Bike related injuries that wont go away...

[Wolf]

Relatively unscathed - the triquetral bone in my right wrist still occasionally goes for a wander into the path of other bones and causes a painful grinding sensation (second encounter with gravel on a corner), small cigar shaped scar on the left outer thigh where the skin split even beneath my clothes (same accident) and scars on inside of both thighs from the raised plastic badges on the tank (arse-ending a car - mental note: Do not tense up and grip the bike with thighs in future, better yet, don't drive up the arse of cars...)

Honestly, I've got nastier scars from my childhood than any the bikes have given me.

[Waylander]

(arse-ending a car - mental note: Do not tense up and grip the bike with thighs in future, better yet, don't drive up the arse of cars...)

Yea not fun although it's interesting to see the damage your legs can do to the tank.

But to prevent others from trying it if you want to know just PM me and I'll go take a pic of the tank on the Rebel.

[Indiana_Jones]

My right hand knee can hurt in the cold sometimes...but i can fix that

-Indy

[Holy Roller]

Right hip, both knees, right shoulder, right shoulder, right shoulder, right shoulder still recovering from last waltz with a cage a couple of months ago. Left ring finger, right elbow though they manly only hurt when it is really cold, I do like winter rallies though I may be to my work mates and to the Mrs but one has to experience life and all of its pleasures, when one is still able to.

[Kwaka-Kid]

dont count how manys times ive crashed bikes!

Still in mint condition, just like a new one.

Offers?

[onearmedbandit]

Right ankle still gives me a bit of grief from time to time, suppose it should as it basically slowed me down from about 90 to 0 in the space of a metre.

But the biggie that will never go away of course is my spinal injury, Avulsed C5, C6, C7, C8 and T1 nerves from the spinal cord, no use of my left arm but 24hr a day pain to remind me that its still there. The arm itself isn't damaged as such, but the raw nerve endings on my spine send pain signals to the old noggin, making it feel like my arms burnt, having the skin peeled of it, being broken over and over again. It feels like my elbow is being crushed in a vice, like metal rods are expanding in my arm and tearing the muscle etc. I have the feeling of my hand being wrapped around a red hot knife and the knife cutting my hand, along with the feeling of very painful gravel rash on my palm. Sometimes it feels like I have molten metal burning through my viens, that one really gets me. A lot of the time it feels also like I have a large metal spike sticking into my back on the upper left shoulder blade area, and everytime I sneeze it sends 'electric shots' through the left hand side of my body.

Thats how it is during the good times, when it gets really bad I like to ride the wave of euphoria that follows the rush of pain the locks me up, its the only way I can get through it, kind of the light at the end of the tunnel. Also due to artery damage in my chest I have Horners syndrome, where the blood fow to the left hand side of my face ( I think) is reduced meaning my left pupil is smaller than my right, my left eyelid is more closed and apparently I sweat less on the left hand side of my face.

All in all, I'm happy with my lot. In fact if it hadn't of been for my accident my life wouldn't of taken the path it did and I never would have met my future-wife. So good comes out of bad. And knowing full well the risks of riding (and crashing), I'll continue to ride for as long as I can.

[Bonez]

Lump where the tib and fids have knitted on my left leg when I was T-boned by a car in a 50kph area. Twinge in the back of the kneck from another off and the odd back pain from too much riding. How many motocyclists does it take to change a light bulb?

[Beemer]

19? Riding 18 months and crashed EIGHT times? Man, unless they're all on the track (and even then I'd be worried), I'd be asking why so many crashes or taking up something I was a little better at!

[TonyB]

Crikey- admin delete this thread before ACC uses it for propaganda! The only long term effects I have from riding are a right knee that still wobbles sideways a bit about 14 years after being hit by a car. Doesn't hurt though. And I have a back injury that was agravated by, but not caused by the same accident- 5mm forward shift of L1. There was a danger I'd end up in a wheel chair, but a change to a desk job fixed that. Rarely gives trouble now.

[Firefight]

yeah right knee buggered up,when I fucked up a jump in motox days, shit loads of Arthritis (sp?) now, creaks in winter hurts in the cold. Best relief has been from taking Celery extract(tastes like battery acid mixed with horse piss) but better than gut eroding Anti inflam meds.

Big hunk out of shoulder, off road ride again .

Bit bit I guess a good chance to thank Mrs F/F for all the times she has scrapped me off the track, bundled me and the bike to home/hospital.

Thank you

F/F

[That Guy]

But the biggie that will never go away of course is my spinal injury, Avulsed C5, C6, C7, C8 and T1 nerves from the spinal cord, no use of my left arm but 24hr a day pain to remind me that its still there. The arm itself isn't damaged as such, but the raw nerve endings on my spine send pain signals to the old noggin, making it feel like my arms burnt, having the skin peeled of it, being broken over and over again. It feels like my elbow is being crushed in a vice, like metal rods are expanding in my arm and tearing the muscle etc. I have the feeling of my hand being wrapped around a red hot knife and the knife cutting my hand, along with the feeling of very painful gravel rash on my palm. Sometimes it feels like I have molten metal burning through my viens, that one really gets me. A lot of the time it feels also like I have a large metal spike sticking into my back on the upper left shoulder blade area, and everytime I sneeze it sends 'electric shots' through the left hand side of my body.

Thats how it is during the good times, when it gets really bad I like to ride the wave of euphoria that follows the rush of pain the locks me up, its the only way I can get through it, kind of the light at the end of the tunnel. Also due to artery damage in my chest I have Horners syndrome, where the blood fow to the left hand side of my face ( I think) is reduced meaning my left pupil is smaller than my right, my left eyelid is more closed and apparently I sweat less on the left hand side of my face.

Holy crap that sounds hideous.

Just a dumb question - if you can't use it; and it causes you hell all day every day; why not get rid of it?

I've had many crashes meself mostly doing mx...but my lingering pain comes from injuries playing rugby not motorcycling. Bad rugby.

[Quasievil]

mmmmm 25 year of riding bikes and got fuck all to show for it on the injury front. but here goes.

Ran up the back of a car on the motorway south of palmy north in 82 and broke me tooth and burnt my ankle (the only lasting signs of the crash)

Dropped my bikes a few more times but left completely un scathed luckily for me

and er um well thats it. A 40 year old model without much damage at all.

[Oscar]

Working down, we have a large scar on the top lip (1989) which has to be covered with hair, a crack in the spinal vertabrae C3 (1998) which is a pain in cold weather, a lower back tha's a disaster area and a right knee (1991) with a 350 degree tear in the cartilige and a snapped ligament, that refuses to werk some days.

That's only the ones that still gimme gip...

[vifferman]

Despite some crashes (8? 9? dunno...) I've been really lucky. When I wrote off my frst bike (T-boned a car and somersaulted over the roof), I got 9 stitches in my right knee, bruises and contusions, but no broken bones. Despite the doctor saying I'd probably need surgery on the knee sometime, it's been fine - the left one (non-injured) is the problem one, but that's aaaaaaarrrrthritis.

I have very very slight nerve damage in my left ankle from the first m/bike ride I had - stopped across the hill (good) but overbalanced and fell off on the downhill side, crushing my (unprotected) ankle (bad). I also have a numb spot on the inside of my left knee, where it got crushed between the VFR750 and the car that u-turned into me, and my left heel aches in cold weather (same accident). Apart from these things, that's it. My right shoulder had a damaged rotator cuff from a non-motorcycling injury, aggravated by a subsequent lowside, and that causes problems, but not bad. However, I believe that that injury, and the subsequent torture by Dr Machiavelli (physio) is what triggered the aaaaaaarrrrthritis, which bothers me somewhat, from time to time, e.g., I can't sit on the bike for more than an hour without pain in my knees.

But I can't complain - I've had no broken bones (as far as I know - but I have suspicions about that left heel), and if I got a bit more exercise, I'd have pretty much full mobility.

[Sparky Bills]

Dislocated right knee cap, but that started with a hockey ball going into the side of it.
Few crashes on that side, and its still giving me shit!
Everynow and then it stings like hell, but other than that..
just the usual stuff..

missing fingers, my head can turn right around, part of my spine has been removed and a huge lump has formed, one eye bigger than the other, and i drowl on myself