OWWWWWW!

[Pete White]

While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a bit
muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years of
being a cyclist.

I was lubing the chain on the road bike.

Not Concentrating.

Finger under chain.

Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.

No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.

THEN it hurt.

that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!

Owwwwwwww!

[Dg]

Lucky you didn't lose a bit of finger - really!

But I bet it did hurt!!! Owwwwwwwww indeed!

DG

"Pete White" <petewhite04@NOSPAMukonline.co.uk> wrote in
message
news:40c8b142$0$13763$afc38c87@news.ukonline.co.uk...
> While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
> bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
> incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
> of being a cyclist.
>
> I was lubing the chain on the road bike.
>
> Not Concentrating.
>
> Finger under chain.
>
> Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.
>
> No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.
>
> THEN it hurt.
>
> that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!
>
> Owwwwwwww!

[\ Dave]

"Pete White" <petewhite04@NOSPAMukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:40c8b142$0$13763$afc38c87@news.ukonline.co.uk...
> While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
> bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
> incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
> of being a cyclist.
>
> I was lubing the chain on the road bike.
>
> Not Concentrating.
>
> Finger under chain.
>
> Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.
>
> No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.
>
> THEN it hurt.
>
> that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!
>
> Owwwwwwww!

My mate did a similar thing with a chainsaw...up a
tree!!!...only it wasn't his finger, it was his
throat!!!....he had to climb down the tree holding the
wound together with his T-shirt!!!!!!....now I bet that
hurt ;-) He did survive and has a scar that means he'll
never need to buy himself another beer - no, not 'cos it'd
just leak out either!!!

Dave.

[Davek]

Pete White:
> Owwwwwwww!

Not nice. I've come close to doing the same thing a few
times but never actually drawn blood. You have my sympathy.

d.

[Mark Potter]

sounds nasty!!!
worst injury I got was undoing a crank bolt and my spanner slipped off the
crank extractor and my knuckles hit the chain ring resulting in nice big
teeth sized lumps taken out of my knuckles!!
Mark
"davek" <david.nospam.kenning@which.nospam.net> wrote in message
news:caams0$fq$2@hercules.btinternet.com...
> Pete White:
> > Owwwwwwww!
>
> Not nice. I've come close to doing the same thing a few
> times but never actually drawn blood. You have my
> sympathy.
>
> d.

[Mark South]

"Pete White" <petewhite04@NOSPAMukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:40c8b142$0$13763$afc38c87@news.ukonline.co.uk...
> While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
> bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
> incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
> of being a cyclist.

I'm glad for you that it's the worst. I've generally
broken bones. I've lost 3 teeth, broken 6 ribs, and
fractured a hip.

> I was lubing the chain on the road bike.

Good.

> Not Concentrating.

Bad.

> Finger under chain.

Bad.

> Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.
>
> No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.

Good.

> THEN it hurt.

Bad.

> that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!

Some comments:

A. Why does your bike hate you?
B. You need a knife collection. Then the knives can do this
kind of thing to you and the bike can go back to
breaking you bones like God intended.
C. HOW do you get a tooth in each side of the forefinger?
Did the finger roll under the chain?

> Owwwwwwww!

Indeed. Make it up with your bike soon.
--
Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen

[Pete Whelan]

at least you have derailliuer gears, s the chain tension is
not too much, compared to a single speed or fixed wheel
chain .... that does hurt A LOT

Pete White wrote:
> While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
> bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
> incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
> of being a cyclist.
>
> I was lubing the chain on the road bike.
>
> Not Concentrating.
>
> Finger under chain.
>
> Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.
>
> No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.
>
> THEN it hurt.
>
> that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!
>
> Owwwwwwww!

[Pete White]

Mark South wrote:
> "Pete White" <petewhite04@NOSPAMukonline.co.uk> wrote in
> message
> news:40c8b142$0$13763$afc38c87@news.ukonline.co.uk...
>
>>While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
>>bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
>>incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
>>of being a cyclist.
>
>
> I'm glad for you that it's the worst. I've generally
> broken bones. I've lost 3 teeth, broken 6 ribs, and
> fractured a hip.
>
>
>>I was lubing the chain on the road bike.
>
>
> Good.
>
>
>>Not Concentrating.
>
>
> Bad.
>
>
>>Finger under chain.
>
>
> Bad.
>
>
>>Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.
>>
>>No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.
>
>
> Good.
>
>
>>THEN it hurt.
>
>
> Bad.
>
>
>>that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!
>
>
> Some comments:
>
> A. Why does your bike hate you?
> B. You need a knife collection. Then the knives can do
> this kind of thing to you and the bike can go back to
> breaking you bones like God intended.
> C. HOW do you get a tooth in each side of the forefinger?
> Did the finger roll under the chain?
>
>
>>Owwwwwwww!
>
>
> Indeed. Make it up with your bike soon.
Indeed it did go under the chain. I suppose I was
lucky that:

a) it wasn't going around very quickly,

b) it was on the sprung side of the cycle, where the slack
in the chain is taken up by the derailleur, and

c)I have a narrow finger!

My bike doesn't hate me, I'm just a bit butter fingered at
the moment.

[Pete White]

Pete whelan wrote:

> at least you have derailliuer gears, s the chain tension
> is not too much, compared to a single speed or fixed wheel
> chain .... that does hurt A LOT
>

I can imagine...

[Tony Raven]

Pete White wrote:
> While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
> bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
> incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
> of being a cyclist.
>
> I was lubing the chain on the road bike.
>
> Not Concentrating.
>
> Finger under chain.
>
> Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.
>
> No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.
>
> THEN it hurt.
>
> that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!
>
> Owwwwwwww!

Don't try that on a fixed. The chain has no give and can
take your finger off

Tony

[Zog The Undenia]

Pete White wrote:
> While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
> bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
> incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
> of being a cyclist.
>
> I was lubing the chain on the road bike.
>
> Not Concentrating.
>
> Finger under chain.

One of my sister's schoolfriends was known as "Stumpy" Carr
because she took the top of a finger off doing this.

[Jon Senior]

mark potter mark_l_potter@hotmail.com opined the
following...
> sounds nasty!!! worst injury I got was undoing a crank
> bolt and my spanner slipped off the crank extractor and my
> knuckles hit the chain ring resulting in nice big teeth
> sized lumps taken out of my knuckles!! Mark

That's a regular for me. Everytime I service a bike or do
any bike related work, I lose chainring tooth shaped bits of
skin from my knuckles.

Jon

[Mark South]

"Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b34d23e90572e1b9897c0@news.clara.net...
> mark potter mark_l_potter@hotmail.com opined the
> following...
> > sounds nasty!!! worst injury I got was undoing a crank
> > bolt and my spanner slipped off the crank extractor and
> > my knuckles hit the chain ring resulting in nice big
> > teeth sized lumps taken out of my knuckles!! Mark
>
> That's a regular for me. Everytime I service a bike or do
> any bike related work, I lose chainring tooth shaped bits
> of skin from my knuckles.

Pray for the development of viable belt drives! :-)
--
"A kilt opens up new possibilities."
- Gary D. Schwartz in rec.backcountry

[Simon Brooke]

in message <40cb0b2b$1_3@news.bluewin.ch>, Mark South
('mark.south@null.invalid') wrote:

> "Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> wrote in
> message news:MPG.1b34d23e90572e1b9897c0@news.clara.net...
>> mark potter mark_l_potter@hotmail.com opined the
>> following...
>> > sounds nasty!!! worst injury I got was undoing a crank
>> > bolt and my spanner slipped off the crank extractor and
>> > my knuckles hit the chain ring resulting in nice big
>> > teeth sized lumps taken out of my knuckles!! Mark
>>
>> That's a regular for me. Everytime I service a bike or do
>> any bike related work, I lose chainring tooth shaped bits
>> of skin from my knuckles.
>
> Pray for the development of viable belt drives!

Interesting one (with a most interesting gear-change
mechanism) in the VeloVision I received this morning.

--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke)
http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; If you're doing this for fun, do what seems fun.
If you're ;; doing it for money, stop now. ;;
Rainer Deyke

[Mark South]

"Simon Brooke" <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message
news:feorp1-2vj.ln1@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk...
> in message <40cb0b2b$1_3@news.bluewin.ch>, Mark South
> ('mark.south@null.invalid') wrote:
>
> > "Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> wrote
> > in message
> > news:MPG.1b34d23e90572e1b9897c0@news.clara.net...
>
> >> That's a regular for me. Everytime I service a bike or
> >> do any bike related work, I lose chainring tooth shaped
> >> bits of skin from my knuckles.
> >
> > Pray for the development of viable belt drives!
>
> Interesting one (with a most interesting gear-change
> mechanism) in the VeloVision I received this morning.

Beans. Spill.
--

-- M.

[Andymorris]

Pete White wrote:
> While I was cleaning my bikes today (the road bike got a
> bit muddy in yesterdays rain, and its a nice day today) I
> incurred the worst injury i've ever recieved in 18 years
> of being a cyclist.
>
> I was lubing the chain on the road bike.
>
> Not Concentrating.
>
> Finger under chain.
>
> Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.
>
> No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.
>
> THEN it hurt.
>
> that was 16:45 now 20:07 and it still hurts!
>
> Owwwwwwww!

I once knew a very unsuccessful motorbike thief who lost a
finger cleaning a motorbike chain in a similar way.

--
Andy Morris

AndyAtJinkasDotFreeserve.Co.UK

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