View Poll Results: What side do you clip out of and do you get chainring tattoos?
Left - I sometimes get chainring tattoos
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15.69%
Left - I never get chainring tattoos
28
27.45%
Right - I sometimes get chainring tattoos
17
16.67%
Right - I never get chainring tattoos
30
29.41%
I don't know and I have a permanant one :'(
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0%
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What side do you clip out of first and do you get chainring tattoos?
03-21-07, 06:42 AM
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Right side. No tattoos anymore, I've learned not to touch the chainrings.
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03-21-07, 06:44 AM
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Ride it like you stole it
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03-21-07, 06:50 AM
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Left, and thanks for asking. I guess...
03-21-07, 07:37 AM
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I unclip left and sometimes get them. No big deal really.
Why left? I'm often inbetween the stopped traffic and the right turn lane. I like to lean away from the right turn lane. Also, you dismount left off a motorcycle so I do it out for consistency.
Why left? I'm often inbetween the stopped traffic and the right turn lane. I like to lean away from the right turn lane. Also, you dismount left off a motorcycle so I do it out for consistency.
03-21-07, 07:39 AM
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Making a kilometer blurry
I clip out when I'm done with my ride. Everywhere else, I trackstand.
No tattoo.
No tattoo.
03-21-07, 07:49 AM
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Left. I will get a tattoo at least a couple of times a year. Usually from leaning over too far to do something I should not be doing while still clipped in. I keep my chain fairly clean, but if you're riding and using a wet lube it will probably leave some kind of mark on you somewhere.
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03-21-07, 07:53 AM
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left, learned some years ago that If I'm going to dump the bike it
will be to my clipped in side. While that hasn't happened since the 2nd
time I rode clipless I would prefer to dump towards the curb than towards
traffic.
maybe 1 tattoo per season
will be to my clipped in side. While that hasn't happened since the 2nd
time I rode clipless I would prefer to dump towards the curb than towards
traffic.
maybe 1 tattoo per season
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03-21-07, 07:55 AM
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I clip out left b/c my left leg is longer.
03-21-07, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by waterrockets
I clip out when I'm done with my ride. Everywhere else, I trackstand.
No tattoo.
No tattoo.
03-21-07, 07:57 AM
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I clip out of the left side and rarely have a chainring tattoo. However, I did end up with a tattoo on my last group ride on the OUTSIDE of my left leg. Very odd place to get one and I have no idea how it got there.
03-21-07, 09:14 AM
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where's the "Both and no tattoo" option?
--Both and no.
--Both and no.
03-21-07, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by superdex
where's the "Both and no tattoo" option?
--Both and no.
--Both and no.
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03-21-07, 09:25 AM
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I unclip right foot, get it once in awhile, I can care less cause all the poseurs that try and drop me never succeed. Fred? I'm probably half the age that alot of these "experts" are.
03-21-07, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by ovoleg
I unclip right foot, get it once in awhile, I can care less cause all the poseurs that try and drop me never succeed. Fred? I'm probably half the age that alot of these "experts" are.
03-21-07, 09:37 AM
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I never get the tattoo while clipping out, but I get it while putting the bike away because it goes vertical in the closet with the drive side out.
03-21-07, 09:42 AM
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Real chainring tattoos don't wash off.
03-21-07, 10:06 AM
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Left unclip.
I get the mark perhaps once per month at most. Not from the usual clipping out and straddling bike at normal stops, but from some odd occurance, such as unclipping and leaning over steeply to adjust something on bike or shoe, etc.
Al
I get the mark perhaps once per month at most. Not from the usual clipping out and straddling bike at normal stops, but from some odd occurance, such as unclipping and leaning over steeply to adjust something on bike or shoe, etc.
Al
03-21-07, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by waterrockets
Thinking that Fredliness is age-related is pretty Fredly...
I've never heard of chain marks on your calf as a Fred thing, but hey the noobs always make up dumb crap to talk crap to each other
03-21-07, 12:15 PM
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I always try not to unclip for an entire ride. Its my little mental game. See how little I can take my feet out of the pedals. Trackstands are cool.
03-21-07, 12:22 PM
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I mount and dismount from the rear, just like cowboys in the movies. I also wear a cup under my bike shorts.
03-21-07, 12:37 PM
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Left, sometimes. I get them on the outside of my left leg and other random places from walking with the bike, carrying it or standing next to it. I rarely get them while on the bike. I once got a chainring tat on my forehead from loading the bike onto a roof rack.
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I get them when I dismount because of the way I lean into the stop sometimes or ways I lean into the slow stops. I've never heard of this as a noob thing.
I also have a scar on my leg from when my foot somehow unclipped on a really steep climb and it hit the large chainring. Burned and bled like hell, stitches and all
I also have a scar on my leg from when my foot somehow unclipped on a really steep climb and it hit the large chainring. Burned and bled like hell, stitches and all