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  1. 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!

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

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

    DG

    "Pete White" <[email hidden]> wrote in
    message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    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!

  3. "Pete White" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    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.

  4. Pete White:

    Quoted message said:

    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.

  5. 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" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Pete White:

    Quoted message said:

    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.

  6. "Pete White" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    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.

    Quoted message said:

    I was lubing the chain on the road bike.

    Good.

    Quoted message said:

    Not Concentrating.

    Bad.

    Quoted message said:

    Finger under chain.

    Bad.

    Quoted message said:

    Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.

    No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.

    Good.

    Quoted message said:

    THEN it hurt.

    Bad.

    Quoted message said:

    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?

    Quoted message said:

    Owwwwwwww!

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

  7. 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 said:

    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!

  8. Mark South said:

    "Pete White" <[email hidden]> wrote in
    message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    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.

    Quoted message said:

    I was lubing the chain on the road bike.

    Good.

    Quoted message said:

    Not Concentrating.

    Bad.

    Quoted message said:

    Finger under chain.

    Bad.

    Quoted message said:

    Tooth in each side of left fore-finger.

    No pain UNTIL I noticed the blood.

    Good.

    Quoted message said:

    THEN it hurt.

    Bad.

    Quoted message said:

    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?

    Quoted message said:

    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.

  9. Pete whelan said:

    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...

  10. Pete White said:

    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

  11. Pete White said:

    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.

  12. mark potter [email hidden] opined the
    following...

    Quoted message said:

    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

  13. "Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    mark potter [email hidden] opined the
    following...

    Quoted message said:

    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

  14. in message <[email hidden]>, Mark South

    (') said:

    "Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> wrote in
    message "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    mark potter [email hidden] opined the
    following...

    Quoted message said:

    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.

    --
    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke)
    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

  15. "Simon Brooke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    in message <[email hidden]>, Mark South

    (') said:

    "Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> wrote
    in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    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.

  16. Pete White said:

    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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