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That ripping feeling

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    Brian MacKenzie
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    While doing a demo today, the other guys were doing trials, and we also
    included freestyle, mounts, coker,giraffe,uw36,bc wheel,skipping, and
    sumo. It was a pretty diverse show, everyone seemed pleased.

    My legs hurt sooooooo much. You know that big pacth of inside of leg
    you have exposed with your KH pads? Boy, they sure make for a comfy,
    breezy ride. Well, we all rode into the demo down a short steep grassy
    knoll. Being a few demos into it, (and it being incredibly hot and
    sunny for hours, ugh) my legs were tired. Losing the ability to fight
    the building speed while going more down the hill, and my ability to
    keep the wheel from wobbling once it got too fast, the tire happened to
    make contact with my right exposed leg. The dry, hot, quickly rotating
    rubber dragged across my leg, then the other, then the first, then the
    other. I had to jump off the UW36 lest the rubber rips by again.

    The matching wounds don't look all that bad (though they will
    potentially scab up a fair bit, there is a painful amount of much rawer
    skin now.

    --
    Brian MacKenzie - LAN Solo

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  2. uni57
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    This is why I shave my legs. It makes the wounds much cleaner (and it
    looks and feels oh-so-nice, too). And if you put an adhesive bandage or
    tape, it is not painful to remove (the area around a wound is sensitive
    enough without pulling on hairs).

    Will we see a picture?

    P.S. - It's amazing how thin a tan is. You can see how thin it is if
    you scrape some skin off (I found that out last summer when I fell off
    my Coker at 20 MPH).

    Heal well!

    --
    uni57 - David C. Lowell

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  3. Brian MacKenzie
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    Well, the injury doesn't look that bad at all (the typical 'learning to
    BC wheel burn' but above the knees, not on my calves.

    I thought denim would protect the wound today on my Rick Hansen Wheels
    In Motion ride, so I went for it. But alas, they burned incredibly. I
    tried to ride it 1.5kms, but the burning just got too painful, so I
    walked about 1/3 of it. (and then used my Muni for the next two laps)

    Side note....

    On my second lap with the MUni, I pulled up behind Joel on his Coker
    (who was riding slowly as the otehr two guys were on muni's) I thought
    it would be humourous to, with my open bottle of water, suprise him by
    whipping the water (while still holding onto the bottle) at his face as
    I caught up to see if I could make him fall off. Instead of falling
    off, he defended himself with his own bottle of water, he got me soaked
    as well....but in the process, fell off his coker

    😄

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    Brian MacKenzie - LAN Solo

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    'ps. just watched TWNR, the UW36 on the stairs broke my brain' - markf

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    (http://londonunicyclingclub.ca/unicycleReviews.aspx)
    *120* reviews on *77* products, never make an uninformed purchase again!

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