that is a fracture of the Fibula, which is a non weight bearing bone so not as serious. The original fracture of my ankle was a tibia ( larger weight bearing bone ) and fibula that went down into my ankle joint so fairly serious, I have the plate pictured in that link you posted plus another on the tibia. the tibeal plate ( being stainless steel ) created a pressure point on my tibia that took only time and then a little bit of precise force ( snowboard boot and binding ) to press further and harder into the bone, causing a weak point... it was Fine all summer when biking. so yeah, a second fracture of the tibia, just above the plate, and a higher up fracture of the fibula due to the resulting crash .. :( Boss has been awesome to me also.... im a lucky guy .

Shite man, sorry to hear that. keep up on spirits, avoid alcohol, tobacco and caffiene, and take your Vitamin D, C calcium magnesium regualrilly... You likely already know all this but I figured i;d share what knowledge i can .

I think it doesnt matter what pinkbike users, the general public, or the pinkbike moderators think about your videos.... any of your video's... Or mine. missing the point here.... who cares what people think about video's ? Ride your bike. :salute:

Holy jeeebus, we are a bunch of Metalic Warriors arnt we... lol, Well happy to hear the recovery was 6-8 weks, thats not too bad, I get some pain from the ir femur nail but its fairly minimal. The thing that makes me think about removing it is the new found lack of trust in hardware since this last injury. I have never had the pain i did with the femur, I also cracked my hip and broke my Scaphoid inthat crash ( was better to toss myself to the grund than to hit the oncoming trees I thought ) and it took about 3 weeks before I was able to do very much at all without a lot of help. I hope for all of those injured to have a speedy recovery. my fracture list for biking is the femur, hip and shoulder. I did my calcanius snowboarding, my tib and fib also snowboarding, various things ike toes and fingers skateboarding and the ankle shattering happened when I was lofted 40 feet into the air by a traction kite ( i figured this was a less injury prone sport lmao ) Downhillnirvana, How'd the X rays go ? hoping you;re not in need of further srgury. :salute: I also had meant to ask, how long after the removal of the femur rod before you were able to stand on it ? they tell me you can walk right after surgurey but must be carefull, I find this hard to believe.

this was what i thought after several times out riding and even doing some decent jumps and spins ( snowboarding ) then one day i took a super light toeside turn and went down like a sac o potatoes. Not trying to jinx you and I do hope you stay in tact, just consider the down time of removing the plates an option, I broke my ankle badly in october 2010 and my sergeon said the same... my fracture kept me down and out for 6 months as it was a tib and fix shattered into the ankle joint so quite possiblly worse for wear, the plates etched away my bone. :(

what led you to have it removed? i ask because its my good leg now lol. but after this unfortunate new fracture caused by my ankle hardware I consider having the rod removed also. how long was recovery? hoping your bine is growing strong and further surgery isnt required. :salute:

Wishing you a speedy recovery, having just come off of a shattered ankle of both tib and fib I can say that ankle breaking sucks, but be glad its not the bigger weight bearing tibia. IF you need surgury to correct this be sure to have the plates removed asap, as I currentlly sit here with a sheared off tibia and broken fibula just past a year after the initial injury due to the plate literally shearing the bone in half. Heal fast.