1st Nimbus 36er crash

Goats_On_Unicycles said:

Ouch!! I'm really sorry. That must of hurt pretty bad. 🙁

Thanks.

Luckily I'm well padded so am just a bit scraped and bruised. Not hurt
enough to stop me plotting to leave work early (now actually) cos it's
such a nice day so that I can get a quick ride in before I have to pick
up my son from school.

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Sorry to hear that Cathwood. But glad to hear that the uni survived.

You're not the first to be caught out by shoelaces, but I think that
Rocket (Or was it Jonny? It was a while ago I heard it now) from the
Lunis has managed to beat you. He was riding along approaching a
junction, and slowed down to stop. However, BOTH shoe laces had got
wrapped around the pedals, so just as he got stationary he just paused
then fell forward with the uni still attached. I can picture it now as
he tried to hop/shuffle out of the way of the cars behind him!

STM

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cathwood said:

So - my bottom half stopped and my top half didn't

Ha ha ha, this made me laugh and laugh

thanks!

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Glad you're O.K., but sorry that you're rider got a little banged up. 😄

Sometimes we just don't listen to the voices around us.

First the forum voices that tell us to watch our laces because they can
get tangled up on our cranks and pedals. We've read it dozens of times
and most of the time we remember to fasten our laces.

Then there are our internal voices.
First it starts as a whisper,

cathwood said:

"Feeling a bit twitchy" or "I have never anticipated the need to phone
for help on a short ride."

We ignore that, then there is shouting, Hey, I'm talking to you,

cathwood said:

"I went (as you would expect) flying off the unicycle."

Of course we ignore that final warning. So the voice says to herself,
not going to listen to me, fine have it your way.

cathwood said:

"Next thing I know, I had crashed to the ground and my foot was fastened
securely to the crank via my lace. Ouch!!!"

It's amazing that we ever live to adulthood.

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Doh!

Glad to hear you're okay and that it's just pride thats hurt.

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Ouch! Cathwood, falling due to laces is one of my worst fears. Glad you
were able to walk way from the fall, I hope your bruises heal quickly.

I thought of going to lace-less shoes while riding but I like that the
laces keep the shoe tight and in place. So instead, I've been skipping
lacing one eye, on each shoe, (the top right on my left, and the top
left on the right) which puts the laces on the outside. This results in
needing shorter laces. I feel much safer so far. There is a whole
thread on special lacing somewhere around here.

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Ouch! Cathwood, falling due to laces is one of my worst fears. Glad you
were able to walk way from the fall, I hope your bruises heal quickly.

I thought of going to lace-less shoes while riding but I like that the
laces keep the shoe tight and in place. So instead, I've been skipping
lacing one eye, on each shoe, (the top right on my left, and the top
left on the right) which puts the laces on the outside. This results in
needing shorter laces. I feel much safer so far. There is a whole
thread on special lacing somewhere around here.

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I do this with my laces to stop them getting tangled in things...

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cathwood said:

I had crashed to the ground and my foot was fastened securely to the
crank via my lace.

Been there, done that.

I tuck my laces back underneath themselves; after tying a standard bow,
I tuck the ends inbetween the tongue of the shoe and the laces (where
they criss-cross). This keeps 'em out of harm's way.

You only make the "laces" mistake once... it's all too painful and
embarrasing to do again :o

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Wow, Cath. I'm really glad that you're OK. I've never even considered
the possibility of a lace getting tangled. I'm going to start tucking
mine out of the way. I have pretty week ankles and have injured one of
them badly in a unicycling 'incident.' So, I like to wear running
shoes with a nice wide, stable platform, plus ankle braces to reduce
the possibility of a reinjury occuring. The problem is, all of the
good, stable running shoes have laces. Are you running the plastic
pedals that it came with (at least that's what mine came with) or
pinned, platform pedals?

On another note, I bought my Nimbus 36 just before Christmas and the
weather turned lousy shortly thereafter. It's recently gotten much
better so I've been out on mine every day now for a couple of weeks.
I'm learning to mount the beast much more consistently now. I've found
that a rolling mount works best for me.

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underdog said:

I've found that a rolling mount works best for me.

You are lucky: since breaking a toe while rolling mounting I am not
able any more to free-mount my Coker. (I should meet a head-shrinker:
after 2 accidents my head does not want me to freemount any more my
Coker! terrible🙁 )

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Ouch, Cathy. It hurts - I did that at reasonable speed on my 29er once,
not pleasant at all and was really difficult to untangle - had to try
and spin the wheel backwards whilst lying on the ground to reverse the
process!!!

Nowadays I double bow my laces and then tuck the bows / ends under the
crossed over laces down the front of my boots. I've never had them
come loose from this arrangement.

I did try velcro shoes for a while and they worked OK. Boots give me
some ankle support, which is helpful if I do come off and there are
lots of crossed laces to tuck the excess into...

Another thing I discovered recently is triathlon laces - haven't tried
them myself but they look just the thing. They're elastic laces that
go into trainers and tighten up using a little plastic adjuster.
They're intended to make it easy to get shoes on and off during
triathlon and are suitable for cycling without excess catching on the
pedals. I may invest in some of these at some point.

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cathwood said:

<snip twitching evolving to a lace-entangled wipeout>...PS I'm bruised
and battered but the uni's OK.

Glad you're OK and your PS shows a revealing insight into where your
priorities lay. 😄 The wriggling off the road would've made a good
video clip.😉

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I had a similar problem with my laces on a bike long ago. I have been
careful with them ever since.

I use 'these' (http://tinyurl.com/3aew9k) shoes now when I am
unicycling. They were designed with cycling in mind, and as such, have
excellent grip on pedals and have a pocket at the top of the tongue to
put my laces in after I tie them.

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Glad you're OK, Cathy. I'm a tucker. I tuck my laces into my shoes, down
the sides. I still don't understand why people fall off Cokers, though.
Why would you do that?

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harper said:

Glad you're OK, Cathy. I'm a tucker. I tuck my laces into my shoes, down
the sides. I still don't understand why people fall off Cokers, though.
Why would you do that?

I tuck the laces down the side too. They must have come out. Yeah, I've
decided that falling off the coker isn't something I plan on doing very
often.

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cathwood said:

I tuck the laces down the side too. They must have come out. Yeah, I've
decided that falling off the coker isn't something I plan on doing very
often.

This very thing happened to me on the SINZ tour. I make sure my laces
are tucked in before every ride, but they came untucked and I took a
nice highspeed tumble while going downhill. Little did I know that my
shoes have a self tucking system in the top...that ken showed me, but
they still seem to sneak their way out every now and then. I actually
own shoes without laces, but they just dont cut it in the rain or in
the cold, so for now I am just tucking and then using some tape over
the self tucking system in the tongue.

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Someone at the sporting store near my house showed me these shoes
today:

http://tinyurl.com/yvxxpv

You wind the laces tight on the back of your shoe.

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ouch..
i did that the other day but i didnt fall cause i felt the pull on my
laces..i did that about 3 times in 5 minutes one day when i was about
10 though...i was on my bike and fell in gravel and got scrapped up and
cried...some guy helped me up though..it was funny..i did the other day
and had to stop in the middle of the street and undo my laces and tie
them back up...as for now i get my pants caught all the time and have
ripped one pair at the legs..they dont get caught anymore because of
that..

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