General Cycling Discussion - Wierdest thing that ever caused you pain

Thats the question, for me it has to be what i found today.

Since i've been back into bicycling my left knee has been killing me. Whenever i'd ride about one or two hours later it'd be OUCH.

First i adjusted my look cleats, then I adjusted my seat height to within a gnats ass of perfect, no change.

Then reading on the internet, I thought tracked it down. IschioTibular band syndrome sounded right and could be corrected with stretches. I did the stretches, still didn't help, so I start looking at my pedaling.

My guess at this point is my wierd flat foot is making me pedal funny. (the left one is all wonky)

So i'm riding along, and my right knee is in near the top tube like it should be, but My left knee is going out at the bottom of my pedal stroke, and in at the top. I say to myself, "hmm that is an odd way for my foot to be wierd, how could it make my knee do that"

So after i'm done riding I think about this for a while and realize my pedal is bent. The stupid damn pedal has been wobbling my foot in and out with every revolution and THATS how my knee is getting all painful. (i/e if its bent down at the bottom of the stroke it would tilt the leg out, if you flip that at the top of the stroke it would bend the knee in!)

Well, at least its an easy fix :) as long as i didnt hurt it too bad these last few weeks :( (but it really isnt that painful, just best to fix pain BEFORE it gets crippling, heh)

take care,

Jester

This may not be the weirdest thing to ever cause me pain, but it's the most recent so it seems like the weirdest. This Sunday I was out for my ride and being it's Texas here, at some point in the ride you have to deal with a headwind. i was riding into a headwind for about 30 miles Sunday(you get used to it) and was going slow enough for a damn horse fly to land on my arm and try to bite me. I slapped at it and it went away for the moment but over about 5 miles it followed me and tried to bite me through my shorts on my butt, through my top on my back, on and on. I'd shew it away and the thing would wait until I resettled into a rythm, and try again. Damn weirdest thing to ever cause me pain!

I had a midget drag queen kick me in the shin one time in a bar.
That has to be the wierdest thing to cause me pain.

Her name was Lisa, we were in college, partying too hard, too much fun!

She was studying to be a nurse. What's with nurses? Are they all wierd in order to desensitize to the harsh reality of blood, pain, and suffering?

She was really wierd, I still bear the emotional scars!

L8R

Was she a midget?

Originally posted by don d.
Was she a midget?

It's a HE.....

This thread has been officially Hijacked!
:beer:

Originally posted by George
It's a HE.....

That's the whole point, maybe it was a midget named Lola, and He didn't know He was a She. That would cause me deep emotional scarring when I found out.

Is he/she any relation to the one that Lou met when the colored girls went "doot, doot, doot, doot-de-doot, doot, doot, doot, doot-de-doot, doooooo. . .?"

Originally posted by jester69
Thats the question...(snip)

The answer: this tread. :eek:

I was 25 and she was 17.It hurt so good.

Come on, surely most of us have had the "Something about mary" zipper mishap.

I don't know whether that was the most painful, or the realisation that the only person in the house who could help was your mother. Oh the shame!

:roflmao:

Read through this thread really really fast....TOO FUNNY! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

But to answer the original question: Sometimes I forget to keep the knees going the same direction as the toes while peddling, especially my right leg. My foot will kind of twist outward/knee inward. Makes my right knee ache a bit.

Making a small, small saddle adjustment to "make it better" only to find out 10 miles further that back is now killing me!

I've been hurt badly by a nurse and now I'm married to one! Go figure that one!!!!:D