How not to clean your chain..... grahic
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Yes.... I misspelled graphic
I will start off by saying that I am a worthless squid rookie and I suck at everything in life.
I was about to go for a ride today and my chain was pretty nasty, so I put it up on the stands and got out the wd-40 and a rag. I started the bike, put it in gear and let it idle. I sprayed the chain down really well and I put the rag up to it and it got caught and took my hand with it through the rear sprocket. I had to have everything above my last joint amputated on my index, pointer and my ring finger on my right hand. Thankfully I am left handed. It was a stupid mistake on my part and now I will forever pay the price for it. Say what you will, flame away, I don't care. I have accepted it and I take full responsibility. I made a choice (not knowing any better) and I will live with the consequences for the rest of my life. I thought I would post this so that 1.) no one else ever makes this mistake and 2.) To show that you don't have to be riding for a bike to get you hurt.
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A squid on gixxer.com that Zac rehosted.
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i love how thats one of the first things i see this lovely morning, thanks zac
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ouch.
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Even so think about how exactly you would have to put you hand on that chain in order to run it through the sprocket. I clean my bicycle chain that way and the rag gets caught all the time but only the rag goes through the gear not my hand. Because my hand is outside the chain not inside it. I know it problably wouldn't cut my fingers off but it probably wouldn't feel too good either.
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did you and luke play pick up sticks with your butts?
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wow! why would you start you bike and do that to clean your chain!
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PSiedTSi;289144 wrote:
Bump...STiSchucky;289141 wrote:
did you and luke play pick up sticks with your butts?I dunno, he said it was called swords or something along those lines.... all i know is it was interesting
edit.... and main point being i got off
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