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owrstrich · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject: HeRe YOu Go

warning... severed digits... blood...

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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject:

OH NUTZ.......FAIL.

NUTTIN' but a blank screen.

Why do I have the feeling this video will have me loving my non-black FD?
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Scott_Anderson · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject:

Not a video, but something for you other guys with chain drive bikes, to really think about.
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Jim · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject:

Just another reason I like shaft drive... No chain or belt to mess with.
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject:

OK, see it now.

Image or video- I figured it was gonna' be a chain/sprocket guillotine job.

Didn't read the thread- did he try to clean it in gear, engine running? Rolling Eyes

EDIT- just looked again- what a surprise- moving chain, rag, fingers, GONE.
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supercat1 · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject:

trade off though is that the bikes weigh more with shaft drives don't they?
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Jim · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject:

After years of chain drive UJM's- I have all mine too.

As long as you THINK about what you are doing!
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Off the grid · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject:

Wow thats ugly.

I don't think a chain/sprocket has anything to do with what happened to that dumbass. Shocked

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sdaniel · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject:

WOW! Reminds me why I've ridden a shaft drive bike the past 20 odd years. I hate messing with a chain.

P.S. How much you wanna bet He get a shaft drive in the near future?
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RobWheatley · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:32 am Post subject:

Or someone else to clean his chain!!!!

I hate chain drives too, way too much time needed to keep them clean/lubed & adjusted.

Its just lucky for him it was only the tips, could have been a LOT worse
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Saltcreek · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:32 am Post subject:

When this thread first came up I didn't bother to go look at it. This morning I did. I wasn't interested in looking at the pictures but I have to give the guy a lot of credit for putting them up.

drmalacarne · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:43 am Post subject:

Thans why they made O-ring pre-lubricated chains....They don`t have to be lubricated in its entire life./
All the grease in inside the chain.
Hope this gui could recover well.
And I had saw some bad accidents with motorcycles in the ER.....I could make a post about this, but I believe most of K11ogers here will not have stomach.....
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RobWheatley · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:51 am Post subject:

rydor · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject:

The first response on the Gixxer thread pretty much sums it up. Rolling Eyes

Milton · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:57 am Post subject:

I've had, and now have again, a 'chain drive' bike. What's the big deal about maintenance? It is quite simple to squirt some lube on it every once in a while and check the tension, and if you're really lazy you can always get an automatic oilier.

It never fails to amaze me how some people behave around machinery that is spinning. My neighbor across the street, while a good fellow, has had in the past many run-ins with moving mechanical items. Many years ago his son came over to ask me to take him to the hospital. Seems he had been mowing the yard and the self propelled unit stopped working. He asked his father to take a look at it and so Loren knelled down grabbed hold of the offending wheel and immediately had his hand pulled into the path of the still spinning blade because he didn't turn the mower off. He lost the tips of 2 of his fingers. Loren took off for the emergency room leaving his worrying boy at home. So I obliged him and took him down.

I learned respect for machinery from my father who seemed to always have something spinning that could really damage you. He sold and repaired farm equipment 50 years ago when safety was not of major concern; so you always stayed back "out of the path".
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