Thigh bruises

[Owlie]

Where, exactly, are your bruises?

[CarolinaCycler]

Front and side of quads and outer side of calfs.

[lovelygamer]

I have those too. NO idea what's going on. Mine are top and sides.

[zoom-zoom]

I get 'em, too. Last Summer I had one that looked like the Playboy logo! I bruise if someone breaths hard on me (I went through testing to see if something was up, like Von Willebrand's syndrome, but everything is normal, I just have really thin blood. I avoid aspirin and ibuprofen, as a result, since they thin the blood).

[Reesha]

I am a redhead who bruises easily... definitely get all kinds of mystery bruises from biking. Sometimes I worry people see my legs and think I'm a victim of physical abuse (only the physical abuse my bike deals out!). I have learned to live with them.

[Crankin]

I've also experienced this, but it doesn't happen when I ride my #1 road bike. It happened when I rode my Jamis Coda or the old Voodoo I used as an around town bike. I also noticed it when I first got my Guru, though now, it doesn't happen.

I think it's something about the geometry of the bikes hitting me, as well as being someone who easily bruises.

[Catrin]

I think it is the geometry. I don't bruise easily, at least not typically, but sometimes I find red marks or even light scrapes on the inside of my knees or just below them and am totally perplexed where they come from.

[zoom-zoom]

I think it's something about the geometry of the bikes hitting me, as well as being someone who easily bruises.

The ones I've had aren't from any sort of impact. They aren't so much bruises as they are broken blood vessels. I was getting them a lot last Summer after longer, more intense rides.