Show me your best bruises! (not for the squeamish)

[Melalvai]

When I started biking I had chronic little bruises on my right shin where the pedal hit after I kicked inlto position for starting. Eventually I got a toe cage on that side only. I had chronic chainring tattoo also until I got better at mounting/ dismounting.

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My most recent "decoration":

[Norse]

I do not have a picture of it, but my worst bruising from biking came courtesy of a Canadian goose. I was riding on a trail when I saw the goose family - with little ones - near the trail side but there was a bike coming from the other way so I could not swing wide and one of the parents came at me (wow, are they big!) and plunked my right arm/shoulder with its chest. Somehow, I stayed upright, but by the time I got home, my arm from shoulder down was a very dark, scary-looking solid shade of purple.