[BigBeastAT]

I am currently doing one of my major projects for my third year at university. The aim of the project is to make mountain biking safer by designing protection that can be worn comfortably at all times.

Could you please state below your injury and how it happened?

This will help me decide which area of the body to focus on for my project and understand which injuries occur more commonly in the sport. It would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Adam

 

[stoney]

All of them?

 

[eaterofdog]

I want an entire suit like this. If anything gets within three feet of me, I turn into the Michelin Man.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

I've learned bikes are safer to ride if you don't ride them.

 

[TN]

i usually just bloody my shins up a bit. I have a keen self preservation skill.

 

[mattmatt86]

The only thing that would have prevented my worst injury would have been Kevlar Bib shorts.

 

[Polandspring88]

I hurt my feelings once.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

I hurt my feelings once.

Sorry.

 

[rockofullr]

I used to ride my bike. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

 

[eaterofdog]

The only thing that would have prevented my worst injury would have been Kevlar Bib shorts.

Did you circumcise yourself with the chainring or something?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Twisted the $hit out of my ankle once.

 

[Da Peach]

Busted finger. Twisted ankle. Separated shoulder. Cracked ribs.

Then I stopped riding so far beyond my limits.

 

[DirtMcGirk]

I roughed up my cornhole pretty good once.

 

[mattmatt86]

Did you circumcise yourself with the chainring or something?

Nope. Snapped a steerer tube, went over the bars and sliced my thigh open on the broken steerer. Missed my femoral artery by less than half an inch. Surgeon said my bib shorts helped save my life by compressing the wound until I got to the hospital (3 hours later).

 

[jonKranked]

i drank too much PBR the night before a ride and crapped my pants.

 

[I Are Baboon]

You guys ride bikes?

 

[ICEBALL585]

You should create a breathalizer for bikes that stops me from going on drunken night rides.

 

[jonKranked]

You should create a breathalizer for bikes that stops me from going on drunken night rides.

but drunken night rides are a time honored rochester tradition

 

[ICEBALL585]

but drunken night rides are a time honored rochester tradition

It's usually the ones up at Kingdom Trails (Monkeyfest) that get me injured.

 

[jonKranked]

does the thursday night ride still exist?

 

[ICEBALL585]

does the thursday night ride still exist?

The drunken night rides at Monkeyfest are not very organized. Its just who ever feels up for it can go any night they want. A couple of us did one this summer down Moose Alley after a decent amount of rain.

That got a little interesting.

 

[jonKranked]

The drunken night rides at Monkeyfest are not very organized. Its just who ever feels up for it can go any night they want. A couple of us did one this summer down Moose Alley after a decent amount of rain.

That got a little interesting.

i'm not talking monkeyfest. i'm talking the rochester TNR.

 

[ICEBALL585]

i'm not talking monkeyfest. i'm talking the rochester TNR.

Oh, never been on that night ride.

We don't usually go on organized social rides, we just stick to our little motley crew of riders.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Too many injuries to list. But if you really want to do some good for those of us who are injury prone, then design an entertainment system that is installed on the ceiling of ambulances.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Nope. Snapped a steerer tube, went over the bars and sliced my thigh open on the broken steerer. Missed my femoral artery by less than half an inch. Surgeon said my bib shorts helped save my life by compressing the wound until I got to the hospital (3 hours later).

Was this the one where BigHitr left you on the side of the trail?

 

[mandown]

Who gets injured in this sport with all the protective gear already available? Just knot up your skirt so it doesn't get caught in the chain and pedal.

 

[DirtMcGirk]

i drank too much PBR the night before a ride and crapped my pants.

 

[jonKranked]

Oh, never been on that night ride.

We don't usually go on organized social rides, we just stick to our little motley crew of riders.

This was about as disorganized as rides get. I remember riding the parking garage the night before it collapsed.

 

[jonKranked]

Was this the one where BigHitr left you on the side of the trail?

I kinda miss bighitr. Remember how he used a Travis as an xc fork?

 

[boogenman]

Kinda smooooshed my balls between my bicycle seat and my body near my balls. It stang pretty darn good.

 

[rockofullr]

^^^

Some people pay good money for that kind of thing

 

[daisycutter]

Broke my collar bone Sunday. Over the bars

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

nothing major, fortunately.
over the course of 10+ years, all i´ve gotten was a few bruised ribs, the usual cuts/scratches in the legs, 4-5 stitches in my chin, a huge bruise in my hip that took like 2 months to dissapear; and thats about it.

 

[douglas]

too many to list so I'll just mention ones involving hospital trips

 

[douglas]

I also lacerated my liver belly flopping onto my handlebars.

 

[MMike]

Luc needs to weigh in...

 

[Colonel Angus]

Some random dude I met roughed up my cornhole pretty good once.

ftfy.

 

[J-Dubs]

I broke C6 and C7 after my ft wheel didn't roll out at the bottom of a steep roll. Superman into a tree with muh dome.

 

[jonKranked]

ftfy.

To be fair he's been on both the giving and receiving end of that situation.

 

[mattmatt86]

Was this the one where BigHitr left you on the side of the trail?

Yep, that'd be the one.