BMX cranks hurt me stupid-bad.
02-04-08, 01:57 AM
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Check out what I just bought on ebay to prevent this in the future:
02-04-08, 10:48 AM
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my conversion has braze ons to hold a frame pump. i used to only roll my driveside leg up, until once last year my non-drive side pant leg got caught on the braze on... havoc ensued.
but now on my iro i rarely roll up either leg... unless it's hot and i want some air getting up to my swamp ass.
but now on my iro i rarely roll up either leg... unless it's hot and i want some air getting up to my swamp ass.
02-04-08, 11:27 AM
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Well, it's Monday and this is still swollen and bruised as hell. I'm gonna go to the Student Health Center, see if I can score some painkillers.
02-04-08, 12:00 PM
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Sounds like the problem has self-corrected itself. Just ride with your newly customized jeans and you'll be fine.
Joking aside, that's a wicked cool chainring you got there.
I am going to install BMX cranks on one of my bikes, too. BMX chainrings are just so fscking good looking.
Joking aside, that's a wicked cool chainring you got there.
I am going to install BMX cranks on one of my bikes, too. BMX chainrings are just so fscking good looking.
02-04-08, 04:50 PM
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Just got home from the Student Health Center. They set me up with a sports med doctor.
Anyway, it's fractured
I totally didn't see that coming, and now I'm in a cast. ****.
Anyway, it's fractured
I totally didn't see that coming, and now I'm in a cast. ****.
02-04-08, 05:13 PM
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02-04-08, 05:22 PM
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in that case: yeah they do. i'm looking to get a black profile widowmaker for my next build.
02-04-08, 05:22 PM
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02-04-08, 05:28 PM
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Sucks...really hard. Same thing happened to a buddy of mine his strap got caught around the spindle and he broke his foot/ankle. Sam
02-04-08, 05:31 PM
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That said - dude, get well soon!!!
02-04-08, 05:34 PM
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that sucks dude.
my friend just fractured his fibula... something like that in his ankle.
he rode his bike down here the night it happened, and now he can't walk for eight weeks and then after that he's gotta watch what he does. looks like i just acquired a foul weather bike.
my friend just fractured his fibula... something like that in his ankle.
he rode his bike down here the night it happened, and now he can't walk for eight weeks and then after that he's gotta watch what he does. looks like i just acquired a foul weather bike.
02-04-08, 05:35 PM
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Ankle bands work a lot more reliably than cuffing. If the goofy, reflective ones are too much for your taste, try military boot bands/"blousers".
Sorry to hear you ended up with a fracture. Only time I got wrapped up in the NDS was with a freewheel, and even that was a pretty good scare. Hope you heal quickly.
Sorry to hear you ended up with a fracture. Only time I got wrapped up in the NDS was with a freewheel, and even that was a pretty good scare. Hope you heal quickly.
02-04-08, 06:43 PM
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And by "it" you mean the ankle, right? It's interesting that you actually didn't hit it, but it was the huge stress of the jeans' fabric caught in the crankarm. By the way, I think it must have been the crankarm fixing bolt - the one that protrudes on the side at the base of the crank. I have a pair of cranks like those, but I'm going to use a FSA crankset with 19mm spindle. Those just bolt on axially. Less likely to have that happen to me - I hope.
That said - dude, get well soon!!!
That said - dude, get well soon!!!
02-04-08, 07:20 PM
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Yeah, it was my ankle. The very base of the fibula, really; it's out of whack, and pointed outwards on the x-ray. Anyway, the good part is that the doctor I'm working with is a sports-med doc, so she's really goal-oriented about getting me back on track. She's gonna let me pedicab in two weeks, maybe.
I was actually going to ask you if one can cycle with his foot in a cast.
