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
Re: Battle Scars, pedals vrs treepotato…wonder who won
I think you better buy some pads verrrrrrrrrrrry soon!!!
That is definately leave a scar:(
I know the ones, I had a pair but they didnt give me enough grip for some of the freestyle stuff i do.
Trev
Funny thing about this sport. No matter how much we get hurt, we keep comming back!
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
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://www.hollymillcycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m6b0s170p227
and they are dirt cheap too.
i searched all over for these pedals before i could find a set.
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 
Re: Battle Scars, pedals vrs treepotato…wonder who won
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://gallery.unicyclist.com/albuw44/woods_muni_two0008
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.
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://gallery.unicyclist.com/albuw44/woods_muni_two0013
Good luck, and have a speedy recovery.
Tom
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
Re: Battle Scars, pedals vrs treepotato…wonder who won
Potato Peeler 
ouch
hahaaha brilliant one!
my leg doesn’t agree though
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
I think it’s time to go out and do some serious pedal stalls and grinds to punish the pedals. 
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.
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.
first day out riding on my gusset pedals with no pads on, i was riding for all of ten minutes, got down to the skate park spoke to some ppl. “aww go on show us something”, i will not try jump mounts, unispins , or suicide mounts without pads anymore, i think it was sketchy half jump mount/half suicide, whatever it was it bit iinto my calf and dragged down 8" or so, it was a year ago, but i had to visit the local town carnival’s st.johns 1st aid tent, got it all bandaged up nicely only to ride the rest of the day and do the other leg.
heres the photo i my sister took while it still looked kinda nasty with al the blood around it
wow i got a lot of replies, seems to be a major part of the unicycling lifestyle - injuries but as someone said earlier in this post ‘no matter how much we get hurt it doesn’t stop us’ which i very true when i get hurt i just think, no right you are not gonna defeat me unicycle and it eggs me on to practice even more!
ahhh i love unicycling
i always wear my 661s when i ride. this is why.
Ditto
Heres my contribution. the irony in this situation is that i was wearing shin pads, and they caused more damage than if my shin were unportected. i was wearing dainese shin pads (great shin pads but they leave a pedal sized gap at the bottom of my shin), u can guess where the pedal struck! the injury was multiplied by the fact the pedal got burried under the shin pad and wedged itself under, leaving a 4" gash and a few other 1" gashes. since then ive gotten some 661s which have taken care of things.
iain
