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Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:08 pm
by Zimon
Show us your best scar or bruise obtained from a motorcycle crash!

Here is mine:

Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:31 pm
by Zookman
Shit..... That must have been well nasty at the time.
I dont even want to think about sustaining injuries like that.

Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:08 pm
by Warthog
France, October, 1995, 13.00, CBR600, me, Fiesta, local driver, cross-roads, perfect visibility, my right of way. Did he look? Did he feck....

4 months, 2.5 ft of scars, two ops, and 57 staples later:

Left Shoulder:
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Left Arm:
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Right shoulder:
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Right Forearm:
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Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:12 pm
by Warthog
I'll spare you all the one on my upper, inner thigh ;-)

Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:40 pm
by Zimon
holy shit that must have been horrific mate. I am going to be such a defensive rider when/if i pass and ride to Romania.

Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:30 pm
by smudge
Zimon wrote:holy shit that must have been horrific mate. I am going to be such a defensive rider when/if i pass and ride to Romania.
Trust me ..... you will need to be ;)

Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:55 pm
by scouse
Not so much a scar , but a scare... it's a "light bulb" dislocation, which is fairly rare. lots of doctors looking at your x-ray then muttering to each other then going away to get more docs is a bit disconcerting!

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Dislocombobulated Shoulder by Scouse_and_Jules, on Flickr

Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:14 pm
by Kenbo
Not so much left with a scar but a lump from a boken coller bone.
Came off a quad bike wilst chasing cammels in the desert Dohh!

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Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:15 pm
by Zimon
wow that one looks like it was particularly painful.

Re: Most Impressive Scars from motorbike crashes...

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:34 am
by herman
Just ask Patsy Quick,she did hers on Sunday on the 'fast route' over the tyres which I only did the once thank-you very much.