This may sound wierd, but I’m just curious if this is actually a problem.
I want to know if there have been any injuries to the male private area due to a unicycle. I’m just starting and this is of some concern to me, it doesn’t hurt exactly but you can notice pressure. Just was wondering if anyone knew if this was a worry or not. I know the seats aren’t any different from horses’ saddle or some bikes and those arent any cause but, just wondering. Let me know if you guys know anything. Thanks.
This was discussed in some detail in this thread:
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21726
You can also do a forum search under the work “injury” for lots of interesting stories.
I haven’t found it much of a problem but shed a tear as recently as last Sunday when I experienced a “pinch flat” on a simple mount.
Ouch, Ouch, Ouch, OK, I can ride again now.
This is a major drawback. You WILL hit bumps and WILL do drops where you will feel your boys get crunched. I have had bruises and chaffing but the chaffing leaves in about a month or so. The bruises will hurt but I havent had any where i felt it more than a day later.
-Good Luck
Eric
P.S. Another factor is your seat. An airpillow has much less occurences where your nuts hit your throat but it still happens on them. I reccomend a Miyata seat.
Re: Unicyle Injuries-Question
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:42:10 -0600, axis-27
<axis-27.gb29m@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>I want to know if there have been any injuries to the male private area
>due to a unicycle.
Injuries are rare I think, and I’ve never heard of any permanent harm.
Sensitivity, however, is a common and much-discussed issue. I for one
usually suffer from some penile smallness after a unicycle ride, and
occasionally from numbness too. Both effects have been reversible
until now, thank God.
“For his famous poem The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe received only $10. The manuscript was later sold for $200,000.”
Re: Unicyle Injuries-Question
klaasbil_remove_the_spamkiller_@xs4all.nl writes:
>
>>I want to know if there have been any injuries to the male private area
>>due to a unicycle.
>
>Injuries are rare I think, and I’ve never heard of any permanent harm.
>Sensitivity, however, is a common and much-discussed issue. I for one
>usually suffer from some penile smallness after a unicycle ride, and
>occasionally from numbness too. Both effects have been reversible
>until now, thank God.
I can add a few notes about this subject.
A member of my club who was pretty new to uni’ing developed a nasty cyst
and had to stay off unis for over a month. I forget whether he needed
surgery.
I experienced nasty urination stinging during and after some really long
rides, most recently the 102-mile Century this past summer. It hurt to pee
for about half a day. I certainly have second thoughts about repeating
that kind of ride, but I already have my two kids, so maybe it’s ok. By
the way, I was using all sorts of great equipment.
More recently I developed a shaft-based scrape-cut which later scabbed
over. It was pretty small (about the size of a pencil eraser) but was
fairly painful under certain circumstances. This was on account of wearing
jeans which were extra baggy in the front and happened over two days (I
didn’t realize what was going on at first of riding about 9 miles each
day.
If you’re worried about crotch injuries arising from too much riding (rather than sudden trauma from an impact) then bear in mind that these things would happen over a period of time. You don’t go from uninjured to crippling injury when you hit the 100 mile mark, and if you feel the signs and rest or stop then there is little or no risk.
If you are going to get long term injuries at all (which is unlikely) it will be to knees, ankles and feet - just like if you were bicycling, playing squash, jogging, hill walking, paragliding, or running for a bus.
One can worry too much.
thanks, on a further note…
It was more of the sudden impact I guess, I am learning to uni at least for now, for more of a juggling prop, maybe a few trips to class, etc.
It seems that when I free mount I’ll get it, I am new and my mounts suck but it seems that they get crunched, I might be leaning into the mount instead of sitting down on the uni, I dunno. But, it was the sudden impact crunch trauma that concerned me.
Adam