hmmm (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/hmmm@lemmy.world
 
A photo of two feet, belonging to two different people sitting on the same motorbike. One has a sneaker on, the other has a platform shoe with a melted plastic sole, probably from the hot exhaust pipe.
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[–] 183 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I always have sympathy for these folks. When I was little, riding on the back of my dad's Yamaha, I burned my leg on the exhaust because he never explained that the chrome gets crazy hot.

Never assume people know.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    had a Honda 3 wheeler(same one that was in James bond) and absolutely burned the fuck out of my calf.

    that was the last time mom let me ride it. still got a couple more rides out of it before she made dad sell it.

    1000004146

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    Similar here. I was like 10-11yo and another kid brought over a little 50cc bike. We weren't even doing anything "stupid" with it, and somehow I had a burn on my calf about the size of my palm that took a relatively long time to heal. The skin there was a different color for years afterward.

    And, that was so long ago, and I've interacted with bike so little since then, I still couldn't tell you which bits get hot, just that some do so be careful.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    I still have a piece of my eyebrow missing from when I had a little four wheeler at like 5 years old. I somehow managed to find myself under the thing while riding.

    A while after I was washing it and shoved the garden hose in the exhaust, and that was the end of it

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