Cyclist quick release wheel lever stuck in leg: This photo shows the lever in his leg, pressing out against his skin while he's still on the ground.
A cyclist in the US has had to be taken to hospital with the front end of his bike stuck to his leg after his wheel quick release lever stabbed him in the leg and got stuck.
Cyclist Colin Reuter crashed during a race in Connecticut. In the aftermath he realised the lever was stuck in his leg.
Pain control and medical treatment was administered to him as he lay in the road.
The front end of his bike was unattached from the rest of it. And he was carted off to hospital to be separated from it with surgery.
However, despite the gruesome incident, the cyclist has taken to Twitter to share his experience and highlight what happened.
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He has released photos of what happened, including a still recorded on his GoPro showing the lever stuck in his leg, pressing against his skin from the inside out.
US cyclist Colin Reuter was speaking out after a young rider in U23 Paris-Roubaix was left with a chunk out of his leg after a crash.
He blamed disc brakes, saying he never realised he could have such a large lump of flesh ripped away in the fashion it had been.
But Reuter said while there had been a lot of conversation about the damage disc brakes could do, nobody ever raised what could happen with the levers on the end of quick release skewers.
He was taken off to hospital and had surgery to be separated from the front end of his bike, but not before a lot of people came to his aid.
“I'm super grateful
and impressed with the number of guys who got up from the crash and spent the next 20 minutes stabilising me, disassembling the bike, helping get me onto a backboard and
off to the hospital for extraction.”
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