London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

Didn't realised how many riders ride the TdF with broken bones till they listed all the injuries among the riders today.

I rode (and taught cycling as a trainer) for around 14 days with a broken shoulder until the pain got bad enough to go to a doctor and get x-rayed. Have also ridden for 2 days with a split patella until it swelled up so much that i couldn't move the knee at all.

what riding have you done broken?

Various, most recently every day with left 5th metatarsal in three pieces...

collar none
and small bone in my wrist (with a caste)

fractured schaphoid in cast. Still have marks on my bar tape where the cast rubbed off the tape

Probably easier to ride with some breaks than it is to walk.

i stopped riding when my shoulder fracture was discovered though it must have got jarred more on foot than on wheels

Broken ankle... Didn't know it was broken so carried on as usual just waiting for the pain to subside... It was easier cycling than walking, I just geared down more than normal.

Riding broken is the new riding fixed.

only with a broken heart

lbbss.com

Broken humerous. 10 miles one handed on MTB before diagnosis.

Metacarpals and two ribs. It feels like shit now. My both hands feel like those of suffering from arthritis 80 yo.

Oh if you are including that I rode a mile after breaking my collar bone, then the pain got too much so I walked and carried the bike the rest of the way?!

I've also gone home from west drinks many times broken.

it is amazing that so many people are happy to ride with broken bones. On the occasional discussions about this with my GP her instinct is to advise not to cycle whaatever the injury

jostling with peds on the pavement and squeezing into tubes and onto buses was much more painful for my shoulder than being on my bike

wasn't me

I bet that was funny.

I was told that by my GP.

The same about testicular cysts (and I know many members of this forum suffers or suffered from them).
Interestingly, an urologist told me, to carry on riding, as long as I wear lycra shorts to keep junk in place and use a good saddle.


I was also advised to play more Lotto by a surgeon attending my sprained handy-wandy last week. She's said, that I'm obviously a very lucky individual, because I haven't broken my collar bone yet (WTF?!). She must be in the know with all the cycling trends nowadays.

rode bmx at a skatepark with my leg in a cast... only wee airs and some manual lines though...

perhaps we are more likely to break bones as cyclists since it seems we have a lower bone density due to not bearing weight (or is this just bad science?)

Had to ride back home with this injury, ouch.

8+weeks later and not 100% fully healed but am able to cycle again. Now left with my right arm permanently longer than the other with a distinctive lump on my shoulder.

^ouch!

Oh, I'm bearing weight alright.

broken wrist, once when i was a kid, until it snapped hopping up a pavement. I stop riding and walked after that.

After an epic mountain bike crash I had to ride 25 miles home with a dislocated shoulder and a few broken ribs.

Type two separation?

Rode my motorbike with a broken (pinned and plated) Fib / Tib. Had to carry my crutches with me because I couldn't really walk when I got off. Like someone else mentioned, a LOT less scary than public transport!

Yeah completely. Arm was hannging on by the muscle and not the ligaments.
Really hurt.

When it happened, three drunk guys crossed the road to see if I was alright. Nice to know some people are nice.

Thought as much... I had one ages a go but the doc's missed it, it wasnt until years later that when I was in for something else a doctor noticed the lump, had a look and told me I had previously had a type 2 separation, wondered why it hurt for about 3 months... sounds like yours was worse though..

Been riding over thirty years with shattered dreams and broken hopes.
Quiet in the snake, Sir is sobbing.

I'm one of those weird people that haven't managed to break a single bone.

Broken Collar bone cycling ftw

After getting run off the road on Waterloo Bridge I rode it out for months with a broken ankle, 3 cracked ribs and two dislocated thumbs.

Made me feel like a double hard man.

Rode home with a broken collar bone went to bed thinking "thish'll be fine in the morning" had to go to A&E the next day in agony. But i was very... very... drunk.

alcohol the wonder drug...
A swift hair of the dog that morning and you could have cycled to A+E

got through two lots of bartape riding with my hand and wrist in plaster. an avulsion fracture 'parrently - the ligament pulled off a chunk of bone when it snapped. Blessed with a wonky thumb now :)

this...

Worst off I ever had saw me fracture both wrists and take a massive chunk out of my arse. Rode home 20 miles like that and could barey grip the bars. I needed to ride out the saddle at times because i had a huge hole where earlier I'd had an arse cheek but was in agaony everytime I tried too. Excrutiating.

I have ridden with a fracture collar bone (basically got bored taking the bus after getting hit), but normally I don't ride after i am injured unless it is a commute.

Well I get it, at least...

After the Wests' Anniversary it took me three days to get to the A&E...

Ridden with a broken wrist, only briefly before it was put in the cast. Then rode with a cast after the first two weeks. Don't recommend it, really.

My left hand is still fucked after breaking the pinky finger and the outside bone through the knuckle. Stayed off the bike till the pins were removed but I ride it now. Still can't make a fist, or straighten the finger out and my grip strength is shit. But the NHS has given me loads of putty and exercises to do to make it better.

I'd like to think that eventually it will be back to normal.

It will bit you back when you're 60 :-P

Sorry couldn't resist.

I ride fixed sometimes up to the park with this set-up. It's a weird feeling after speed humps when the weight of the trailer and passengers makes the rear wheel skid forwards. My two kids are probably heavier than your littl'un though.

Oh yeah, and two broken ribs.

My one's is only (?) 20 kg. Sometimes I chuck shopping on the back.

I think like Everyone, I rode with a Broken Collar Bone. wasnt that bad. healed properly withing 3 weeks.

I do not understand this.

It skids. But forward ie. pushed by the weight from behind, on his own accord. I think he meant involuntary skids.

I think it's when the bike's momentum through weight pushes faster than you pedal and so the back wheel skids... Am I right?