[eaterofdog]

Seems like the same injuries pop up again and again. Shredded shins, faceplants, tweaked wrists. Which injury do you hate the most?

Mine is going down on the shoulder/face on a washout. Happens so fast you don't have time to get your hands out and if you separate your shoulder, you are in for a world of hurt.

 

[demo 9]

mostly in berms and sometimes in DH, washing out the front to the elbow slide and knuckle slam

 

[rollertoaster]

I also hate the front tire washout. Almost always comes without warning and, it always results in the human lawn dart effect and at least one dislocated shoulder. Luckily my shoulders usually pop back in, but it kills for about a week.

 

[Rolzey]

my tailbone is is a pain in the arse (no pun intended) keeps coming back, damn snowboarding

 

[basikbiker]

knee grinds

 

[sixgun_sound]

I have tendonitis in both middle fingers. The meaty part between the first 2 knuckles, on the palm side, is really tender all the time. And it's just from riding, not crashing. It's not a huge amount of pain, but it's enough that I really don't want to bother with bunnyhopping anything... it hurts to squeeze the bars that hard. It's a bummer because it's always there. I might get steroids injected into them, but I don't want to ruin my music career.

 

[nwd_26]

Earlier this season I hit my wrist incredibly hard, maybe broke something, definitely sprained something too. Now if I lightly tap it off the ground, I'm done for the day, maybe the week. Then later on this season I did the same thing (to a lesser degree) to the other wrist. I also popped my shoulder out good, and that looks like it might haunt me for a while.

 

[BeerMe]

Popping blood vessels in my heels and palms. Fvck my life.

 

[untitledsince89]

Twisting my left knee about 5 months back riding street, now every month or two I land on it wrong. Just got back from a Dh race in Boone and its swollen to the size of a grapefruit, slick ass jumps ftl.

 

[Jeromev]

Cheese grater on the knees and elbows. They never heal (until off-season that is).

 

[ServeEm]

blew my entire acl and went non-surgical route with a custom knee brace. Doesn't prevent twisting so every now and then I fly off my bike and land on my left foot with a nice twist. Knee swells up real nice keeping me off my bike for about a week easy.

 

[TaRd]

definatly the shoulders... I cant seem to keep these things together anymore.

 

[aaronrocker]

my right knee is f-ing toast. tore my acl in highschool and it has been done ever since.
if i ride very hard it will be swolen for a few days and tender, cant bend it all the way back. for some reason it dosent hurt when im riding only when im walking after i ride. im gonna be an old man who cant walk at all.

 

[joelalamo45]

my balls get caught up in all sorts of places they probably shouldn't. some good, some bad, depending on how much i paid him/her.

oh yeah, i've broken my right ankle 7 or 8 times, lost count.

 

[ApolloCreed]

knee's and ankle's

 

[TortugaTonta]

Hands, not from riding, from digging. The rocks.... oh the f'in rocks. . . . I've thought of moving to Maryland to get away from the rocks. . . .

 

[serbdog]

dumb falls for me, just broke my left wrist and fractured/dislocated right elbow riding at the trails by myself on sunday (too eager to ride in slow conditions)

i am sure this wrist thing will pop up again... boo

 

[eaterofdog]

Earlier this season I hit my wrist incredibly hard, maybe broke something, definitely sprained something too. Now if I lightly tap it off the ground, I'm done for the day, maybe the week. Then later on this season I did the same thing (to a lesser degree) to the other wrist. I also popped my shoulder out good, and that looks like it might haunt me for a while.

Get your ass to the doctor if the pain is at the base of your thumb. If you break the scaphoid, it can decay due to the loss of blood supply. Then you have a permanently trashed wrist.

 

[eaterofdog]

I cracked my ribs again this week. At least I don't have allergies with it.

 

[cmc]

wrist.

the reason i picked up an mtb and don't ride rigid fork any more.

 

[crkt]

ankles...

 

[Fool]

Collarbones.

 

[TheTruth]

bruises

 

[Cru Jones]

Damn... you guys are the walking wounded. I've been pretty lucky in my riding years, knock on wood. Couple of gnarly slams that have given me scars, stitches, broken bones, concussions, and what not. My knees were getting terrible when I was playing basketball a lot... but, the bike seems to keep them nice. I just hope I can say the same 5 to 10 years from now!!!

 

[RUFUS]

Right knee is destroyed. Comes out every now and then during a race but used to it now.

Previous injury well before I started DH though.

 

[aaronrocker]

Damn... you guys are the walking wounded. I've been pretty lucky in my riding years, knock on wood. Couple of gnarly slams that have given me scars, stitches, broken bones, concussions, and what not. My knees were getting terrible when I was playing basketball a lot... but, the bike seems to keep them nice. I just hope I can say the same 5 to 10 years from now!!!

you need to knock on cok that you dont get a knee problem, mine has been swollen for about a month straight!!! but it wont keep me off the bike

 

[cmc]

any of yall ever feel like your lower back is compressed due to jumping all the time? i won't say it's just cuz i'm old cuz i used to tweak my back in my early 20's too !!

 

[Arkayne]

head, shoulders, knees and toes. knees and toes.


I've been lucky to never have dislocated or broken anything. The only thing that gets me is pedal slips and the resulting gouges in my shins from the pins.

 

[xtremedoritoes]

knee grinds

second that. I might need knee replacements when I'm older.

 

[cmc]

gnarly story about Taj's back surgery:
http://odysseybmx.com/fairdale/2010/04/update-on-the-back/

 

[FR4life.]

any of yall ever feel like your lower back is compressed due to jumping all the time? i won't say it's just cuz i'm old cuz i used to tweak my back in my early 20's too !!

My back hurts all the time pretty much due to riding and digging, mostly my lower back but recently my upper back has been hurting alot too. Sh1t sucks and I'm only 20 so I already know my body is going to be raped when Im older..

 

[Sonic Reducer]

annoying- cutting ankle on crankarm, never really heals
very annoying- spraining ankle(15 times?) dont ride bmx as hard as i used to so those have gotten less frequent
serious- KO'd(5 times)

breaking bones is the most annoying by far tho due to the hospital crap, downtime from riding and lost wages from not going to work. last may it was my elbow getting shattered.

 

[Paulyd]

wrist sprains. i get them all them time. just from life now. like playing street hockey. they're always the worst from biking though.

 

[HAB]

My left index finger gets dislocated super easily. That sucks.

 

[Cru Jones]

Hangovers

 

[opjones]

Herpes

 

[Jeromev]

Ankle, every morning I have to move it around to loosen it up and it creaks and cracks like old floor boards, damn skateboarding.

 

[SnowMongoose]

Between riding, rugby, and Jiu Jitsu, 9 months out of the year at least one of my thumbs is sprained.
Thankfully, nothing serious... just annoying

 

[If You Build It]

I ride carefully enough (meaning I have the skill but not the courage to ride big stuff) that I rarely take big slams, but I keep getting this recurring problem with my forearms. I get numbness/weakness/shooting pains in my forearms when I squeeze the bars. I think this latest round is from the repeated shock from tamping out a new line. I'm dosing on ibuprofen, and I bought some padded work gloves.

 

[djbiker]

Herpes

last time i check.......
i thought that never went away?

Anyway, definitely wrist injuries.