Show us your biking scars!

[DeniseGoldberg]

has anyone here crashed and ruined their cycling garments (shorts, tights, etc)? i have seen pictures of cyclists after a tumble and their cycling shorts will have big rips and holes in them. cycling shorts are expensive (to me), so how common will this happen and can they be patched/repaired?

In the overall scheme of things, your health is a lot more important than keeping the clothes you crashed in. If you end up in a hospital it's likely that your clothes will be a total loss since they will be cut off of you (at least that's what happened to me after my own crash. The only things that were returned to me in one piece (and still usable) were my shoes, sunglasses, and gloves.

I wear clear or yellow glasses. There is still a huge amount of crap flying around in a rain storm. I'll go with my ophthalmologist's recommendations.

I'm with you - my eyes are too valuable to me to risk riding without some protection. They are always covered with glasses when I'm out on my bike, clear lenses in low light - but lenses that still have UV protection.

--- Denise