missing finger
 

how many of you guys have actually mashed your finger in a chain, resulting in pretty serious damage/stitches?

(i'm prompted to ask having seen the photo story of bostontrevors flying fingertip and
then mlprojects pic and advice to the upsidedown maintenance q)

it happened to me with the chain going slowly.
hurt like ****, but no lasting damage.

talk to suntour who posts occasionally. I witnessed his crash at kissena... not pretty but pretty permenent.

Sheldon Brown issues a warning on his Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road page, about the danger of wrenching on fixed-gear bicycles where the chain and gears will turn if the rear wheel turns. He's got a couple of gruesome pictures:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/images/fixiefinger.jpg
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/images/fing-.jpg

paging bostontrevor...

EDIT: oh NOWW I read the OP

i think i found one:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/13660739.htm

i was really worried that when i backed it out of my chain that the tip would fall off...

i had some scar tissue, numbness and limited movement for awhile, but its back to normal

i've had my fingernail chewed through before, but i guess it wasn't spinning fast enough for worse.

scared the crap out of me though. and its not as though i wasn't aware of the potential risk, it's just something that needs to happen before you REALLY appreciate the danger.

I've got a nice little gash on my middle finger, right hand right now. I was cleaning the chain and talking to someone and got a little careless, but thankfully the wheel was spinning pretty slow. It was painful cleaning the grease out of the wound, but I heal pretty fast.

jonb got his fingernail pretty well stabbed while building his keirin.

this thread is so Burrito Incompatible.

good friend of mine just punched a hole into the top of his thumb last night cleaning his hub... towel got drawn in by the chain/cog and pow, insta-thumb-blood-faucet

It's a good thing we can't use our dicks as a third hand.

Got a nice gash but nothing serious...

I punched a hole in the middle of my fingernail from my bmx bike several years ago, no lasting damage.

I believ the bottom pics are bostontrevor....I could be wrong, but I know its just about that bad

I am a goddamn poster-boy! That's me in the bottom photos. :D

did you use the chunk to score a free meal at a nice restaurant? Thats the smart thing to do.

Sure woulda been the smart thing to do, no?

"I believe there will be no charge for this 2-4 of beer."

"uh sir? There seems to be a finger chunk in my keg. So I guess that makes this on the house right? I think I saw a fingernail in the co2 pump too"