Yep, I was riding pretty hard and jumping a bit with some kids in the area. Pretty simple peddal slip. When I recovered, somehow or another, my right ankle hit the back side of my front sprocket and laid my ankle wide open. The bone was exposed and it took a number of stitches to fix it up.

My wife reminded me I am 37, not 17!

Knarly man. At least you'll have a cool scar out of it. Hope it heals up quick.

Yikes! Get well soon. You can tell all the ladies it's a shark bite!

chris, have a zipper tattoo on it

Zipper would be cool!

we all have those scars, from 20 years ago. Keep rip'n it up for all us old guys. I hope you didn't cry in front of the kids.

No crying at all.

In fact, one of the kids, said "Too bad, man, you were jammin"

I will say, once my wife picked my up and we were on our way to the ER, it really started to hurt.

ouch! at least you went down in a blaze of glory.

You didn't have a chain guard??

Nice one! Chicks dig scar's !

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Man, I feel for ya.. I hope that they numbed it before they started scrubbing it out with the thick bristled plastic brush... Heal fast.

Ouch, Chris that looks scary. Let's turn this thread into a freak show. Last summer I raced in an old school veterans cup in Germany after 20 years of non riding BMX anymore. I just came out of the first steep turn when I crashed at a small bump and tried to catch the fall with my left foot. As a result my heel bone was broken several times and had to be fixed with a metal plate and ten screws:


I was able to walk some steps without crutches only four month later and after another six month the metal was removed:



Meanwhile I'm fine again and this scar is the only thing that's left after one year:



Next veterans cup will be in a couple of weeks, let's see how it goes...

cu

muol,
you win the freakshow contest.

I will make certain my wife doesn't see this thread now.

whoa!!!

sorry about your scrape...did some kid really say 'jammin'??
lol

yeesh muol you could build a pit bike with all that metal!

that is funny rick. it could also be a dirt jump with a bike launching off it. or the top of beldar's cone.

Rick, excellent!


Invisible, yes, a 16 year old kid told me I was jammin. I don't know that I was jammin - getting gnarly maybe, but not jammin.

That sucks Chris! Were you @ Ohio Dreams when it happened? Just think, it could always be worse.....

Dude.. that pic should not be here.. Period

Steve,
I WAS eating breakfast - dang you!!!


No, I was being a cool kid on the street jumping some dirt piles at a local construction site.

that pic is awesome.....
i have others,but i been kicked off here before!!!!!!!

What in the Sam h3ll was that guy doing? Freestylers are just plain sick .....