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this happens to me every single time I do anything with the bikes other than ride them. yesterday for example all I did was wash 1 bike and change an inner tube and I managed to cut 2 fingers and pull the skin back from my nail.
is it just me or does this happen to anyone else?
I'm guessing you work in an office rather than on a building site ?
It probably due to having soft skin on your hands.
Also wet hands are very easily cut.
Are you Freddy Kruger?
i often snap my nails so I am very careful now - or trim them if it is a long day of maintenance - I play guitar I am not freddy Kruger
Years of manual work have made my skin quite leathery, so no they don't cut easily. I've always got a few cuts on my hands from work but don't really notice them too much. However my guitar players nails are another matter. I keep them as short as possible and use coconut oil on them.
im usually pretty good, but taking off the goddamn chainrings ALWAYS grates my knuckles 👿
we should start a thread on nail routine 😉
Are you fair skinned or ginger? A doctor once told me that gingers had less layers of skin than others. Don't know if it's true but I break my skin with the most minor of scrapes or impacts whilst my wife who is very dark hardly ever does.
Invest in a box of nitrile gloves, approx 5p each.
Not vinyl or latex as they are feeble.
They are just excellent at keeping the fluids out of skin and protecting your hands in general.
True, they will not prevent a chainring tattoo, but I always wear them and keep 3 in my backpack for trailside issues.
as a work life long engineer have got more scar tissue than skin left on my hands so don't ever get cuts or grazes whilst working on my bike hands are just to leathery as for nitrile gloves they are no tougher than latex gloves they came about because some people are allergic to latex so can't wear latex gloves but they both do a good job of keeping dirt,grease and oil off your hands
Possibly, but I don't tend to take any notice when I have a small nick on my hands. If you've done enough hand-on work you learn to ignore small cuts IME unless the blood start becoming annoying / slippy e.t.c. Not that I am working hand-on at the moment but just my experience from time when I have been.
taking off the goddamn chainrings ALWAYS grates my knuckles
Winces from experience. Hate that one. Rotor bolts too.