Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
But after what I have read here in the last week, I feel lucky and cant compare what some other's are going through!
The Shop
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Free shipping: VITALMX
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
This is a paper cut compared to Ridges gnarliness!....but it's the best entry I can submit...
But who cares. How many guys have pics of their extremities not attached?
Damn Chris, that shit is raw! Did you put it in a fukn glass jar and save it
6 months after that took a handle bar to the chest at an LL qualifier. 5 broken ribs, cracked sternum, two punctured lungs, broken nut (probably the worst). Had a chest tube for over a week and in ICU for 12 days. My mom was so excited for me to have two life flights in one year haha.
3 clavicals (more hardware)
another broken femur
left ACL/ MCL (2 pins and 14 weeks in a cast from my nuts to my foot)
broken left hand
broken right foot
crack tib/fib
separated right shoulder
My injuries seem pretty wussy by comparison; broken collarbone, 6 dislocated shoulders, hyper-extended knee. My worst crash resulted in the most painful MX injury, however:
One day my riding buddy and I were "cow trailing" it back home from a ride in the hills. If you've ever seen On Any Sunday, you'll get the reference. Well, we were trying to splash each other in the puddles that had gathered after a winter rain and I came up on a doozie - 100 feet at least of 6" deep water lying in a low spot on the trail. There was a white picket fence to my right that made a 90 degree turn away to the right and the trail followed it around the outside. I was ahead of my buddy who was clearly thinking along the same lines.
Me: "I'm going to head right for the corner of that fence and make sure he can't push me out into the puddle/lake."
Him: "I'm going to ram it up the inside and push him into that puddle/lake."
Well, he came up behind me about 10 MPH faster and slammed into my right elbow, turning my bars to the left. That made me fall to my right, across his seat as he was going by. I slipped off and landed with my right armpit draped over his rear wheel, which picked me up and stuffed me into the area under his seat. I was getting a real good look at his right boot while the rear tire was chewing up my back and my buddy was trying to figure out why his bike was bogging. Naturally, he pinned it and downshifted a few times to try to get back on the pipe, all while dragging me through the puddle. I lost a lot of skin and the ooze was unbearable. Ugh.
8 years to recover as much as I ever did.
Raced 4 months after accident.
Pit Row
vertebrae, luckily the Dr had a new procedure called a "Y" nail
that repaired it without the optional 6 months in a body cast.
I started riding a few months after each surgery but man is it difficult to ride when you cant see straight. Never been happier than the day I could see fewer than two tracks at a time.
-and-
Compound fracture of Humerus/ Throttle arm at the Trochlea of the Humerus (elbow). Detonated into multiple pieces...13 screws-2 plates- and a couple pieces of wire to hold everything together.
Still not as bad as the foot-less fella.
There's a couple other guys on here that have had their legs cut off too! Travis, where you at? I talk to a lot of people who are getting ready for amputation or just had it done.
It's not as gnarly as it looks...some of these other injuries are worse in my opinion.
That spiral fracture is bad, I hear those can be terribly
Post a reply to: What's your worst injury experience?