Sorry to hear about your hand. You are VERY lucky that it wasn't worse... it easily could have been.
I recommend you invest in one of these:
I think i'm gonna have to. Not only because it is an obvious much safer method, but that will save quite a bit of time rather than doing it with one brush!
I actually thought the Gixxer guy was so famous that nobody did it that way anymore.
I can only wish i would have been aware prior.
As far as the vacay man, since you're east cost and close, i'd look at the smokey mountains. Gatlinburg is fun, and so is Cherokee. Hiking, canoing, muesums, white water rafting, aquariums, you name it, it's up there. If you want to camp, the Mile High Campgroud in Cherokee is awesome. That high up, it's cool no matter the temp in the valley. Bugs are scarce too. Just up the road is a national park campground and at the end of that is a 12 mile semi-developed road that was the only way up a few years ago. The views are spectacular, and the road is a hoot too. Just don't expect to go faster than 5-10 mph. It's bumpy.
And if you're up for riding, some of the best roads in the world are there. If nothing else, it's $60 to rent a scooter for the day and scoot through some of the back roads near Gatlinburg.
Thanks for some info! I think riding all the way to NC may be a bit extreme in my circumstances but thanks for the idea! Looking at pictures now, I would love to ride there.
Hey I really do feel your pain I did the same minus the glove. I crushed the bone and mushed my thumb. I had to have surgery the following morning.
Never again will I rag down my clean chain with engine running.
Dan
P.s. But on the plus side I had health cover that covered me for amputations. So got paid out £1500 for my mishap.
How much length you lose? And do you have any still existing pains in the thumb from the injury? Do you remember how long the recovery time took?
How did ya make out getting paid? I'm hopefully going to be receiving workers comp.
Sorry about 21 questions but i'm very interested lol
35 years riding bikes and I never even considered cleaning the chain with the engine running. That is way too dangerous even to an observer. You are lucky you didn't have your wrist further in there or had your fingers wrapped around the chain. Lesson learned and I hope you heal up ok.
This most definitely opened up my mind that i'm NOT invincible, bad things DO happen and i will be sure as hell to keep my distance from moving machinery and pinch points.
I do realize how lucky i made out. Just sucks for right now.
Thanks for posting. Maybe it can prevent somebody else from the same accident.
Hope you all benefit from my mistake!
Wow!! Glad it wasn't worse. I thought of doing this but then thought better of it. Can't believe no one said anything about your plan to use a wire brush to clean the chain, DON'T, the wire brush will ruin the O-rings causing your chain to fail much quicker. That chain brush posted previously looks VERY handy and very SAFE! Heal quickly and get off the pain pills as soon as you can without suffering to much. I took morphine to long after an encounter with a chainsaw and had a bad time detoxing,, NO FUN!! If you go to the Smokeys take lots of $$$$ unless your idea of fun is hiking trails! Good luck and heal-up quick. Rich,,, PS: Your bike is the nicest silver framed one I've seen!!:rockon: Looks much better than your thumb! Sorry for the joke, I couldn't stop myself. :ban:
Wow i cleaned the whole thing with a wire brush yesterday. Damn it...hope that didn't do too much damage lol.
I was just prescribed 30 lortabs and 120 Tylenol with codein. Have about 4 tabs left, haven't taken any in days and i tried out about 4 of the tylenols. Can't believe they gave me so much. But i could imagine coming off of morphine would be hard, they have REHAB for that! haha
Thanks for the compliment on the bike! It is evident that it was in good hands in regards to the previous 2 owners.
Man you must have been hopped up on pain meds to take that picture... that or in shock lol.... when i whacked two of my fingers with a hatchet i couldnt stop shaking, keeping my hand in one place just made it hurt worse....
Hope you recover quickly... i hear ya about the time off, work in a factory myself and i don't think i've worked less than 60 hours since i started 4 months ago... must be nice to have time off :thumbup: (no pun intended with the thumbup smiley) :ban:
Here's to a speedy recovery!
Well i didn't receive ANY pain medication up til about 2 and half hours after the accident. But you're right, the thing was wrapped up most of the time so i had to get some pics when it was opened! They had just finished shooting in the local anesthetic into pretty much the bone of my thumb which is also why it looks so fat. Those pics are 2 of about 15 i took because i they were all out of focus/blurry/shaky. It was so hard haha.
Yeah but i'm be so unproductive i actually want to go back to work already. So sick of sitting around. But wow you just through a double pun at me holy ****!
