I think I’ll start using that armour I bought a bit more after Friday night’s episode. Missed a standard mount which doesn’t happen much anymore and got a wake up call from the Wellgo platforms. It was a beautiful warm evening and I was wearing shorts… no armour. The ride was cut short and I got to sit in the local hospital while they put 16 stitches in a very nasty gash. I’m told healing could take six months!
Cheers, Greg
26" carbon fibre ‘beast’
Were you using the shinburger style pedals from Brooklyn bikes?
-David Kaplan
Re: shinburger
16 stitches? ouch, hey Greg, I got my unicycle fixed, we should go on a ride
sometime! ttyl
-Dylan
Re: shinburger
I haven’t done 16 stitches worth of damage, but I have had some nasty pedal
bites (one that required stitches), and now always wear leg armor whenever
muniing. One trick I have learned for helping wounds heal is to keep the
cut covered until it is healed, not just until it stops bleeding. And, keep
the wound moist with an antibiotic/moisturizing ointment like Bacitracin or
Betadine. Get bandages that are large enough to cover the entire wound and
replace them from time to time. Put more ointment on the wound whenever you
put on a fresh bandage. This will prevent big, nasty scabs from forming
and will expedite the healing process.
Good Luck,
John Hooten
gmoore wrote:
> I think I’ll start using that armour I bought a bit more after Friday
> night’s episode. Missed a standard mount which doesn’t happen much
> anymore and got a wake up call from the Wellgo platforms. It was a
> beautiful warm evening and I was wearing shorts… no armour. The ride
> was cut short and I got to sit in the local hospital while they put 16
> stitches in a very nasty gash. I’m told healing could take six months!
>
> Cheers, Greg
> 26" carbon fibre ‘beast’
>
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Re: shinburger
On Sun, 05 May 2002 11:50:16 -0700, John Hooten <jhooten@rcsis.com>
wrote:
>And, keep
>the wound moist with an antibiotic/moisturizing ointment like Bacitracin or
>Betadine.
Veering off-topic but I would argue against using antibiotics
lightheartedly (because of resistency if that is the right word). I
have nothing against Betadine in this respect but then again I never
heard this advice.
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Re: Re: shinburger
>16 stitches? ouch, hey Greg, I got my unicycle fixed,
> we should go on a ride sometime! ttyl
-Dylan
Yes! We should. Let me know your schedule Dylan. I’ll be wearing armour 
Cheers, Greg
Re: Re: shinburger
Betadine is a great topical- but has been shown to retard healing in deep puncture wounds.
Christopher
beull has some nice gashes in the back of his calve from some poor footing.
Re: shinburger
> >And, keep
> >the wound moist with an antibiotic/moisturizing ointment like Bacitracin
or
> >Betadine.
>
> Veering off-topic but I would argue against using antibiotics
> lightheartedly (because of resistency if that is the right word). I
> have nothing against Betadine in this respect but then again I never
> heard this advice.
It’s a fine word. Not, admittedly, an English word - I think you were
looking for ‘resistance’ - but I like it.
That’s why I keep my bandages moist with hydrogen peroxide instead.
Anaerobic microbes aren’t going to build up a resistance to free oxygen
atoms.
First aid tips at rsu. That’s a little scary. I got doored bike commuting
in Chicago maybe a dozen times without injury (to me, anyway; the bikes
often got wrecked) but on a unicycle it could be worse. Gotta work on my
vertical leap off a uni before I go play in traffic, and maybe roll a few
thousand breakfalls.