed on the side of my knee. I do not bruise easily. I'm almost 57 and very skinny and boney.

The next pics are the result of my foot slipping off the kick starter of my CR 250. Hit the foot peg with my full body weight. Hit it so hard it did not even really hurt but I knew it was "bad". So I did exactly what anyone would do. I did not look at it and instead went and got the 300 out and rode for about an hour.

First image is what I saw that night when I got back and looked at it.
No ice, no pain stuff...it was "numb". Second image is the next evening. I then figured I should start icing it.
Took about 5 days to get back to normal (sort of) and as it did these purple bands formed on my leg and my heel turned purple.

Probably should have gone to a doctor?

Compared to stuff some of you have gone through my problems were trivial but amusing in the stupidity. Who in the Hell hurts them self starting the bike!?

 

[twowheels]

Dude, that's gnarly!

 

[pscook]

I can't see the pics at work, but I slipped off my kicker and gouged myself something fierce on the footpeg. A soccer mom asked "did you get gored by a bull?" It took about two months to get to a reasonable state of healing. Big bubble of something, hard knot of scar tissue under the skin, ick.

 

[houndog]

2wheels, it got me a lot of sympathy from the wife and daughter I milked it for all I could get. I got used to saying "Sidney, snag me a beer", poor thing, she really got tired of that . I pretended it was killing me and hobbled around like an old man when she and the wife were home.

Phil, I feel better knowing someone else has been as careless

It was surprising that there was so little actual pain. The skin was tender but the bone felt numb at the same time.

A little more of the complete story and it's a little funny too.....I did that when I pulled in the driveway to switch bikes..... I'd just come back from a ride and while going down this dirt road I frequent and a guy runs out and flags me down. He's a tattooed redneck and apparently he'd seen me waive at his girlfriend "Dawn" (a hot fully tattooed biker girl) a few days earlier. I always slow down and waive at people who live on the dirt roads. I did not realize it was Dawn from "the Family Mart" because their trailer is pretty far off the road.

Well, he's pissed because apparently Dawn has been having "visitors" and he thought me riding up and down the road was a "signal" to her. So he's a little aggressive acting and this makes me a little less friendly as well. He's got no shirt on and I have a KelTec PMR 30 with a full magazine under mine so I'm not the least bit worried. I get off the bike and spell it out for him. He becomes reasonable when he realizes he's made a mistake. Tells me to stop by for a beer sometime. I say OK.

Then I bang the shin and don't ride for 2 1/2 weeks or so. First time on the bike I ride over to his place. Dawn had split by then. He comes out the trailer and says "wassup". I say "Jason, I guess you noticed I've not been by your house since we last had words" He says "yea, I did". I say look what I did 10 minutes after I left last time. I pulled my pants up and he said "holy shit, what in the Hell did you do". So I told him and said "I came by to bring you a beer and let you know I'm not a pussy and was not screwing around with your girl, I figured you thought one or the other" He said "well, I did, but damn man, that looks like it hurt, no wonder I ain't seen you" I showed him the images.

See, I made a new (probably dangerous) friend from the injury!
Ed

 

[GMP]

I have stuff that will make your skin crawl, ask Cruiser.

 

[bowhunter007]

I have stuff that will make your skin crawl, ask Cruiser.

I took a barend in the groin last year, wrestling my 300, during a highspeed cartwheel through the brush. It was nearly an hour before I worked up the nerve...to drop my pants and check to see if everything was where I left it. I almost passed out with relief, to see my plumbing still intact. A doctor's visit conformed...I'm a worse rider than I thought, but no permanent injury.

 

[houndog]

BowHunter, thank you for not posting pictures I know what you mean, I did not look at the shin when I switched bikes. By the time I did that spot of blood had gotten through my thermals and jeans.

You at least had a legitimate crash and "earned" your injury. Nothing amusing about that, you could have bent something on the bike

I posted my stupidity because it was just plain stupid and therefore amusing.

GMP, if it's the result of stupidity, I'm all in! but if you twisted something around during a race I can't laugh at it!

Here's one, scraped me up....pulled to stop sign, went to put my foot down, shoelace caught the peg. Fell right over and it drew blood. Random act of stupidity, again.

I seldom fall down if riding (once on 450 in 1.5 k miles and no real crashes on the 300 in 5k miles) but seem to be able to hurt myself at a standstill!

Ed

 

[Jakobi]

I was removing the kick starter off the shaft. Had the starter pivotted out towards me and wriggling it off while kneeling infront of it. When it came off one guess what happened

Cracked myself fair in the cheek bone just below my eye. Black eye, opened up the skin. That sound of metal on bone isn't nice. Like the rest of you all. I finished what I was doing before going to inspect the damage. Nice little trail of blood running down my face. Good one Jake!

Lucky it wasn't a cm higher!

 

[GMP]

hounddog,

Not stupidity, just a freak accident and bad luck hammering the trails at a good pace near Cruiser's house.

 

[Diggs345]

I took a barend in the groin last year, wrestling my 300, during a highspeed cartwheel through the brush. It was nearly an hour before I worked up the nerve...to drop my pants and check to see if everything was where I left it. I almost passed out with relief, to see my plumbing still intact. A doctor's visit conformed...I'm a worse rider than I thought, but no permanent injury.

How funny would it have been if you did pass out with pants down by your ankles to wake up to the sight of a passing stranger , try explaining that one

 

[houndog]

Glenn, a freak accident is not funny at all! Jakobi busting himself and missing his eye would have caused me to say "how did that feel" once I saw he was not hurt. I never ask that to a fellow down on a path from a crash! Unless he's my buddy and unhurt! My buddies have been asking each other that question for years.

I got zapped by 180 volts off some giant caps on this big tube amplifier the other day. Burned a small hole in my thumb. My buddy Don was here. Instantly he said " how did that feel". I said "great, except for the numbness". Was holding the chassis in my right hand and managed to stick my thumb across the damn thing.

Handlebar to the groin is borderline, only because he didn't get "really" hurt! My guess is looking down and seeing damaged "man parts" could easily make you pass out! That would not be funny when you really think about it

Please don't think I'd trivialize a serious injury....I left out the serious part of my story. The aspirin to thin my blood and the ibuprofen to combat inflation burned a damn hole in my stomach. I was not taking either for pain and did not start until a few days later when I saw it was not going down. Keep this in mind, take a Zantac before if you are going to take massive amounts of aspirin or ibuprofen for a week! It (the ulcer) was serious. Took a long time to recover from that! The aftermath of the injury was 10 times worse than the banged shin. I thought I was dying. When bitten by a rattlesnake, I never thought for a second I could die. The ulcer actually made me think I was. Details would seem like whining! I did not post the "whole story" because the only funny part was my stupidity in not paying attention when kicking "The Bunny"!

Ed

 

[Jakobi]

I'm picking up what you're putting down. Its about having a laugh at yourself for something that wasn't so serious and mostly preventable.. Wouldn't wish a serious injury on anyone, but I have to admit with mine it was a "I can't believe I just did that ...you dickhead!" ..It made me look like a badass UFC champ for a week after though so I got a chuckle every time I looked in the mirror. lol.

 

[houndog]

Jakobi, YES! Me too, laugh at myself, that is .
Ed

 

[Diggs345]

Its never funny to see someone hurt , and thats not what i meant in my post , it was more the awkward situation he could have been if he had passed out . Maybee i should remove my post ? .
Iv had plenty of accidents , and thinking afterwards how stupid i was a laughing about it , and if you dont laugh you gotta cry lol

The most stupid thing i did was trying to undo a clutch hub bolt on a zx750 , i locked the basket with a few plates bolted together , had a 3/4 bar on and it wasnt budging , so i put a pole over the bar and put my left foot on the gearbox and give it my all , the plates shattered and where do you think the bar stopped , on my forehead doh , i instantly had a bump the size of an egg and could feel my body getting ready to pass out so i went and sat on the floor with my back to the wall just in case i did , luckily i didnt though , allthough i cost me a day off work .
I made a purchase of a impact gun for the next attempt though

 

[twowheels]

Everybody that owns a GasGas (and even casual passers-by) has been clocked by the sidestand at least once ... usually good solid metal-to-bone contact.

My downfall is lacerations ... and I mean "fall down" downfall! The sight of my own blood, or a good needle puts me out like a light.

I was putting slots in a Yamaha sidepanel one time so that I'd have somewhere to lift the bike by. Turns out that utility knife blades travel much faster once they've broken through the plastic, and the force I was putting on the handle meant my thigh was no match for it. Luckily the gash was clean and only a couple inches long (and about an inch deep), and that I was able to make it to the floor before I passed out. My wife was out of town at the time, but she asked me about it a couple weeks later when I was suiting up for a race

Same leg, about ten years later ... broke the end off of a footpeg in a rut, so when I stuck my leg out it took a bite out of the back of my calf. I thought it was odd that my leg felt cold on a warm day, but I did notice the end of the footpeg sticking out so I pounded it back with my heal ... lest I hurt myself in the middle of a race The adrenaline kept me going and enough blood leaked out to flush the wound, but I was bummed that I had ripped my pants

 

[GMP]

This is old news but for the newer guys here:

Picked up this hitchhiker once on a fast trail ride with Cruiser and a few other guys. Through pants, CTi frame, leg, stopped at inside back of boot, snapped off a few inches in front. Rode seven miles of singletrack out to meet ambulance on a dirt road. Saved a lot of $$ on a helecopter ride.

 

[Diggs345]

Ouch , i bet that hurt some , how long did it take to heal ?

 

[GMP]

Totally healed about 5 weeks or so, but I rode an enduro at 3 weeks with waterproof bandages over the holes.

 

[bowhunter007]

This is old news but for the newer guys here:

Picked up this hitchhiker once on a fast trail ride with Cruiser and a few other guys. Through pants, CTi frame, leg, stopped at inside back of boot, snapped off a few inches in front. Rode seven miles of singletrack out to meet ambulance on a dirt road. Saved a lot of $$ on a helecopter ride.

Ouch! pscook & I were in a group, several weeks ago, when one of the guys rode down some gnarly s-track to get out to a pickup point. We found out later, his rolled ankle was a broken leg. As it turns out...Good boots make good emergency splints.

 

[GMP]

Sometimes you just do what you have to do, depending on where you are and what circumstances dictate. Thats one interesting thing about this sport, it gives you the opportunity from time to time to learn something about yourself.

I've ridden out a broken ankle, the leg impalment, and a broken wrist at an enduro once. The only time I was taken out was when I broke my collarbone at a club ride in Hancock NY, and they would not let me ride back to my truck. Being ridden out on the back of a quad was not in the plan.