Battle scars

[Uncle B]

Seems to be too many KB'rs going down lately (StoneChucker, Jazbug5, Zed.....)
Luckily i haven't hurt myself because of a motorcycle accident...touch wood, only youthful stupidity & hasty judgement gave me my scars.
Who has the most battle scars, broken bones, stitches, metal pins & other contraptions holding themselves together? Would it ever stop you from riding?

[Magua]

Best I can muster up is a scar on my right knee from a crash in 3/4 pants and a t shirt.

[Bonez]

Got hit by a car the day after I bought my brand new CB750FC2 in 1986. It came out of the Wrightson's drive way in Waipuk. Tried to chop down and go round but too late. A typical " I didn't see you" hit (had the h/l on and the bike is red and white). Clean break of the tibea and fibea. Luckily I had full leathers on that held everything together otherwise the leg would have been much worse.

[jrandom]

I occasionally get a slightly stiff neck, which could be related to a compressed wossname in my vertebra thingies that happened after I canned off on the motorway once.

Also, my leg still has a lumpy sore patch after I fell down while trying to be a five-year-old at the local playground some weeks ago. There was a motorcycle parked up on the road outside at the time, so I figure that one counts.

And then there are the deep-seated emotional issues about Telefonica racing teams which I just *know* I'm going to run head-on into when I buy my next motorcycle. Which, you see, will be black, and will therefore feature a notable absence of yellow chequered stripey bits over blue.

Bikes have screwed me up for good, man.

[Ms Piggy]

I've got a permanently bent little finger on my right hand from my first ever bin (earlier this year), I broke my pinky in 3 places. There's an old post about it with pics of the work in progress.

[Two Smoker]

Have binned it 6 times now (including today's one) but kluckily no major injuries...... just waiting for my bike one.....

[StoneChucker]

I'll have a scar on my right knee (when it heals and forms one that is), but apart from that nothing visible. Hope my sore neck is just temporary though.

[Motu]

I've lost most of my hair,and what's left has gone grey,same with the teeth,I need $9.95 Warehouse reading glasses now,all my clothes have shrunk,I can no longer put myself into the full lotus without using my hands,my short term memory is very erratic - oh the list goes on...take it from me - motorcycling will be the end of you my lad,oh yes it will...

[bluninja]

Motorcycling...
Cracked left floating rib from an off on a motorcross try out.
Cracked right rib from highside at Monza, plus scar on my left elbow from skin removal after I wore through the leathers in the ensuing slide.
Severe haematoma to both thighs, right forearm, left upper arm and shoulder, nerve damage to skin in both legs above knee which still hasn't repaired on right knee. My only RTA...bike versus tractor. My right patella was dented and still has the dent.
Triple fracture to base of thumb...Manfeild hairpin lowside....bike landed on hand. K wired...but wiring later removed.

Other....
Fractured clavicle - rugby, then falling on stairs, then Judo. 3 breaks in 6 months.
Fractured big toe x 8 judo.
Damaged anterior cruciate ligaments right knee.....rugby....refereeing!!
Broken leg and ankle....rugby. Leg screwed back onto foot. Screw (sorry pin) later removed so I could go back and play rugby. Scar on both sides of right ankle.
Whiplash...rugby....don't try and hold both front rows up with your neck all on your own :wacko:
various sprains, pulled muscles...dislocated fingers....all rugby amd judo.

and we won't go into the mental damage :whistle:

[badlieutenant]

Motorcycling...
Cracked left floating rib from an off on a motorcross try out.
Cracked right rib from highside at Monza, plus scar on my left elbow from skin removal after I wore through the leathers in the ensuing slide.
Severe haematoma to both thighs, right forearm, left upper arm and shoulder, nerve damage to skin in both legs above knee which still hasn't repaired on right knee. My only RTA...bike versus tractor. My right patella was dented and still has the dent.
Triple fracture to base of thumb...Manfeild hairpin lowside....bike landed on hand. K wired...but wiring later removed.

Other....
Fractured clavicle - rugby, then falling on stairs, then Judo. 3 breaks in 6 months.
Fractured big toe x 8 judo.
Damaged anterior cruciate ligaments right knee.....rugby....refereeing!!
Broken leg and ankle....rugby. Leg screwed back onto foot. Screw (sorry pin) later removed so I could go back and play rugby. Scar on both sides of right ankle.
Whiplash...rugby....don't try and hold both front rows up with your neck all on your own :wacko:
various sprains, pulled muscles...dislocated fingers....all rugby amd judo.

and we won't go into the mental damage :whistle:


got life insurance ? Are you elegible for health insurance ? Can you calculate how much of the acc money we've all paid that your'v used ?? would be nice to know that some of went on a biker :D

[Mr Skid]

Seems to be too many KB'rs going down lately (StoneChucker, Jazbug5, Zed.....)
Luckily i haven't hurt myself because of a motorcycle accident...touch wood, only youthful stupidity & hasty judgement gave me my scars.
Who has the most battle scars, broken bones, stitches, metal pins & other contraptions holding themselves together? Would it ever stop you from riding?

No scars, no stiches, no pins (yet) one, possibly two broken bones. And a head that doesn't work properly 4 weeks on. :mad:

[Slim]

:laugh: at Motu's post. Good call!



For me? Just two small, round friction burn scars: one on my elbow & the other on my knee - 2 seperate accidents of the total 4 that I've been involved in.

My eyesight, memory, joints and mental health are all still intact. In fact, I think my motorcycle is definitely beneficial to my mental health. :love: My teeth are all still in good working order, I only dye my hair because my natural colour is a bit boring (and No, it's not naturally grey yet :p ) and I'm unlikely to go bald, I've never had to buy new leathers because of mysterious shrinkage of my current ones, and I've never been able to put myself in a "full lotus" anyway. ;)

[James Deuce]

#1 Broken thumb, #2 Broken scaphoid, #3 ruptured anterior ligament in ankle, #4 bruised knee (like black AND blue AND purple),#5 4 compression fractures for four vertebrae, head injury, resussed twice on way to hospital, swollen testicles (they don't make a good hammer for denting the back of the tank, no matter WHAT you read in erotic publications), torn spinae erector muscles, separated shoulder, thoracic outlet syndrome from the compressed T4 and T5 fractures. Oh and migraines and memory loss.

A tragic suit once bit the dust too. It was the eighties though.

[bluninja]

got life insurance ? Are you elegible for health insurance ? Can you calculate how much of the acc money we've all paid that your'v used ?? would be nice to know that some of went on a biker :D

life insurance only kicks in if you die...what I need is critical illness cover :eek: Unless I want to make my wife rich after I'm gone.

Only the thumb was ACC...all the rest were UK NHS or private health cover.

[Ms Piggy]

I've got a permanently bent little finger on my right hand from my first ever bin (earlier this year), I broke my pinky in 3 places. There's an old post about it with pics of the work in progress.

Oh yeah I forget (after readings Slim's post) I have a burn scar on my left arm from my exhaust. Got that when I was a very new rider. :mellow:

[Fryin Finn]

Bike prang injuries
Broken Left scaphoid
Dislocated right shoulder - 11 times reconstructed in 1979
Dislocated left shoulder - 2 times
Broken and partially dislocated left wrist
Broken right collarbone - but didn't dislocate my shoulder at the time - quite pleased about that as it was just after my shoulder op.
Lately bruised ribs from stalling my dirtbike and falling off backwards.
Dodgy left knee but can still run if I have too.
Scarred right shin/calf where footpeg caught on downstroke of kickstarter on SRX 600.
My nose bleeds when I pick it too much.
Playing softball has helped in the rehbilitation of my right shoulder as I throw right handed. :sunny:

[riffer]

Broken two ribs
Stuffed vertebrae cushioning thingies in my neck just like jrandom
Ruptured anterior cruciate in left knee - reconstructed
Ruptured posterior cruciate in right knee - unreconstructed
Partially ruptured medial and posterior ligament in left knee - arthroscopy reconstruction with partial removal of cartilage
Loose, clicky ankles (not sure why - but get worse with every ankle sprain)

Bugger all really.

[vifferman]

I've lost most of my hair,and what's left has gone grey,same with the teeth,...Grey teeth, eh?:wacko: Like mine - all amalgum, and no enamel...
Haven't we had this "comparing war wounds" thread before?
I've been very lucky; no broken bones that I know of (although I suspect my left heel); 9 stitches in my right knee, scars on my ankle, barbed-wire wound on my other one, and my right shoulder joint's a bit dodgy as a result of two lowsides on it after I'd damaged it in a fall at home.

[Blakamin]

No injuries (that i can remember) from falling off motorcycles. but i have a stuffed neck and knees after being run over walking to work when i was 16. hit and run too. bastard escort driver!

oh one of my brothers ran my old yammy into the corner of his own house :lol:
broke his thumb and my clutch (and my muffler fell off)
I think it was revenge for getting tranny fluid on his back lawn... 14 years and that bit is still bare. even after digging it up 2 a depth of 3 feet :2thumbsup

[Bodge]

Not very proud of my offs but I need to get my post count up :niceone:

18 stitches in knee after coming off on the desert road. Army butchers stuffed up the anesthetic and then the nurse told me I was a blouse for screaming... well I kinda was - but I could feel EVERY stitch! :crybaby:

Broken ankle crashing the flat scooter into a fence whilst doing time trials around the block. My excuse is - I had no rear brake because it was difficult to operate with a cast on my leg [which I broke at a toga party the week before]. And I did set the fastest time :cool:

Two broken legs sucked though....

[Zed]

I've had three bins in the 18+ yrs I've been riding bikes. Two of them on the road (within the last three months on the same bike!) and one off road where I came off my trail bike and as I was getting up another bike took out my leg with his footpeg - had to get about 10 stitches in a gash that just missed the bone by millimeters! Other than that injury I have no scars or broken bones resulting from motorcycles...thankfully!

[Joni]

I popped my shoulder out once, not very different from Zeds bin - I still get a sore arm and back... or is that age catching up to me? :laugh:

[Madmax]

plate&pins in left lower leg
k - rod in upper (same leg)
right scaphoid was so damaged it was removed along with the
whole proximal row (my right wrist is 1/2 inch shorter than the other)
wire in two of my ribs
had a few broken toes as well
have rebroken a few bones as well
all up 53 breaks in 23 years
(not all bike related)
opps forgot my left arm (broke that on a skateboard)
will not stop me riding
:wacko:

[Jackrat]

Apart from losing half a finger an a couple of dog bites,all my injurys have come from bikes.Dangerous bloody things.
Both Knees pretty scared up,both elbows pretty scared up,interesting scar on left side of swede,big scar just above right elbow where the mirror stem went through,big lump on left collar bone from high side,scar on left bum cheek from road rash,same on back of left shoulder,long scar up spine from operation after rooting back puting Ducati SD on main stand,scars up right shin from sliping off kick start lever on BSA,(that really hurts an it's no more fun copping it in the calf mussle)Scars on both hands,yes I was wearing gloves,scar running through right eye brow,and a few small scars on forehead.
I'm trying to avoid anymore for now thanks.

[Wenier]

Well i aint hurt myself on a bike yet :). But from sport i have shin splits(think thats wut it is called) so my shins hurt a shit load when i stop from runnin round which makes it hard to run or even walk round after a run. And the only other thing is my back which can get damn sore but thats related to sport and i never seen a doctor bout that.

[dhunt]

Well Bike related don't think I've got any scars at the moment. But have broken leg, wrist, twisted ankle bruised leg in one bin. Burnt my leg on motorX bike wearing shorts as you do.

Non bike related most of my scars are from doing stupid thinks like playing with knifes or spear guns. Such as get a fish hook in the head :Oops:

[Motu]

I hate posting in threads like this cause I don't really have much to say,the damage is pretty minimal,and I aim to keep it that way! don't jinx me now eh? It's not that I haven't come off a bike - I'm no stranger to sliding down the road.The talk about putting my legs in the full lotus without lifting them was not bullshit,I could do that easy - I think that suppleness and agility were helping here...I don't hit the ground like a sack of spuds,more like throwing a cat out the window,not on my feet,but knowing the situation and reacting on the wing as it were.At least that's how it used to be,at 51 I'm not exactly in the prime of youth,I feel 18,but the stamina and agility have gone - I don't need to put myself in the wrong situation these days.

My spills off road are countless,but anyone who's ridden off road for more than a couple of years knows that,road spills well into the teens before I started to work on the cause,I've been down many,many times on the dirt track,on the left hip every time,the low speed smacks I get in trials I think have done the more damage.So what have I got? - the left hip of course,I can no longer swing my leg over my tall dirt bikes...I now mount horse style,on the sidestand,standing on the right peg and swinging my left leg over.Ankles,shins and knees have taken lots of knocks in trials,but nothing to point to.I'm just getting stiff - I reckon it's more to do with my age than damage done.

I reckon riding bikes has done me no harm - only good... :niceone:

[The Pastor]

Yeah mu uncle lost his spleen when he was a young fella. i havnt had any accidents. mainly cos i havnt bought my first bike yet! Ive came off an 80 on a dirt track tho, got back up and keep'd riding to find out i broke my pinky finger :S didnt even feel it.

[badlieutenant]

riding is all good. ! scar near hip from low speed wipe out. Work is by far more dangerous. Watched a work mate get run over by truck & trailer at jogging pace filled with hay, popped internals & he had broken most things then he died. Another guy got his leg caught in the mono (fishing line) as we were taking it on board onto a drum, twist a towel up and thats what his jeans looked like but his leg was still in it. Just last week guy put posi drive bit thru hand, imitating jesus. Smashed myself with the hammmer, and not like a newbie either, i was putting 110% into a hit to make wood move, bummer i missed and hit my knee. You dont want to shoot your hand with a nail gun either. Another guy lent on a old hand rail and fell a storey or so just about missing the concrete pad we had poured the week before, but not quite, he gashed his head and one of the bones in his wrist was poking thru his skin.
One of my skippers took a wrap (twisting line around hand, not good) on mono and then asked the other guy to start the engine AFTER he had made sure the hydraulics were off (this pulls the mono on board with ALOT of force). They werent and he still did. After alot of noise and screaming the skipper fiqured his hand was all right because when he shook it his fingers didnt fall off, he pulled the rest of the line in (albiet with one hand) and we set off home (12 hours away). When he got to the hospital and after surgery they said that if hed been any longer theyd have amputated his hand.
A stingray barb went thru the hand of one work mate, like jesus again, and the worst part for him was his idea that squirting iodine thru the wound untill it came out the other side would make it better. After you got used to him screaming it got kinda funny.
Ill keep riding, you never know when you might die at work.

[2_SL0]

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My spills off road are countless,but anyone who's ridden off road for more than a couple of years knows that,road spills well into the teens before I started to work on the cause,I've been down many,many times on the dirt track,on the left hip every time,the low speed smacks I get in trials I think have done the more damage.So what have I got? - the left hip of course,I can no longer swing my leg over my tall dirt bikes...I now mount horse style,on the sidestand,standing on the right peg and swinging my left leg over.Ankles,shins and knees have taken lots of knocks in trials,but nothing to point to.I'm just getting stiff - I reckon it's more to do with my age than damage done.

I reckon riding bikes has done me no harm - only good... :niceone:

Completly agree on the slow crash always being nasty. Ive done many a high speed off in bush and just rolled thru the scrub. But the nasty ones occurred at low speed. The best I did was broken ribs bruised shoulder blade.
I have also torn muscle tissue from off the rib cage. (thats a bastard takes a while to settle down.) Ran over my own foot (foot peg snapped off and foot went under rear wheel ripped me off the bike.) According to friends that one was funny to see. (however from my point of view at the time it was slightly uncomfortable.) Oh and I learnt the benefits of jamming the brake lever into the fingers against a tree. Plus just the normal bruises and cuts. Done the normal backflip going up the hill and ended up getting a nasty burn from exhaust. I think thats it. Generally its not been a good day on the dirt unless I was hurting. Hence I have given up the dirt. Oh and the sound the body makes at a slow speed crash when you hit the ground at force, CLAP your hands once as hard as you can. BINGO. :crybaby:

[Motu]

Generally its not been a good day on the dirt unless I was hurting.

I still think that - to me getting up on monday morning stiff and sore is immensly satisfying,means I was working hard and took some good spills that did no damage.And yes,the low speed smacks into trees and rocks hurt bad,ankles,shins and hands - of course if I was a better rider it wouldn't happen eh?

[2_SL0]

I was telling myself you dont get better without pushing it, hence the bins. Its
ironic, but works. I just wont be applying the same theory on the road. I dont mind falling off, its the car behind me running over me thats the issue.

[White trash]

I've had some pretty nasty injuries, but none as bad as what I should have had, given the circumstances of most of my bins.

My legs look like they've got more scarring than real skin, especialy my hips and knees.

Both my feet are rooted and will need some surgery to immobilise the joints back from the toes in the next couple of years.

Reduced mobility in my right wrist due to two breaks and a broken/pinned scaphoid.

[NordieBoy]

I go to the chiropractor every 2 weeks for my back and neck which gets a bit stiff and sore from the bike helmet (and years of riding triathlon bikes) about 35 visits so far and I think we're making progress.
Havn't broken anything yet.
Havn't fallen off in the dirt yet.
Fallen off on the road 3 times now over 20 years.
1st time was a slick tar highside on a QT50 scooter - no damage.
2nd Up the back of a van at 30kph on an SR185 - sprained wrist.
3rd was the Nordwest getting hit from behind while waiting at the lights - Bike written off and I had a sore little finger.

I'll probably be able to at least double the count this weekend at the North v South though :2thumbsup at least all the traffic will be going in the same direction :rockon:

BTW. The barter system is great :yes:
I get free warrants etc for my bikes (3) and the chiropractor is free as well.
You just need to know more about computers than they do :stupid:

[Dodgyiti]

My one and only, was on the Nor Western M/Way
Got right in the middle of a 6 car pile up.
Head butted the median barrior at 100kmh
Slammed and dragged by the crashing cars.
Injuries;
Left leg snapped at the hip joint and at the knee
Lower left leg fractured in 5 places, but not broken
Left ankle pointing the wrong way [ backwards]
Right leg fractured in 3 places, but not broken.
And one 'nad like a grapefruit, and the other around the size of a small orange.
2 years later and some bone fragments came adrift in my wrist and had to be removed
But no skin lost as I always ride with full gear.
Outcome;
6 x screws, 1 x rod
4 months no walking
Possibility no kids
Half a buttock missing
gammy leg/ wrist
3 years pain, phisio [ more pain]
And a healthy fear of ever binning again

[badlieutenant]

My one and only, was on the Nor Western M/Way
Got right in the middle of a 6 car pile up.
Head butted the median barrior at 100kmh
Slammed and dragged by the crashing cars.
Injuries;
Left leg snapped at the hip joint and at the knee
Lower left leg fractured in 5 places, but not broken
Left ankle pointing the wrong way [ backwards]
Right leg fractured in 3 places, but not broken.
And one 'nad like a grapefruit, and the other around the size of a small orange.
2 years later and some bone fragments came adrift in my wrist and had to be removed
But no skin lost as I always ride with full gear.
Outcome;
6 x screws, 1 x rod
4 months no walking
Possibility no kids
Half a buttock missing
gammy leg/ wrist
3 years pain, phisio [ more pain]
And a healthy fear of ever binning again


dude thats rough

[wari]

I SPlit my finger naile zippin uppe my bootes this mornin' ...

I NEed a hugg ... :cry:

[NC]

Seems to be too many KB'rs going down lately (StoneChucker, Jazbug5, Zed.....)




The love boat :buggerd:



I need to go, somewhere. Anywhere...away from here..... :mellow:

[Joni]

I SPlit my finger naile zippin uppe my bootes this mornin' ...

I NEed a hugg ... :cry:

Im sure they are lining up after that request :eek:

[jaxda]

Finally back on a bike after tooooo long without, had moto-x, trail and road in the past and the appropriate bins on all, so hopefully used up all my bad mojo/kama and the bike gods have forgotten about me :not: btw hello :spudwave:

[Teflon]

My first crash was quite funny. Just finished passing a van @ 160+ probaly gave them the sh*ts, hit next left hander engine siezed, highsided at about 140ish, ended up in the ditch. Next minute the same van drives past laughing and waving.