Femur break on road gap attempt

 well i didnt break mine like that but i broke my femur right above me knee. i know how you feel it deff sucks. haha that shits gonna take a while to heal but deff keep up with the physio thats the best you can do

 not to be a downer on the vibe or anything but dosent the femour take about a year to heel? seeing as its the bigest bone in the human body?, get better soon!!!!

 bone itself takes 6-7 weeks, but getting your leg to actually work properly, your pretty close haha.

 It's been a year, how is it?

I know you had a rod inserted into the bone, but when they do that did you wear a full leg/hip cast or something like that? Obviously you used crutches but as far as a cast goes, what was it because of your hip as well?

I ask because I broke my tibea (lower leg) in soccer, didn't need a rod, but had a cast go all the way up leg, so far up that one time when I prepared to sit down at a desk I had to lean and slide in (keep in mind I'm wearing kinda baggy gym shorts, easier to put on than anything else, you would know), I didn't do it right, and my balls snagged between the edge of the seat and my cast. It hurt so much when that happened, so bad it's past that vomiting squirly feeling to a blank mind help me kind of feeling. Random side note I know I'm sorry, but it really happened, something to cheer you up when you read this.

Good luck with the healing process. Because of my break, I was allowed to put weight on it which sped the process to 2 months, and 4 months until 100% healed.

 No cast at all as the prosthetic is inside the bone. used crutches for a month and then a cane after, but not really for the hip, the femur hurts your entire body when it breaks, every time you move or breathe it hurts ... You do not want to break this bone, I shattered my heel 2 years prior and that was like eating ice-cream in comparison . ... sorry for the lateness of the reply.

 It is at 100 % again for sure.. in fact I am able to catch 30 lbs more of free falling weight with this leg now, So i suppose in my re-couping of it I made it even stronger..

I beep when i go through metal detectors ( even though Ti is non Magnetic )

I am occasionally poked internally from a screw mounter a little too deep in my hip

and I am a little more cautious when it comes to Gap's, especially road gaps .


otherwise Great... Had a better season riding then I could ever have impagined, did some very technical lines and had a lot of fun.

 If anything It should make You WANT to freeride, cause you can... I am soo stoked to recover so I can ride again... I might Have to walk away form that particular roadgap though... recovery is a bitch, the worst is not being able to snowboard, but Doc. says I'll bike again by summer... Yay.

 ....................................ow

 yeah man. hope u can get back to that thing to kick it's ass soon! haha! hope u get better soon

 Then I wonder, how did I survived this.

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/3033060/

 that drop made me feel pathetic and oowwwwww the snap made me wanna curl up in a hole and die

 hahaha afro-99, that was the f*ckin funniest comment ive ever read
+1 for you

 dude thats fucked up.

 Duh! I did not read the description of the video. But it is actually better if you don´t and then read it and realize that is the sound of a breaking bone...nasty.

 Actually I ring like The bell at last call When i go through.. It's a Huge rod in my leg composing the entire length of my Femur... It's pretty funny actually.

 thanks man, There is no "almost" in it though, Completely recovered and Now in posession of more Titanium... precious titanium. Increasing my net value... lol.

... am back to riding at full strength, still this jump will haunt me for a while .

 it Is indeed, who is this from CastlegNar Crew?? I am Bc. bound next week.

 Loud snap when I case.

 nope, dr. powell. Seems he did a decent job ( i hope ) I'm now graduated to Cane-walking... Wee-hoo

 Nope, I am a month later and Will be another 2 months before the Femur is Healed up, I also have a brocken left shoulder, though it is fairly minor in comparison. I will beep all the time now when I go through the metal detectors at the airport Cause I have a Titanium Nail drilled through the center of the Bone Holding the 2 Sides together.. Lotsa painkillers and Slow recovery everyday... When I'm better I'll have a look at it again, but It's hard to say... this may be a deamon I'll have to walk away from As it's quite a painfull and REsilient lesson learned. I'll be good enough to be on bike again next season, but will have to start off easy, prolly doing some Xc, to re-gain all the lost muscle mass in the injured leg, and I'll have to not rush The Healing and Be cautious about jumping stuf for a while... This Injury SUCK'S ..

 the kind of thing i dread happening to me

 Just remeber "You ALWAYS need more speed" ..lol, 8 Friggin inches short

 i just fell today and ripped my entire right side up and thought that was bad! i feel ya. and i think i speak for everyone when i say that we hope u feel well soon

 March 26th, have been Back on my bike and Even done a little Light Downhill Due to the nice Spring-like weather here.. winter was hell. Summer is gonna kick ass.

 Props dude!~~healing vibes~~

 yeah, demo 9... bomb proof. not even a scratch .

and Still riding it .

 fair does. ive done the same sort of thing on my glory but the drop i did was 15ft high by 10ft long with a log sticking out of the landing i came about a foot short but somehow rode out of it only problem was i turned the seat