mountain biking is not my sport....
As a student I crashed my bike doing about 40mph. The back end locked up and skidded around to the side, I tried to bail out but as the bike hit the grass it slammed me into the ground. Missed a concrete drainage ditch by inches (would've smashed my skull and broken my neck), but:

As I'm a jammy bastard, here's the results:

As I crashed, a family who were out cycling nearby saw it happen. From their vantage point they could see a police car outside the park and rushed over to me and the cops. The police called an ambulance right away and as luck would have it, the police helecopter was nearby so guided them in.

In the ambulance I was joking away (that's adrenalin for you and I'm unstoppable and giggly when wired on it) as the ambulance guy wrote: Suspected concussion, suspected fractured skull, suspected broken arm (both), suspected broken nose, suspected broken elbow, suspected broken ribs, suspected fractured leg, Abrasions "Everywhere", suspected internal injuries and severe blood loss.

As I walked into the hospital (Damn that Adrenalin) they didn't treat me for 4 hours when at that point I collapsed in A+E as the adrenalin wore off.

what did I end up with?

Cut and scrapes on nose and leg, mild headache due to surface bruising for a few days, grazed chin, grazed leg, compressed wrists (still troubling me 10 years on) and a deep abrasion on my forearm.

Worst bit was the sprayskin. I took a big friction burn to the chest. Not good, as the nurse sprayed it with this antiseptic plastic stuff, it stung like a bastard and I almost passed out at that point...

I remember though that really wierd grey-out feeling that I got. All the colour drained out of the world as I was lying there on the ground bleeding away. Sound faded as well. Not nice...

since then, I've been pitched off riding on flat smooth tarmac (and got a broken elbow out of it), then 2 weeks ago a dog walker with an extendable lead got in the way, I went over the front and landed on my face and knee. Still got the scars...
(Mr Joe Bangles, Fri 26 Nov 2004, 13:11, Reply)