I don't fancy seeing 'fatty deposits' again any time soon.

Is it possible to change the pins out for something less lethal? They're 4mm in diameter including thread and around 6mm in length.

I wouldn't change them if I were you – Shorter pins = more chance of slipping your foot and mashing up your calfs!

Photo-or it didn't happen 🙂

I think I'll chuck up if I remove the bandage again… so no photos now anyway.

I wasn't thinking of shorter pins, just something more like the ones on Straitlines. The problem with the Wellgo pins is that they get sharpened by every rock you hit and the threads make for a nice cutting edge.

They are vicious little blighters aren't they. Just knocking against them while wheeling your bike draws blood. Sounds like you were properly attacked by them 🙁

I've only got stumpy little legs and they always get me just on the tendoney bit below my knee.

pics please .

oi – pics

or we wont believe you.

heres a pic

bloody sharp things are them pins. made 2 decent sized holes in my shin with my wellgos 🙁

you should never slip off flats if your feet are in the right correct position

"Just knocking against them while wheeling your bike draws blood"

That's what always gets me, never happens when I'm riding, it's when I'm pushing the bastard back into the garage it playfully gouges me. It's not a wellgo thing though, grippy pedals like to cause harm.

The ideal here would be stealth rubber pedals and spiky shoes. Well, apart from that you'd get stuck if you ever walked on a wooden floor.

what shoes do you use?
I've deliberately sharpened mine with a file to get super grip.

Why victimise Wellgo, V8's and Kona Wahwahs are just as deadly!!

you should never slip off flats if your feet are in the right correct position

lol – thats like saying you should never screw up as long as you don't make any mistakes.

Shinpads have helped me since I screwed up and slipped off mine.

foot positioning is paramount.

my favourite is the good old fashioned pedal/shin THWACK!!! (with ringing CLAANG!! if on a steel framed bike)

I did this for the first time in a great many years the other week with some clumpy unbranded flat pedals, after a moment of indecision whilst trying to keep up with the bigger boys on bouncy behemoths over the drops….

they were fairly small blunt pins but one of them gave me a nice shin bone revealing split.. and I then had to MTFU for the rest of the ride for some inexplicable male pride reasoning..

snivel.. sniff.. moan.. I really want shinpads for fathers day.

EDIT: at the moment though coincidentally and ironically… intuition tells me that I am getting Wellgo Mags as a fathers day gift..

I use 5-10 basics. Here's the embarrassing part: I wasn't on the bike. I slipped off a wet wooden bridge. 😳

Keep the pedals lose the fat?? 😯

you should never slip off flats if your feet are in the right correct position

foot positioning is paramount.

That's very easy to say. Very easy indeed. And then you get something wrong, miss a pedal, and OUCH!
It can happen with SPDs. And they can bring a grown man to tears.

Definite lack of pics in this thread. 🙂

I saw some 'fatty deposits' in my mate's arm when he gouged it riding down the Bridleway from Whinlatter – not pleasant.

PeterPoddy – Member

you should never slip off flats if your feet are in the right correct position

foot positioning is paramount.

That's very easy to say. Very easy indeed. And then you get something wrong, miss a pedal, and OUCH!
It can happen with SPDs. And they can bring a grown man to tears.

But he's right though, they dont slip off if they're in the right place.

For me with flats, I always wear pads.

+1 b r

my leg is covered in cuts; all from pushing off the bike.

op: don't get shorter pins get some shin pads and make sure you drop your heels.

you should never slip off flats if your feet are in the right correct position

Lies! One thing I had drummed into me from day one was foot position, so despite many many other flaws in my riding, I can assure you my foot position is not one of them.

Despite this I have several very impressive scars on my shin which are testimony to the blood lust of DMRs with terror pins. Perhaps Jedi is forgetting that everyone has to learn to bunnyhop at some point, gouging ahoy!

Did a similar thing last weekend when my Burgtec got me in the back of the leg after getting a jump wrong. Was wearing my 661 knee pads, but typically the pedal found the cut out part of the pad right behind the knee!

footwork is not one and you're slipping pedals during bunnyhop? 🙂

learn to use proper cyclists pedals with clippy bits rather than big gumpy things with pins in. 😉

SPDs took a chunck out of my shin last year. Surpisingly painless (only noticed when my socks had turned red), but looked like someone had taken an ice-cream scoop right down to the bone. Still got a nice indented scar.

spds also removed lots of knee when my ss chain snapped.

all pedals are bad mmmmmmkay