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Amputated phalanges while cleaning the chain?

Jammer

Jammer

Garlic is great
Joined
Dec 22, 2020
Location
Fremont
Moto(s)
Yamaha FJR1300
Of course I did a million times before while cleaning my chain, why would it happen to me? Learned my lesson over 25 years ago.
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Add 8psi to the tire and spin it faster, as fast as you can as you hold the rag in place.
 
In 1984 There was a kid in my HS missing a finger from checking chain slack on a running chain on his dirtbike.

A story as old as chains
 
ctwo said:
Did this amputation occur like 15 years ago? I'm only seeing an old wrinkled thumb.
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About 25 years ago. Removed the distal tip of the thumb and luckily the nail bed was intact. The "wrinkles" are the scars from the sutures where the plastic surgeon pieced it back together.
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Maybe a bit too esoteric mx core for my barf street brethren, but back in the day I used to race a class below zeb armstrong, who now runs some local mx tracks, but he got tangled with another rider and somehow put his whole forearm balls deep in a chain/sprocket. The scar basically wrapped all around his forearm muscle like a big J.
 
Nerves can sometimes grow back together, though the final result can be unsatisfactory. I once severed the nerve supplying feeling to the inside half of my right pinkie. For many months, the inside half of my finger was completely numb. Then the feeling started to gradually come back but it felt different. Today, some 60 years later, the inside half of my finger still feels different.
 
There was a funny thread years ago on the SV1000 forum about a guy who thought he'd lift his bike, power it up, pop it into first, and lay a cloth on the conveniently moving chain. What wasn't funny was that his finger got sucked in and the end got tossed across the room. What was funny was that the dog grabbed it and ran out into the yard with it.

Okay, nothing about it was funny.
 
I always try to keep appendages away from rotating things
 
Wasn't there a up and comer in AFM some years back who reached down due to a mechanical issue during a race and lost a finger to the chain? That really opened my eyes to how unforgiving the chain/sprocket system really is.
 
I stopped wearing a wedding ring at work after the second time I saw a co-worker "deglove" their ring finger.
 
I been wear a silicone ring for the past 15 or 20 years... I highly recommend for anyone who works around machinery.
 
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