Maybe I should get SPDs... (warning - contains injuries!)

supersonic
supersonic Posts: 82,708
edited July 2012 in Commuting chat
Yes, pedal vs shins!

wound-1.jpg

Superglue to the rescue!

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Or shin pads lol.
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  • daxplusplus
    daxplusplus Posts: 631
    Yes
    Sometimes you're the hammer, sometimes you're the nail

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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Did you buy your pedals from Boudica.com?
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  • daxplusplus
    daxplusplus Posts: 631
    .. and ouch!
    Sometimes you're the hammer, sometimes you're the nail

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    It's weird, doesn't hurt at all!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    supersonic wrote:
    It's weird, doesn't hurt at all!

    Oo look how tough you are :P.
    _
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    How did you do that?

    My mate has a knack of doing that sort of stuff, normally trying some stunt he could do as a 16year old.... 20 years later it works less well!
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    supersonic wrote:
    It's weird, doesn't hurt at all!

    Oo look how tough you are :P.

    Nah, very few nerve endings in the shins.
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  • daxplusplus
    daxplusplus Posts: 631
    SimonAH wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    supersonic wrote:
    It's weird, doesn't hurt at all!

    Oo look how tough you are :P.

    Nah, very few nerve endings in the shins.

    Even less now
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I was 'just cycling along' when I stopped at a pub car park, and thought I'd show my mate how to bunny hop... on plastic pedals. Slip, straight down the front of my shin!
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    supersonic wrote:
    I was 'just cycling along' when I stopped at a pub car park, and thought I'd show my mate how to bunny hop... on plastic pedals. Slip, straight down the front of my shin!

    owch!

    guess it's the old rule about more agressive pedals being safer.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    DaxPlusPlus wrote:
    SimonAH wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    supersonic wrote:
    It's weird, doesn't hurt at all!

    Oo look how tough you are :P.

    Nah, very few nerve endings in the shins.

    Even fewer now

    FTFY
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    roger merriman wrote:
    supersonic wrote:
    I was 'just cycling along' when I stopped at a pub car park, and thought I'd show my mate how to bunny hop... on plastic pedals. Slip, straight down the front of my shin!

    owch!

    guess it's the old rule about more agressive pedals being safer.

    Yep, I'd had a couple of slips earlier, should have quit then! Back to the Wellgo MG1s with the big spikes lol.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Neat job on the repair now I do hope you cleaned that with more than water beforehand ...?
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,768
    Ouch, I do hope you retired to the pub to take on liquids sharpish. You'd have to compensate for the stuff that leaked out of you.
    Or were you in the pub car park having already fuelled up?
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I may have had one...
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    ohh i had one of those from when i rode on DMR V12's i stupidly only had my tip toes on the pedal, hit a rock, my foot slipped off an my shin slid down the pedal

    nasty scar, it coudn't be stitched as it ran along the bone an wasn't enough skin (according to the nurses)

    chicks dig scars though
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    mudcow007 wrote:
    chicks dig scars though

    They do. I have a "nice" one above my left eye which I sustained when apprehending a young scrote who had tried to do a runner with an old lady's shopping. Chicks really dig it.

    Not really: I tried to get off a 10p ride before it had stopped, in the Ship Inn in Bridlington, when I was 4 or 5 years old. My dad was the real hero; running with me in his arms across town to the hospital as I pumped blood all over his Ben Sherman. And don't tell Miss6899 that I referred to women as "chicks"; she'd be very disappointed.
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