My injury has got nothing on some of you guys... I don't know if I could deal with some of the things in here as well as you people have. Wrists should NOT bend like this though... =/ 1 metal plate, 7 screws, 15 stitches.
My sister had something like that happen, except her bone was poking through the skin!
Yea I was close to having that happen from what I'm told. I have really thick Dakota work gloves for riding, chances are if the break was an inch away from where it was, there would have been bone showing. Big thick synthetic leather, and shock absorbing rubber is what saved me.
My injury has got nothing on some of you guys... I don't know if I could deal with some of the things in here as well as you people have. Wrists should NOT bend like this though... =/ 1 metal plate, 7 screws, 15 stitches.
My sister had something like that happen, except her bone was poking through the skin!
Yea I was close to having that happen from what I'm told. I have really thick Dakota work gloves for riding, chances are if the break was an inch away from where it was, there would have been bone showing. Big thick synthetic leather, and shock absorbing rubber is what saved me.
Yeah, thats good! She had no gloves or anything, and it also happened on a road(paved, covered w/gravle[town too cheap to repave]) hill, which when I went down this hill on my XC bike, I reached 45MPH...
a guy at my work was going down a hill and the bike came out form underneith him he was going about 40 and he slid 15 feet on pavement then onto the gravel! the road shreadded the ass of his shorts then started grionding on his own ass! his: ass, arms, knees, shoulder and ankles were all bloody. it was nasty
45mph=~80ish km/h? I've done about 65/70km/h on my Banshee.
The slightest bump at that speed is sketchy.
my front tyre slipped at 64kph, on rocky grounds, somehow i managed not to crash :S
I was going down a steep city street, and when I hit the brakes at the bottom, my front wheel sailed over a recessed manhole cover,and locked in mid air, and skidded on the other side of it... luckilly I thought fast enough to release it, and regain traction, and reapply the brake!
EDIT:, my speed record was 54.7MPH on my old Clifcat Tankass.
this past week.. i hit a 4 foot round cotton wood doing about 30mph broke 7 ribs and collapsed my left lung.. possibly fractured my hip/pelvis.. doctors said the amount of force it took to break 7 ribs if it was another 4 inches to my spine i wouldnt be walking.. anyways i had a 9" tube in my lung draining the blood for about 4 days