Are you a member of the Broken Collarbone Club?

[nikki]

I am guessing a broken collarbone has to be the most "popular" dirtbiking injury... so I just wanted to post a little poll to see how true it is. Amazing it only takes something like 12 lbs of pressure to break your collarbone. Red and I are both members of the "club" of course. :debil:

 

[Smit-Dog]

I've only broken 2 bones in 39 years...

Both times it was a collarbone.

Both times it was the same side.

Both times riding dirt bikes.

20 years apart....

High up on my list of "Never want to do that again!"

 

[Senior KX Rider]

Never a collar bone (knock on wood) but I have broken a few ribs, a bone in my hand, some fingers and my foot twice. All of my broken bones have been while riding :(

 

[biglou]

Oh, right! Like I'm gonna say "No". I might as well throw myself collarbone first down a flight of stairs. :p :laugh:

 

[Senior KX Rider]

Originally posted by BigLou
Oh, right! Like I'm gonna say "No". I might as well throw myself collarbone first down a flight of stairs. :p :laugh:

I hope I didn't curse myself :ugg:

 

[nikki]

Sissies! :confused:

 

[Kav]

I streched out my ring finger past my middle finger with a door when I was younger. As far as riding goes, I'm great at crashing but so far I haven't broken any bones.

 

[Rich Rohrich]

Most of my broken bones came from an assortment of bicycle racing crashes.

One Collar bone, five ribs, four fingers, right hand broken twice, one concussion, one cervical compression and about 4 square feet of scar tissue. :eek:
Last time I checked there was still bits of my blood and skin clinging to the surface of the Northbrook Velodrome. :scream:

I had to start riding dirtbikes again just to stay healthy :)

 

[Timr]

No Colar bone breaks yet...

2-ribs at MWSF '00

1-rib about 2 years before that in a tubing crash at the lake.

 

 

 

[biglou]

Originally posted by nikki
Sissies! :confused:

Alright! I voted. But I swear, if I break my collarbone this weekend, the monkey will be calling you at the most inopportune times you can imagine...

"EEE-EEE-EEE-EEE-EEE" :moon:

 

[Moteaux]

I didn't break the collarbone. I separated my shoulder, broke two ribs, broken hip. Several fingers and a couple of toes to go along with it.

 

[OKKX'er]

Yep! Doesn't take much of a crash, either.

Not while riding- arm 2X, collar bone.

While riding-each leg, collar bone, ribs.
My bones are obviously faulty.

 

[Farmer John]

left collarbone.... 3 times
right collarbone.... 2 times
& a whole bucket full of other bones broken... :ugg:

All done ('cept one horse riding incident) in motorcycle related incidents.... Most were done back when I road raced.

I really love riding motorcycles......just wish I knew how. ;)

 

[oldguy]

Myself, the kid and Dilbert all are on the dirtbike related list.
Collarbone was one of the last bones I had not already broken so I guess it was time due in July:(
The kid has broken 3 arms snowboarding and collarbone MXing. He has also broken fingers riding
Dilbert broke his collarbone and 2 ribs at DW03

 

[pyrofreak]

Right arm, both bones, in half, 2 Ti plates, 12 screws, awesome scars, and left wrist, 3 places, same time, same place, BMXing, whole lot of morephine, lots of drugged up nintendo time.

 

[KelvinKDX]

Nikki - i voted.  Now what do i do?  Sit back and count the days until i break a collar bone?  I've broke others and my boss at work asks me everytime he sees me (which is about every three months) "so...have you or Wendy  broken your collar bone yet?"

somehow after voting i now feel cursed!! :|

 

[blackhawk468]

I've never broken a bone.

 

[GETMETOCA]

I know four of my riding friends who have broken their collar bones in the last year. Oh, wait, I counted Mick twice... :)

 

[tomahawk]

I broke my collarbone riding a bicycle . Does that count.

 

[Tommy O.]

Riding related- 1 thumb, 2 fingers, 3 ribs cracked, 1 front tooth, and most recently shattered lower half of knee and tibia (9/20/03). Nonriding- Both collarbones two different times wrestling, 3 fingers at work, and nose while waterskiing.

 

[Zerotact]

I broke my collar bone while acting liek I knew how to ride on a motorcross track, the first time I ever met a group of fellow DRNer's. It was completely embarassing

 

[BunduBasher]

does falling off a horse count !? :eek: :) - yup, broke my right collarbone going full tilt on one of the motorbikes without brakes !!! :)

 

[BEEF706]

Collarbone, no, 2 ribs, both little fingers, (at the same time, no less ) left hand twice, ( 2 different bones) are we counting ligament and soft tissue damage? I have to paraphrase Farmer John, i REALLY love this MX stuff, wish I could do it. :eek: (BTW I am almost sure I'll do a callarbone this weekend now, shouldn't have voted)

 

[drzgod]

Collar Bone, Pinky finger and left tibia all at once when I was 16. Never had a broken bone since (now 44,) knock wood. Did tear my MCL earlier this year though.

 

[jeffroe996]

Riding related:

* Left collarbone (is now plated with 7 screws)
* Right tibia, compound (now includes zimmer tibial nail in it with 6 screws)
* Right fibula, compound
* Right foot, Head of the first metatarsal (had 4 pins to repair, but they took 'em out)
* Right hand, second, fourth and fifth metacarpals
* Couple of ribs

Not riding related:
* Right foot, fifth meta carpal...broking hiking in a park...who says motorcycles are the only dangerous thing in life?

Pictures of broken things here:

http://discord.dyndns.org/gallery/TrackPics/injuries/