Have any of you ever wrecked your bike? Lets here your story!
I was out by a place called Robinson Park for a short country-ish ride in the evening with a friend, the road has some nice turns in it but it is a little bumpy, but it can be a nice relaxing ride. We had turned around and we were on our way back, I admit we definately wernt doing the speed limit. I came into a corner abit too fast and hit the gravel on the outside edge of the turn. I remember thinking right before everything went black "Oh SHIT". Anyway, I guess its one of those survival things, your body just shuts down for a second. My left side landed on the road for a second with the bike, the bike quickly went off the road in the heart of the turn and stopped dead. I kept going (though I have no recollection) and bounced off sidee of the mountain(the road was dug through the side of a mtn) and landed back half in the street half in the ditch about 15 or 20 feet away. My body came back to life to one of my friends telling me not to move. I laid there for a moment until I could feel pain all around my body. My right shoulder seems to have taken almost all the abuse from the wreck. You can always tell something is wrong when you slightly move something and you can hear/feel things in your body grinding together.
I was wearing a full faced helmet, a leather jacket with elbow, shoulder, and spine pads. I was also wearing a nice pair of joe rocket sonic gloves. Leather boots and jeans. I ended up with just a little rash on my right leg(from after i hit the mtn i believe) and nice bruise on the left of my ass.
My buddy helped me get my jacket off while people were on the way to come get me and my bike. My shoulder was hanging about 2 or 3 inches too low compared to my other shoulder and with the jacket off you could see the bump under my shirt of the bone pushing against my skin.
I broke my Clavical/distal clavical (clavical is your collerbone) The weird thing is when you break your collar bone you break it in the thinnest spot close to your neck kind of. I broke mine near the edge of my shoulder. I went to the ER and they couldnt do anything for me, I got x-rays there and it looked like there was 1 or 2 breaks so they gave me some pain killers and recommended a surgeon if I wanted, if not they gave me some physical therapy notes. The one thing the ER Doc did do for me was write down that it was and interesting/not normal break on my sheet, so when the surgeon got the records from the hospital he saw me that very day. I went and had a ct scan done and it showed abit more than 2 breaks. The surgeon loaded me up with hydrocodine and told me to come back in a week for more xrays and to get ready for surgery if I wanted to get back full use of my shoulder and miss out on the arthritis type pain the rest of my life. Needless to say I went into surgery 2 weeks later and when he opened me up there was 14 peices of bone floating around in there. He did an experimental thing with me so instead of getting a huge steel plate in my shoulder with pins and screws holding my bones together and then having another surgery in 3 months he instead did it with string that disolves in three months. He drilled holes in all the bones and wrapped them all together, pulling my collar bone back down about an inch and into place. The surgery was about 3 hours and I spent a luxurious 3 days 2 nights in pain in the hospital. SO! Thats my story.
Here are some pics you can click to..
This is before surgery, a little blury but you can see the bump and lop sided shoulder.
This picture is a little graphic. This is in surgery.
Another in surgery pic..graphic..
And here was me a few days after getting released from the hospital:
So, I wanna hear about some of your wrecks!
I was out by a place called Robinson Park for a short country-ish ride in the evening with a friend, the road has some nice turns in it but it is a little bumpy, but it can be a nice relaxing ride. We had turned around and we were on our way back, I admit we definately wernt doing the speed limit. I came into a corner abit too fast and hit the gravel on the outside edge of the turn. I remember thinking right before everything went black "Oh SHIT". Anyway, I guess its one of those survival things, your body just shuts down for a second. My left side landed on the road for a second with the bike, the bike quickly went off the road in the heart of the turn and stopped dead. I kept going (though I have no recollection) and bounced off sidee of the mountain(the road was dug through the side of a mtn) and landed back half in the street half in the ditch about 15 or 20 feet away. My body came back to life to one of my friends telling me not to move. I laid there for a moment until I could feel pain all around my body. My right shoulder seems to have taken almost all the abuse from the wreck. You can always tell something is wrong when you slightly move something and you can hear/feel things in your body grinding together.
I was wearing a full faced helmet, a leather jacket with elbow, shoulder, and spine pads. I was also wearing a nice pair of joe rocket sonic gloves. Leather boots and jeans. I ended up with just a little rash on my right leg(from after i hit the mtn i believe) and nice bruise on the left of my ass.
My buddy helped me get my jacket off while people were on the way to come get me and my bike. My shoulder was hanging about 2 or 3 inches too low compared to my other shoulder and with the jacket off you could see the bump under my shirt of the bone pushing against my skin.
I broke my Clavical/distal clavical (clavical is your collerbone) The weird thing is when you break your collar bone you break it in the thinnest spot close to your neck kind of. I broke mine near the edge of my shoulder. I went to the ER and they couldnt do anything for me, I got x-rays there and it looked like there was 1 or 2 breaks so they gave me some pain killers and recommended a surgeon if I wanted, if not they gave me some physical therapy notes. The one thing the ER Doc did do for me was write down that it was and interesting/not normal break on my sheet, so when the surgeon got the records from the hospital he saw me that very day. I went and had a ct scan done and it showed abit more than 2 breaks. The surgeon loaded me up with hydrocodine and told me to come back in a week for more xrays and to get ready for surgery if I wanted to get back full use of my shoulder and miss out on the arthritis type pain the rest of my life. Needless to say I went into surgery 2 weeks later and when he opened me up there was 14 peices of bone floating around in there. He did an experimental thing with me so instead of getting a huge steel plate in my shoulder with pins and screws holding my bones together and then having another surgery in 3 months he instead did it with string that disolves in three months. He drilled holes in all the bones and wrapped them all together, pulling my collar bone back down about an inch and into place. The surgery was about 3 hours and I spent a luxurious 3 days 2 nights in pain in the hospital. SO! Thats my story.
Here are some pics you can click to..
This is before surgery, a little blury but you can see the bump and lop sided shoulder.
This picture is a little graphic. This is in surgery.
Another in surgery pic..graphic..
And here was me a few days after getting released from the hospital:
So, I wanna hear about some of your wrecks!
) 
ops: (I was 16, and stupid) and lost it. I was tickled pink to be able to ride on the back roads to Alice's Resteraunt (Same one the Bay Area Ride went to from the Hawk List) with the rest of the Velo club members. I was following the lead group and keeping up until we hit the twisties. They all had modern tires and my bike still had the old style "tyres" which do not allow for mistakes. I went in to the corner way too hot, tried to brake while still leaned over, and the bike slid out. I had enough sense to get off the bike when it slid out from under me and stop myself before I followed the bike down a cliff! 
at first but he was just as worried about my being o.k. I managed to get by without a scratch to me and just a couple of scuff marks on the leather pants and gloves. Needless to say, I was teased every time the group would pass that corner and it was nick-named "Georgie's Leap" as a result. 
Icon field armor leg. It's really cheap and feels solid enough to withstand moderate speed lowsides.
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