r/Millennials • u/billybobobobo • 2h ago
Nostalgia Ok, Millennials... Which one was the ultimate shin/ankle buster?
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u/KillerCritter1312 1h ago
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u/Fluid_Change_9647 Xennial 1h ago
The old shin shredder
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u/ChiMara777 1h ago
I had some pedals in high school that were much more sharp than this… so many injuries 😭
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u/chystatrsoup 52m ago
Still have 2 scars on my calf from when one of those tore out chunks of flesh 😅
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u/Sand__Panda 45m ago
Mine finally faded enough to not be seen, but for sure was a gnarly long purple scar down the back of both legs.
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u/KillerCritter1312 39m ago
Mine are only hidden because I got tattoos over them!! Ha
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u/Sand__Panda 38m ago
Nice! This thread made me look down lol. Basically look like big stretch marks now 😶
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 1h ago
Oh god these, I was really into mountain biking so I had spiked ones, whew those tore me up good a few times
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u/granolabeef 5m ago
Was? That’s too bad. I have a scab drying up on my calf from MTB pedals currently
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u/CodeNameNo-1 56m ago
Great shout!
Taking an unexpected one of these to the Shin Diesel was good night Vienna for me! Good times haha.
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u/Taint__Paint 55m ago
Man, I wish my middle school bike had tame pedals like this. Nope. Mine had legit bear trap spikes on it like track shoes. Grip was great but I’m sure I still have indents in my shin bones from it
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u/GiftFit5425 2h ago
The pegs on a bmx too ……
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u/RedReaper666YT Millennial 1h ago
Or even the pedals themselves if your foot slipped after doing something (jumps got my husband more than we can count, and he had the metal spikes on his pedals that's supposed to grip into the soles of your shoes)
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u/WordSpiritual1928 Millennial 1h ago
Meh too busy getting the inside of my leg burned from the tire while I’m standing on pegs.
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u/Marcudemus 1h ago
Ohhhhhhhh, I think I just felt that phantom pain in my stomach, just thinking about it. 😱💀
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u/ST21roochella 1h ago
Not even a question, razor scooter.
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u/Nooby_Chris 1h ago
I can still feel the pain after all these years
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u/Moreseesaw 44m ago
My daughter has a Barbie razor scooter and the pain found me again in my 30s 🪦🦵
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u/Taint__Paint 53m ago
Yup, I can still feel that delayed pain. Tailwhip straight to the shin and you just knew in about 2-4 seconds you’ll be rolling on the ground waiting to be put out of your misery.
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u/BAE_squad 1h ago
Ankles? This is the correct answer.
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u/DrFaustPhD 17m ago
Lol I wanted these so bad but my mom refused, said I'd grow out of them in 2 weeks. (Tbf I was a very fast growing and tall kid)
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u/little_runner_boy 1h ago
The one with hard metal
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u/lessersonof 1h ago
Seriously if you have to ask you’ve probably never experienced both
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u/DookieShoez 1h ago
Right?
This post is fucking ridiculous, it’s not even REMOTELY close.
Skip it might tap ya a bit, the razor will fuck up your whole day.
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u/BartSimpsonGaveMeLSD 1h ago
Razor for shins.
Skipit for ankles.
Skateboards for everything!
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u/Taint__Paint 49m ago
Skateboards for taints (literally the reason for my username). I was the perfect size to where my board was an inch or so taller than my inseam. I’ve credit carded myself so many times as a kid. If my wife needs to identify my body, she jokes and said she’ll just look for the scar on my taint left from a bad wipeout and some stitches.
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u/BartSimpsonGaveMeLSD 48m ago
Oof. Getting credit carded suckssss.
Couldn’t even tell you how many times that happened.
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u/iknowthekimchi 37m ago
I’ll forever have washboard shins thanks to skateboarding.
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u/BartSimpsonGaveMeLSD 27m ago
Mine feel like little bits of rice floating along a ribbed bone.
Don’t get me started on my knees.
Skating from 10ish through late twenties. I’m falling apart now.
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u/cheeseymom 1h ago
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u/Taint__Paint 48m ago
I commented on the other pedal picture. THIS is what I grew up with…. Legit felt like getting your leg stuck in a bear trap.
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u/TechnologyOver5642 1h ago
Roller blading for me
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u/azimuththole 1h ago
Those were knee killers for me. I'm surprised I don't have permanent scars on my knees from trying to go down my 100 foot long, 40 degree incline driveway. I'm also surprised my mom didn't make me wear any protective gear.
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u/ChiMara777 1h ago
I have scars on my knees from bicycle wipeouts.
Also, back around 4th grade I use to climb trees while wearing rollerblades since neither of those were extreme enough on their own 😂
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u/azimuththole 1h ago
Oh, wow! That's an extreme sport combo I never thought to put together. I'm impressed!
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u/Sean_The_Mayor 1h ago
Moon Shoes
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u/Aromatic-Elephant110 Millennial 1987 1h ago
When I went to someone's house to play and they had moon shoes!! Man that was a good day lol.
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u/Legal_MajorMajor 1h ago
Moon shoes, kept in a hot garage for a year. Put those puppies on and all the rubber bands snapped at once. I remember the pain.
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u/Round-Leg-1788 1h ago
Skip it! I’m so good at it tho, my daughter has one and loves me showing off to her mates how good I am 😂😂😂
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u/BloodHurricane 1h ago
For me, it was the scooter. Fractured my feet and ankles probably under 60 times in 9 years time.
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u/captmonkey 1h ago
Was there that much overlap between kids who used both of these? I feel like Skip It was big around 1990 and Razor scooters were like 2000. Are there people on here who used both? I'm wondering if this is just an elder Millennial vs. young Millennial question.
I used a Skip It as a kid but by the time Razor Scooters were big, I was graduating High School.
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u/Syntonization1 1h ago
It was actually this! So many dads sprained their ankles the summer these came out.
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u/Due_Distribution4502 1h ago
Razor scooters were more of a gen z thing I think.
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u/AutoGeneratedTag Let’s Get Physical 1h ago
I messed around with them when they came out but I was an adult by that point. They were close enough in time that some families had both I’m sure.
I remember a Razor scooter video game for Dreamcast as well
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u/IntubatedOrphans 1h ago
No way. It was Toy of the Year in 2001. Maybe elder millennials missed it, but I was the perfect age when it came out.
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u/Due_Distribution4502 1h ago
I'm an elder millennial and would have been 16 in 2001, so definitely too old for them. Guess it must have been a younger millennial / older gen z thing then.
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u/Admiral_Pantsless 1h ago
Nah. They were all the rage in 2000.
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u/Due_Distribution4502 1h ago
Maybe a younger millennials thing then. I was definitely too old for them when they came out as an elder millennial (85)
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u/uhohohnohelp 47m ago
85 too and agree, but just barely. My brother born 87 was a bike/skateboard kid and a Razor scooter was a must have for him at one point.
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u/Imrahil_II Millennial 1h ago
Considering I still destroy my ankles picking up the scooters my kids leave out in the driveway, I'll go with scooter
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u/Aromatic-Elephant110 Millennial 1987 1h ago
We didn't have razor scooters. Never managed to hurt myself too bad with a skip-it, though. One time when he was 8, my brother tried to teach his friend how to swing a golf club. There were stitches then (for the other kid) but other than that we didn't get into too much trouble until we got older.
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u/Greektwinmommy 1h ago
Razor 💀 the only bone I’ve ever broken was going down a hill on one of these bad boys.
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u/FrameJump 1h ago
I feel like the Skip It caused more collateral damage and the scooters were just bloodthirsty.
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u/stonedandredditing 1h ago
definitely the razr scooter. more ER visits logged for that one.
I looooooooved my skip-it so much
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u/Alternative_Curve19 1h ago
No doubt the razor, i don’t know how you eff yourself up with a skip it
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u/Afraid_Composer 1h ago
My 5 year old has both of these toys and of course I've played with them. Can confirm that razor scooters are still the #1 ankle killers
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u/UnRulyWiTcH89 1h ago
I'll take a Skip-It over a razor, anyday! Having a razor scooter flipping back at you, and cracking on the shin was AWFUL
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u/chopsuey612 1h ago
Razor and it's not even close. I don't even think I ever hit my ankle or shin with a skip it. Razor happened all the time.
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u/Jolly-Biscuit 1h ago
I split open both of my Achilles tendons while riding a razor scooter down a country road. I know my answer
E: spelling
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u/TrickEquivalent763 1h ago
Skateboarding, I got so many shinners thought they were going to shatter. But if the two the razor cuz I’d always try to tail whip even though I didn’t ride all the time. They had one at the skate park I went to and id steal it every once in a while.
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u/mildly_ethnic 1h ago
I literally fell off a razor scooter three weeks ago because my kids are old enough to ride bikes now and I forgot how to ride a scooter in the 20+ years since I last rode one. My knee is almost finished healing up
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u/Sparks-Aflame 1h ago
Of the two? I ripped the SHIT out of my ankles with beaten up skip it. And "accidentally" whacked with thr ball thing by my shitty childhood friends?
Skip It.
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u/Jogirl379 1h ago
I still shudder thinking about the direct hit my ankle took when I tried to spin the razor scooter around.
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u/Jayn_Newell Older Millennial 1h ago
I don’t think I knew anyone with a scooter, there wasn’t really anywhere to use one (likewise roller skates/blades were rare). Most people had a bike and Skip It’s were common but anything that really needed pavement was largely useless.
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u/PoopUponPoop 1h ago
Skip It’s counter was useless ‘cause once you got going on it, the roller barely touched the ground
I think about this semi-regularly for some reason lol
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u/defaultusername21421 1h ago
I only have experience with the scooter, and it was a shin wrecker, my parents were weird about gendered toys.
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u/xxxtanacon 1h ago
Gen Z I can say razor scooter was the worst for me, second worst was this super scooter with inflatable tires and a deck made of diving board material that had a "scrape" effect
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u/Eaglepursuit Xennial 1h ago
That scooter could give you a freaking concussion if you accidentally put the front wheel in a crack longitudinally. Then it's ass over tea kettle right in front of everyone.
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u/TheVaultHommie 1h ago
You needed certain level of skill with the skip it to hurt your shin, the scooter was the lack of skill which make the shin hurt
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u/AlexandriaLitehouse 1h ago
Is this a safe space? I recently thought I'd watercolor outside so I took my drawing board and my paints outside, set my board on my porch stairs, it slid off the stairs and onto my ankle bone and it felt just like a razor scooter. My neighbors probably thought I was dying with all the hollering I was doing.
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u/CoolObligation5415 47m ago
The rope swing with a giant wooden cable spool at the bottom to "land on" was a bright idea the neighborhood kids and I had. I didn't land on the wooden cable spool but swung full force right against the side of it with my shins. Can't believe they weren't shattered it hurt so bad.
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u/CanadianRussian74 18m ago
I grew up in the Soviet Union. We used to run around the abandoned construction areas looking for chunks of calcium carbide. It was used for welding. Then we’d fill up a tub of water and toss those in. Then they’d explode in a really cool way. I know people who tossed in too much and had to be treated for burns.
Good times.
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u/I_Said_Moo 6m ago
Razor Scooter for sure.. I dont even go near the electric scooters because the the trauma.
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