Don't ya hate it...

[Veronica]

When you stop to cross a street and you go to take off and your foot slips off the pedal and you end up with big bruise a few inches above your ankle within seconds...

Yeah, me too.

V.

Nice run on sentence.

[KnottedYet]

Oh, yeah. I'm very good at doing that! Also at bruising my shin on the pedal. It's a secret talent of mine.

[kelownagirl]

Yes! Especially on my mountain bike with its spiky pedals (whatever they are called technically, I have no idea.) Anyway, I have permanent bruises.

[Wahine]

Yes! Especially on my mountain bike with its spiky pedals (whatever they are called technically, I have no idea.) Anyway, I have permanent bruises.

Oh yeah, I have some serious scars from this particular move with spiky platform pedals. I took such a chunk out of my leg once my MD sent me for x-rays and I had to go on antibiotics because she thought I may have driven one of the spikes right into the bone.

Yeah, I hate it too. But what I hate more is this mishap on my road bike where I often end up dropping enough through my trunk to seriously whack my pubic bone.

[kelownagirl]

never done that Wahine - hope I never do!!

[Wahine]

Yeah, it's pretty special, let me tell ya.

[crazycanuck]

Errr..wahine..ouch!

Then again, I fell on the head of my mtn bike a while back-on the section right under the tummy and above my girly parts..(no clue of the body part name)..I couldn't bend for a day or two...owie!

V-you can make run on sentences !!!

c

[Dianyla]

I'm not sure which is worse... the sudden bang! on the front of the shins or the slicing scrape of flesh on the back of the calf.

One of these days I'll get around to posting on that leg scar thread.

[Veronica]

Crank Bros. pedals - no spikes. Huge bruise this morning though, swollen and just plain hurts.

So glad I went out for a ride though. I feel more like myself and less like the depressed b"i"tch from hell.

V.

[GLC1968]

I'll vouch for the pubic bone whack pain! It's doubly embarassing when the pain calls forth instant tears on a group ride. Happened more times than I care to count on my old Fuji. Reason enough to be very careful never to buy a bike that's a bit too big.

I've still got scars from the teeth on my commuter's platform pedals, too.

Man, biking is dangerous...even without the obstacles on the road!

[Trekhawk]

Yeah, I hate it too. But what I hate more is this mishap on my road bike where I often end up dropping enough through my trunk to seriously whack my pubic bone.

Yep been there, done that. Sore leg, sore pubic bone and all the way home Im waiting for a dog to run out at me because as we know things come in threes.

[chickwhorips]

thats where those bruises on my shins came from!

oh wait no, those recent ones are from crawling around because i can't walk, but it does explain the ones i got when i was on my bike.

[btchance]

Yep - been there, done that in the wacking your shin category. I've got a few fading scars from the old platforms on my MTB, but in an amazing feat of talent, after a TT 2 weeks ago I did the same thing, but with the SPD pedals on my road bike. That one actually ended up being the worse I've had, there are still some big gashes on my shin that are healing up. Definately going to leave a scar.

I've never done the pubic bone hit on a bike before, but did during a very spectacular horse wreck where it hit into a saddle horn. Hurt for days, and I never want to experience that one again.

[Tuckervill]

Way back when I was little, I was riding my Schwinn, which of course didn't have any grips anymore. Thought I would ride it up the curb like my brothers did. Didn't. Hit the curb at an angle, which turned the wheel, ripped the bars out of my hands, and the circle end of the bar made impact with my 8 year old nipple dead on.

I had a cut, all the way round the little chicken-peck. I was so embarrassed about not being able to jump the curve, I never told my mother.

Karen