Originally Posted by
Santaria
I second the tibia protection. I was just dicking around going to get my son from school and got a bit of air coming off one of the dirt roads here and had a pedal slip. My weight never transferred off the other foot - which meant I hammered the pedal into my shin. Didn't fall, but ended up with 3 nice bleeders on a well tattoo'd leg.
I'm riding on some **** permanent pinned blocks of iron, but intend to put straitlines on my next FSR/HT setup. My shoes piss me off because they're Globes I use for longboarding. The pattern on them is designed for footbraking - not sticking well. So they suck, ultimately, for the kind of riding I've been doing lately.
What I do to forgo shin guards is put short toe clips with no straps on the side with the pins. So the pedal is weighted to slip your foot in on the pin side.
I take the pins out of the other side so if i happen to rub my shin against it there is no damage, and if I hit the other side the clip protects my shin.