Got the bad news

[Shorty2020]

got the bad news from my doctor today about the finger i choped off. He told me it is as strong as it will ever get unless my nerve damage heals completly which it might but it will take 4 to 6 years. It just so happends that that isnt strong enough to pull a brake lever.

moto style here i come.

[Bloodhound]

bummer...

rock on

[MegamoMidwest]

robot finger time!

no seriously that sucks man.

[aki]

4 to 6 years??? Wow...that really sucks :( Sorry to hear man...

[digby]

sorry to hear that dude, before I thought you just chopped off a little peice of the tip and it wasnt that big a deal. Guess not.

Dont worry, I ride moto style too, now you dont have to worry about everyone riding your bike.

[Ebon Dragon]

Bahahaha dont tell your friend that loves washing out your brakes are set moto and tell him to go down a hill really fast....

[digby]

its also great for shit head friends that like to do lots of skids with your $50 dollar soft downhill tires.

[ridesoul]

man. thats rough. i hope the moto thing works for ya.

-RS

[Matt]

Sorry to hear that, but thanks for updating us on this :hs:. Good luck making the switch to moto style and with everything else this will affect.

[stocktrials]

Sorry to hear.. welcome to doing things the australian way.

[rush]

got the bad news from my doctor today about the finger i choped off. He told me it is as strong as it will ever get unless my nerve damage heals completly which it might but it will take 4 to 6 years. It just so happends that that isnt strong enough to pull a brake lever.

moto style here i come.
That sucks, but Australians do things very well, including running brake levers the right way round ;)

[AgrAde]

as well as moto style, using two fingers on the brake isn't that bad. my mate can control his brakes while backhopping/pulling hard on the bar with two fingers. most moves when you're using the front wheel you're not pulling back on the bars so you'll be aiit.

good luck with the finger and the riding, sucks to hear :(

[digby]

when I use to ride bmx and had shitty brakes, I'd have to use 2 fingers just to get the brakes to lock. You'll be fine. Jay Miron holds onto the bars with index ring and pinkie and uses his middle finger for the brake. Maybe give that a try.

[Shorty2020]

ya it sucked when i got the news and it wasnt the tip i chopped the sucker off ight aroung the first joint up from the finger nail but the cut was all lopsided. But after i posted yesterday i went put into the garage and switched the brake levers and gave it a spin and it was workng ok. Take me some time to corrdinate my left hand.

[tapioca]

what has happened to your finger???

[MikeTheBike]

DO NOT LISTEN TO THAT DOCTOR!!! YOU CAN REGAIN STRENGTH IN NERVE DAMAGED AREAS!!!

Okay, I know I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I don't care. I have personally seen two examples that humans can heal nerve damage. Ironically, they were both in the same family - father and son. Sure, the overwhelming medical evidence shows that it cannot be done. Nonetheless, I have seen it.

Example: The son, one of my closest high school friends got in a fight and ended up putting his right arm through a plate-glass window. The glass cut into the inside of the elbow joint where all of the major nerves and tendons are for your hand and lower arm. Most everything was severed to the bone. The docs stitched all of the big nerves and tendons back together that they could but they said he would most likely never get feeling back in his lower arm and hand. Now, you have understand that this is the kind of guy that will try to do anything you tell him he can't just because you said he couldn't. He's also an EMT and volunteer fireman so he knows about rehab. He started doing intensive rehab many times a day as soon as he could. Then, after about 6-8 months, when he was just about to give up, he saw his finger twitch. He focused and focused on that one finger for like half an hour and, finally, made it twitch again. A long year and much more rehab later he had about 70-80% strength back.

I suppose you really have no way to know if I'm telling the truth but, regardless, I hope you do. I will vouch for this truth all the rest of my days. The human body and mind are amazing. Do not underestimate them.

[Burn]

exactly why i hated industrial arts in H.S. i was always afraid i would cut off my finger and not be able to ride. ..

[hophopsnap]

I was going to run moto-style since my dads got the gasgas but it didnt work for some reason but its fine now because my left hand is hella weak

[eeBER]

some of the best orthos in the country told me i would never walk again about 14 years ago.. i been ridin hard for 12 of those now..

[Tanner]

exactly why i hated industrial arts in H.S. i was always afraid i would cut off my finger and not be able to ride. ..


My welding teacher won't let us work on Monday/Tuesday because last time he let kids work those two days before thanksgiving break, a kid lost his fingers.

[tomacropod]

my woodwork teacher in year 8 was slicing up scrap timber for chocks on the bandsaw, got his finger too close and severed the flesh from the bone for half the length of his index finger. Calmly clamped his hand around the finger, walked out of class, went to the staff room, asked another teacher to fill in for the rest of the class, wrapped some sticky-tape around the finger and drove himself to the hospital. He was teaching the class again two days later.

- Joel

[digby]

I saw some bad shit in woodshop, but never a severed finger.

One stupid stupid chick with long blond hair decided to work on the lathe without typing up her hair. Well guess what happened? The lathe got caught in her hair, pulled itself up off the table, slammed into her head, knocked her out, then her and the lathe both fell on the table. Everyone was like what the fuck? Then someone was smart enough to turn the lathe off.

the 2nd time, some guy had glued a peice of tree wood about the size of a coke can onto a base and was trying to lathe the bark off it. He did a shitty glue job and I saw the peice of bark shoot off the base and shoot almost through a window on the other side of the room.


helmets should be required in woodshop.

[tomacropod]

One stupid stupid chick with long blond hair decided to work on the lathe without typing up her hair. Well guess what happened? The lathe got caught in her hair, pulled itself up off the table, slammed into her head, knocked her out, then her and the lathe both fell on the table. Everyone was like what the fuck? Then someone was smart enough to turn the lathe off.
omg freaky...I have some serious paranoia about lathes...lucky I turned over my machining apprenticeship to a mate of mine...wouldn't have gone very far in THAT industry...he's doing well for himself though...

Sorry to hijack your thread shorty. Intensive rehabilitation work can often be quite successful. You have to work at it though, that's why the doctors give you a conservatively pessimistic prognosis.

- Joel

[Tanner]

one kid filled a soda bottle with oxygen and acetelyene and lit it with a chunk of aluminum on top. The aluminum went 40' in the opposite direction, slashing the kid across the neck. If it would have been 1/16" deeper, he would have severed his jugglar.

[Matt]

one kid filled a soda bottle with oxygen and acetelyene and lit it with a chunk of aluminum on top. The aluminum went 40' in the opposite direction, slashing the kid across the neck. If it would have been 1/16" deeper, he would have severed his jugglar.
My uncle filled a hefty bag with it and blew out all the windows on the side of his house and almost killed his son... he's always had a crazy side to him :). His son later built a potato gun (welded steel and schedule 40 pipe) powered by acetelyene and oxygen and a spark plug :o. I always enjoy visiting them.

[Ross]

this means you are going on the next mt. scott ride right shorty?

[tomacropod]

My high school science teacher (legendary pyromaniac) wanted to demonstrate to us reaction speed and reactant ratios. He filled up three balloons with oxy-acetylene mixes, one with the optimum ratio and the other two non-optimum. He tied 4 ft of toilet paper to each balloon and we went outside...

...he lit the toilet paper tail of the two non-optimum mixes and they went bang. That was cool...then he lit the paper tail of the optimum one, it started burning...the wind sprang up !

took the balloon up into the air, burning tail and all...it went over the back fence of the school oval (we did this at the back of the oval to minimise class disruptions) and into the courtyard of the old people's home behind the school...oh SHIT !!!

...BANG !!!

*scream* *scream* *curse !*

teacher: *grin* oh shit, let's go back inside now, I think you understand reactant ratios, and using this example I can probably explain reaction catalysts as well.

and so he did, it took an oxyacetylene balloon to get those geriatric molecules up'n'reactin' baby !!

- Joel

[Ebon Dragon]

bahahaha potato gun... need one of those

[Matt]

Yeah, just so no one gets any ideas, acetelyene oxygen combo mixes are quite possibly the worst possible idea ever. Static electricity inside the bag (or balloon), which is not uncommon in the slightest can set off the explosion, and if you read my previous post about how powerful it is, you don't want to be anywhere near it when it explodes. Don't screw with the stuff.

[sharpe]

a couple of months ago i was bored and decided to make gunpowder out of 3 chemicals my dad has in his shed. i remembered this recipe from my earlier years when i saw my dad making it. so i put it in an aluminium cannister and placed it in my bag. it stayed there for 2 weeks or so and i completely forgot that i left it there, and as it is an unstable compound meaning the slightest inbalance could set it off at anytime, it was scary because i took that bag with me everywhere (work, riding, shopping centre). so then one saturday night, i'm on the computer checking the forums and what not. the next thing i see is a massive red/orange flare coming out of my room with a heap of yellow sulphur smoke pouring out which scared the absolute shit out of me. melted half of my bag and left a lovely black/yellow stain on the floor and burnt my mp3 player :(.
and the moral to this story is: don't play with nasty chemicals kids and stay away from drugs mkoy!
parents weren't too happy:luke:

[poutine]

Shitty man.I hope your fingure recovers well.I hope the moto style works out real good for you.


I saw some bad shit in woodshop, but never a severed finger.

One stupid stupid chick with long blond hair decided to work on the lathe without typing up her hair. Well guess what happened? The lathe got caught in her hair, pulled itself up off the table, slammed into her head, knocked her out, then her and the lathe both fell on the table. Everyone was like what the fuck? Then someone was smart enough to turn the lathe off.

the 2nd time, some guy had glued a peice of tree wood about the size of a coke can onto a base and was trying to lathe the bark off it. He did a shitty glue job and I saw the peice of bark shoot off the base and shoot almost through a window on the other side of the room.


helmets should be required in woodshop.
You guys have lathes in your schools!!!!!

So jealous.:rant:

[Tanner]

You guys have lathes in your schools!!!!!

So jealous.:rant:


we have 14 manual lathes, ranging from 9x20, to 16x72, and then two CNC lathes, one is HUGE, like 20x60 and one is like 6x15, ahah. And this is just the highschool

[poutine]

we have 14 manual lathes, ranging from 9x20, to 16x72, and then two CNC lathes, one is HUGE, like 20x60 and one is like 6x15, ahah. And this is just the highschool
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HOW UNFAIR!!!!!!!!

My highschool can barelly pay for blank paper for art classe.

Hum i see one reason to moove to the states now.

[planetary1]

knees, you don't want to be anywhere near it when it explodes. Don't screw with the stuff.

D U H





Sorry about your finger man, I admire your determination to learn to ride with your brakes the opposite way. That is inspiring.