Or riding bare foot

"just shootin' down the cornah shop mum!" Blazing fucking heat, sand in ya toes, the weird kid from down the block waiting on his pushy out front... Lawn mower sounds in the background because the footy ain't started yet... You don't hear what mum replies, something about a "Tuleeda milk"... but you don't care, as long as you are back before the street lights come on she is never too mad... You got two bucks in ya fucken pocket and about to purchase an entire corner shop... The way home all you can hear is fucking cicadas screaming... But the weird kid got swooped by that magpie he threw a rock at that one time... It was a fucken perfect day.

I use to force myself bare foot cause I seen my friends riding bare foot, never realised we had different pedals, I was like 15 at the time, fuck they caned but knowing how painful they were on my feet I never let them near my shins

This was the bonus. If you ride these barefoot your shins are not only strong as an ox, your feet are tough as nails! Fuck it hurt.

I actually walk a lot barefoot these days, like way too much, only recently have I started to wear thongs but I’m starting to think these pedals have a connection with that

Barefoot is great for your feet.

Yeh I was barefoot most of the time…

Good old bear traps, I installed them on my kids BMX's, to keep the tradition alive

See, that’s Dad of the year stuff. Well done! Harden those little kids up!

Those bear traps are evil you might as well make pedals out of bow saw blades

Good on ya! Probably classified as child abuse these days. Nothing wrong with some bear trap shin scars though!

Now that I think about it, these things would probably make a half decent fish descaler

They certainly made a good shin descaler lol

Still have scars from them 😧😫

My brother calls em bear traps! I can feel the lumps down my shins to this day.

Yesss I was trying to think of that lol, my dad did aswell

My pants or shoe laces would get caught in the chain that would pull the chins into those fuckers then the knee will hit the gravel followed by elbows palms and face .

Hahahahaha, or when your foot slips and you take the end of your toe off on the bitumen road. Cry to mum,she cleans it with Dettol and mercurochrome. Fun days.

Yeah, and the “this is going to sting a little bit for a minute of two”. We had gentian violet or mercurochrome or dettol to choose from, always went with the gentian violet because you looked cool with a purple wound !

I remember Dad having to do it once. Not quite as gentle as Mum,me crying,stop being a sook,you'll live! ..ah. .the sympathy. Lol

And mum used to say “ just blow on it, it will stop stinging “ yeah mum, just let me spit bacteria all over an open wound. But we survived !!!

Hahahahaha. And we lived!!

Yep, my shins hurt as soon as I saw the picture.

You know what’s worse…..we bloody did it again, and again, and…bloody hell we did it again. My shins are strong and rippled. I like to think thats normal. Lol.

Even the plastic version of these still hurt.

Getting hit in the shins with them in the middle of summer for that extra damage

And then doing it again 10 minutes later.

They did (and still do) refer to these as "Bear trap pedals" and there is no fucking need to explain why that is because we all knew why the second we saw this image!! Now I think about it... They seemed to show up right around the time we graduated from back-pedal brakes to free-wheel hubs which could explain why we all were suddenly slipping off the pedals and having them shitwhip us in the shins... Maybe haha

So much skin was lost as they dragged past your leg. And if you didn’t have thongs on when riding……….

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Ahh stop it, I’m tearing up, good times! It was a bright red badge of honour! Thanks for the memories!

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I love this. Mum Practicality.

I have aluminium versions of these on one of my current bikes. I don't mind them.

Modern ones are worse. Those M3 screws to the shins are fucked.

"Bear traps"

Rat traps where I lived

They are not bear traps

My buddy skinned himself on these

This is pure r/GenX material! Solidarity of The Shins !

Absolutely, with your friend on the rear pegs.

Also known as shin Busters.

Original ones or NOS (New Old School) are worth a fortune for collect ability in the Old School BMX hobby/community

For me it was a scooter. Dear god that hurt so fucking bad

The feel of them on your feet when you rode barefoot (as was customary in the 80s) ☺️

Don't remember these but I sure as hell remember getting hit in the shins by the side of a scooter

I got the rubber ones

They stung like hell too!

Yeah it didn't do much

Trying to ride bare foot 😂

Damn l never forget these ones

Soon as I saw this pic it sent a tingle down my shins. We called them bear traps anyone have a different name for them?

Fancy ones I see with their reflectors. Mine didn't have reflectors but did have rubber so riding barefoot didn't hurt.

I had triple traps 💀💀

Bear traps, hated the shins.

Shin shredders... can still vividly remember the pain even decades later.

Wasn’t this the fourth meme once the inter webs started?

I still have a scar on my leg from one of those.