Is it weird to hope this leaves a scar?

**ny biker** · 08-19-2009, 08:45 PM

My right ankle, courtesy of my chain ring, after a horizontal trackstand...

**KnottedYet** · 08-19-2009, 08:50 PM

Not weird at all! (it's actually quite pretty in an art-appreciation way)

Remember: Scars are just tattoos with better stories. (I saw that on a t-shirt once)

**RolliePollie** · 08-19-2009, 09:16 PM

Is it weird to say that's a really cool looking owie? I would want a scar too. A friend on mine has a large chainring scar on his calf and I'm jealous of it. Does this mean we're sick?

**LoriO** · 08-19-2009, 09:24 PM

LOL, we can have twin scars. This was my calf last year after a fall

It has faded nicely but makes a very interesting pattern on my leg :-)

**PinkBike** · 08-19-2009, 09:53 PM

"horizontal track stand"

cute

**Kiwi Stoker** · 08-20-2009, 02:15 AM

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo to disguise my operation scar (not actually tattooing the scar but incorporate it into a tattoo) so no I don't think a bike related scar especially chain ring like is weird...

**OakLeaf** · 08-20-2009, 08:59 AM

It's only weird if you rub ink into it.

**GulfCoastAmy** · 08-20-2009, 09:12 AM

Ouch - looks painful! I think it's weird to want it to scar, but that's probably only because I scar VERY easily and it annoys the heck out of me.

**bluebug32** · 08-20-2009, 09:36 AM

This will make it easier to find you at LiveStrong

**smilingcat** · 08-20-2009, 09:49 AM

I'm trying to visualize a horizontal rack stand.

Oh how you could be "bitten" so hard by the chainring.

**ny biker** · 08-20-2009, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by smilingcat

I'm trying to visualize a horizontal rack stand.

Oh how you could be "bitten" so hard by the chainring.

Was just starting my ride. Stopped to check my rear tire, it was okay so I clipped in with my left foot, was about to push the pedal forward, but for some reason leaned left, fell down and went boom.

I wore capri pants to work today so I could show it off.

**Grits** · 08-20-2009, 11:33 AM

I bet there are internet forums for people into scars, but I don't think you would fit in with that scene! Maybe one for cycling specific scars...

**rachgreen** · 08-20-2009, 12:40 PM

a forum for people into scars? hahah thats funny.

no i think this is a sweet design.. if it leaves a scar itd be a bomb scar, or you can always tattoo over it! my friends with scars wait a few years and get a tat to cover em.. but theres are ugly.

i like your scars

check that tat out-- she got that done in the phillipines and they did it using a dragon sword-- it was so crazy.

anyways, cool post

all the best!
Rachel

**solobiker** · 08-20-2009, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Kiwi Stoker

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo to disguise my operation scar (not actually tattooing the scar but incorporate it into a tattoo) so no I don't think a bike related scar especially chain ring like is weird...

I have a friend who when he was young, about 3 or 4 y/o he had open heart surgery. Well he wants to get a tattoo over the scar of a railroad track down the center of his chest.

**Miranda** · 08-21-2009, 01:21 AM

I think it depends if you got the scar as a result of doing something you "chose".

The scar came from doing an activity you love, that you know going into it comes with risks. The scar tells a story in a subject area you don't mind discussing.

When the scar comes from something you did not really want to chose, then maybe peeps don't want it to show.

I have some surgery scars related to something that happened to my body that I certainly would have not chose to have happen. That, I would rather have covered. It's a painful memory in more ways than one... I don't want to re-hash it (by looking at it, or people asking how I got the scar).

So, in your case... nope, I don't think it's weird to want it stay

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