What kind of injuries have you had in mountain biking? - product design project

[BigBeastAT]

I am currently doing one of my major projects for my third year at university. The aim of the project is to make mountain biking safer by designing protection that can be worn comfortably at all times.

Could you please state below your injury and how it happened?

This will help me decide which area of the body to focus on for my project and understand which injuries occur more commonly in the sport. It would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Adam

[stoney]

All of them?

[eaterofdog]

I want an entire suit like this. If anything gets within three feet of me, I turn into the Michelin Man.

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

I've learned bikes are safer to ride if you don't ride them.

[TN]

i usually just bloody my shins up a bit. I have a keen self preservation skill.

[mattmatt86]

The only thing that would have prevented my worst injury would have been Kevlar Bib shorts.

[Polandspring88]

I hurt my feelings once.

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

I hurt my feelings once.

Sorry.

[rockofullr]

I used to ride my bike. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

[eaterofdog]

The only thing that would have prevented my worst injury would have been Kevlar Bib shorts.

Did you circumcise yourself with the chainring or something?

[SkaredShtles]

Twisted the $hit out of my ankle once.

[Da Peach]

Busted finger. Twisted ankle. Separated shoulder. Cracked ribs.

Then I stopped riding so far beyond my limits.

[DirtMcGirk]

I roughed up my cornhole pretty good once.

[mattmatt86]

Did you circumcise yourself with the chainring or something?

Nope. Snapped a steerer tube, went over the bars and sliced my thigh open on the broken steerer. Missed my femoral artery by less than half an inch. Surgeon said my bib shorts helped save my life by compressing the wound until I got to the hospital (3 hours later).

[jonKranked]

i drank too much PBR the night before a ride and crapped my pants.