I know that you folks may consider me an newbie interloper, but this thread reminded me of my worst shin damage. While it happened on two wheels, it was on the powered variety. My wife and I both used to have motorcycles, both road bikes. Hers was a kick-start bike.

One beautiful Saturday, we were both out riding and the weather ahead looked a bit threatening. We decided to run for home. I turned in into a gravel driveway to turn around. My wife was scared to death of gravel and she stalled the bike. She kicked it a couple of times and it just wouldn’t fire. In my macho haste, I jumped on her bike to show her how it was done. I went up just as high as I could and came down.

I missed the lever. It me in the middle of the shin. Exquisite!

Now I was bruised but I still had to start the stupid thing. I could barely put enough pressure on the lever to turn the bike over. I did manage to get it going, but boy, it hurt! We rode home, parked and covered the machines, and I couldn’t say a word. I couldn’t admit that I hurt myself. I limped for a week. Oh, well. Sorry for the digression.