Trapped finger in moving rotor….

…while setting up discs.

Nail now very black and finger swollen + v.painful.

What a dumb ass:(

c’mon, somebody must have that photo…

well I never – It’s an on-one pic !

i did this. Bike upsidedown, spun front wheel to check alignment and bike toppled over. i caught it with my finger in the front rotor. Blood and swearing went everywhere…

Ouch. I did something considerably worse than that pic using the chainring and chain alone as a kid. I still have the scar where my finger tip was stitched back on an hour or so later 🙂 It’s not just rotors that are dangerous!

Mate did the same thing at Glentress last year, removed some of the tip of his finger, and nearly his lunch as well. We bandaged it all up, and all seemed fine, but the nursey at his local GP thought it should’ve been stitched…Hey ho..

When I was about ten I was using one of those reciprocating hedge-trimmers & (for no real reason) put my finger on the top layer before pressing “go”

funny thing is, it had a bit of a recoil on it that kicks upwards…

didn’t dare tell my mum & dad so I stuck the tip back on with a plaster. It healed fine but totally numb

did it once in the work shop of the store i used to work in after spending the night in casualty with my old diabetic house mate, looked at my boss, said im goin, cryed a bit……

Riding one morning and my Computer stopped working, leaned down to move the fork sensor closer to the magnet and missed completely. Thumb went into the bladed spokes of my Mavic’s. Nice big chunk and no feeling for 9 months.

About 15 years ago I was adjusting the timing on my Beetle and got my finger to close to the belt and watched as my hand go taken around the Generator wheel. I should probably have had stitches for that one but duct tape is a wonderful thing.

Been there, done that, not pleasant. I went thru the nail and almost out the otherside. Painful.

BETTER LINK TO TIMS FINGER PIC — WARNING — NOT SAFE BEFORE (OR AFTER) YOUR TEA.

my GF’s mate done it on his motorbike. had just cleaned the bike, turned the wheel with is finger in the rotor, but the wheel didn’t stop as he’d expected when his finger came up against the caliper.

another one. friend of friend was a courier in stuttgart riding a fixie. he thought he check the chain tension whilst riding along. his finger got a bit too close to the chainring and got dragged round. he had to wait till it got to the bottom before he could release. went to hospital and the doc asked where the rest of his finger was and he gave them the glove with his finger in the end of it.

Did a carbon copy of Tims finger when I was younger but on the right hand, looks uncanilly the same, told you it would grow back.

I’ve done that but fortunately it wasn’t too bad. I had the bike upside down and was trying to figure out what was making a scraping sound in the brake whilst the wheel was spinning. I was inspecting closely when I saw something and poked my finger in to try and remove it !

how dumb was that !?!

Chopped the end off one of mine in a seesaw when I was 2; it’s nearly 1cm shorter than it should be.

did this about 5 years ago in one of those not really thinking very hard moments. Crushed the nail inside the finger and it ended up falling off in tesco. By the sounds of it I got off lightly! Hope it heals up soon.

A riding mates dad did that a few weeks ago. He was helping fix a little bike issue and managed to stick his finger in the rotor while it was spinning……… chopped the end of his finger straight off – 3 days in hospital (over weekend) while they decided whether to operate or not.

I did the same as Keva, my middle fingertip was hanging off. Getting it back out of the caliper was the most painful bit though. Was going to superglue it back on but couldn’t find any. Girlfriend made me go to hospital and I had 9 stitches in it in the end. Got a week off work for it…which made it worthwhile.

I used a garden fork to stick my foot to the garden when I was a kid. Went right through my trainer and luckily missed all the bones. I was literally pinned to the garden & mum had to come and extract me!

Mudshark….I too have a short thumb….thanks to my older brother telling me to put it in my mum’s coffee grinder when we were kids. He turned it on!

anyone seen the squirrel trapped in a rotor pic? think it was in mbuk at some point

Didn’t see anything like this on the Spankwire video, but I couldn’t watch it for too long.

Yep I remember the trapped squirrel pic – superb one !!!

Did mine in August whilst aligning my Hopes. I now at last have a finger nail but is’s still soft. Totally scuppered my nose picking antics for months.

What a dumb ass:(

Are you American?

A dumb ass is a perfectly usable phrase, what makes it American?