[Closed] Ever stuck your foot between the pedal and the ground?!

Oh yeah, managed to do that landing a jump. Foot came off the pedal in mid-air (rubbish technique) and I landed with my right foot just like your picture and the pedal jammed into my calf.

Somehow I just managed to get away with cuts from the pins in my calf and an aching ankle for a few days!

This happens a lot in places like Whistler and New Zealand where the dude-bro's cruise around in flip flops.

I saw it happen to a naked foot in Whistler after it was ejected from the unsuitable footwear. I've seen some pretty brutal injuries in my time but that sticks in my mind as being particularly gruesome.

Darn, I was wearing converse btw..got away with it this time but they quite easily bend at the toes..

I've seen the aftermarth of this with a guy in flipflops riding a motorbike.. like a raw chicken nugget dipped in ketchup and run along a belt sander. Delicous.

I did that as a kid wearing sandals, stood up for a burst of speed, next thing I knew, my toenails were being ripped out and my crotch was being smashed into the top tube. Horrific.

One of my mates did a similar thing landing a small jump on the first trail of an Alps trip and broke his lower leg clean through.

You are David Shrigley and I claim my £5.

Ugh, anyone who rides in flipflops is a complete divot for precisely that reason.

However, off the back of this, I'd like to propose a new forum feature, promoting hand-drawn illustrations of the type above. It'd add much amusement to proceedings 🙂 - I can think of several threads (including the SICK bikes one) that would be much better as a result.

I’d like to propose a new forum feature, promoting hand-drawn illustrations of the type above.

Yes! Exactly what I was going to say 😀

A couple of times, mostly as a kid. It's horrible. Seemed to stretch the top of the foot more than the toes, in my experience. The piece by the bit that joins the foot to your leg, round the front of the ankle. The top of the bit where you kick a football. Do I mean the fore-ankle? I don't know.

I remember looking a proper spazz coming to a forced stop with foot pointing back. When you're trying to look 'casual' and make your pained face look nonchalant, whilst arms are all tucked-up and gooch is resting on top tube*.

*We called it the 'cross-bar' back in the day.

That illustration has made my day though. Effing classic, and I reckon Spike Milligan gives a beady-eyed thumbs up from beyond the grave.

No, but I've done between pedal and tree stump when not quite used to a low bb.
Immediate ejection, hard shoulder roll, nasty gravel rash, very sore shoulder, broken toe.
Was wearing 5:10s with a reinforced toe box. Hate to think what it would have been like without.

I've done this.
Caught the tip of my 5/10 freerider on a rock, tearing a hole in the sole. I subsequently crushed my right big toe as the rest of my body passed over the bars and landed with most of my weight on my left knee on another rock. Fortunately my kneecap was better protected than my tootsies, although there was a bit of damage all the same.
Lesson learnt: buy bike shoes with toe protection!

+1 for submarined scenario, tree stump, foot, pedal sandwich resulted with an invite to leave via the front balcony, not sure what hurt more, the crunched foot or the shoulder and back thumping into the floor.

Not the same, but I have trapped my foot between the ground and the chainring (outer without the chain) when I messed up a jump. The chainring cut through two layers of leather and then into my foot leaving me with 3 ‘v’ shaped scars. I think the fact I was wearing disco slippers, that had a very stiff sole, stopped the chainring cutting a lot deeper.

This happens a lot in places like Whistler and New Zealand where the dude-bro’s cruise around in flip flops

Did exactly this when I first moved to Oz riding a bmx in flipflops, dragged my toes along the ground taking all the skin off.

Just the thought has me shuddering, then whilst still healing thought it would be a good ideal to have a paddle in the sea, coz sal****er aids healing right? nope it is friggin agonising I literally had to crawl back up the beach on my hands and knees, not a good look and not cool.

cokie

I’ve seen the aftermarth of this with a guy in flipflops riding a motorbike.. like a raw chicken nugget dipped in ketchup and run along a belt sander. Delicous.

I've seen it too. When I lived in North Queensland most of us rode our motorbikes in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops.

Happened to a mate who lost 3 toes. Messy.

We called him Twinkle after that (as in Twinkle Toes).

And I wore ankle boots from then on.

how much to buy this framed?

I'm overwhelmed..

@johnx2 depends on the framing choice, btw I hear you can get paintings hand-painted in China now for not that much.

yes! we need a thread of non photographically created imagery illustrating all things related to the world of dirt bicycles.

I suggest it simply be called "Gnartwork"

...I mean. I don't know what it is (celebrating prawn? Mutilated penis?) but it's definitely art

yes! we need a thread of non photographically created imagery illustrating all things related to the world of dirt bicycles.

I suggest it simply be called “Gnartwork

+1. Basically a thread version of win, lose or draw (minus yer man Bob Mills). It should run for at least as long as the 'photos of which you are proud' thread.

there was a fantastic draw your own collisions on LFGSS once, I think Photobucket managed to break alot of the links though but definitely a concept I can get behind.

Typical child/bicycle interface injury, move on nothing to see.

Although to be fair I hadn't done that for 25 years, then one day i slipped off the pedal and toe punted the ground while the big ring winched its way up my calf puncturing black greasy holes as it went.

How I laughed

Do people not know that when wearing flip flops you should keep the pedals at 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock when KOMing rock Gardens on thier commuter bike?

+2 (or even 3?) for submariner toe scenario. For me was a benign bit of trail on South descent at Whinlatter. One minute riding along, next minute OTB with toe hurting like ****!

Toenail lifted and copious bleeding (despite reasonably protective Shimano flat shoes). Got infected which meant hospital and X-ray and appointment with trauma consultant. Who saw me limp in (otherwise unhurt) and asked with some surprise how I managed to get injuries equivalent to a car crash on on toe only..

Turns out crushed left tip, shattered by right-side of toenail and two clean fractures below toenail. God forbid I'd been wearing flipflops..

Came across a dude that'd done that on one of the big tabletops at forest of dean, he'd pretty much ended up with an extra knee halfway down his shin. Horrible