An Ounce (a few grams) of Prevention
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@s-leon yeah i just rip it! id like to just go nuts n bomb it, but that cutout scares me. would love to be able to just ride out those moments at minimal cost to performance (if possible), but i hear its a technical challenge. not my area of expertise so i have to wing it sometimes. getting the motor to spin fast n not lose torque or fry stuff is understandably challenging.
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Hmmph. Today, Onewheeling around sunrise in soupy early morning fog through the woods and wetlands on the Greenway, eye protection off because it was fogging up so bad, an insect — a bee? — came at me at its full throttle, and me at mine, and we collided, it hitting me just below the eyebrow and into the eye socket. The impact itself was a sharp, blunt hurt — but then the hurt kept getting more intense. Stung with a chemical sting! Oh my! A half inch lower and I would be blind in that eye.
Turned around, Onewheeled the five miles back to the bicycle, ratchet-strapped the Onewheels on the rear bike rack, and pedaled home the four miles. The distended swelling around the eye did not really start until I was home for more than an hour. Now it looks like I had been in a fist fight and took a hard blow. Do they sell safety glasses with heating elements in the lenses? To burn off condensation? Perhaps I should get a helmet with a face shield — or at least an eye shield.
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@s-leon ouch. Lucky it wasn’t worse as you say. Phew.
Once many years ago I was on my motorbike and a bee climbed in through a gap in the visor on my helmet. I nearly lost it trying to stop on the side of a main road, it had small stones (like on a beach) for drainage which as we know are not really good for driving on. I avoided being stung, just.
You may still find fogging with a helmet, but maybe the type which is open face but with a visor would be suitable indeed. I just know that motorbike helmets fog up, and unfortunately holding you breath isn’t an option ;)
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@s-leon I’m so happy you got back safe and wasn’t blinded by that!
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Twice bloodying the same knuckles on my leading hand (a couple years apart), I have come up with a solution. An old Triple Eight knee pad with one elastic strap wrapped around my wrist and wrist guard covers the knuckles nicely without interfering with finger movement.
After this latest fall, too, I am stuffing a CE level 1 pad under the knee/shin guard I that wear right on my leading hip. That should take care of the mild soreness I have noted there after each fall. I also put an extra CE level 1 pad in the shoulder -- even though I have not felt any soreness there. A couple years back I added an extra pad at the leading elbow.
Why a chest bruise (left, leading teat) on this most recent fall, and how to protect against it? -- I have no idea. The one time I cracked ribs was from landing on an EGO battery in a shoulder bag -- now, I no longer carry a shoulder bag or a backpack.
And although I have never injured an ankle in a Onewheel fall, I have taken to wearing a child's knee pad on the outside of my leading ankle -- partly because I attached a flashing red bike light to it, for moving visibility while bicycling on the rural roads. That and fear of ever being laid-up with a shattered ankle.
My goal is to be able to fall hard -- and laugh with no injuries! It has happened more than once!
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@s-leon I ate my fair share of shit today! Was cruising around, enjoying the beautiful weather. I saw one of my neighbors walking down the street, so i took my eyes off the road for a moment, failing to notice an unusually deep pothole concealed by a tree shadow overhead. I hit the bowl like depression cock-eyed, the wheel rotates out from under me and i basically trust fall the pavement at a few mph. Knocked the wind right out of me! Just writhing around on the ground trying to catch my breath for a few minutes. Visited the ER as a precaution... Gonna be sore tomorrow but probably fine.
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@notsure Oh no I hope you're okay! Heal up soon!
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@notsure -- Very scary when air won't go either in or out of lungs.
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@s-leon Yup that's exactly what happened! Took quite a while to get it back too.
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@notsure -- How're you doing a after a couple of days now?
I'm curious, too, what gear you were wearing? And whether it prevented or mollified some of the injury?
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@s-leon a coffee mug and a pair of sunglasses. nope!
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@notsure
To anyone that asks....
"Yeah yeah, I'm fine...." Ride off into the sunset.On the inside... 'Owwww ffffff that hurt....'
Well, that's what I do lol 😂
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@puzz360 said in An Ounce (a few grams) of Prevention:
Well, that's what I do lol 😂
I took a baby aspirin the next morning and I'm feeling much better now thank you.
I mentioned the ER... Purely precautionary! So was the ambulance!
Plus, my RN was hot, so...
I give the whole experience about 4 stars.
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@s-leon here's something interesting Im just noticing now... I've been experimenting with different riding profiles. Pint was Skyline, XR was Delirium, and up until a couple weeks ago- GTS is Apex. I wanted to try out the others so I've been using Highline the past couple weeks. First time falling after a few thousand miles was while riding something other than the most aggressive riding mode... I think that's interesting. Pothole was bowl shaped and I hit it off-center on my heel-side (I goofy!). Rolled right out from under me. I wonder if that would have happened in Apex? I switch mid ride just now and the difference was quite noticeable!