Battle scars

[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.

[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? 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
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

[Bodge]

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

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!

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

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?

[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

[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

[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...

[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...

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.