Cyclist cops thousands of spikes in excruciating cactus crash

This is the squirmish moment onlookers tried to pick thousands of spikes out of a cyclist who crashed into a cactus.

This cyclist came off second-best with a cactus.

An unfortunate amateur cyclist was left in agony, after falling off his bike into a cactus bush.

Diego Moreno was riding at the back of a pack of three in the City Park area of Buenos Aires, when the horrible incident occurred.

One moment he was cruising along as normal, before he found himself tumbling into the spikes the next.

The unlucky rider then had to have thousands of thorns removed from his body.

“We were going with three more cyclists, I was last in line,” Moreno said.

“I didn’t see a small crater in the asphalt and I hit the pothole.

“Thank god I was wearing glasses and a helmet and I didn’t injure my face or head.

“Because the way the spines got embedded in me, it could have blinded me.”

After the help of passers-by and wellwishers, Moreno was taken to hospital.

– The Sun