Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Fond memories…..
- Thread starter Dave 123
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biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Not as bad walking into a tow bar
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Or clouting your nuts on the stem when you ride into a deep water-filled pothole at the end of your sister's street. [Note to self - exactly why is that pool of oily water there, and is it really a good idea to cycle into water that you can't see the bottom of?!
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Salad Dodger
Guru
- Location
- Kent Coast
DMR V8 pedals with the little studs that press into the sole of your shoe are absolute barstewards if you clout your shin with one.....
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
The real pain is when it hits you for the second or third time in exactly the same spot on already tender shins.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Or clouting your nuts on the stem when you ride into a deep water-filled pothole at the end of your sister's street. [Note to self - exactly why is that pool of oily water there, and is it really a good idea to cycle into water that you can't see the bottom of?!
similar on the toptube after mislanding a ramp jump as a kid
a.twiddler
Veteran
It's one of the things that marks you out as a cyclist. Scarred shins and the chainring tattoo. Recumbent riders are less likely to be afflicted, but it can get you in other ways. When I was originally setting up the Linear, I was doing something to the chain, kneeling alongside, and turned round to reach for a tool on the floor. I headbutted the bear trap pedal which had slowly rotated towards me as I'd messed with the chain. It was extremely painful!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
This - the modern 'flats' on many MTB's are lethal to shins, I don't know why so many ride flats. At least when a SPD pedal whacks you, you'll be sore, and possiblt break the skin, with the current flats, and the big pins they have, you will look you'ce been mauled by a tiger.
mistyoptic
Vintage
- Location
- A parallel reality
It's a good job Lego don't make pedals...
presta
Guru
I've used rat traps all my life, but I've also had toe clips for the last 50 years, and it's not really a problem then. I vaguely recall getting a whack before the clips though.
(I've only had two pairs of toeclips all my life, one pair of chrome ones that went rusty, and the pair of Christophe plastic ones that I've had for the last 42 years.)
(I've only had two pairs of toeclips all my life, one pair of chrome ones that went rusty, and the pair of Christophe plastic ones that I've had for the last 42 years.)
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
I've still got them - and the scars to prove it.
