DrastiK
Junior Member
Sorry i had to bring one of these threads to our forum...but it happened to me 2 weeks ago ahaa
:banghead:
Kinda long story short; It was Friday the 19th of August... I was cleaning up my bike after working 7-3, just purchased 2 MUCH NEEDED Michelin Pilot Powers which now have only 10 miles on them and decided that i should clean up and lube my dirty chain.
The bike was already on the center stand from washing it so i put down some cardboard and started to douse all parts of the chain with wd40 rotating the tire with my hand.
I let that soak in for a few minutes and started the bike up, put it in 2nd and let the clutch out so the bike is now coasting in 2nd. I grab a rag and for some reason feel the need to put a glove on so i do. Proceed to holding the rag to the chain while the chain runs through the rag.
Before i know it, the rag gets all caught up in the back sprocket and the bike makes some ugly noise so i jump for the kill switch. After my hand leaving the bars i see some blood drip out of my glove from having my hand upright and think to myself, "I JUST CUT MY FCKIN THUMB OFF!".
Then attempted to remove glove but decides i was to nervous to look so i run inside and have my father do it over the sink.
This is what i see.............
When the rag got all caught up in the rear sprocket, my hand kind of went with it, don't know if the glove was caught on the chain or if i just didn't release until too late. It all happened so fast like they say.
So the tip of my thumb pretty much was pinched between the sprocket and chain.
Pulled off the skin from bone and apparently didn't take any bone off when it went through.
Had to go get surgery 5 days later where they had to clip the bone down to where there was enough skin on my thumb to close up the bone. That was actually the worst part of this whole ordeal.
But here i am now just sitting on my ass the past almost 2 weeks and decided to update you guys now too.
It's very weird to actually have some time off from a job that i have been working 40-72 hour weeks for over a year now.
Well i'm going to be off of work for probably 4 more week according to the doctors after the surgery.
Will update you guys further with my recovery.
Also would appreciate some help with giving me ideas of stuff do!? Please. I want to go on a trip/vaca or something and now i have the time to do it.
Thanks
:banghead:
Kinda long story short; It was Friday the 19th of August... I was cleaning up my bike after working 7-3, just purchased 2 MUCH NEEDED Michelin Pilot Powers which now have only 10 miles on them and decided that i should clean up and lube my dirty chain.
The bike was already on the center stand from washing it so i put down some cardboard and started to douse all parts of the chain with wd40 rotating the tire with my hand.
I let that soak in for a few minutes and started the bike up, put it in 2nd and let the clutch out so the bike is now coasting in 2nd. I grab a rag and for some reason feel the need to put a glove on so i do. Proceed to holding the rag to the chain while the chain runs through the rag.
Before i know it, the rag gets all caught up in the back sprocket and the bike makes some ugly noise so i jump for the kill switch. After my hand leaving the bars i see some blood drip out of my glove from having my hand upright and think to myself, "I JUST CUT MY FCKIN THUMB OFF!".
Then attempted to remove glove but decides i was to nervous to look so i run inside and have my father do it over the sink.
This is what i see.............
When the rag got all caught up in the rear sprocket, my hand kind of went with it, don't know if the glove was caught on the chain or if i just didn't release until too late. It all happened so fast like they say.
So the tip of my thumb pretty much was pinched between the sprocket and chain.
Pulled off the skin from bone and apparently didn't take any bone off when it went through.
Had to go get surgery 5 days later where they had to clip the bone down to where there was enough skin on my thumb to close up the bone. That was actually the worst part of this whole ordeal.
But here i am now just sitting on my ass the past almost 2 weeks and decided to update you guys now too.
It's very weird to actually have some time off from a job that i have been working 40-72 hour weeks for over a year now.
Well i'm going to be off of work for probably 4 more week according to the doctors after the surgery.
Will update you guys further with my recovery.
Also would appreciate some help with giving me ideas of stuff do!? Please. I want to go on a trip/vaca or something and now i have the time to do it.
Thanks
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