Your pedal whips around, and whacks your shin, not a scrape, but a dead-on impact. The resulting injury is two bloody holes, yet for some reason, they don’t bleed, but the holes look alot darker of a red than a typical scrape. You with me?
Well, the first set of these scars I never thought about.
The second set, made me go buy Roach pads
This third set, well, here’s the story…
Setting off for a MUni ride, I had my shin pads in my backpack. Why? I was still in my apartment 
As I was wheeling the Uni in front of me, headed towards the door, my foot hit a great big patch of absolutely nothing on the carpet, I stumbled forward, the uni kicking back slightly.
As I was falling diagonally down, thinking I was going to fall either on the uni somhow or into my shelving unit, my still solid foot stopped the wheel, jamming it in place now at a 45 degree (give or take) angle from the floor. Still holding onto seat (this all happened quite quick) I fell at a normal falling speed into the now perfectly positioned uni, as my shin smashed into the pedal.
This was the worst ‘head on’ impact I have felt yet while uni-ing.
Not even the ‘I’m hurt dance’* could ease any pain. It throbbed 5 times as long as any MUni impact has.
All within 2 feet of my door, shinpads in my backpack.
Man, it hurt.
So, now I just keep the pads on. Uni-ing, biking, shopping, cooking, taking a bath, etc…
- The act of running about 3 feet away from the bike/uni you just wiped out on, and dancing around waving whatever just got hurt and saying owie owie owie…
Edit: I said ‘bad scar’ it’s really just a normal scar. ALthough, 6 or 7 of these…
