Show us your scars (not you Catherine!) Maybe not for the squemish!!!

[ChrisKH]

Titanium? I have just realised why AH had a crushing hand shake on the Feb. mid Essex ride.

Oh, how many 'six million dollar woman' jokes you must have had.

 

[Joe24]

once you start shaving you'll get worse than that on your face

Err, i do shave
Im 17 not 12

 

[Fnaar]

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my knee, done the morning after asking my, now fiancee, out

done by a quick corner after jumping the road bike on a speed hump, and cornering on a wet zebra crossing.

oh well.

Damn, I so wanted it to be a big scar from getting down on one knee

 

[Auntie Helen]

Titanium? I have just realised why AH had a crushing hand shake on the Feb. mid Essex ride.

Oh, how many 'six million dollar woman' jokes you must have had.

'Xcept it's my left arm that's the Bionic Woman and I shook your right hand. Crushing handshake due to compensating for being effectively one-armed for heavy lifting for the last 15 years...

 

[Cathryn]

This is my injury, not bike-related but is the reason I now ride a trike rather than a bike.

Definitely not for the squeamish either!

That is an AWESOME scar. I want it. Without the injuries, clearly.

Mine are waay too tame now.

 

[Cathryn]

I do have to say though...I really love scars. I think it's to do with having grown up with one due to heart surgery but I love them. Not in a sick way, but just how they tell the story of your life. Battle scars. Proof you've lived.

 

[MacB]

Battle scars. Proof you've lived.

post mortem scars proof you've...................

 

[ChrisKH]

post mortem scars proof you've...................

died unnecessarily?

 

[Cathryn]

I can't show my heart surgery scar due to lack of alcohol but my broken leg last January looked like this the next day!! Slightly freaked out about forthcoming ski trip!

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[Auntie Helen]

I do have to say though...I really love scars. I think it's to do with having grown up with one due to heart surgery but I love them. Not in a sick way, but just how they tell the story of your life. Battle scars. Proof you've lived.

This is partly true but I remember when I went to a swimming pool with a friend of mine (who had had an unfortunate parachute accident and whose legs were filled with metal). As we walked up the stairs to the zoom tube thingie we heard people behind us giggling, "look at the scars on those girls," which was a bit odd. Plus they don't look so attractive in midsummer when you have a great tan but the scar tissue is still white...

 

[MichaelM]

My latest

It's not the scar that's the problem, it's the drilling and chiseling that went on inside that hurt (still!)

 

[Cathryn]

I do know what you mean and no-one's ever really laughed at my heart scar so I've been lucky in that respect and I really feel for people who are self-conscious about scarring.

I do really hope though that people can learn to love their scars and the tales they tell, and that swimming pool muppets realise what numpties they are!

Your scar is spectacular though. I've been totally outscarred on this entire thread!!

 

[Black Sheep]

Damn, I so wanted it to be a big scar from getting down on one knee

sorry, the one knee thing only happened to propose, and that only resulted in a wet knee due to the large number of large puddles. thankfully had waterproofs on for hiking in.

 

[TVC]

Who's a pretty boy then?

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[andrew-the-tortoise]

Nowt to do with cycling - but still makes people cringe!
A benign Cyst from a couple of years ago - needless to say I got it removed!


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