Battle Scars, pedals vrs treepotato....wonder who won



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Yet again my pedals decided to attack my leg, was freemounting and foot
slipped, pedal went in leg and well as you can see pretty painful
(looked better when i got home and blodd was dripping all down my leg
and everywhere shame i didn't get a photo then :p

anyone else got any nice grusome photos to post?

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Be sure to wash it out really well. Pedals have a lot of
nasty microorganisms on them.

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Looks like time to invest in pads! my legs have no cuts on
them!!!! amazing, they are scared though:( i hardly ever
ride with out my pads now always, always, always, while
doing trials and muni! My legs were totally scar free
untill a few months ago when i thought i would be a good
idea to teach my girlfriend to ride.It seemed like a good
idea to stand infront of her and tell her to ride to
me........ but no she fell backwards and the uni went
forwards into my bare shin! Ben

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unicycleboy wrote:
> *Any Plastic Pedals that arnt flat can still do the same
> damage, But the Metal ones with Pins do the most damage. *

Mine are just rubber block type things, but they also have
their drawbacks: In mud they often get all slippery, and
when I'm riding barefoot they give me pins and needles and a
very silly pattern on the soles of my feet.

The main drawback is that the bearings are full of mud and
grit and I need to replace them.

I've never really hurt anything except my pride on a
unicycle, which is nice. But I'm sure it won't last

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treepotato wrote:
> *Yet again my pedals decided to attack my leg, was
> freemounting and foot slipped, pedal went in leg and well
> as you can see pretty painful (looked better when i got
> home and blodd was dripping all down my leg and everywhere
> shame i didn't get a photo then :p
>
> anyone else got any nice grusome photos to post? *

I think you better buy some pads verrrrrrrrrrrry
soon!!!!!!!!! That is definately leave a scar:(

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> Mine are just rubber block type things

I know the ones, I had a pair but they didnt give me enough
grip for some of the freestyle stuff i do.

Trev

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I prefer the wounds from metal pinned/caged pedals over the
pain from plastic pedals. When you hit your shin with a
plastic pedal it causes a pain that lasts a while and no
scars to show off/prove that it happened. When you hit your
shin with metal pinned/caged pedals, it spreads the force
over more area by cutting through your shin and only hurts
for a minute or so. You also gain awesome dino damage!

note: the part about spreading the force over more area is
most likely not true.

john

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i found a source of oddyessy twisted pc pedals in the
u.k. they are made of some weird high density resin
plastic stuff.

they are seriously the best pedals i've ever used. i've got
them on my freestyle unicycle, because i like the big square
shape, and i've got them on my trials unicycle so they don't
tear my legs off.

http://tinyurl.com/2ory7

and they are dirt cheap too.

i searched all over for these pedals before i could
find a set.

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evilewan wrote:
> *
>
> they are seriously the best pedals i've ever used. and
> they are dirt cheap too.
>
> *

I use those Oddyessy pedals on my Coker and you're right,
they're very good pedals for the money. I really like the
large platform !!!!!

As for my MUni, I use Mosh BMX pedals. They've got large
platforms with some SERIOUS pins on them :eek:

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treepotato wrote:
> *anyone else got any nice grusome photos to post? *

Oh my, treepotato, that may be the worst pin-bite I've ever
seen. It makes my puny pedal injury pale (well, not really
pale, but at least light purple) by comparison.

http://tinyurl.com/2fztt

You really need a padding strategy. I devised mine the day
after the above photo was taken, and it has now saved me
from at least 10 injuries just like that.

1) Buy a cheap pair of volleyball knee pads, and wear them
_backwards_ so the pad covers your calf muscle.
2) Buy a pair of soccer combo shin and ankle protector pads
(Nike makes a decent one), and put those on next to
protect the front of your shin.

Between the two, it's an effective one-two punch against
those nasty pedal pins. Here is a link to a photo where you
can see how the setup works:

http://tinyurl.com/3bopu

Good luck, and have a speedy recovery.

Tom

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Well since you asked... :)

This one I got at the Woodford Folk Festival. There's a nice
scar there now. I did the original injury in the morning on
a fun ride that we were on trying to jump off a little jump
we made. Then that afternoon we had our daily trials demo to
do. I didn't wear my pads because I was worried it would
irritate the cut, but during that demo I opened it up again
twice with the pedal. That's a photo of it in it's clean
stage...originally it was lined with strange white bits of
skin and lots of delightful stuff like that. :)

Andrew

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treepotato wrote:
> *Yet again my pedals decided to attack my leg, was
> freemounting and foot slipped, pedal went in leg and well
> as you can see pretty painful (looked better when i got
> home and blodd was dripping all down my leg and everywhere
> shame i didn't get a photo then :p *

Potato Peeler :p

*ouch*

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What kind of pedals do you use? I use pinned pedals lots, of
various different varieties. I never did anything that bad
with the one's uni.com sell, but I got some from a bike shop
here that have really long pins. Very grippy, but I'm sure
the extra pin length doesn't provide much extra grip while
increasing the gougeability by lots. They're DDG one's, but
I think they're sold with many names.

John

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Man, that's almost as bad as what happened to Chex at camp.
He did a unispin with a set of DK iron cross pedals, and his
foot missed the pedal and it went right into his shin. I
seem to remember it was abou 8 stitches. He has details. I
had a one where I was wheelwalking up a dirt hill where my
foot slipped off and every pin on the pedal left it's mark
on my calf. Lately my shins have been free of injury,
though. Last night I kneed myself in the jaw twice doing
pedalgrabs, though. That sucked. At least my pads don't have
the top plastic on them, so it was a bit softer.

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I have a battle story,

I decieded to to some barefoot freesstyle in the street so i
took off my shoes and socks, put my foot on the tire to get
ready to wheel walk and i got aout and inch before my fut
slipped off and my heel clipped my dk iron cross pedals.

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