How often do you crash?

Only remotely serious crash I've ever had:

http://youtu.be/Ag14dgvoluA

Worn cleats + eggbeaters >>>>>>>>>>>

Legs bruised to fuck, front wheel in need of truing, handlebars slightly bent.

Never.

If you're bunch racing you can probably expect to fall off once a year. With TT's it might never happen.

I've fallen off twice in the last year, once racing, once on a patch of oil in the middle of a roundabout - would have been more if I was:
a) less lucky
b) less cautious in traffic

Both times it really hurt. 2/10 - would not bang.

Is this clubmate doing more road racing than you?

not very often

Two left hooks and a lot of silly mistakes (cornering too hard in the wet, taking corners too fast, forgetting to pay attention....) One broken collarbone, lots of bruises, many lessons learnt in 6 years of commuting through London by bike.

Not yet* - been cycle commuting since 2000.
Plenty of hair raising near misses - but we all have those.

*I'm not including a low speed canal towpath dog-under-front wheel affair.
Or learning to stop with SPD's.

Is this clubmate doing more road racing than you?

Yes, but most of his crashes have been outside of racing.

three times in three years: once by a van, next year by a car (same road a year apart) and ended up in hospital (once dislocated clavicle - is hard?) and once shredded my calf after the chain came off my beater and had to get glued back together at Kings. The should do a frequent flyers card. Once a year pretty good I think.

4 times in 8 years commuting with a 50% 'me being a dickhead' rate

1.Ignorant to the fact that Carrera bikes were dire Halfords crap, I sprinted down a hill, the pawls in the freewheel died and I lost drive. This meant careering into a parked car, taking out it's headlight and wing-mirror.

1. Ignorant to the dangers of undertaking, I got T-boned by another cyclist, who was turning in to a side-road after a car slowed to let him in.
   
2. Left-hooked by a woman in a Merc when I was entering a rounabout. Her excuse was "It's not my car, it's a rental"
   
3. Another roundabout. This time at the bottom of a ~1km 8% descent on the Isle of Wight. The road was off-camber and recently tarmaced(?) meaning loose gravel, I was riding fixed and it was raining... Tika and I ended up roadside.
   
   

Since 2013 my commute has dropped to <1mile and I rarely get out on the bike anymore though...

Oh the road? Maybe once a year, slip on ice in winter, or on a wet slippery something.

On the MTB... crumbs, at least once a fortnight. It's usually just a slow stumble though. Last month I slid about thirty feet down a wet mountainside on my arse, that was fun.

I had a close encounter with the tarmac recently due to a combination of me riding brakeless and being attached to two lurchers by leads and a daring dash across our path by a squirrel.

Felt like I'd been choke slammed by the Big Show.

Once. Car turned into a road in front of me, but panicked and decided to stop rather than keep going and make it with plenty of time to spare. I slowed down enough that I just rolled, still clipped in, over the bonnet and landed on my arse.

Never crashed road cycling. Never crashed MTBing. Had a couple of nasty slams when I used to do trials, but they're well below the 5mph stated.

Luckily i don't ride in London so i only have three in 35 years,one car door over the bars job-new wheel paid for by driver,one swerve to miss car turning into a side street ,mounted kerb at speed skimmed down a row of terraced fronts-another front wheel and very grazed/bruised left side,best one last,car pull out from left whilst i'm doing some fair speed downhill,stright into the side and over the top(me and the bike).Car fu#ks off,front wheel nearly touching rear wheel,bike totalled,me somewhat dazed but nothing broken luckily.Of course now i've written this i'm going to have to start wearing a helmet and full body armour.Sods law beckons...;)

Many peds.

Cycle almost daily and average once every three years.

Thankfully, my last off on Friday resulted in no more than minor skin loss & ripped shorts (but at least the driver responsible stopped and was very apologetic).

UTFS
http://www.lfgss.com/thread34568.html
#oldskoolthread

Only remotely serious crash I've ever had:

http://youtu.be/Ag14dgvoluA

Worn cleats + eggbeaters >>>>>>>>>>>

Legs bruised to fuck, front wheel in need of truing, handlebars slightly bent.
Ouchy!

You've prompted me to change my cleats at last though :)

Been riding my fixie for only three months and just had my first crash unfortunately it shattered my humereos (defiantly spelt that wrong ) not only 7 weeks before wedding but also been told I won't be back on bike for at least two months.

Just thought I'd ask if any one has had a similar injury and how long it was before they got back on?

Bikes fine though only need a new seat and front tire.

Rarely.

Back in the autumn I rear-ended a people carrier that decided to stop dead just after a turn. Wet road, not enough distance to avoid ramming the stem into my groin.

Slipped off at 0mph on wet drain covers back in the winter, knees are scarred bad.

A guy at the track decided to swing down into me and send me flying, minimal injuries.

Had a brick-shithouse of a man tackle me in Bermondsey a month ago (he decided to run into the road as I was going along). That really hurt. Knee is still busted, hurts after any real cycling. He was, of course, fine. He blamed me and carried on walking, didn't even see if I was okay, which I wasn't.

A much thinner guy did a rabbit in headlights in front of me yesterday on a wet road, skidded a little (on a roadie) as I shouted at him to get out of the middle of the road, where he stood dead still staring at me. There was a bus parked to the left, and oncoming traffic, if he didn't get back I'd have had a head-on or a ped-on.

Okay maybe not that rarely.

Bikes were pretty much fine every time though.

I should probably balance that with a heap of near-misses (like mr rabbit), I am quite lucky I wasn't wiped out by a fast-accelerating HGV that decided to go from standstill in right hand lane to swing round a vehicle into my path on the left... the removals van that did the exact same thing... the hgv long trailer (like wood/girder transporter) that did the same thing... the taxis that swing out... the cyclists that cut across without looking... and any number of near-ped-injuries.

Rarely.

About once every three or four years if I think about it.

Shattered...?
8 weeks off sounds about minimum, depends on how shattered I guess.

Bad luck. A shattered humerus is no laughing matter (sorry) ;) How many pieces did it break in to?!

The medics will always advise 8 weeks min for breaks but you may find it OK to go sling-less after the first few, so I would have thought you wont have to wear it in your wedding photos.

The pain subsides faster than you think it will, so hang on in there!

From the clavicle thread - https://www.lfgss.com/comments/11962439/ - but you should find some relevant experiences on there.

Only ever 'crashed' once in my 8 years cycling. But I've fallen and had near misses plenty of times.

On the road bike, never (touch wood), though I fell over at the traffic lights the other day!

On the mountainbike, lots! Had a big off on Thursday whilst dicking around cycling back after a spin up in the hills. Shorts got caught in the reverb remote, right foot slipped off my flats, acted as a brick wall whilst I was sprinting. Que over the handlebars, lost most the skin on right forearm, both knees, lots of gouging from the pedals down my legs, not much skin on the palms left as well as cuts and road rash down my right side. And foot may be fractured, have to see a specialist on Tuesday. Megalols.