[jbhaji]

Foot came off the pedal at the bike park and now I have 15 stitches on my shin.
It didn’t really hurt much but the NP told me to take 12 days off the bike.
Shin guards purchased.
Has anyone else had a similar injury and did you stop riding for two weeks?

 

[MyDadSucks]

depending on where the stitches are located and if that area gets a lot of flex/movement, you could be pulling your stitches out with regular riding and not allowing yourself to heal. best to wait at least a few days if not more. 12 days seems overly cautious but all bodies are different in their healing timelines.

 

[RBoardman]

Flat pedal problems

 

[dysfunction]

depending on where the stitches are located and if that area gets a lot of flex/movement, you could be pulling your stitches out with regular riding and not allowing yourself to heal. best to wait at least a few days if not more. 12 days seems overly cautious but all bodies are different in their healing timelines.

This.

I have a couple particularly nasty (about 1cm wide) scars where I ignored the advice and the stitches just tore.

 

[Cary]

Ouch! Are you riding with old bear trap pedals?

 

[C619V]

Back when I BMX/skateboarded my friends made fun of me wearing shin guards from my soccer days… til they took one to the shin.

Still have shin guards til this day… though I am not aggressively riding in any fashion as I was 30 years ago… but I still remember the pain.


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[East Bay Rich]

ouch! for a while i was running worn down polycarbonate bmx pedals on my trail bike, just to avoid gouges. now i just switch back and forth between flats with metal pins+shinguards and clipless.

 

[n4speed]

Heck, I just had right hand surgery yesterday due to a flat pedal snapping off during a drop!

Hard lesson, only use quality flat pedals that lots of people are using every day!

Will be out 8 weeks before I can do rehab due to age...

 

[jbhaji]

Damn- ok I will stop whining. Hand surgery sounds way worse. 12 days off the trails isn’t a big deal.
Hopefully with the new leatt shin/knee guards and some better technique I can learn to jump.
I have some nice, sharp Oneup pedals.
So it’s not the gear but that I was doing the kicker jumps at stafford and trying to learn on the job.

 

[chuckha62]

Seems like you coulda just rubbed some dirt in it and kept ridin.

 

[jbhaji]

That’s my usual approach but my 2 nurse friends said stitches

 

[natas1321]

Duct tape or super glue work just fine.

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[Ogre]

Heck, I just had right hand surgery yesterday due to a flat pedal snapping off during a drop!

Hard lesson, only use quality flat pedals that lots of people are using every day!

Will be out 8 weeks before I can do rehab due to age...

I had a nasty face plant/ likely concussion onto pavement due to a cheap (but not particularly inexpensive) pedals. Not even doing jumps or trail, just sprinting at a stop light on my commuter bike.

 

[dir-T]

I've had 42 stitches in my life but none due to biking.

My wife got a few stitches in her ankle because of a freak bike accident. A REALLY hard gust of wind blew her over during a climb and her chainring gouged her. It was nuts, the whole group of us almost went down too.

 

[darich]

Ouch! Are you riding with old bear trap pedals?

Ha ha, I did that when I was a kid, had several "tracks" up my shin with the skin all rolled up at the top!

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[NorCalTaz]

Damn- ok I will stop whining. Hand surgery sounds way worse. 12 days off the trails isn't a big deal.
Hopefully with the new leatt shin/knee guards and some better technique I can learn to jump.
I have some nice, sharp Oneup pedals.
So it's not the gear but that I was doing the kicker jumps at stafford and trying to learn on the job.

You should get some good mileage out of that scar during after ride IPA sessions

 

[Cary]

You should get some good mileage out of that scar during after ride IPA sessions

I have discovered as I am getting older, the scars heal slower and slower, to the point you still have them and don't remember how you got them.

 

[Forest Rider]

I have not injured my shins with flat pedals.
Regardless of stitch location, if it was suggested I allow a wound to heal I would do so.

However, chick dig scars.

 

[iliveonnitro]

(Not medical advice, just my own experience) If you can flex your ankles, you can ride. It might start bleeding if you tear a stitch or two, but scars on the shin are the norm. Hell, I've gotten stitches next to the finish line after crashing in a bike race, and continued to race the next day. The doctor pulled my stitches at a different race 2 weeks later. I say go for it, but I'm dumb.

 

[jbhaji]

Yeah 2 weeks seems like a long time
I could see it if it was on a knee or elbow but the shin doesn’t move that much