Cycling injuries- the gorier the better.

[Ruthie]

Oufff!  That'll stick nicely to the sheets later.

[Pingu]

Nice effort phanta! Sorry to hear about the clothing & bike damage, at least skin heals. Did you report the pot hole to the cooncil?

[spindrift]

Disc brake, apparently:



http://cyclingtips.com/2016/04/ventoso-confirms-disc-brakes-sliced-his-leg-open-calls-for-action-on-giant-knives/

[Kim]

http://cyclingtips.com/2016/04/ventoso-confirms-disc-brakes-sliced-his-leg-open-calls-for-action-on-giant-knives/

*wince*

I'm sure they'll have to do a lot to catch up with chainrings in terms of inflicted gore, but that does seem a reasonable argument (if one were needed) to stick to rim brakes for road racing.

[Peter]

What's the "baler twine" about?

[Mrs Pingu]

Nice.

[Pancho]

What's the "baler twine" about?

It's his cyborg insides showing.

BTW, that is proper gory. Just what this thread was set up for!

[Peter]

Ha!  Hopefully not a quick-release mech. for the staples...

[fuzzy]

If that was my wound, I would need a medical professional to keep slapping my hand away when I started tugging at the loose ends......

[spindrift]

Big ring scars are useful if you want to explain them by saying you were attacked by a shark with very regular teeth.

[hellymedic]

If that was my wound, I would need a medical professional to keep slapping my hand away when I started tugging at the loose ends......

I think that blue thing is a drain, designed to vent Evil Fluids away from the flap wound so that the flap sticks and lives.
If blood and goo accumulate under a flap, it can Slough Off and Die.

Once a wound oozes less and the flap looks a Healthy Pink cf a Dusky Blue, the drain can be Pulled Out with ouchiness.

If the flap turns Black, a skin graft might be needed.

[clarion]

Almost certainly not inflicted by a brake disc

[zigzag]

apparently this incident was enough for uci to stop disc brake testing in pro races

[caerau]

Disc brake, apparently:



http://cyclingtips.com/2016/04/ventoso-confirms-disc-brakes-sliced-his-leg-open-calls-for-action-on-giant-knives/

Without the blue thing, this looks remarkable like my arm did after an operation in Feb.  I blame the surgeon, no a brake disc there - though he'd probably suggest it might have been an idea not to try cycling on ice. 

[Vince]

Almost certainly not inflicted by a brake disc

What makes you say that Clarion?

[L CC]

How does the front of a left leg come into contact with a disc brake?

[Tim Hall]

How does the front of a left leg come into contact with a disc brake?

Going into the back of the bike in front according to the article.

[Kim]

Perhaps they were flying inverted?

[Cudzoziemiec]

More likely to have been his own brake disc as it's a left leg, surely?

[rabbit]

I thought I'd put these up here, but hey ho - here they are a bit late. Guess it's no secret I went a bit snap at the end of March. Didn't take long to fix up thanks to some great surgery at Gloucester Hospital.  The screw in my Scaphoid is an old injury.

[barakta]

Nice metal work there Rabbit. Hope your arm is healing well and you're getting as much use out of it as possible.

[caerau]

How is it when the weather warms?


A colleague of mine at work has had a very similar operation recently - he got mugged to get his fracture - nice    - and he says the metal expands and contracts depending on the air temperature so he can feel a storm coming...  He can hardly hold a pen a few months after so I guess it's a little different.

[L CC]

Brace yourself, crash damage :

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[Peter]

Nasty!  How's the rider?

[matthew]

It's the chip on the top tube that I can't understand how you did it.