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Flats and a spoiled kid

November 8th, 2005 by Tim Grahl

I learned a valuable lesson on a ride the other day.

I’m spoiled. Very very spoiled. While riding I never have to think about keeping my feet on the peddles because they are always attached to them.

Well I left my Lake MX155s at work, so when I grabbed the Monocog for my ride around town I realized I’d have to go with the flat pedals instead.

“No big deal”, I thought. “I rode flats for a long time before I switched to clipless.”

I was riding down towards Blackwater Creek and decided to cut behind our city highschool. I came upon a set of stairs and without much thought just started descending them.

Well, the rigid Redline was bouncing me around a good bit and my right foot slipped off the pedal which, of course, caused all my weight to land on the left crankarm which whipped the recently vacated pedal around at lightning speed.

All said and done, I now have two very large bruises and cuts about the side of a Wellgo flat pedal near the bottom of my shin.

I didn’t cry when it happened. But I wanted to.

3 Responses to “Flats and a spoiled kid”

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  1. 1 Guitar Ted  on Nov 8th, 2005 at 5:46 pm

    Now you know where the term “shin burger” comes from! Welcome to the club!

  2. 2 Graham  on Nov 8th, 2005 at 6:39 pm

    Man, i’ll do you one better. I went to the bike shop with a friend to test ride bikes wearing flip flops. yes…stupid i know. When I took a Specialized Epic out and proceeded to bunny hop over a parking barrier. I forgot that I was without my clipless pedals and shoes and hopped right off the pedals. Landed back down and my foot went forward which wedged my foot between the pedal and the asphalt. I scraped the skin off the front of two toes and gashed the achilles tendon area…luckily it missed the tendon, but it was bleeding fairly significantly.

    Anyway, super stupid! I was so embarrassed to go back to the sales guy and my friend that I tried cleaning myself up a bit with a leaf and kind of walked the bike back pretending that I was checking it out at all kinds of angles.

  3. 3 Tim Grahl  on Nov 8th, 2005 at 9:52 pm

    Yeah I’d done it a few times before, actually took a chunk out of my shin down to the bone at one point, but I just hadn’t had it happen in so long.

    Even the few times I did bang against my current pedals, it doesn’t hurt near as much.

    I had just forgotten how painful it could be.

    Can I whine anymore about it?

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