fractured tibia & fibula

[onewheeldave]

@ImFalling

Here’s a post about a similar injury. Wheel size is not mentioned, but I get the impression it was not a 36er, nor a geared wheel.
Broken Leg - With X-rays.

He was doing muni on a boulder-strewn slope, so I’d guess he would be on a 24 or 26", possibly 29?

@""Unicorn"

Well I suffered my first serious injury with the Unicycle.

I broke both the Tibia and Fibula in my right leg two weeks ago.

Basically I traded Unicycles with a fellow rider in order to get more practice with 150mm crancks. I usually ride with 165s. When coming down a pretty steep hill (That I have ridden no problem before with my 165s.) with lots of boulders in the path I did not have enough control and power with the 150s to control the decent. I took a fall with the unicycle falling accross my right calf and I then fell on the unicycle using it as a lever to snap both bones in my right calf.

Sounds like impact was no problem and that the break was caused by leverage from the unicycle as his weight went on it.

UPDs are often nasty when the unicycle ends up underneath you- I’ve come close to such ‘leverage’ incidents a couple of times.

A later post-

@Unicorn

today during our weekly friday Muni ride we rode the single that I broke my keg on. I gave the boulder where I broke my leg it’s due respect and did not attempt to ride off of it again! A pretty gnarly section of single track. I guess that others have also been hurt there because the parks authority cut many trees down across that single to discourage it from being ridden. Rider have just altered the single to wind around the felled trees. I guess that riders will always find a way!

Unicorn

indicates he was actually doing a drop off a boulder?

so I’ll add that to the exclusion list i.e.

Has anyone heard of many/any broken legs/tibias caused by coming off unicycles other than, a 36-er or a guni (geared uni) of any size wheel…?..oh, and of course, giraffe unis… and, while doing extreme muni/jumping off boulders?